Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2026
AI agents probing US and Canadian government sites made SQL injection attempts while seeking data, but investigators found no evidence of compromise. Autonomous AI agents, working on what looks like ordinary data retrieval tasks, ended up throwing basic hacking attempts at a U.S. Department of Education site and Library and Archives Canada. Nobody told them […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2026
Asymmetric Security traces rogue OpenAI AI agent activity that probed government sites, accessed staging servers, and evaded sandbox limits. Researchers at Asymmetric Security spent 48 hours over the last weekend reconstructing reported rogue OpenAI AI agent activity that hit the Australian government and other organizations between March and September this year. They worked from public […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Fortinet FortiMail flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Fortinet FortiMail flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-104286 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaw is a path traversal vulnerability that can be triggered through […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2026
Operation KillSwitch: Europol says the KillSec ransomware group, allegedly led by a 16-year-old, was dismantled after attacks on about 1,000 victims. Law enforcement seized control of KillSec ‘s dark web leak site, the Tor website the group used to threaten victims with publishing stolen files unless they paid up. That single action locked down more […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2026
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model built for coding, enterprise work, and autonomous cybersecurity defense, rolling out to trusted testers. Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, and it’s not going straight to the public. It’s rolling out first to a set of trusted cyber defenders through what Google calls the Fairwind Program, which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2026
Apple patched a CoreGraphics zero-day that may have been exploited in targeted attacks. A public PoC for the flaw is now available. Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, in CoreGraphics that attackers may have exploited to target specific individuals. The flaw is an out-of-bounds write that can lead to arbitrary code execution when […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-76504 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability resides in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2026
DIVD was breached through two Zammad zero-days that let an AI agent reach root in seconds, steal data and pivot to other services before being stopped. The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, a nonprofit organization of volunteer security researchers whose whole job is finding and responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities in other people’s software, just disclosed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2026
WatchGuard fixes 15 Fireware OS flaws, including a critical RCE bug that could give attackers root access to vulnerable Firebox appliances. WatchGuard has released security updates for Fireware OS that address 15 vulnerabilities, including a critical code injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86131 (CVSS score of 9.2), that could allow an attacker to execute commands with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2026
DOJ charges against Oxygen Forensics reveal the Russian-linked firm also sold forensic software to EU projects and European police forces for years. Last week’s Justice Department indictment of Oxygen Forensics looked, at first, like an American procurement scandal. CEO Lee Reiber and Russian co-founder Oleg Davydov stand accused of hiding that the company was Russian-owned […]
