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Fortinet warns of critical FortiMail flaw exploited in zero-day attacks
Fortinet is warning customers of a critical FortiMail vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-104286, that is being actively exploited in zero-day attacks to execute unauthorized code or commands on vulnerable devices. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Artificial intelligence
New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want
“InstructMesh” can generate designs for everyday objects that are easy to edit and fabricate for both experts and newcomers to 3D modeling.
MIT News — Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Autonomous AI agents tried to hack US, Canadian government websites
Autonomous AI agents using aggressive strategies attempted to hack U.S. and Canadian government websites to find school and divorce statistics. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Microsoft says threat actors are ahead in the early AI race
Microsoft says cyberattackers are currently benefiting from artificial intelligence faster than defenders, allowing threat actors to speed up vulnerability discovery, malware development, and post-compromise activity while security teams struggle to keep pace…
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers
Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of …
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories
This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public sec…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
[$] Coping with the onslaught of kernel security bugs
By now it is no secret that large language models (LLMs) have made it easy for people to identify security bugs, and that has resulted in a flood of bug reports to almost every free-software project, including the kernel. At the 2026 edition of Kernel Recipes…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC aft…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Police dismantle KillSec ransomware gang allegedly led by 16-year-old
An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation KillSwitch" seized the KillSec ransomware gang's data leak site and servers, led to three arrests, and identified a 16-year-old as the group's alleged administrator. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
The Day-One Hole in Zero Trust Architecture
Zero Trust can verify users once they are established, but onboarding creates a gap where organizations must decide who to trust before strong authentication exists. Specops explains why identity verification should begin before credentials, MFA methods, and …
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Kiteworks patches max severity code injection vulnerability
Secure file-sharing software company Kiteworks has released security updates to address 126 vulnerabilities, including a max-severity flaw affecting its Email Protection Gateway (EPG) security solution. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
Rust 1.99.0 released
Version 1.99.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes this time include support for extern "C" variadic functions, the establishment of functions for obtaining the size and alignment of raw pointers, a number of stabilized APIs, and more.
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, gawk, gdb, nodejs24, and thunderbird), Debian (expat, firefox-esr, libsmpp34, mkvtoolnix, network-manager-l2tp, pgextwlist, python-django, ruby-oj, and tor), Fedora (apptainer, ckermit, ffmpeg, freerdp…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain
Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out the…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Microsoft enables Windows settings backup by default for orgs
Microsoft announced that Windows settings backup and restore is now enabled by default on all Microsoft Entra-joined or Microsoft Entra hybrid-joined enterprise systems upgraded to Windows 11 26H2. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates
OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation. The vulne…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Hackers stole Pentagon personnel records of over 3 million people
The Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is notifying millions of military service members that hackers stole their data after breaching the Pentagon's human resources management system in October 2025. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon to Trusted Cyber Defenders, Plans Guardrail-Free Version
Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 4 Argon, that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. "It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows acr…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Metamask discloses security incident affecting its infrastructure
On Thursday, cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask has disclosed an ongoing infrastructure security incident affecting some of its infrastructure. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Apple CoreGraphics PoC Emerges as WhatsApp PDF Checks Hint at Possible Delivery Path
Security researchers have published the first public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-86950, an Apple CoreGraphics flaw Apple says may have been used in attacks against specific targeted individuals. The trigger is a malicious PDF with a crafted embedded font th…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
Bitget Confirms Third-Party Zero-Day Behind $387.5 Million Cryptocurrency Theft
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget on Wednesday confirmed that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week exploited a zero-day flaw in third-party security products, citing ongoing investigation findings from SlowMist. "Their investigation identified malicious …
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Security & technology
MetaMask Security Incident Prompts Exit of Affected Ethereum Validators
MetaMask on Thursday said it's responding to what it described as an "ongoing security incident" impacting part of its infrastructure. "We are actively addressing and remediating the issue internally, in coordination with external partners and security adviso…
The Hacker News (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 1, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: PostgreSQL and the kernel; Rust on the GPU; KDE Plasma; C and memory safety; Rust radio; KDE funding; Chromium development. Briefs: File-notification attacks; Kernel report; TAB election; F-Droid 2.0; Firefox …
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Programming
Python 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16 and 3.14.8 are now available!
Security updates across Python 3.10–3.14, the final maintenance release of 3.13, and a farewell to Python 3.10.
Python Insider (opens in a new tab)Cybersecurity
Russian state hackers use new RedFlick technique to push malware
The Russian state actor Star Blizzard has been using a new malware installation tactic dubbed "RedFlick" to deploy its signature CosmicPulse backdoor. [...]
BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
[$] The year in Plasma and what's ahead
A lot has happened in the KDE Plasma desktop environment in the last year. Marco Martin, a KDE contributor who spends most of his time working on Plasma, took the stage at Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria to give an update on Plasma's major new features, some of…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
Kernel Recipes videos posted
The full set of videos from the recently concluded Kernel Recipes conference has been posted. Also noteworthy are the associated caricature drawings, by Frank Tizzoni, of attendees and the speakers.
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Artificial intelligence
MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.
MIT News — Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)Artificial intelligence
This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations.
MIT News — Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
Reports from the 2026 Python Language Summit
The 2026 Python Language Summit was held on July 14 in Kraków, Poland; there is now a series of reports available on the topics that were discussed there. They include the memory buffer protocol, garbage collection, free-threaded Python, and "Spicycrab".
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
[$] Comparing Chromium development at Google and Igalia
Sharon Yang is a Chromium developer who worked at Google on the browser and now works on it at Igalia. On the final day of FOSSY 2026, she gave a presentation on her experiences with both of those companies, comparing and contrasting the ways the each operate…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board 2026 election approaches
The election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board will be held electronically after the close of the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference. The call for candidates is open, with a nomination deadline of October 7. There are five seat…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Linux & operating systems
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds:1.4, container-tools:rhel8, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, httpd:2.4, nodejs:22, postgresql:12, and postgresql:15), Debian (libwebsockets, openssl, and pcre2), Fedora (adwaita-icon-theme, cinnamon, dconf, epi…
LWN.net (opens in a new tab)Programming
Python Language Summit 2026
The 2026 Python Language Summit was hosted in Kraków, Poland as part of EuroPython 2026. There were 15 talks covering free-threading, Rust, garbage collection, type annotations, and more.
Python Insider (opens in a new tab)Programming
Lightning Talks (Python Language Summit 2026)
Lightning talks on a one-time ABI break, safer interruptions, EktuPy (Scratch but Python), an AGENTS.md file for CPython, and a call to read PEP 836.
Python Insider (opens in a new tab)Programming
PEP 827: Type Manipulation (Python Language Summit 2026)
Michael J. Sullivan presents PEP 827 and discusses a key design decision: how to store type annotations?
Python Insider (opens in a new tab)Programming
Free-Threaded Python Post-Era (Python Language Summit 2026)
Tobias Wrigstad, Fridtjof Stoldt, and Donghee Na propose a safe and performant, high-level concurrency model for free-threaded Python
Python Insider (opens in a new tab)Programming
Developer-in-Residence Update & Future (Python Language Summit 2026)
Petr Viktorin gives an update on the Developer-in-Residence role and asks Python core developers for projects to prioritize
Python Insider (opens in a new tab)Programming
Spicycrab (Python Language Summit 2026)
Kushal Das shows off Spicycrab, a Python-to-Rust transpiler for Python users who need performance without learning Rust or leaving Python
Python Insider (opens in a new tab)Programming
Rust for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026)
David Hewitt shares a status update, first module, and potential acceptance criteria for the Rust for CPython project
Python Insider (opens in a new tab)Programming
Memory Snapshots for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026)
Hood Chatham proposes memory snapshots and an initialization phase for speedier Python startups
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