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Hackers deploy Linux rootkit on F5 BIG-IP APM devices, hiding web shell in memory

A rootkit found on hacked F5 BIG-IP APM devices skips the usual step of writing a web shell to disk, hiding it in memory instead, according to Soph...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 11:05 am

Zscaler Agentic SOC combines AI agents with zero trust telemetry

Zscaler has announced Zscaler Agentic SOC, a new approach to security operations built to proactively reduce exposures, scale human expertise and s...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 10:09 am

Chinese AI firms are siphoning capabilities from American models, CISA warns

China-based AI companies are using large-scale knowledge distillation campaigns to copy capabilities from leading U.S. AI models, according to a jo...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 9:55 am

Securin Platform helps security teams prove when attack paths are closed

Securin has announced the general availability of the Securin Platform, an AI-native Preemptive Exposure Management platform designed to answer thr...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 9:52 am

September 2026 Patch Tuesday: Record patch count, 2 zero-days, and a SigRed successor

September 2026 Patch Tuesday is here, with Microsoft delivering another record-breaking number of patches, including those for two vulnerabilities ...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 9:04 am

Google fixes yet another actively exploited Chrome zero-day (CVE-2026-87491)

Google has fixed 230 vulnerabilities in Chrome, including a zero-day flaw, CVE-2026-87491, with an in-the-wild exploit. “Google is aware that an ex...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 7:53 am

AI-Infra-Guard: Open-source security scanner for AI systems

Tencent’s Zhuque Lab built AI-Infra-Guard, an open-source security scanner for AI systems. It fingerprints running services such as Ollama, vLLM an...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 5:30 am

Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results

In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028,...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 5:00 am

AWS spent years rebuilding its routing control plane without taking the network down

Every AWS API call, CloudFront video stream, and Route 53 lookup crosses the same infrastructure, which AWS calls its border network. It now runs o...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 4:52 am

What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them in...
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 4:30 am