Snowflake pivots to AI platforming
Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved past the initial stages of the gold rush. In a scramble to avoid getting lost in the noise surrounding the…
Month: September 2026
The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: Claude, PaperCut & Citrix
This weekly roundup highlights a range of cybersecurity developments affecting artificial intelligence platforms, enterprise software, healthcare organizations, social media accounts, and internet-facing infrastructure. From stolen…
Tabcorp appoints new CISO – iTnews
Key points Tabcorp has named Maxine Harrison as its new chief information security officer, following the former leader’s departure in July. Harrison most recently served…
VMware Workstation and Fusion Updates Patch Critical Vulnerability
Broadcom on Thursday announced patches for two critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in VMware Workstation and Fusion. The first issue, tracked as CVE-2026-59346 (CVSS score of…
Chinese Hackers Use AI Agents in Multi-Country Cyber Campaign
Chinese Hackers Use AI Agents in Multi-Country Cyber Campaign Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2026 Hunt.io uncovered a Chinese-speaking campaign using AI agents to automate cyberattacks…
Why judgment is emerging as cybersecurity’s defining skill
AI is getting better at much of what security teams have long spent time on: analyzing information, identifying patterns, and providing technically sound recommendations quickly.…
Why less visibility into how OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra ‘thinks’ is sparking safety concerns
OpenAI’s new model, GPT-6 Astra, has less direct visibility into how a model thinks, a development that has sparked concerns coming just weeks after the…
ACSC warns of critical vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway
The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a critical alert for Australian organisations using Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and…
New backdoors from Toy Ghouls
Introduction We continue tracking the activity of Toy Ghouls (also known as Bearlyfy, Laboo.boo, and Feral Wolf), a financially motivated group that has been targeting…
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its first model to cross a critical cybersecurity threshold
Developers can access Astra in the API as gpt-6-astra or through Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI said, priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per…
Booz Allen: AI models approaching autonomous cyberattack capability as critical infrastructure response windows narrow
New research from Booz Allen found that testing of 18 U.S. and Chinese frontier AI models revealed that AI (artificial intelligence) is nearing the ability…
G7 urges governments, organizations to begin PQC transition, protect public key encryption from quantum threats
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the G7 Cybersecurity Working Group are urging governments and organizations to immediately begin transitioning to post-quantum…