Latest news as of 9/16/2026, 6:31:45 PM
The Register
Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors
Dark Reading
Former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis warns that cyber attacks threaten hospitals, utilities and essential services.
Dark Reading
AI-generated content threatens credibility in cybersecurity. This "Ask the Expert" column explores why human oversight matters and how to maintain authentic narratives.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft warned customers on Tuesday that they may have issues installing the latest monthly updates on some Windows devices that were upgraded to Windows 11 24H2 or 25H2. [...]
The Register
Remote, unauthenticated RCE with root privileges is about as bad as it gets
The Hacker News
Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for a record 206 security vulnerabilities impacting its software portfolio, including three flaws that have been publicly disclosed at the time of release. Of the 206 flaws, 39 are rated Critical, and 167 are rated Important in severity. This includes 63 privilege escalation, 56 remote code execution, 30 information disclosure, 27 spoofing, 20 security
The Hacker News
Your pentest report looks clean. That might be the problem. Run automated pentesting long enough, and the new findings start to dry up. By the third or fourth run, fewer issues appear. The report looks stable. Leadership reads "stable" as "secure." It usually isn't. The work slows down. The risk does not. That gap is what a The Hacker News webinar with Picus Security sets out to close. Autumn
Bleeping Computer
On Tuesday, Microsoft patched two zero-day vulnerabilities that let attackers gain SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems, and a third one that grants access to BitLocker-protected drives. [...]
The Hacker News
On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the most capable model it has ever made, generally available. It also did something unusual: it shipped one model as two products, split not by capability but by a layer of safety classifiers. Fable 5 goes to the public. Its twin, Claude Mythos 5, the same underlying model with the cyber safeguards lifted, stays locked to a vetted group of cyber
The Hacker News
ServiceNow has warned about a security incident in which unknown threat actors exploited a flaw to obtain deeper unauthorized access to susceptible instances. "On June 5, 2026, ServiceNow applied a security update to hosted customer instances," the company revealed in an advisory that requires customer access. "The update concerned a security issue that could allow an unauthenticated user, in