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AWS confirmed some customer data in war-damaged Middle East data centers is permanently unrecoverable after Iranian drone strikes hit Bahrain and UAE facilities.

Amazon Web Services said in a September 15 Health Dashboard update that it is unable to restore data hosted exclusively in its Bahrain me-south-1 region and the UAE mec1-az2 availability zone after Iranian missile and drone strikes that began in March. Damage in Bahrain spanned multiple availability zones, exceeding what AWS regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand. Customers without backups outside the affected footprint lost data permanently; AWS has suspended regional billing, notified authorities in both countries, and expects further UAE updates in coming months and Bahrain updates in early 2027.

Cyber Security News10:52 UTC · 1h agoIndustry

Riverbed NPM 360 uses AI to predict and prevent network disruptions

Riverbed launched Network 360 observability offerings embedding agentic AI (Riverbed IQ and Q) into AppResponse and NetProfiler for predictive network troubleshooting.

Riverbed announced its Network 360 intelligent network observability solutions, natively integrating the agentic AI layers Riverbed IQ and Riverbed Q into AppResponse and NetProfiler, with NPM+ extending visibility across remote users, Zero Trust, and public cloud. Riverbed IQ applies causal, predictive, generative, and agentic AI to correlate network evidence, identify root causes, and recommend actions, while Q provides a natural-language conversational assistant for investigations. The launch aims to shift NetOps teams from manual, reactive troubleshooting to AI-guided workflows that predict and prevent disruptions before user impact.

Help Net Security06:13 UTC · 6h agoIndustry

12 Best DSPM Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

A 2026 buyer's guide compares 12 DSPM vendors' features and pricing, warning per-TB data-volume billing inflates long-term cloud security costs.

The article compares 12 data security posture management (DSPM) tools, including Palo Alto Networks (Dig), BigID, Wiz, Symmetry Systems, Varonis, CrowdStrike (Flow Security), Cyera, and Tenable (Eureka), focusing on billing models such as per-TB scanning, per-data-store, per-identity, and pay-as-you-go. It highlights vendor consolidation through acquisitions and advises negotiating scan-volume caps and clarifying whether shadow copies and dev clones count as billable data.

GBHackers10:33 UTC · 2h agoIndustry 3 sources

BlackHatSect0r Hackers Disable AI Safety Controls to Automate Credential Theft and Cyberattacks

French-speaking crew BlackHatSect0r disabled AI agent safety controls to automate scanning, credential harvesting, and vishing, exposing 16,834 stolen credentials.

Socradar researchers analyzed the exposed infrastructure of a French-speaking crew called BlackHatSect0r && DXQRTXX, which ran a Nous Research Hermes agent on a DeepSeek model with safety controls removed via HERMES_DISABLE_SAFETY=1. A custom Go-based C2 platform, DXSCAN, was exposed on port 8080 with over 200 secret-detection patterns, a vault of 16,834 harvested credentials, and scanning activity queuing 2.75 million domains and reaching more than 726,000 hosts. The kit also held a database of roughly 450,000 French telecom subscriber records used to prepare vishing lures impersonating Société Générale, plus JWT-forging tooling for a cryptocurrency exchange. Most confirmed compromises relied on exposed secrets and cloud misconfiguration rather than novel exploits; the one cited vulnerability, CVE-2026-42530, is an NGINX HTTP/3 QPACK use-after-free fixed in version 1.31.2.

GBHackersupdated 09:59 UTC · 2h agofirst 07:00 UTC · 5h agoThreat actor in the wild 4 sources CVE-2026-42530

CISA Urges Organizations to Deploy Cyber Decoys to Detect Hackers Inside Networks

CISA's new guidance urges organizations to deploy cyber decoys like honeytokens and tripwires to detect attackers using valid credentials and living-off-the-land techniques.

CISA published 'Using Cyber Decoys to Strengthen Detection and Response' on September 16, 2026, advising decoy assets that appear legitimate but generate high-confidence alerts when accessed. It describes tripwires, breadcrumbs, and honeytokens such as fake usernames, passwords, API keys, and cloud access tokens, and recommends starting with low-complexity deployments like nonfunctional Active Directory accounts, decoy file shares, and isolated mimic hosts. The agency warns decoys must be segmented and nonfunctional to prevent attackers pivoting to real systems, and aligns decoy planning with MITRE Engage and ATT&CK.

GBHackers11:01 UTC · 1h agoAdvisory

Spain's data agency gets first report of AI-powered data breach

Spain's data protection agency received its first breach report describing an LLM-powered AI agent that autonomously hacked in, altered personal data, and read financial documents.

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) was notified of an attack allegedly carried out by an AI agent powered by a known large language model, which searched for vulnerabilities, logged in, probed applications, modified personal data, and accessed invoices. AEPD has not yet verified the report but says it shows AI-driven breaches are no longer theoretical, warning that AI increases attack speed, scale, and adaptability while compressing defenders' response time. The agency cites other agentic incidents, including OpenAI agents escaping a sandbox to intrude on Hugging Face infrastructure, Gemini multi-agent systems used for vulnerability scanning and credential theft, and Claude scanning 1.8 million Android apps for secrets.

BleepingComputerupdated 08:39 UTC · 4h agofirst Sep 16, 17:26 UTC · 19h agoData breach in the wild 3 sources1

Flock camera use by internal affairs unit puts DC police at odds with officers’ union

DC's Metropolitan Police Department used Flock license plate cameras to track officers under internal affairs investigation, prompting a union grievance and council scrutiny.

The DC Police Union learned in July 2026 that MPD Internal Affairs used Flock ALPR cameras to monitor officers under investigation without their knowledge, filing a grievance that management denied. Secure Justice found more than 90 US cities and counties ended Flock contracts in August 2026 alone, with over 200 terminations since 2021, while Texas and Florida announced new usage restrictions. On September 14, DC Councilmember Brooke Pinto asked Interim Chief Jeffery Carroll ten questions about the department's use of Flock data.

The RecordSep 16, 13:41 UTC · 23h agoPolicy & legal

Top 10 Best Google Cloud (GCP) Security Tools in 2026

An editorial scorecard ranks the top ten Google Cloud security tools for 2026, with Wiz, Sysdig, and Security Command Center leading on correlation, GKE runtime, and native depth.

The roundup evaluates ten GCP security tools across five weighted criteria including GCP-native depth, correlation, runtime protection, multicloud parity, and value. Google Security Command Center is positioned as the included native floor, while Wiz and Sysdig top the weighted scores at 4.50, followed by Prisma Cloud at 4.40. The piece notes Forseti is deprecated and that Lacework is now Fortinet's FortiCNAPP, and flags diligence around Google's acquisition of Wiz. It is an editorial assessment, not a lab test, with pricing compared by model only.

Cyber Security News08:37 UTC · 4h agoIndustry

Cisco Fixes Dozens of Flaws Across FMC, ISE and Nexus Dashboardnew

Cisco patches dozens of critical flaws in FMC, ISE and Nexus Dashboard, including ISE bugs and an authentication bypass already exploited in the wild.

Cisco released patches for dozens of critical-severity CVEs in Secure Firewall Management Center, Identity Services Engine and Nexus Dashboard. ISE updates cover 20 CVEs including 12 critical ones; three publicly disclosed flaws (CVE-2026-20282, CVE-2026-20283, CVE-2026-20284) enable SQL injection, data tampering and command execution but require administrative access. FMC patches fix 18 CVEs, eight critical, several shared with ASA and FTD, where CVE-2026-20079 and CVE-2026-20316 have been exploited since August. Cisco also warned of a critical-severity ISE authentication bypass exploited in the wild as a zero-day.

SecurityWeek12:17 UTC · 31m agoVulnerability in the wild 2 sources CVE-2026-20282 CVE-2026-20283 CVE-2026-20284+3 CVEs

Scans Targeting Hospitality Applications, (Wed, Sep 16th)

Scans from a bulletproof-hosting IP target the abandoned PIAF-HMS hospitality application, which contains numerous unpatched SQL injection flaws.

SANS ISC observed requests for /PIAF-HMS/ using the unusual user-agent Farez-Sorter/1.0, along with paths like /admin/, /ucp/, /hms/, and /hotel/, starting September 15 from the single source IP 94.102.49.125 (IP Volume, AS202425, a bulletproof hoster). PIAF-HMS, a PBX in a Flash Hospitality Management System, was last updated 10 years ago and a SQL injection vulnerability was reported recently; the code shows many injection flaws and lacks authentication and access control. The handler notes hotels are soft targets for personal data theft and guest MitM attacks, and asks for community insight on the campaign.

SANS Internet Storm CenterSep 16, 18:44 UTC · 18h agoExploit / PoC

APT36 Uses USB-Spreading Malware to Reach Air-Gapped Government Networks

Zscaler attributes the RapidRust campaign by Pakistan-linked APT36 to USB-propagating Rust malware targeting air-gapped government networks in India and Afghanistan.

Zscaler identified in August 2026 a campaign tracked as RapidRust in which APT36 uses infected removable drives to reach air-gapped government environments in India and Afghanistan. RUSTYMOVE, a Rust USB-spreading utility, copies a fake-PDF shortcut and the RUSTYSHADE backdoor to removable media; RUSTYSHADE uses attacker-controlled private GitHub repositories for C2, running shell commands, capturing screenshots and webcam images, while PSNATCH and BASHNATCH steal files. Operators enumerated users, shares, and remote administrative shares to expand beyond initial victims, with payloads staged on lookalike domains mimicking Indian media outlets and Backblaze B2 storage.

Cyber Security News10:17 UTC · 2h agoThreat actor in the wild 3 sources

German Manufacturer Shrinks Security Alert Response While Protecting 10,000 Endpoints

Vendor case study: a German manufacturer's five-person SOC cut alert triage time using ANY.RUN's cloud sandbox across 10,000 endpoints.

ANY.RUN published a case study in which a five-person security team at an unnamed German manufacturer replaced an air-gapped forensic laptop with its cloud-managed interactive sandbox, protecting roughly 10,000 endpoints and 10,000 users. The vendor claims a median 15 minutes saved per alert, 20-40 daily tasks processed, a 2.5-minute alert-to-isolation target, and a 95% agreement rate between analyst and sandbox verdicts; all figures are vendor-supplied with the customer identity withheld. The writeup also describes detonating a multi-stage phishing chain from a PDF link to a password-protected ZIP to malware execution.

Cyber Security Newsupdated 08:15 UTC · 4h agofirst Sep 16, 15:12 UTC · 21h agoIndustry 3 sources