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CYBERSep 18An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It.In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network. The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not lost were its callers. Thousands of websites, code repositories, and documentation pages still carry hard-coded references to hostnames beneath it. The new owner holdsThe Hacker News
CYBERSep 18Plugin4Shell Lets Repository Owners Swap Pinned Plugin Code Across Four AI Coding AgentsThe Hacker News
CYBERSep 18WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension StorageCybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per OpenSourceMalware, exhibits functional overlaps with two malware strains associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Contagious Interview campaign: BeaverTail andThe Hacker News
CYBERSep 18Russia shares AI-generated Putin selfie as use of artificial content spreads among Europe's politiciansThe Russian embassy in South Africa recently shared an AI-generated image of BRICS leaders. It's part of a growing trend of public figures and institutions using AI in their communication, which researchers say can undermine public trust.EuroNews [en]
CYBERSep 18Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm StealerA financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. "The developer likely wrote the malware using a large language model (LLM), an assessment made with high confidence based on verbose comments, placeholder code, and statistical token-analysis patterns,"The Hacker News
CYBERSep 18‘Just ask Grok’: How ISIL is using Big Tech’s AI to build bombsAl Jazeera [en]
CYBERSep 18Greece: Police bust gang using AI to clone relatives' voices for cashAccording to the police, the organisation’s illegal proceeds from its activities are estimated to exceed 1 million euros.EuroNews [en]
CYBERSep 18Hackers used Anthropic's Claude to break into OpenAIUn equipo independiente de investigadores de seguridad dedicado a la búsqueda de vulnerabilidades accedió al sistema interno de código de OpenAI, poniendo de manifiesto los crecientes riesgos de las ciberamenazas automatizadas LeerEl Mundo
CYBERSep 18AI Agent Breaches Spanish Organization, Modifies Personal DataDark Reading
CYBERSep 18RatHat Android Malware Abuses ADB to Retain Shell Access After UninstallCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new Android malware called RatHat that's assessed to be operated by China-based threat actors and features an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to navigate and control compromised devices. "Distributed primarily via targeted smishing (SMS/text phishing) and malvertising campaigns leading to deceptive third-party download portals, RatHat usesThe Hacker News
CYBERSep 18Mohammad Rizwan seeks ICC's clarification over mobile phone seizurePakistan cricketer Mohammad Rizwan has approached the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) for clarity over his mobile phone seizure by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA).newsbytesapp · india
CYBERSep 18Apple eases app tracking rules in EU after antitrust probeApple has agreed to change its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system, following a multi-year antitrust investigation by Germany's federal competition regulator and other European authorities.newsbytesapp · india
CYBERSep 18Instagram Takedowns and AI Deepfakes Target Albania’s ‘Flamingo’ ProtestersFar from isolated incidents, experts say the targeting of social media accounts linked to anti-government protesters in Albania is part of a ‘coordinated pattern’ of censorship.Balkan Insight
CYBERSep 18Full picture of the 'mansion with a monthly rent of approximately 4.2 million yen' used by a fraud group targeting Japanese people in Bangkok - Thailand HyperlinksFull picture of the 'mansion with a monthly rent of approximately 4.2 million yen' used by a fraud group targeting Japanese people in Bangkok, featuring a violin-shaped pool, 10 bedrooms, and 18 bathrooms. Thailand Hyperlinks. Special fraud base exposed in Thailand was a mansion with 4.2 million yen rent. Sophisticated manual targeting Japanese people impersonating Miyagi Prefectural Police (Sendai Broadcasting) Yahoo! News. Rooms with windows blocked, cruel threats... Inside story of a fraud case based in Indonesia [Kagawa Prefecture] ['Darkバイト' crime] Asahi Shimbun. 15 Japanese and others detained in a luxury residence in Bangkok, 'police notebook' confiscated in special fraud – Thailand Jiji.com. Like a 'palace'... why do criminal organizations have 'good workplaces'? 14 people including Japanese detained in Thailand TV Asahi News.google · japan
CYBERSep 18In Spain, football matches knock thousands of websites and online services offlineSpain's football season kick-off has revived LaLiga's court-backed mass IP blocking against piracy, but thousands see websites and services fail whenever a match begins.EuroNews [en]
CYBERSep 18OpenAI breached by researchers using Anthropic modelsSecurity company hacked into AI lab using tools from its rivalFinancial Times
CYBERSep 18The NYT claims that Microsoft and OpenAI knew that using journalistic articles was theftOpenAI is accused of using millions of articles to train AI, including content from the New York Times, which sparked legal lawsuits. Microsoft and OpenAI defend the use under "fair use," while publishers claim compensation for the alleged misuse of their material.Clarín
CYBERSep 17German police call Vitaly Kovalev a founder of Trickbot, the hacking group whose ransomware hit U.S. hospitals. New People had him on its Duma candidate list before dropping him in July.Meduza [en]
CYBERSep 17Meta criticized internally for its "insufficient" safeguards against AI-manipulated contentMeta retira videos manipulados con IA tras críticas del Consejo de Supervisión por violar normas contra desinformación y acoso. El consejo exige medidas más firmes para frenar deepfakes en redes sociales, subrayando el acoso a mujeres que alzan la voz en temas sociales.Clarín
CYBERSep 17Trump’s Risky Hack-Back PlanForeign Policy
CYBERBREAKINGSep 17Anthropic says terror groups used AI for weapons development, planningCBS News
CYBERSep 17CISA Ditches Weekly Vulnerability Roundups for Risk-Based FocusThe move is consistent with the agency's advice on the need for organizations to prioritize the vulnerabilities that actually matter.Dark Reading
CYBERSep 17US Midterms: Russian disinformation campaign targets DemocratsFrance 24 [en]
CYBERSep 17White House considers research program to develop cybersecurity solutions: reportThe White House is reportedly considering a research program aimed at developing new cybersecurity solutions. This initiative would focus on enhancing national digital defenses.Seeking Alpha Tech