RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform
RemoteThreat emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with $7 million in pre-seed funding from Osage University Partners and DataTribe for its offensive operations platform. The…
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OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training
OpenAI has decided not to release GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model fell short of its standards for following human intent. The model…
Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’
Apple on Monday released iOS and macOS updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability that may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The flaw, tracked as…
Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon
A former US soldier was sentenced to 70 months in prison for hacking into AT&T and Verizon systems and leaking the call detail records of…
Modulate Raises $25 Million to Advance Deepfake Detection
Frontier AI firm Modulate has raised an additional $25 million funding from Future Ventures, with participation from Hyperplane and Lakestar, bringing its total funding to…
Call for Presentations Open for 2026 CISO Forum Virtual Summit
The Call for Presentations is now open for SecurityWeek’s 2026 CISO Forum Virtual Summit, taking place online November 11-12, 2026. With thousands of registered attendees, the…
Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign
Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) over the weekend warned that the notorious extortion group ShinyHunters has launched a fresh mass-exploitation campaign targeting Oracle…
Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks
A Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-65660 is now being exploited in attacks, roughly six weeks after Microsoft announced patches and a couple of days…
‘SalesBleed’ Flaws in Salesforce Agentforce Enabled Zero-Click Data Exfiltration
Three vulnerabilities in Salesforce Agentforce could have allowed attackers to hijack trusted agents for sensitive CRM data exfiltration and phishing, Zenity Labs reports. Dubbed SalesBleed,…
China and US Agree to Establish AI Safety Channel and Continue Trade and Military Talks
China and the United States agreed to establish a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications following a three-day summit…
New x47.c Windows Botnet Weaponizes xAI Grok, AI API Draining
A threat actor has been selling access to a new Windows botnet that relies on AI to maintain persistence on infected hosts, Qrator reports. Dubbed…
OpenAI Says Its Models Engaged With US Government Websites in New Model Misbehavior Disclosure
OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, discovered as part of an ongoing review…