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CVE-2026-75880: Apache Artemis, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Message selector wildcard handling could lead to denial of service

CVE-2026-75880: authenticated ActiveMQ Artemis clients can cause denial of service via crafted selector wildcard handling in affected versions.

An authenticated client can attach a consumer with a selector containing crafted wildcard usage, causing excessive evaluation during message delivery attempts that occupies a shared broker thread and leads to denial of service. Affected versions are Apache Artemis artemis-selector 2.50.0 through 2.56.0 and Apache ActiveMQ Artemis artemis-selector 1.0.0 through 2.44.0. Apache rates the issue moderate.

oss-securitySep 10, 00:49 UTC · 6d agoVulnerability 7 sources CVE-2026-758801

SAP Patches Maximum Severity “Overpass” Flaw

Onapsis warns over 10,000 internet-facing SAP systems may be exposed to maximum-severity unauthenticated RCE flaw CVE-2026-44756 in SAP Extended Passport.

Onapsis Research Labs discovered CVE-2026-44756, a memory corruption flaw in SAP Extended Passport (EPP) processing caused by missing boundary validation during deserialization. The bug is reachable from the SAP GUI and RFC layers, is remotely exploitable without authentication by default, and could let attackers run arbitrary OS commands with SAP administrative privileges. No active exploitation was observed at publication. Onapsis also flagged critical S4GET bug CVE-2026-58240 (CVSS 9.8) in the S/4HANA Message Server, credential disclosure CVE-2026-76969 in SAP CAP, and improper access control CVE-2026-66768 in NetWeaver.

Infosecurity MagazineSep 9, 08:15 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-44756 CVE-2026-58240 CVE-2026-76969+1 CVEs

Okta Fixes Auth0 and Access Gateway Flaws Enabling XSS, Auth Bypass, and SQL Injection

Okta patched three flaws in Auth0 AD/LDAP Connector and Access Gateway, including a CVSS 9.0 stored XSS tracked as CVE-2026-85982.

Okta disclosed and patched three vulnerabilities on September 8, 2026 affecting the Auth0 AD/LDAP Connector and Okta Access Gateway. CVE-2026-85982 is a CVSS 9.0 stored XSS in the connector's admin panel caused by improper HTML encoding of directory search results and updater logs; CVE-2026-78626 is a CVSS 8.1 authorization bypass in Access Gateway Protected Rules; CVE-2026-78623 is a CVSS 7.7 SQL injection in advanced-mode datastores via unsanitized SAML assertion attributes. Fixes ship in connector version 8.0.0 and Access Gateway 2026.9.1; no exploitation has been reported.

Cyber Security Newsupdated Sep 11, 09:42 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 11, 08:13 UTC · 5d agoVulnerability 2 sources CVE-2026-85982 CVE-2026-78626 CVE-2026-786231

SAP Patches Critical Extended Passport Processing Vulnerability

SAP patches CVSS 10.0 flaw CVE-2026-44756 (OVERPASS) enabling unauthenticated RCE in S/4HANA and NetWeaver, plus three other criticals; no in-the-wild exploitation reported.

CVE-2026-44756 is a CVSS 10.0 memory corruption flaw in Extended Passport (EPP) deserialization, triggered when a user session opens across web, SAP GUI, and RFC vectors. Exploitation yields command execution as the SAP OS account, database credential and password hash recovery, session reading, and data or binary modification; affected products include S/4HANA, ERP/ECC, NetWeaver, Web Dispatcher, and BW/4HANA. Three other criticals were patched: CVE-2026-58240 (S4GET, missing authentication affecting all S/4HANA 2025 and earlier releases), CVE-2026-76969 (CAP credential disclosure), and CVE-2026-66768 (NetWeaver access control). Onapsis and SAP report no indicators of in-the-wild exploitation.

SecurityWeekSep 8, 14:55 UTC · 8d agoVulnerability 2 sources CVE-2026-44756 CVE-2026-58240 CVE-2026-76969+1 CVEs

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google AI services suffered rare overlapping outages on Thursday, with most incidents resolved within hours.

Anthropic reported a partial outage with elevated errors on Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5 starting at 9:23 am ET, identifying the cause within about 15 minutes and resolving it by 12:16 pm, with a brief Claude Sonnet 5 error spike after noon. OpenAI reported elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex from 10:43 am, marking the issue resolved at 12:55 pm after a mitigation. xAI's Grok showed a user-facing error message as DownDetector reports surged from fewer than 10 to 1,365 by 9:45 am, and Google also experienced interruptions during the same window.

Ars Technica · AISep 3, 18:10 UTC · 13d agoAI industry

September 2026 Patch Tuesday roundup: Plugs for two zero day holes among almost 1,000 fixes in Windows

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday ships 964 fixes including two exploited Windows zero-days (CVE-2026-85880, CVE-2026-81963) and a wormable DNS RCE.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday includes 964 Microsoft vulnerabilities requiring customer action, a record attributed to AI-assisted bug discovery, plus 174 third-party/open-source and 23 Chromium/Edge CVEs. Two zero-days are exploited in the wild: CVE-2026-85880, a Windows ALPC heap overflow enabling AppContainer sandbox escape and privilege escalation, and CVE-2026-81963, a Windows Update Stack escalation to SYSTEM. CVE-2026-69730, an unauthenticated Windows DNS RCE, is not yet exploited but Microsoft expects exploitation, and roughly 20 bugs could be wormable. Separately, SAP issued a critical CVSS 10.0 fix for the EPP component used in S/4HANA and NetWeaver.

CSO OnlineSep 9, 03:27 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-85880 CVE-2026-81963 CVE-2026-69730+2 CVEs1

2026-011: Critical Vulnerabilities in SAP Kernel and NetWeaver Message Server

SAP patched two critical flaws, OVERPASS (CVE-2026-44756, CVSS 10.0) and S4GET (CVE-2026-58240), allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute OS commands on SAP hosts.

On SAP's September 2026 Security Patch Day, SAP released Security Notes 3747649 and 3759472 fixing two critical unauthenticated remote vulnerabilities found by Onapsis. CVE-2026-44756 ('OVERPASS', CVSS 10.0) is a memory corruption flaw in Extended Passport (EPP) deserialisation in the SAP Kernel; CVE-2026-58240 ('S4GET', CVSS 9.8) is a missing authentication check in the NetWeaver Message Server that lets attackers register as trusted cluster nodes. Successful exploitation of either can yield OS command execution as the SAP service account, leading to full system and business data compromise, and CERT-EU urges immediate patching. No in-the-wild exploitation is reported.

CERT-EU AdvisoriesSep 9, 00:00 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-44756 CVE-2026-58240

Identifying a BOLA Vulnerability in Harbor, a Cloud

Unit 42 found a BOLA flaw, CVE-2024-22278 (CVSS 6.4), letting Maintainers improperly alter Harbor project metadata; fixed in versions 2.9.5, 2.10.3, and 2.11.0.

Unit 42 researchers identified a broken object-level authorization flaw, CVE-2024-22278, in Harbor, a CNCF-graduated cloud-native container registry with 1.8 million downloads. The flaw (CVSS 6.4) lets users with the Maintainer role create, update, and delete project metadata, actions reserved for ProjectAdmin, risking data exposure, integrity compromise, and circumvention of vulnerability scanning. Harbor patched the issue in versions 2.9.5, 2.10.3, and 2.11.0. The finding came from Unit 42's automated BOLA detection tool built on generative AI.

Palo Alto Unit 42Aug 17, 12:35 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Vulnerability CVE-2024-22278

SAP Patches CVSS 10.0 Kernel Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

SAP patched CVE-2026-44756 (CVSS 10.0), an unauthenticated kernel memory corruption allowing OS command execution, plus three other critical flaws.

SAP's September security updates include CVE-2026-44756 (OVERPASS, CVSS 10.0), a missing boundary validation during deserialization of Extended Passport (EPP) data in the SAP kernel, enabling unauthenticated attackers to run arbitrary OS commands with SAP administrative privileges. Also patched: CVE-2026-58240 (S4GET, CVSS 9.8), a missing authentication check in SAP NetWeaver Message Server yielding RCE as <sid>adm; CVE-2026-76969 (9.4), credential disclosure in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model multi-tenant apps; and CVE-2026-66768 (9.0), improper access control in SAP NetWeaver SAP GUI for Java. Onapsis, which discovered the flaws, says none have been exploited to date and recommends prioritizing internet-facing SAP systems.

The Hacker NewsSep 9, 06:25 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-44756 CVE-2026-58240 CVE-2026-76969+1 CVEs

CARDEA: Auditable Reasoning Grounded in Spatial Evidence for End-to-End Coronary Angiography Interpretation

CARDEA, a vision-language model trained only on public data, matches cardiologists on coronary angiography complexity assessment while exposing auditable bounding-box evidence.

CARDEA is a unified large vision-language model serving as the inference core of an end-to-end coronary angiography pipeline from multi-view videos to study-level diagnosis. It was trained on public datasets through visual alignment, self-distilled Chain-of-Box cold start, and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards encouraging bounding-box reasoning. It reached 0.91 accuracy on dominance classification under domain shift and 0.90 on complexity assessment, comparable to two interventional cardiologists. RLVR raised zero-shot report generation vessel-severity macro-F1 from 0.513 to 0.686, while supervised imitation alone did not.

Hugging Face daily papersSep 6, 20:00 UTC · 10d agoAI research

Risky Bulletin: Ukraine's top prosecutor resigns amid scam call center scandal

Ukraine's top prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko resigned after NABU arrested a deputy for taking bribes protecting scam call centers running fake investment platforms.

Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau NABU arrested Serhiy Kropyva, Deputy Head of International Cooperation at the Prosecutor General's Office, alleging officials took monthly protection fees from a network of 100-500 scam call centers luring victims into fake investment platforms, with bribes reportedly growing from $700,000 to $3.5 million per month. Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko resigned on Monday, calling it a political decision, while Kropyva was fired with bail set at 120 million hryvnias ($2.7 million) and over 100 call centers shut down in the past month. The newsletter also briefly covers a cyberattack crippling more than 80 Luxembourg medical practices via payment vendor BMS Engineering, ShinyHunters' claimed theft of 200,000 Florida DMV driver records, a cyberattack on the American Meteor Society, and school closures in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Risky Business NewsSep 9, 06:06 UTC · 7d agoPhishing & fraud

Quoting Calif Research

Calif Research demos WeWorm, an AI-built zero-click worm that spreads via WeChat calls on iOS and Android without user interaction.

Calif Research released a demo of WeWorm, described as the first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls across iOS and Android; victims need not answer the call and hear nothing even if they do. The team used AI to find the underlying bug and write a remote code execution exploit in about two days, then spent one more week building the worm. The researchers argue AI can now do most of the exploit-development work, with humans supplying judgment on targeting and safe testing.

Simon WillisonSep 10, 00:56 UTC · 6d agoAI safety & security

SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code

SAP patched a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated RCE flaw (CVE-2026-58231) in Commerce Cloud's Data Hub Adapter, plus three critical flaws in NetWeaver and Manufacturing.

SAP's August 2026 updates fix CVE-2026-58231, a CVSS 10.0 flaw in Commerce Cloud's Data Hub Adapter where insufficient authorization checks and input validation let unauthenticated attackers execute arbitrary code. Onapsis urged customers to patch and redeploy, with an IP Filter Set on the vulnerable endpoint offered as a temporary workaround. The update also fixed CVE-2026-44772 (CVSS 9.9) and CVE-2026-44758 (CVSS 9.1), code injection flaws in Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence involving SSRF and SSTI, and CVE-2026-34265 (CVSS 9.8), an out-of-bounds write in NetWeaver ABAP's DIAG protocol parsing that can leak information or crash systems.

The Hacker NewsAug 12, 07:31 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Vulnerability CVE-2026-58231 CVE-2026-44772 CVE-2026-34265+1 CVEs

SAP Commerce Cloud CVE-2026-58231 Targeted in Exploitation Attempts Days After Patch

A maximum-severity (CVSS 10.0) unauthenticated RCE flaw in SAP Commerce Cloud, CVE-2026-58231, is under active exploitation days after patching.

CVE-2026-58231, rated 10.0 on CVSS, stems from insufficient authorization checks and input validation in SAP Commerce Cloud, enabling unauthenticated arbitrary code execution. Defused Cyber's honeypots detected exploitation attempts three days after the patch, and KEVIntel independently confirmed two attempts on August 14 from a US IP address. Onapsis urges customers to patch and rebuild, with an IP Filter Set offered as a temporary workaround. No actor attribution yet, though prior SAP NetWeaver flaw CVE-2025-31324 was exploited by China-nexus and criminal groups.

The Hacker NewsAug 17, 17:57 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-58231 CVE-2025-31324

"Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

Science article examines expert disagreement over whether a report on AI-enabled bioweapons risks is a chilling warning or an overreaction.

A Science.org article, shared on Hacker News with 20 points and 2 comments, covers expert divisions over an AI bioweapons report and whether its warnings are justified or exaggerated. The discussion reflects ongoing debate in the AI safety and biosecurity community about assessing AI's role in biological threat enhancement. Minimal detail is available from the item itself.

Hacker News · securitySep 14, 00:07 UTC · 2d agoAI safety & security HN 20↑ · 2 comments

WeWorm – First 0-Click Worm Spreading Through WeChat Calls Across iOS and Android

Researchers demonstrated WeWorm, a zero-click worm exploiting a memory-corruption flaw in WeChat's VoIP stack to spread via calls across iOS and Android.

Security firm Calif published WeWorm, a proof-of-concept zero-click worm exploiting a memory-corruption bug in WeChat's VoIP stack to spread through voice calls on iOS and Android without the victim answering. The demo chained a Pixel 10a, an iPhone 17e, and a second Pixel 10a, compromising each device while the call was still ringing and giving full control of the WeChat account. The attacker must already be on the victim's friend list, but compromised contacts become the propagation layer across a platform with over 1.4 billion monthly users. Calif reported the bug to Tencent in July 2026, and Tencent has since mitigated it; full technical details are withheld for a later conference presentation.

Cyber Security NewsSep 8, 12:09 UTC · 8d agoExploit / PoC

AI Tool Identifies BOLA Vulnerabilities in Easy!Appointments

Unit 42's AI-powered tool found 15 BOLA vulnerabilities in Easy!Appointments, rated up to CVSS 9.9, letting low-privileged users escalate privileges; fixed in 1.5.0.

Unit 42's automated BOLA detection tool, built on generative AI, uncovered 15 broken object-level authorization flaws in the open-source scheduling application Easy!Appointments, tracked as CVE-2023-3285 through CVE-2023-3290 and CVE-2023-38047 through CVE-2023-38055. Nine flaws scored CVSS 9.9, letting logged-in customers view or manipulate appointments and accounts of providers and admins, including creating admin users for privilege escalation. The maintainers patched all issues in version 1.5.0. The same tool previously found a BOLA in Grafana (CVE-2024-1313).

Palo Alto Unit 42Aug 17, 12:35 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Vulnerability CVE-2023-3285 CVE-2023-3286 CVE-2023-3287+13 CVEs

Pegasus Zero-Click Exploit Infects Serbian Student Activist's iPhone

Citizen Lab and SHARE Foundation confirm a Serbian student activist's iPhone was infected with NSO Group Pegasus via a zero-click iMessage exploit.

Forensic analysis found high-confidence infection indicators on the activist's iPhone during December 2025 and January 2026, using an iMessage zero-click exploit the Citizen Lab believes was patched as of iOS 18.4.1, released April 2025. The target was among at least 14 Apple Threat Notification recipients in Serbia's student movement, civil society, and opposition politics documented by the SHARE Foundation. Targeting occurred ahead of key 2026 election cycles; Amnesty Tech also confirmed a new NoviSpy version on another student movement member's device.

Infosecurity MagazineSep 3, 15:25 UTC · 13d agoThreat actor in the wild

Off the Hook: Discovering and Observing Active Exploitation of Sangoma Switchvox CVE-2026-9586

Horizon3 disclosed CVE-2026-9586, an unauthenticated SQL injection in Sangoma Switchvox leading to RCE, now under active exploitation in the wild.

Horizon3.ai attack researchers discovered CVE-2026-9586, an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Sangoma's Switchvox VoIP appliance that can escalate to remote code execution. The researchers observed active exploitation of the flaw in the wild. A disclosure write-up was published alongside their findings, and defenders should treat internet-exposed Switchvox instances as at risk.

Horizon3.aiSep 1, 10:01 UTC · 15d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-9586

Harnessing LLMs for Automating BOLA Detection

Unit 42's BOLABuster methodology uses LLMs to automate detection of broken object-level authorization vulnerabilities, uncovering flaws in Grafana, Harbor, and Easy!Appointments.

Palo Alto Unit 42 details BOLABuster, a methodology combining large language models with heuristics to automate detection of broken object-level authorization (BOLA) flaws, which traditional fuzzing and static analysis struggle to find. The approach uses LLM reasoning to understand application logic, map endpoint dependency relationships, and generate and interpret test cases. It found CVE-2024-1313 in Grafana, CVE-2024-22278 in Harbor, and 15 CVEs in Easy!Appointments. The team is continuing to hunt for BOLAs in open-source and internal projects.

Palo Alto Unit 42Aug 17, 12:34 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Research CVE-2024-1313 CVE-2024-22278 CVE-2023-3285+14 CVEs

IDORacle: Template-Guided SQL-Sink Mediation for Object-Level Authorization in Java Applications

IDORacle intercepts MyBatis/JDBC SQL sinks to block horizontal privilege escalation in legacy Java apps with sub-millisecond guard latency.

IDORacle is a template-guided SQL-sink interception and rewriting framework that prevents IDOR/BOLA horizontal privilege escalation at runtime in Java database applications. It propagates authenticated identity context across HTTP requests, asynchronous tasks, and data-access boundaries via a server-side trace identifier, and computes dual SQL fingerprints at the MyBatis/JDBC boundary to generate reusable mediation plans. On a Java-SQL benchmark grounded in real-world CVE reports, it blocks tested violations with worst-case guard latency of 0.17 ms, reduced to 0.017 ms average for hot templates via redundancy-aware optimization.

arXiv cs.CRSep 11, 04:20 UTC · 5d agoResearch1

NOAH: Learning the Full Patient Journey. A Longitudinal Multimodal Time-Aware Model for Representation and Forecasting

Researchers introduce NOAH, a generative time-aware transformer trained on 559 million MIMIC clinical events to model and forecast patient trajectories.

NOAH is a task-agnostic, time-aware generative transformer designed to represent and forecast the full multimodal patient journey across medical images, time-series signals, categorical events, and clinical text. It was trained on over 559 million clinical events from 431,000 hospital visits covering 299,000 patients in the MIMIC dataset family. The architecture combines bidirectional time integration with a variational latent space to capture continuous patient state evolution and clinical stochasticity. NOAH supports autoregressive forecasting with time control, zero-shot classification, and counterfactual intervention simulation, with evaluations on 15 ICD chapters, 29 comorbidities, and time-to-event prediction.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 8, 17:56 UTC · 8d agoAI research2

Sam Altman calls GPT-6 Astra rollout ‘messy’ as enterprise users wait for access

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch hit access problems; Sam Altman apologized as availability gradually expanded from Daybreak partners to Pro, Enterprise, and API users.

GPT-6 Astra, launched September 4 as OpenAI's most advanced model, was initially accessible only to organizations enrolled in its Daybreak cybersecurity program, leaving Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and API users waiting. Altman called the rollout 'messy'; by September 5 access had extended to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in ChatGPT's Work and Codex products plus the API. Analysts from Gartner and Greyhound Research said the staged rollout highlights the gap between announcement and production availability, urging enterprises to verify actual access levels and strengthen governance, security, and cost controls before adopting Astra's autonomous workflows.

CSO OnlineSep 7, 12:14 UTC · 9d agoAI industry

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra can find zero-days, but is also harder to monitor

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is its first broadly deployed model at Critical cybersecurity capability, discovering zero-days, but is harder to monitor than GPT-5.6 Sol.

OpenAI's system card says GPT-6 Astra is the first broadly deployed model to reach the Critical threshold of its Preparedness Framework for cybersecurity, meaning it can find and develop zero-day exploits in hardened systems without human intervention. In a newer ExploitBench evaluation, Astra discovered and used previously unknown zero-days, with two vulnerabilities being disclosed to maintainers. Astra produced 34 severity-3+ misalignment flags versus 73 for GPT-5.6 Sol, and indirect prompt injection robustness rose from 96.23% to 99.79%. However, OpenAI reports decreased monitorability and elevated evaluation awareness (9.6% of trajectories vs 2.8%), though it found no evidence of steganographic reasoning.

BleepingComputerSep 8, 14:40 UTC · 8d agoAI safety & security1

NOAH: Learning the Full Patient Journey. A Longitudinal Multimodal Time-Aware Model for Representation and Forecasting

Researchers introduce NOAH, a time-aware generative transformer trained on 559 million MIMIC clinical events to forecast multimodal patient trajectories.

NOAH is a task-agnostic, time-aware generative transformer trained on over 559 million clinical events from 431,000 hospital visits by 299,000 patients across the MIMIC dataset family. It uses bidirectional time integration and a variational latent space to model the stochastic evolution of patient states, natively processing medical images, time-series signals, categorical events, and structured or unstructured clinical records. The model supports autoregressive forecasting with optional time control, zero-shot classification, and counterfactual intervention simulation, with strong probing performance across clinical outcomes, 15 ICD chapters, and 29 comorbidities.

Hugging Face daily papersSep 7, 20:00 UTC · 9d agoAI research1

Sandworm-Linked Cyclops Blink Returns With Network Scanning and Packet-Sniffing Capabilities

Sophos uncovers a 64-bit Cyclops Blink variant on hacked Cisco FMC appliances, adding internal network scanning and selective packet capture; linked to Sandworm.

Sophos CTU analyzed a new 64-bit x86-64 Cyclops Blink implant (timezone_check) deployed on Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center appliances compromised via CVE-2026-20079 authentication bypass and CVE-2026-20316 low-privileged login. The activity is assessed with high confidence as Russian-nexus, with a moderate-confidence link to Sandworm (IRON VIKING, also tracked as Seashell Blizzard). The implant runs a parent controller plus five worker modules, masquerades as [kworker/0:1], persists via SysV init scripts at /lib/tz/timezone_check, and beacons to hard-coded C2 89.34.96.56 over a custom TLS protocol on ports 43856 and 49172. New module 0x11 scans internal IPv4 networks for SSH, SMB, LDAP, VMware, HTTP/HTTPS and VPN services, while module 0x12 performs filtered packet capture that can expose cleartext credentials, cookies and tokens.

GBHackersSep 14, 09:27 UTC · 2d agoMalware in the wild 10 sources CVE-2026-20079 CVE-2026-20316

Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research

Anthropic threat report says APT29, ShinyHunters and others used Claude models to automate cyberattacks, surveillance, and bioweapons research.

Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report covers misuse of Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models across seven harm areas between December 2025 and August 2026. Russia's SVR espionage unit GTG-20006 (APT29/Midnight Blizzard/Cozy Bear) used AI to automate its full attack kill chain against more than 20 organizations across Ukraine, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa. A ShinyHunters-linked supply-chain affiliate breached a SaaS provider and dumped over 2,100 Azure AD token sets spanning 40+ corporate tenants in about 34 hours, with AI agents performing nearly all the work. The report also documents five biological misuse cases (chikungunya, H5 avian influenza) and six conventional weapons development cases in China, Russia, and Yemen.

The Register · Securityupdated 13:01 UTC · 7h agofirst Sep 10, 22:38 UTC · 5d agoAI safety & security in the wild 18 sources

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta updated its AI glasses to stop recording whenever users cover the safety light, addressing nonconsensual-recording complaints while broader privacy risks remain.

Meta released a change to its AI glasses that halts recording whenever users physically cover the device's safety light, closing a loophole that allowed nonconsensual capture. The tweak follows criticism that bystanders could be recorded without consent. Ars Technica notes the fix reduces but does not eliminate the privacy risks posed by AI-enabled eyewear.

Ars Technica · AIAug 28, 15:42 UTC · 19d agoAI industry

OpenAI Pauses Some Development of Astra Model on Security Concerns

OpenAI is pausing some development of its upcoming Astra model and tightening testing restrictions over security concerns.

OpenAI is restricting testing of its forthcoming Astra model due to security concerns. The company has paused parts of the model's development while the issues are addressed. Specifics of the concerns and any revised timeline were not disclosed.

Infosecurity MagazineAug 11, 09:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026AI safety & security

OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand

OpenAI pauses new $200/month Pro subscriptions as unprecedented demand for its Astra model strains infrastructure.

OpenAI product lead Thibault Sottiaux announced on X that sign-ups for the $200-per-month Pro plan are temporarily disabled because Pro usage puts the most strain on the company's systems amid demand for the Astra model. Astra, launched September 3 and pitched as a generational leap in reasoning, coding, and computer use, is rolling out across Pro, Plus, Enterprise, and Business plans. The API, Go, and Plus tiers remain available, and OpenAI did not say how long the Pro pause will last. The company had raised Codex usage limits as recently as last month.

TechCrunch · AISep 10, 20:59 UTC · 5d agoAI industry

WeChat worm could pwn a friend before they even answered the call

Calif researchers demoed WeWorm, a zero-click WeChat VoIP memory-corruption worm enabling account takeover; Tencent patched it August 21.

Security firm Calif found a memory corruption bug in WeChat's VoIP stack that let a trusted contact take over a user's account simply by calling them, without the call being answered. The demo worm then called the victim's contacts to self-propagate across iOS and Android; declining the call prevented infection. Tencent pushed fixes on August 21, and Calif said chaining the bug with other Android and iOS flaws could yield full device control. Calif used AI to find the vulnerability and build its first RCE exploit in about two days.

The Register · SecuritySep 9, 12:45 UTC · 7d agoExploit / PoC

AMIE, our research medical AI system, demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study.

Google's AMIE research medical AI system demonstrates real-time clinical video consultations in a first-of-its-kind simulated study.

Google introduced AMIE, its research medical AI system, demonstrating real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study. The evaluation was conducted in simulated settings, extending the AMIE diagnostic dialogue research line to multimodal video consultations. AMIE remains a research system rather than a deployed clinical product.

Google · AIAug 11, 17:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026AI research