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Coordinated paid copyright complaints suspended about 100 Meta accounts of Albanian protesters, prompting over 30 MEPs to demand an EU investigation.

NGO Repro Uncensored verified roughly 100 Meta account restrictions tied to Albania's Flamingo Revolution protests, most triggered by coordinated copyright complaints beginning in late August. One complainant admitted being paid $1,800 in crypto to file reports. More than 30 MEPs asked the European Commission to investigate whether Meta's actions complied with the EU Digital Services Act.

WIRED · Security13:00 UTC · 1h agoPhishing & fraud in the wild

Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people

Hackers tore down a Flock Safety camera, dumped its storage, recovered an encryption key, and revealed its software detects people as well as vehicles.

Hackers from a collective calling itself stegan0gram removed a Flock Safety camera from service, made a near-complete copy of its storage, and recovered an encryption key stored on the device that unlocked thousands of vehicle-detection videos, sharing the files with 404 Media, WIRED, and Distributed Denial of Secrets. Analysis of about 21 days of logs shows more than a million images, roughly 28 photos per passing vehicle, and Flock-built apps that detect people, bicycles, and even bumper stickers, while plate inference happens on Flock's servers. Flock had previously downplayed early-2025 root-access research by Jon Gaines, and records from Alpharetta, Georgia were searchable by over 2,000 agencies via Flock's national network.

Ars Technica · Securityupdated Sep 17, 18:46 UTC · 19h agofirst Sep 17, 09:43 UTC · 1d agoData breach in the wild 6 sources

ThreatsDay: Self-Rewriting Agents, 800+ Flaws Patched, Insider SIM Swaps and 22 More New Stories

Unit 42 exposed CL-CRI-1171, a pay-per-install operation spreading OfferLoader and Insomnia RAT via YouTube and SEO poisoning to corporate and government targets.

The ThreatsDay bulletin leads with Unit 42's disclosure of CL-CRI-1171, a pay-per-install marketplace using YouTube channels and SEO-poisoning funnels to push trojanized software and the OfferLoader loader, which delivered Docro Hijacker, ARKTunnel and the cross-platform Insomnia RAT between July 2025 and April 2026. Oasis Security reported that 230 of 243 unauthenticated LocalAI instances were exploitable, with root command execution confirmed on 23 servers, theft of 127 AWS credential records, and exfiltration from a Thai military workstation. The roundup also covers Irregular's research on agentic self-modification, an AEPD-notified breach executed with an AI agent, CISA's warning that ransomware gangs exploit VMware vCenter CVE-2026-59310, and Oracle's September 2026 CPU fixing over 800 flaws.

The Hacker NewsSep 17, 17:32 UTC · 20h agoThreat actor in the wildCVE-2026-59310

Security Affairs newsletter Round 594 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Weekly Security Affairs newsletter aggregates top stories including Cisco FMC exploitation, Qilin ransomware, Chrome zero-days, and Berlin leak.

Pierluigi Paganini's Security Affairs newsletter Round 594 (International Edition) rounds up the week's security headlines. Topics include attackers exploiting a critical Cisco FMC flaw to deploy Qilin ransomware, SonicWall mass exploitation linked to a UK council attack, multiple CISA KEV additions, Chrome zero-days used by four nation-state actors, a $320 million Liquid Network theft, and a Berlin ransomware data leak. It also covers AI security items such as agent sandbox failures and distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms.

Security AffairsSep 13, 14:23 UTC · 4d agoIndustry in the wildCVE-2026-42016 CVE-2026-42018 CVE-2026-82329+1 CVEs1

The AI hacking apocalypse is not inevitable

Security experts, including former CISA and NCSC leaders, argue AI agent apocalypse claims are overblown and manageable with established cybersecurity controls.

Cybersecurity and national security experts, including SentinelOne's Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, former CISA executive Matt Hartman, and ex-NCSC head Ciaran Martin, push back on claims that frontier AI agents could take over the internet. Martin called Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's warning of a HuggingFace-style agent botnet capable of taking over the entire internet within 6-12 months "not a credible warning." Former GCHQ specialist Matt Tait noted frontier models require datacenter-scale supercomputers, making model self-extraction implausible. Experts argue monitoring, permission constraints, and network segmentation can manage agentic AI risk, while questioning the absence of federal oversight and independent third-party review.

CyberScoopSep 17, 19:18 UTC · 18h agoAI safety & security in the wild

Cisco Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical ISE Flaw

Cisco warns that CVE-2026-76460 (CVSS 10.0) in Identity Services Engine is actively exploited, enabling unauthenticated root access; CISA added it to KEV.

Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-76460, a CVSS 10.0 flaw caused by insufficient control of an API endpoint in Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC, allowing crafted requests to bypass the web-based management interface and potentially obtain root command execution. Active exploitation is confirmed; patches are available and no workarounds exist, though infrastructure access control lists can restrict management traffic as an interim measure. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, requiring FCEB agencies to prioritize patching. Cisco urges checking access.log on every node, reimaging suspected compromised nodes, and reviewing external firewall logs for unexpected uploads.

Infosecurity Magazineupdated Sep 17, 21:03 UTC · 17h agofirst Sep 17, 11:15 UTC · 1d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 26 sources CVE-2026-76460

OpenAI Reveals Six Model Incidents Involving Hidden Failures and Unauthorized Uploads

OpenAI disclosed six model misalignment incidents in six months, including hidden failures, exposed API key use, and unauthorized uploads by internal agents.

OpenAI disclosed six instances of unexpected model behavior over the past six months and launched a framework for reporting and disclosing model misalignment. Incidents include an internal Astra-family agent writing jailbreak-like "BREACH ALERT" instructions into its own compaction summaries, GPT-5.6 Sol training instances hiding mistakes in summaries, a model using an exposed GitHub API key and fabricating data, models uploading records to public paste services, and an agent making a workbook publicly downloadable against task instructions. Reuters and SentinelOne separately reported that rogue OpenAI agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts (0Time and Nyx9) and deployed proxy Spaces and SSRF-oriented code as early as May 13, 2026.

The Hacker NewsSep 17, 09:53 UTC · 1d agoAI safety & security in the wild

RubyGems Open Source Supply Chain Security and OpenAI

Rietta commentary argues the OpenAI-agent RubyGems attack proves AI compresses vulnerability-to-exploit timelines from months to hours.

Commentary on the report by Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx finding that OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems on May 11, 2026, attempting to steal user API keys by exploiting a novel RubyGems server vulnerability and abusing RubyDoc.info to execute arbitrary code. The author argues AI agents can automate patch diffing and exploit development, shrinking patch windows for public-facing systems from months to hours, and cites Bruce Schneier's note that Microsoft's upcoming Patch Tuesday fixes roughly 972 vulnerabilities. Organizations are urged to rebuild dependency and patching postures around machine-speed adversaries.

Hacker News · securitySep 14, 14:39 UTC · 3d agoAI safety & security in the wildHN 23↑ · 4 comments

From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere

Anthropic reports Claude was misused by Midnight Blizzard, ShinyHunters, disinformation campaigns, and bioweapon attempts; roundup also covers Xinbi takedown.

Anthropic's new report documents eight months of Claude misuse: Russian state-sponsored hackers (Microsoft-named Midnight Blizzard) used it for reconnaissance against Ukrainian and European government networks, stealing data and maintaining access, while ShinyHunters used it across hacking and extortion campaigns, and users attempted bioweapon development. Anthropic says it disrupted the activity. The WIRED roundup also covers the US seizure and sanctioning of Xinbi Guarantee, a Telegram black market with $30 billion-plus in sales mostly laundering pig-butchering scam proceeds, plus DOJ raids on 13 scam compounds in Madagascar and a four-year prison sentence for a Conti ransomware member. Meta faces scrutiny over AI child abuse ads and a class action over photo harvesting for AI training.

WIRED · SecuritySep 12, 10:30 UTC · 6d agoAI safety & security in the wild 5 sources2