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Microsoft Patches Record 974 Flaws, Including Two Exploited Windows Zero-Days

Microsoft on Tuesday broke Patch Tuesday records by addressing an earth-shattering 974 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including two flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. These include 723 flaws in Windows, 111 in Office and Office 2016, 62 in SQL, and 22 in Developer Tools. Of these, over 110 shortcomings have been assigned a critical severity rating.

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N-able N-central Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Exploited in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by September 11, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-86218 (CVSS score: 10.0), which has been described as a

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Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes

Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever. Microsoft says artificial intelligence is helping to speed the discovery of vulnerabilities, but security experts warn that many organizations already are struggling to prioritize the more human-intensive endeavor of testing and deploying so many fixes each month.

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Microsoft Patches Record 974 Vulnerabilities, Including Two Exploited Zero-Days

The record-breaking September security update fixes two exploited privilege-escalation zero-days and 20 potentially wormable vulnerabilities. The post Microsoft Patches Record 974 Vulnerabilities, Including Two Exploited Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Adobe Patches Over 170 Vulnerabilities, Including Commerce Zero-Day

Tracked as CVE-2026-75650, the exploited defect allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code. The post Adobe Patches Over 170 Vulnerabilities, Including Commerce Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Hidden Instructions That Can Hijack AI Agents

Malicious prompts concealed in documents, metadata, emails, images and code can manipulate autonomous agents into taking dangerous actions. The post The Hidden Instructions That Can Hijack AI Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Hackers Return $263 Million Stolen From Liquid Network

Alleged ‘white-hat’ hackers drained $320 million from Liquid’s federation wallet, demanding a bug fix. The post Hackers Return $263 Million Stolen From Liquid Network appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Slim Spider Steals Crypto Custody Secrets From Brazilian Financial Institution

A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider. "The adversary demonstrates deep operational knowledge of Brazilian financial infrastructure, including the instant payment

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Cylake Raises $245 Million Ahead of Cybersecurity Platform Beta

The startup founded by Palo Alto Networks’ Nir Zuk has raised $290 million to build an AI-native security platform for highly regulated organizations that cannot rely on the public cloud. The post Cylake Raises $245 Million Ahead of Cybersecurity Platform Beta appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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SAP Patches Critical Extended Passport Processing Vulnerability

Affecting the SAP kernel code, the flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to run arbitrary commands, recover secrets, and modify data. The post SAP Patches Critical Extended Passport Processing Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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

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 back. Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain that holds real bitcoin to back a token called L-BTC. The network is still paused, so holders cannot turn that token back into bitcoin. The 3,400 bitcoin was sent to a&

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

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 user's question as usual. In the company's proof of concept, that hidden work read data from the user's connected Gmail account and passed it to a second ChatGPT account through a hidden channel

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Autonomous AI Agents Compromise Thousands of Credentials in Under Six Hours

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 credential harvesting campaign within six hours. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said it has observed attackers with diverse motivations targeting proprietary AI

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Party’s Over for Crypto Scammers Who Went on a Spending Spree After a $240 Million Bitcoin Theft

The scammers purchased fleets of sports cars, flew on private jets, hired security guards and rented mansions in Miami and the Hamptons. The post Party’s Over for Crypto Scammers Who Went on a Spending Spree After a $240 Million Bitcoin Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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

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 being called does not have to answer or touch their phone for it to work, but the caller must already be one of their WeChat contacts. Calif reported the flaw to Tencent in July and says the company has since

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What It Took to Reach 1 Billion Build Manifests

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 versions in our catalog. Those are the headline numbers, but I want to share what's actually behind them. The number itself is less interesting than the system that produced it, and why we had to fundamentally

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FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials

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, Red Hat says. FreeIPA is the system that determines who may log in across a Linux domain and maintains all identities in a 389 Directory Server database accessed via LDAP. The attack needs a second flaw in that database software. The

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MikroTik Patches Critical Flaws Chained to Hack Routers

Dubbed MikroTrick, the bugs allow attackers to bypass authentication, overwrite configuration files, and take over devices. The post MikroTik Patches Critical Flaws Chained to Hack Routers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Mathspace Data Breach Exposes Over 1 Million People

Hackers stole the information of students, teachers, staff, and parents/guardians from a self-hosted Metabase instance. The post Mathspace Data Breach Exposes Over 1 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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N-able Patches Critical Zero-Day in N-central

Administrators are advised to check their deployments for newly created user accounts they don’t recognize. The post N-able Patches Critical Zero-Day in N-central appeared first on SecurityWeek.