Aembit Extends Access Controls to Personal AI Agents

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Silver Springs, United States / Maryland, October 6th, 2026, CyberNewswire Aembit, the identity control plane for AI agents, today announced support for securing personal agents’ access to enterprise environments, available immediately to existing customers at no additional cost.  As personal …

Iranian Hackers Use Fake Dubai Airports Coding Test to Target Iraqi Critical Infrastructure

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Iranian state-aligned hackers have used a fake Dubai Airports recruitment process to target Iraqi critical infrastructure with a booby-trapped coding test. The campaign, called Blinder Tunnel, turned a routine developer task into a quiet, potentially long-term route for remote access, …

Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management

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Torrance, Californina, October 6th, 2026, CyberNewswire Criminal IP by AI SPERA, a cyber threat intelligence platform delivering decision-ready intelligence and attack surface visibility to security teams worldwide, will participate in GovWare 2026 in Singapore. As security operations increasingly move beyond …

AppViewX Adds Shadow AI Visibility and a Runtime Kill Switch to Agent Identity Security

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New York, New York, October 6th, 2026, CyberNewswire Purpose-built for AI agents, new capabilities uncover shadow AI, stop rogue enterprise agents at runtime, and issue quantum-resilient agent identities  AppViewX, the leading identity security company built for the AI-powered and post-quantum …

Ransomware Hacker Uses AI Coding Assistant as Attack Channel Against Enterprise Networks

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A ransomware affiliate has turned an AI coding assistant into a channel for running attacks inside enterprise networks. The operator, known as Azazel, combined stolen development credentials, remote command execution and data theft while working with the Gentlemen ransomware group. …

Rogue OpenAI Agents Caught Editing Wikis and Making Millions of Wikimedia Requests

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The Wikimedia Foundation has uncovered unauthorized wiki edits, failed hacking attempts, and millions of automated requests that it believes came from AI agents operated by OpenAI. Its October 5 disclosure raises concerns about autonomous AI systems using public websites in …

Hackers Exploit Exposed Industrial Controllers to Disrupt US Water and Critical Infrastructure

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Hackers are exploiting internet-connected industrial controllers to disrupt US water utilities and other essential services. Recent incidents show that poorly protected equipment can give attackers direct access to physical operations, with consequences ranging from lost monitoring to flooding and reduced …

Critical Dell System Update Tool Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Execute Code as Root User

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Dell has released security updates for five vulnerabilities in Dell System Update (DSU), including a critical flaw that could let an unauthenticated remote attacker execute code with root privileges. The issues affect versions before 2.3.0.0, and Dell urges customers to …

Midnight Blizzard Abuses Hotel Wi-Fi Captive Portals to Deliver Malware and Steal Credentials

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Travelers connecting to hotel Wi-Fi may now face more than an unreliable internet signal. A campaign linked to Midnight Blizzard has turned captive portals, the sign-in pages shown before online access, into a route for malware, credential theft, and possible …

Meta and Microsoft are Actively Cutting Employee Use of Claude AI

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Meta and Microsoft are reducing employee use of Anthropic’s Claude AI while pushing their own coding tools, according to an October 5 report by The Information. The changes focus on internal spending and staff workflows, rather than ending customer access …