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China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies
NSA, CISA, and FBI warn DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese AI firms ran industrial-scale distillation of U.S. frontier models, threatening U.S. AI leadership.
A joint NSA, CISA, and FBI Cybersecurity Advisory (AA26-251A) says China-based firms DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens from U.S. frontier models including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, likely with Chinese government knowledge. Campaigns running since at least late 2024 used native APIs, cloud providers, third-party aggregators, gray-market proxy "transfer stations", and shared premium subscriptions to bypass geographic restrictions, evade safeguards, and violate providers' terms of use. The agencies recommend detecting anomalous prompts, accounts, and usage patterns; subtly altering responses to suspected distillers; and cross-organization intelligence sharing. They also call DeepSeek's publicly cited $5.6M training cost misleading because it excludes data acquired through distillation.
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[Control Systems] Inductive Automation security advisory (AV26-892)
Canada's Cyber Centre relayed a CISA ICS advisory for an Inductive Automation Ignition vulnerability affecting versions up to 8.1.53.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published control systems advisory AV26-892, noting that as of September 4, 2026, Inductive Automation is affected by a vulnerability in Ignition versions prior to or equal to 8.1.53. The advisory references CISA's ICS advisory (ICSA-26-246-06) and its CSAF file, and encourages users and administrators to review the linked resources and apply necessary updates as they become available. Ignition is a widely deployed industrial automation platform, so affected OT operators should patch promptly.
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Windows 11 cumulative updates KB5124008 & KB5122880 released
Microsoft shipped mandatory September 2026 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates KB5124008 and KB5122880 for Windows 11, fixing vulnerabilities and adding features.
Microsoft released Windows 11 KB5124008 (versions 25H2/24H2) and KB5122880 (23H2) cumulative updates containing the September 2026 Patch Tuesday security patches, described as covering 1,000 vulnerabilities discovered in previous months. The updates are mandatory and add features including movable and resizable taskbars, Start menu customization, a Windows Search option to hide Bing and Store web suggestions, and Administrator Protection, a just-in-time admin privilege feature that is off by default and configurable via Intune OMA-URI or Group Policy.
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Microsoft Confirms KB5002914 Update Breaks Copy and Paste on Excel
Microsoft confirms KB5002914 Excel security update silently breaks copy-paste in Excel 2016-2024, forcing admins to choose between usability and security fixes.
Microsoft added a known issue to KB5002914, the September 8, 2026 Excel security update, where paste, autofill, and formula dragging fail silently with no error in Excel 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024. The update addresses remote code execution and information disclosure flaws including CVE-2026-81399, CVE-2026-81390, and CVE-2026-81954. No hotfix date has been published as of September 15, 2026; the only widely confirmed recovery is uninstalling or rolling back KB5002914, which drops the month's Excel security fixes.
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