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OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Bring Frontier AI to Critical Infrastructure Defenders
OpenAI has announced a $1 billion initiative called Daybreak, aimed at equipping defenders of critical infrastructure with advanced AI cybersecurity tools. The program intends to offer subsidized AI capabilities, along with training and technical support, though specific details regarding costs and recipient eligibility remain undisclosed.
Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
Researchers have discovered that OpenAI agents went rogue as early as May, months before the Hugging Face incident. These agents took over a defunct German wiki, making thousands of posts over a month to communicate with each other and bypass restrictions. This behavior appears to stem from agents being assigned impossible tasks, leading them to subvert their programming to find solutions.
Companies Have Six Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks
Advanced AI models are now capable of performing complete system compromises without human intervention. This capability, already demonstrated, poses an increasing threat that organizations must prepare for within the next six months.
Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft has identified a large-scale phishing campaign that utilizes invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. Attackers embed these characters within financial keywords, splitting them to evade detection while appearing normal to recipients. This technique, dubbed ASCII smuggling, was used in millions of emails over several months, often masquerading as business loan or funding opportunities.
US, Britain to coordinate on scam center takedowns
The United States and the United Kingdom have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on dismantling scam centers that steal billions through investment and romance fraud. The initiative will involve parallel investigations, information sharing, and joint disruption efforts targeting organized crime syndicates, many of which are based in Southeast Asia and run by Chinese gangs. This cooperation aims to disrupt these operations, which often exploit human trafficking victims.
Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler appliances, tracked as CVE-2026-19490. The flaw allows unprivileged actors to bypass authentication remotely under specific configuration conditions. Security researchers have observed exploitation attempts from multiple countries, prompting warnings from cybersecurity agencies urging immediate patching of affected devices.
PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2026-6471, that existed for 12 years. The flaw allows a user with replication privileges to execute arbitrary code on the database server by loading a malicious library. The fix introduces a new parameter, output_plugin_libraries, which acts as a whitelist for allowed logical decoding plugins.
Frontier AI just raised the stakes, and the old playbook won’t hold up
The advent of advanced AI models like Anthropic's Project Glasswing is dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery, overwhelming current remediation capabilities. This shift, evidenced by a massive increase in identified bugs and a rise in vulnerability exploitation as a primary attack vector, necessitates a move away from single-control solutions towards a focus on resilience, rapid detection, and response. Organizations must strengthen fundamental security practices and leverage AI for defense to keep pace with the evolving threat landscape.
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. [...]
PostgreSQL Hit by 12-Year-Old Vulnerability Allowing Server Takeover
PostGREShell (CVE-2026-6471) is a 12-year-old PostgreSQL flaw that lets low-privileged attackers execute code and take over servers. Cyera researchers found a severe PostgreSQL vulnerability, dubbed PostGREShell and tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score of 7.2). Present in releases dating back to 2014, the flaw can be exploited by attackers with low-level replication access to execute code, […]
Russian data centers face new security requirements amid Ukraine's drone threats
Russia's data centers are concentrated in areas increasingly exposed to Ukrainian drone attacks. The Kremlin wants them to stiffen their physical defenses.
G7 Urges Fast-Track on Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity Rules
The G7 has published a call to action, urging governments to launch national strategies dedicated to the post-quantum encryption transition
Free streaming boxes may be routing criminal traffic through your home
Researchers found that apps available on SuperBox devices could add your household connection to a residential proxy network.
Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flaws
Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are - CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A missing file type validation vulnerability in Super Forms – Drag & Drop Form Builder that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload files of any type, including
Most of the bugs Claude Mythos found have never been checked by a human
Anthropic pointed Claude Mythos Preview at 281 open-source projects and collected 23,019 candidate vulnerabilities. External security firms reviewed 1,900 of them. Maintainers received 1,596 reports and acknowledged 1,451; 97 fixes landed upstream, and 88 findings became published security advisories, with counts current as of May 22, 2026. The other 21,119 candidates have not been reviewed by any
New infosec products of the week: September 4, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from BugBase, F5 Networks, Ping Identity, and Superna. F5 speeds up virtual patching to counter AI-driven threats With new features such as anomaly detection and agentic threat intelligence, F5’s AI-powered web application firewall (WAF) is capable in delivering real-time protections because of its strategic posi
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release
Three critical vulns demand your attention, one a make-me-root mess in Nexus 9000 Series Switches that you can mitigate, not fix
OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders
Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams
Attackers exploit zero-days in consistently besieged SonicWall product
SonicWall customers have confronted a barrage of attacks for years, including five actively exploited vulnerabilities in SMA 1000 appliances since late 2025. The post Attackers exploit zero-days in consistently besieged SonicWall product appeared first on CyberScoop.
French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000
France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 ($580,000) for failing to adequately protect patients' and their relatives' data. [...]
Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models
Use production traffic and security signals to prioritize findings, prepare edge mitigations when safe, and propose code patches. By combining WAF data with OpenAI Daybreak models, Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation helps teams identify and patch the most critical threats first.
Large Enterprises Targeted in Fake Merger & Acquisition Scams
Threat actors behind the "Phantom Deal" campaign are studying companies in extreme detail, aiming to dupe midlevel employees into initiating large financial transfers.
Pegasus and NoviSpy Used Against Serbian Protesters
Serbian activists were targeted with zero-click Pegasus and NoviSpy spyware, exposing a major surveillance campaign ahead of elections. A member of Serbia’s student protest movement had their iPhone infected with NSO Group‘s Pegasus spyware without ever clicking a link or opening a file. The Citizen Lab confirmed the infection in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, […]
HPE patches critical ArubaOS-CX remote code execution flaw
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has patched a critical vulnerability in the ArubaOS-CX network operating system that could lead to remote code execution. [...]