AI Governance Can’t Wait
Adversaries can manipulate AI defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks.
- September 12, 2026
Cybersecurity News and Updates
Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans
Fred Heiding of Menlo Park Intelligence talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his research on frontier models, and their ability to influence human behavior and create emotional dependency.
- September 12, 2026
CISA Calls for More Guidance, Less Spin, as Cyber Outages Escalate
A new joint government advisory signals a regulatory shift, pressing organizations to adopt more transparent breach notification and incident response protocols.
- September 12, 2026
Threat Actor Generates 1M Personalized Fraud Emails in 3 Days
Cybercriminals behind malicious email campaigns no longer have to compromise volume for credibility, or vice versa, thanks to AI.
- September 12, 2026
ClickFix Campaigns Abuse Legitimate Services for Persistent Access
Two separate attacks demonstrate how threat actors are finding new ways to compromise organizations by using the popular social engineering tactic.
- September 9, 2026
OpenAI Agents Took Over Wiki Site Before Hugging Face Attack
Researchers and OpenAI disagree on whether the earlier incident involving DseWiki was a “hack” that the company did not disclose.
- September 9, 2026
Attackers Use Multi-Hop Google Redirects for Phishing Campaign
Threat actors are abusing multiple Google services to evade detection, ultimately harvesting credentials or installing ScreenConnect remote access.
- September 9, 2026
Patch Tuesday Sets Another Record With 974 CVEs
Attackers are actively exploiting two of the vulnerabilities and another 58 are more likely to be exploited, according to Microsoft.
- September 9, 2026
Liquid Hackers Return 3,400 Bitcoin Taken via Elements Bug, Still Holding $47M in BTC
Whoever took nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network on Sunday, September 6, returned 3,400 of it the next day, Bitcoin’s public record shows. About 598.5 bitcoin has not come back.
Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain that holds real bitcoin to back a token called L-BTC. The network is still paused, so holders cannot turn that token back into bitcoin.
The 3,400 bitcoin was sent to a&
- September 9, 2026
Slim Spider Steals Crypto Custody Secrets From Brazilian Financial Institution
A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026.
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider.
“The adversary demonstrates deep operational knowledge of Brazilian financial infrastructure, including the instant payment
- September 9, 2026
Russian suspect in bank account takeovers is extradited to US
A Russian web developer who played a role in a multimillion-dollar bank account takeover scheme has been extradited to the U.S. to face an indictment.
- September 9, 2026
CIA official touts agency’s Cyber Mission Center in capture of Venezuela’s Maduro
A “flawless” performance by the CIA’s Cyber Mission Center contributed to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, agency Deputy Director Michael Ellis says.
- September 9, 2026
Scammer behind $245 million crypto heist pleads guilty to RICO charges
Malone Lam was indicted on scamming charges in September 2024 after drawing law enforcement scrutiny for parlaying stolen crypto into lavish Hamptons vacations, cars and private jets.
- September 9, 2026
Microsoft posts nearly 1,000 bugs for Patch Tuesday as CISA warns two being exploited
The new record total for Patch Tuesday is 973 vulnerabilities.
- September 9, 2026
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