Latest funding round values French start-up at €21bn, as it devotes capital to building data centres, offers AI integration services
Cyber Briefing: 2026.09.09
Authenticated sessions exploited, application security flaws, weak account-recovery mechanisms, and exposed credentials to gain unauthorized access, steal…
Ransomware Affiliate Pretends to be Recovery Service for Extortion
An alleged ransomware affiliate is pretending to be a ransomware recovery service named “Ransom Busters,” reaching out to victims before the attacks…
Meta Rolls Out Assistant With Email, Payment Capabilities
New Muse AI assistant can access apps on user’s phone, autonomously sending emails, making payments, booking travel, amid security concerns
Gigabud Uses Android App Cloning to Evade Fraud Detection
Gigabud clones banking apps into a work profile to break the link between malware alerts and fraud
Ireland Probes X Over Age Assurance, Parental Controls
Ireland’s media regulator cites concerns over ineffective measures to protect children from adult material permitted on platform
Huntress Uncovers Phishing Attacks Using Fake Browser Pages and Rogue RMM Tools
Huntress researchers have uncovered two phishing attacks that combined convincing fake browser windows with legitimate remote management software to…
ASML Breaks Ground On New Plant Amid Booming Demand
Netherlands’ ASML begins construction of 35-hectare plant 7km from headquarters, as Samsung, TSMC adopt new tools
Critical FreeIPA Bug Can Let Attackers Take Over Admin Rights
FreeIPA users and Red Hat Identity Management administrators should treat CVE-2026-76578 as a critical authentication-bypass flaw that can lead to full…
Amazon Sued For Firing Pregnant Workers
US federal lawsuit claims Amazon routinely denies basic accommodations to pregnant workers, fired some for taking time off
ClickFix Moves into the Browser to Steal Cryptocurrency
ClickFix campaign uses browser-injected JavaScript and Google Sheets to steal cryptocurrency
Akeyless adds real-time enforcement for AI agents in production
Akeyless has announced the general availability of Akeyless Agentic Runtime Authority, the real-time identity control layer for AI agent actions. It works…
BigBear 2.0 phishing campaign hijacks M365 sessions
A large-scale phishing operation has compromised thousands of Microsoft 365 accounts by stealing authenticated session cookies that remain valid even…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-09 16h : 23 posts
23 posts published in the last hour 13:32Meta Launches Personal AI Agent, Muse, Emphasizes Safety and Privacy 13:32NHIs Now the Number One Corporate Entry Point for Hackers 13:32Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms 13:32This…
Meta Launches Personal AI Agent, Muse, Emphasizes Safety and Privacy
Muse runs on a dedicated, secure virtual machine that houses both the agent and the user’s data.
NHIs Now the Number One Corporate Entry Point for Hackers
SpyCloud claims non-human identities are the most likely route into the enterprise
Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms
The three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation.
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Hackers Abuse Google CAPTCHA, WebDAV and BNB Smart Chain to Deploy Credential-Stealing Malware
A multi-stage malware operation that combines fake Google CAPTCHA prompts, WebDAV-hosted DLL execution, malicious Cloudflare Workers and BNB Smart Chain…
Orchid Security targets AI agent risk with drift detection and kill switches
Orchid Security has announced identity drift detection and application-level kill switches for AI agents. They can complete authorized objectives beyond…
Singapore man pleads guilty to $245M crypto theft
A 22-year-old Singapore national has admitted to leading a criminal operation that stole more than $245 million in cryptocurrency from victims’ digital…
Global public-private operation disrupts Sality botnet active for two decades
An international operation supported by Europol has disrupted the Sality peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, a long-running criminal infrastructure used to…
Jellyfin 12.0 releases security fixes
Jellyfin has released version 12.0 of its media server platform with several critical security patches addressing vulnerabilities that could expose files…
AI adoption that pays off is built around keeping humans in the driver’s seat
I’ve spent enough time around AI adoption now to notice a pattern. Ask a business how AI is going for them and the honest answer is, lately, “we’ve got…