Anthropic’s Claude AI experienced a partial outage on September 3, 2026, disrupting requests across several Claude models and affecting developers,…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-03 20h : 18 posts
18 posts published in the last hour 17:32Chaotic Eclipse Claims Avast Antivirus 0-Day Vulnerability – PoC Released 17:32Agents of Chaos: A New $100K Agentic Security Challenge 17:32ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion 17:32ISC Stormcast For…
Chaotic Eclipse Claims Avast Antivirus 0-Day Vulnerability – PoC Released
Researcher Chaotic Eclipse has claimed to have discovered a zero-day privilege-escalation vulnerability affecting Avast Antivirus and released a public…
Agents of Chaos: A New $100K Agentic Security Challenge
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ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion
Invisible Unicode characters popularized for hiding instructions from AI models are now being used to obfuscate words before email filters parse them.
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10076, (Tue, Sep 1st)
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Phantom Deal Hackers Impersonate Executives and Use Fake NDAs to Steal Corporate Wire Transfers
Cybercriminals are using fake acquisition deals to steer employees toward large wire transfers. The campaign, called Phantom Deal, begins with a…
SonicWall SMA1000 Zero-Days Under Active Attack: Patch Now
SonicWall says attackers are actively exploiting two SMA1000 vulnerabilities that can be chained for unauthenticated remote code execution.
LLMjacking Attack Uses Leaked AWS IAM Key to Steal Paid AI Model Access
A newly documented cloud intrusion shows how quickly attackers can turn a single leaked AWS credential into a revenue stream by hijacking access to…
The Bottleneck of Scaling
Any input/output operation, be it accessing a file, handling an HTTP request, or a database connection, is based on 3 fundamental system concepts — file…
OpenAI Investigates Elevated Errors Affecting ChatGPT and Codex Services
OpenAI has reported an ongoing service incident involving elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex, with the company confirming that it is investigating…
Guildma (Astaroth) malware infection from Brazilian Portuguese email, (Tue, Sep 1st)
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Hackers Weaponize ScreenConnect to Spread Worm-Like Malware Across Windows Systems
Hackers are turning rogue remote-support installations into a tool that can spread malicious code between Windows computers. The activity stands out…
Sality Botnet Disrupted as Authorities Seize Key Infrastructure
An international public-private operation has disrupted Sality, a peer-to-peer botnet that remained active for more than two decades, by seizing domains…
Thomson Reuters Court Software Breach May Have Exposed SSNs and Sealed Data
Thomson Reuters disclosed on Wednesday that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track, the court case management platform sold by its West…
Fewer attacks, more force: Link11’s European Cyber Report finds new DDoS records for the first half of 2026
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 3rd, 2026, CyberNewswire Super-botnets and hijacked cloud servers drive new bandwidth and packet-rate records as…
Critical Cisco Nexus 9000 Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Remote Attackers Run Code as Root
Cisco has released patches to address a critical security flaw affecting 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches that could allow an unauthenticated,…
Russian National Charged Over Malware Campaign Targeting 80,000 Freelancers
A Russian national has been extradited to the United States to face federal charges over an alleged malware campaign that targeted approximately 80,000…
BraZetsu Malware Turns Compromised Windows Hosts Into Criminal Marketplace Inventory
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sophisticated Python-based Windows malware framework called BraZetsu that fuels an underground…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-03 19h : 7 posts
7 posts published in the last hour 16:31Four Cybersecurity Habits That Can Do More Harm Than Good When Misused 16:31StreamRat Android malware spreads through Meta and TikTok ads 16:02SonicWall urges immediate patching of chained vulnerabilities 16:02Breaking| MAJOR GLOBAL AI OUTAGE:…
Four Cybersecurity Habits That Can Do More Harm Than Good When Misused
Cybersecurity advice is often reduced to simple rules: change passwords regularly, avoid public Wi-Fi, install antivirus software and enable two-factor…
StreamRat Android malware spreads through Meta and TikTok ads
Social media ads for a free streaming service exposed roughly 570,000 people to StreamRat, a banking Trojan that can take control of infected phones.
SonicWall urges immediate patching of chained vulnerabilities
Just weeks after a wave of ransomware attacks, new flaws in SMA1000 series appliances are being exploited.
Breaking| MAJOR GLOBAL AI OUTAGE: ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Down
A massive, widespread AI outage has struck the world’s leading generative platforms, leaving hundreds of thousands of users…