Latest security news

Fri, 4 Sept 2026

1. 15:57
   Companies Have 6 Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks

   Frontier AI models have already demonstrated they can autonomously — and in some cases, inadvertently — conduct end-to-end compromises, but the situation will become more urgent very soon.

   Dark Reading
2. 15:57
   Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters

   Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as 'funding' to prevent email filters from parsing them," the Microsoft Security Research team said. The

   The Hacker News·Microsoft
3. 15:44
   Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face deal could benefit enterprises

   The chipmaker’s acquisition could eventually bring additional security resources and model evaluation tools to the platform, according to experts.

   Cybersecurity Dive·Nvidia
4. 15:33
   Time is running out for cyber security, warn top tech firms

   Hacker News
5. 15:25
   Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks

   Attackers have begun targeting a critical-severity Citrix NetScaler auth bypass flaw (CVE-2026-19490) in the wild, according to vulnerability intelligence company Previdian.

   BleepingComputer·Citrix
6. 15:20
   PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution

   PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are

   The Hacker News
7. 14:51
   New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic

   A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it requires code execution on the host and

   The Hacker News·Linux
8. 14:30
   Microsoft says some users can’t open the Teams desktop client

   Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes delays or blocks some users from opening the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Windows systems.

   BleepingComputer·Microsoft, Windows
9. 14:23
   OpenAI pledges $1B to provide resources, training for frontline cyber defenders

   Amid heightened scrutiny, the company will use frontier AI to help water, power and local government providers fight malicious actors.

   Cybersecurity Dive
10. 14:01
    39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication

    Passkeys eliminate many password-based attacks, but researchers have documented 39 methods for compromising authentication built around them. Token explains how attackers can abuse authentication prompts, synced credentials, enrollment, recovery, and other trust boundaries without breaking FIDO2 cryptography.

    BleepingComputer