Latest news as of 9/17/2026, 7:40:29 AM
Bleeping Computer
A new Magecart campaign is using Stripe's API infrastructure to host the credit card-stealing payload and the data exfiltrated from checkout pages. [...]
Graham Cluley
Hackers have been hijacking Instagram accounts at scale by exploiting Meta's AI support chatbot. And, as if that weren't bad enough, the technique required no technical skill whatsoever. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
The Register
Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb
Dark Reading
Organizations are growing serious about what nation’s rules apply to their data. Experts point to geopolitical tensions as a main contributing factor.
Bleeping Computer
A data breach at the dental benefits administrator DentaQuest has reportedly exposed the sensitive data of 2.6 million accounts. [...]
The Hacker News
Over the past several weeks, the cybersecurity community has been reminded how quickly frontier and agentic AI in defense networks can challenge our assumptions. When Anthropic's Claude Mythos model was made available to a limited set of organizations as a technical preview, it was reported that an unauthorized group claimed that it had gained access within hours. The incident, if true, was
The Hacker News
Cisco has patched a bug in Unified Communications Manager that lets an unauthenticated attacker on the network write files to the box and, from there, climb to root. It is tracked as CVE-2026-20230, and proof-of-concept exploit code is already public. Cisco's PSIRT says it has not seen the flaw used in attacks yet. The PoC shortens that runway. The flaw is a server-side request forgery.
Bleeping Computer
The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian organization, revealed over the weekend that its self-registration application (SRA) for Palestine was breached. [...]
Bleeping Computer
A new supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) index with infostealer malware called IronWorm. [...]
The Hacker News
A security researcher found a flaw in Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action that let an attacker take over vulnerable public repositories running it, with nothing more than a single opened GitHub issue. Because Anthropic's own action repo used the same workflow, a working attack could have pushed malicious code into the action itself and onto the projects downstream that pull it. RyotaK of GMO