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Cybersecurity

Autonomous AI Agents Compromise Thousands of Credentials in Under Six Hours

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

Threat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations, with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework to carry out a large-scale…

Cybersecurity

ChatGPT Flaw Let a Planted Prompt Send a Victim’s Gmail Data to Another Account

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

Check Point Research said in a report published today that a single instruction planted in a ChatGPT conversation could cause ChatGPT to quietly work for an attacker while answering the…

Cybersecurity

Liquid Hackers Return 3,400 Bitcoin Taken via Elements Bug, Still Holding $47M in BTC

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

Whoever took nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network on Sunday, September 6, returned 3,400 of it the next day, Bitcoin’s public record shows. About 598.5 bitcoin has not come…

Technology

With another huge infusion of cash, Stoke Space goes even bigger

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

Stoke Space announced Tuesday that it has raised another significant round of funding, $1 billion, as it makes a final push toward its debut launch next year. The Washington-based launch…

Technology

EV batteries last longer than drivers feared

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

Electric vehicle batteries are lasting longer than previously feared by drivers, with most used EVs able to retain about 90 percent of their original usable battery capacity after 150,000 kilometers,…

Cybersecurity

What It Took to Reach 1 Billion Build Manifests

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

In the last six months, Chainguard doubled its output from 500 million to more than 1 billion container build manifests. We also surpassed 3,000 unique container images and 675,000 image…

Cybersecurity

WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones. The person…

Technology

Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

We’ve well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have been engaged…

Cybersecurity

FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group,…

Cybersecurity

BengalSEO Poisons Bing Search Results to Deliver MayaBot and Tech Support Scams

September 8, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sprawling search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that paves the way for malware deployment and tech support scams. The campaign, discovered by the…

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