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Important BleepingComputer

2026-09-11 BleepingComputer

Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft

Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services. [...]

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Cyber Defense & Malware

Advisory

Moderate Dark Reading

2026-09-11 Dark Reading

AI Governance Can't Wait

Adversaries can manipulate AI's defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks.

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Enterprise Infosec

Advisory

Critical CVE-2026-85706 The Hacker News

2026-09-11 The Hacker News

GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure

GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary …

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Threat Intelligence

Advisory

Important BleepingComputer

2026-09-11 BleepingComputer

Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware

Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers. [...]

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Cyber Defense & Malware

Advisory

Important The Hacker News

2026-09-11 The Hacker News

Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model a…

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Threat Intelligence

Advisory

Important Dark Reading

2026-09-11 Dark Reading

Papercut AI Swarm Attack Heralds Changes for Cyber Kill Chain

From creating lab environments for staging and testing agentic attacks to reconnaissance to lateral movement and exfiltration, the most innovative attackers are widely incorporating AI.

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Enterprise Infosec

Advisory

Critical Malwarebytes Labs

2026-09-11 Malwarebytes Labs

Crypto customers targeted by scammers after email marketing provider breach

An attacker breached an email marketing platform and launched targeted attacks against the newsletter subscribers of some of its customers, especially those working in cryptocurrency and adjacent fields. The incident was a supply-chain phishing campaign carried out through Brevo, an email marketing provider used by several cryptocurrency companies and other …

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Malware Outbreaks & Analysis

Advisory

Moderate SANS Internet Storm Center

2026-09-11 SANS Internet Storm Center

The Self-Expanding Stolen Inference Supply Chain: An AI Agent Harvesting and Re-Serving LLM Access, (Fri, Sep 11th)

I identified an attacker using a semi-autonomous coding agent to run an offensive operation: finding poorly secured LLM resale gateways, acquiring API access through ordinary web flaws and account farming, validating the resulting inference capacity, and aggregating it behind a single gateway of their own.

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Operational Threat Radar

Advisory

Important The Hacker News

2026-09-11 The Hacker News

Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims

Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financial…

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Threat Intelligence

Advisory

Important The Hacker News

2026-09-11 The Hacker News

Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection

Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where "GTG" stands for Generative Threat Group), which aligns with broader repo…

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Threat Intelligence

Advisory

Important BleepingComputer

2026-09-11 BleepingComputer

How Threat Actors Are Turning Trusted AI Platforms Into an Attack Surface

Threat actors are abusing trusted AI platforms to host malicious content, poison search results, and trick users into installing malware. Huntress examines campaigns targeting AI users through weaponized Claude Artifacts, shared AI conversations, sponsored search results, and ClickFix-style lures. [...]

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Cyber Defense & Malware

Advisory

Moderate CVE-2025-66516 Rapid7 Threat Research

2026-09-11 Rapid7 Threat Research

Metasploit Wrap Up: This One Goes to Sixteen!

This One Goes to Sixteen! Another banger from Metasploit with sixteen new modules, including ten exploit modules, with five on the CISA KEV list. Cisco, Papercut, Sonicwall, Jetbrains, and Langflow all have exploit modules, and not to be outdone, we even have a Metasploit scanner to watch the watchers! New module content (16) Elasticsearch ingest-attachment …

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Metasploit & Exploit Research

Advisory

Moderate Rapid7 Threat Research

2026-09-11 Rapid7 Threat Research

The Fraud Ecosystem: A Transition From Known Marketplaces to a Fragmented Environment

Introduction The surge in emerging threat actors directly correlates with the rapid escalation of victim counts and stolen financial resources. Simultaneously, this growth has spurred the proliferation of specialized supply storefronts across social media platforms, dark web channels, and various smaller niche marketplaces. Security teams today face evolving…

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Metasploit & Exploit Research

Advisory

Important Infosecurity Magazine

2026-09-11 Infosecurity Magazine

Hackers Favor US Eastern Business Hours in M365 Phishing Campaign

KnowBe4 researchers observed a new phishing campaign leveraging Microsoft 365’s Direct Send to send malicious emails

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Global Cybersecurity News

Advisory

Moderate The Record by Recorded Future

2026-09-11 The Record by Recorded Future

Anthropic caught Russia-linked spies using Claude in hacking operations

Anthropic detected and disrupted a Russia-linked cyber-espionage group that used its AI tool Claude in a hacking campaign targeting more than 20 government, intelligence, diplomatic and defense organizations.

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State-Sponsored Cyber Warfare

Advisory

Important Malwarebytes Labs

2026-09-11 Malwarebytes Labs

Android malware creates a hidden copy of your banking app

Researchers at Group-IB found that the Android banking Trojan Gigabud can create a separate work profile on an infected phone and run a cloned banking app inside it. The attacker can then carry out fraudulent transactions in the new profile, potentially separating them from signs of malware detected elsewhere on the device. To do this, Gigabud installs Vwork…

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Malware Outbreaks & Analysis

Advisory

Critical The Record by Recorded Future

2026-09-11 The Record by Recorded Future

Ukrainian hacker gets four years in US prison over Conti ransomware attacks

A Ukrainian national was sentenced to four years in a U.S. prison for his role in the notorious Conti ransomware operation, which targeted more than 1,000 victims worldwide before shutting down in 2022.

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State-Sponsored Cyber Warfare

Advisory

Critical The Hacker News

2026-09-11 The Hacker News

Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk

Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming on a scanner report, but if it sits behind strong segmentation, identity controls, and othe…

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Threat Intelligence

Advisory

Important CVE-2026-85706 BleepingComputer

2026-09-11 BleepingComputer

GitLab urges users to patch max severity path traversal flaw

GitLab urged users on Thursday to patch their servers immediately against a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85706. [...]

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Cyber Defense & Malware

Advisory

Critical CVE-2026-20079 SecurityAffairs

2026-09-11 SecurityAffairs

Attackers Exploit Critical Cisco FMC Flaw to deploy Qilin ransomware

Three threat groups are exploiting two Cisco FMC flaws to steal credentials, gain root access and deploy Qilin ransomware. Cisco Talos says three separate threat groups are exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) flaws. The main target is CVE-2026-20079 , a critical authentication bypass that lets unauthenticated attackers rem…

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Cyber Crime & Data Breaches

Advisory

Critical Help Net Security

2026-09-11 Help Net Security

AI agents exploited PaperCut flaws to breach 395 organizations

A threat actor built a working exploit for PaperCut print management software, then handed the job of breaking into hundreds of organizations to AI agents that did most of the work on their own, according to GreyNoise. The result was at least 440 compromised PaperCut instances across 395 identified organizations in 48 countries. Attacker, believed to be Russ…

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Enterprise Cyber Defense

Advisory

Moderate BleepingComputer

2026-09-11 BleepingComputer

Microsoft fixes Teams, Outlook launch failures on ARM Windows PCs

Microsoft has fixed a bug that prevented Teams and Outlook from launching on ARM-based Windows devices after installing updates released since the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]

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Cyber Defense & Malware

Advisory

Moderate Infosecurity Magazine

2026-09-11 Infosecurity Magazine

Most Organizations Skip Permissions Reviews Before Deploying AI Tools

A new Syskit study has shown that only 43% of organizations with AI agents deployed in Microsoft 365 environments completed a permission review before doing so

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Global Cybersecurity News

Advisory

Critical Help Net Security

2026-09-11 Help Net Security

IDScan confirms breach after 153 million driver’s licenses leak on dark web

Days after reports linked IDScan to a dark web database holding more than 153 million driver’s license scans, the identity verification company has confirmed hackers accessed customer data stored on its cloud platform. The Louisiana-based firm, which processes ID checks for car rental companies, retailers and cannabis dispensaries, posted a notice on its web…

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Enterprise Cyber Defense

Advisory