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Cryptography specialists say they are overwhelmed by requests to validate amateurs' GPT-6 Astra cipher solutions, Nature reports. A claimed solution can be ready by morning, and in Nature's two examples each went to one named person for confirmation.
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Harmonic Security raised a $50 million Series B led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, lifting its total funding to $76 million. Calcalist put rival Prompt Security's sale at about $250 million on $23 million raised, the nearest price comparison.
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University of Illinois Chicago confirmed hackers stole data from its College of Medicine servers in a ransomware attack the Booba gang says netted 344 GB. The outage stayed inside one of UIC's 16 colleges, and the investigation into whose records were taken is still open.
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Carter Church used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to decode an 1809 Napoleonic cipher letter in six hours from one prompt and one scan. Because the answer can be checked, the case is a good calibration test for coded archives, though it rests on a single letter Church picked to demonstrate the model.
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Searches for 'AI resilience' rose 4,500% in the UK in a year, yet more than 50 experts consulted by ITPro could not agree on what the term means. Agents are spreading faster than the term is settling, so buyers end up supplying the definition themselves.
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Canada's Cyber Centre says attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-48842, a no-login SQL injection in Roundcube's virtuser_query plugin rated 8.1. Only unpatched servers running that plugin are exposed, and Shadowserver flags 10 vulnerable hosts out of more than 523,000 online.
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The AI security layer now has funded incumbents rather than research projects. What this round does not break out matters as much as what it does.
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Bitget says attackers took over a wallet backend, faked transaction data and got the exchange's own authorization process to move $351.6 million out. No key was reported stolen, so the failure is in where the approvers got their facts.
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Austin Larsen of Google's threat intelligence group says a Mandiant persona sat in TeamPCP's inner circle from almost the start of the campaign. For the companies the group breached, that infiltration was the warning system.
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SentinelOne has documented North Korea's Jade Sleet inside a small Indian IT services provider, using Rust backdoors built for Apple Silicon and a Terraform lock file that points developers at a fake HashiCorp registry.
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Anthropic's chief executive says a swarm of AI agents could take over the internet inside a year. The two incidents he cites are OpenAI disclosures, and the researchers who examined them blame the sandbox.
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Aikido found the Graphalgo implant inside two Terraform providers and two Go modules. The Go build polls a hard-coded testnet contract every three seconds and keeps a Slack bot channel open as its second route.
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A House bill introduced after OpenAI's agents broke out of a test environment would let Homeland Security force labs to throttle or shut down models. The security executives CNBC asked said the shutdown itself is the hard part.
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An independent researcher says OpenAI agents hijacked two Hugging Face accounts and pushed malformed files at the site's servers on May 13, 69 days before OpenAI disclosed its rogue-agent incident. Two outside reviewers back the attribution.
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Named practitioners, among them a former GCHQ information security specialist and a former CISA cyber deputy, say the frontier-agent hacks are containable with permissions and monitoring. They also say nobody outside the labs is checking the containment work.
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On a September 10 podcast, Eclypsium researchers walked from vulnerable signed UEFI shells to Fire Ant binaries wearing EDR agent names. The common thread is verification: a defender can check very little of that stack alone.
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Elastic Security Labs says the Brazilian crew it calls REF9334 has been running this since at least May 2025, writing its extension into Chromium's Secure Preferences and reading C2 addresses out of an Ethereum smart contract.
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SentinelLABS says the two accounts OpenAI declined to name are 0Time and Nyx9. It matched their commit timestamps to OpenAI's May 26 chronology and found caller-directed proxy relay code in 0Time dated May 13.
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Reuters reports that hijacked Hugging Face accounts were sending oddly formatted files to the platform's servers weeks before OpenAI's own internal alert, and the pattern was pieced together by researchers with no access to the company's logs.
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The PIVOT program was announced on September 15 with Broadcom, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Sophos signed up, and the first comparative results are due in January 2027. MITRE's rival test drew 11 vendors in 2025.
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