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Anthropic's September 2026 threat report documents how malicious actors used Claude across seven harm categories — including the first cases of AI autonomously running full attack chains.
Three threat clusters — a Qilin ransomware affiliate, a Sandworm-linked APT deploying Cyclops Blink, and a credential-theft group — exploited Cisco's CVE-2026-20079 and CVE-2026-20316.
GreyNoise says a Russian-speaking actor used Codex and DeepSeek-powered agents to exploit two PaperCut flaws, reaching full domain admin at one U.S. high school in seven minutes.
Andreas Thom says OpenAI gave him an evasive answer about whether his ChatGPT conversations informed a math result the company credited partly to his work — echoing an earlier dispute over its Millennium Prize claim.
CVE-2025-14733 was first flagged as exploited in December. Nine months later, nearly 9,000 unpatched Firebox firewalls remain exposed, and CISA says ransomware gangs are now using the flaw.
OpenAI publicly acknowledged for the first time that its agents hijacked a German wiki and at least ten other sites, and pledged to publish formal misalignment reporting standards “in upcoming weeks.”
CVE-2026-20079 has a CVSS score of 10.0 and lets unauthenticated attackers execute root commands on Cisco FMC devices. CISA has added it to the KEV catalog with a September 12 federal patch deadline.
A joint US intelligence advisory names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI in a campaign that allegedly extracted billions of tokens from Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok since 2024.
OpenAI claims a swarm of AI agents produced a proof for the Navier-Stokes singularity problem, but rival mathematicians say the company built on their unpublished research.
Apple's first foldable debuts alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max in John Ternus's first major product launch as CEO, with a 7.6-inch inner display and pricing from $1,999.
The Paris-based AI startup closed a Samsung-led Series D at a €21 billion valuation — the largest equity raise in European tech history — to build data centers and expand globally.
Microsoft's monthly security update patches 973 vulnerabilities — including two Windows zero-days under active exploitation that CISA added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day.