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Wed, 2 Sept 2026
- An AI-Assisted Cyber Attack: Inside a Unit 42 Investigation
Using autonomous AI agents, an attacker breached an enterprise network in a matter of hours. Understand how to address and defend against agentic attacks.
Unit 42 - UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it
Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards
The Register - Hackers Chain Two New SonicWall Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
SonicWall has urged customers to patch two new zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild
Infosecurity MagazineSonicWall - FulcrumSec Claims Responsibility for Manchester Airport Group Breach
Threat group FulcrumSec claims MAG breach and leaks 550GB of data online
Infosecurity Magazine - ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10078, (Wed, Sep 2nd)
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SANS Internet Storm Center - Old, Unpatched Flaws Give Attackers Access to Philippines Nuclear Agency
Threat actors exploited commodity vulnerabilities in ownCloud to gain initial access, resulting in stolen reactor databases, personnel records, and credential stores.
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Tue, 1 Sept 2026
- Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes
23-year-old botnet down
The Register - FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.
Krebs on Security - Guildma (Astaroth) malware infection from Brazilian Portuguese email, (Tue, Sep 1st)
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SANS Internet Storm Center - Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans
Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit
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