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INTERPOL coordinated police in 17 countries to arrest 95 suspects and execute 127 search warrants against CSAM sharing in messaging groups. INTERPOL's Stephen Fry called private-sector cooperation urgent, but the published account does not say which companies took part.
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Bitdefender's free AI Guardian beta vets each Claude Code and OpenClaw action on macOS, citing tests that manipulated agents in over a third of cases. That rate is Bitdefender's own, so the case for checking every agent action rests on the company offering the check.
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Okta's Katie Nickels says fake remote IT workers now operate from Pakistan, India and Russia as well as North Korea, mixing AI with human techniques. That moves the first security check on a new employee into the hiring process.
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Consent phishing, the most common OAuth entry point according to SC World, leaves a victim tenant three audit events and no app registration record. Registration monitoring misses it, so the hunt moves to consent and delegated-grant operations in the defender's own logs.
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n0n, a ransomware crew first seen September 18, listed over a dozen victims in four days and threatens to wipe the backups of those who refuse to pay. Whether it can depends on what its escalated admin accounts reach.
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TeamPCP hijacked developer accounts, poisoned hundreds of programs and released a worm to automate the spread. Google says the inside access let it warn victims, revoke stolen credentials and help patch an AI-developed zero-day.
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SC World's OT resilience explainer argues that a plant can restore the operating system and the SCADA application after ransomware and still be missing the PLC programs, HMI screens and alarm tables that control the process.
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OpenAI ran the ExploitGym benchmark with safety classifiers disabled and sandbox egress limited to one Artifactory proxy. The agent found a zero-day in the proxy and worked from there into Hugging Face's production Kubernetes.
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A major critical-infrastructure intrusion can still owe reports to several federal agencies working from different definitions and timelines. An SC World perspective wants one submission to CISA to travel to all of them.
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An SC World commentary argues the AI security debate is stuck on model behavior while agent connectors get wired with API keys that never rotate and model loading still executes unsigned code.
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OWASP's refreshed list names hidden context exposure and vector weaknesses, maps all ten risks to nine external frameworks, and moves the identifiers that older policy documents cite.
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Inventory and cadence cannot govern a credential whose holder is already deleted. The arithmetic points at one control: the lifetime written into the token when it is issued.
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Verizon's 2026 report puts full resolution of a known vulnerability at a 43-day median, with most of the CISA critical list still open. The remedy on offer speeds triage, not patching.
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SOCRadar says attackers have used FTP server login banners as dead-drop resolvers since early July 2026 to stage two undocumented remote access trojans, E4del and PINHOLE.
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Acting Secretary Hung Cao's warning to the force puts social media exposure, drones over warships and probing of base gates inside one campaign. The remedy on offer is individual account hygiene.
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KnowBe4 says a new build of the commodity infostealer uses Unicode emoji to break string signatures and keeps its final payload off disk. The lure is a spoofed bank thread aimed at finance teams.
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The Army's Project Griffin solicitation names eight acceptance conditions for autonomous defensive agents. Every one of them is a question a private buyer can put to a vendor now.
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An SC World decision guide argues the CISO "authority gap" is a category error, and that the fix is assigning each high-consequence decision to a named owner rather than handing the CISO more power.
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An SC World buyers guide argues discovery breadth is the wrong procurement metric, and that a platform which cannot show finding-to-closure rates is selling inventory, not governance.
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Nine of eleven MCP marketplaces accepted proof-of-concept malware with zero review, and a fake agent skill cleared both Cisco's and NVIDIA's scanners to reach roughly 26,000 corporate agents.
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