Latest news as of 9/15/2026, 1:41:12 PM
Dark Reading
The threat actors engineered a Golang-based sniffer to target 430,000 FortiGate firewalls and identify 110 million credentials in the ongoing global campaign.
Graham Cluley
Emergency alert systems work because people believe them. Every time one of these systems issues a false alert - whether through negligence or a deliberate attack - trust erodes. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Dark Reading
Four vulnerabilities allow attackers to exploit Dify, a platform for AI application building and management, to silently access and exfiltrate sensitive data.
Bleeping Computer
Phishing, BEC, and account takeover attacks continue to overwhelm security teams with alerts and investigations. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help automate detection and response workflows, reducing alert fatigue and improving operational efficiency. [...]
The Hacker News
Every weapon begins as an extension of the hand that holds it. The spear lengthened the reach of the arm. The bow sent the point flying without the throw. The rifle placed a man's death a quarter mile beyond his sight, and the aircraft carried that death across oceans. At each turn, the distance between the warrior and the wound grew wider, and yet one thing never moved: a human chose the target
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver a Windows-based remote access trojan (RAT). The list of identified packages, is below - aes-decode-runner-pro (145 downloads) postcss-minify-selector (256 downloads) postcss-minify-selector-parser (615 downloads) All the packages were published over the past month by an npm user named
The Hacker News
Direct messages sent via WhatsApp are being used to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) files that lead to the installation of legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software. Per findings from Kaspersky, the active campaign is targeting users of WhatsApp Desktop and WhatsApp Web across Malaysia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Singapore, the U.K., Spain, Taiwan, Australia,
The Register
Bosses told to step up and get cybersecurity right
The Hacker News
OpenAI on Monday said it's releasing an improved version of its GPT‑5.5‑Cyber model to trusted defenders as part of the Daybreak initiative, the artificial intelligence (AI) company announced last month. Calling GPT‑5.5‑Cyber its "strongest model yet for finding and helping patch software vulnerabilities," OpenAI said the model can "sustain deeper analysis across large codebases" to identify
The Register
Package dependencies can create vulnerabilities that are fiendishly hard to find and stamp out