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98% of fraudulent hires have company credentials by the time they’re caught

A 90-day period between hiring and onboarding is creating a blind spot in enterprise identity security, according to HYPR’s State of HR Identity Fraud Detection report. …

WordPress
Most WordPress pros still lack a breach recovery plan

Melapress, a maker of WordPress security plugins, surveyed 319 WordPress professionals and found that most had dealt with at least one known security incident. The respondents …

Infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: September 18, 2026

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Akuity, Bitsight, Cohesity, Dataminr, Nozomi Networks, and Tuskira. Dataminr uses …

ChatGPT phishing
A fake ChatGPT billing email is after your OpenAI password

A fake ChatGPT billing email is steering users to a copy of the OpenAI login page that keeps whatever username and password they type. Josh Varden of Cofense’s Phishing …

Google
Google’s new agent security system detects tool misuse, loops and rogue behavior

Google’s Agent Anomaly Detection is a reasoning-based oversight and audit layer for autonomous agents deployed on Agent Runtime in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and …

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Fake AI trading agent steals crypto wallet passwords

Attackers built a website for a fake AI crypto trading agent and used it to install Needle Stealer, malware that replaces a victim’s browser wallet with a copy that …

Gnome
GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures

GNOME 51, the new version of the Linux desktop, came out on September 16 under the codename A Coruña. The release adds offline maps and live transit information to Maps, new …

AI
One runaway AI agent racked up a $50,000 cloud bill

Organizations are deploying autonomous AI systems that execute API calls, optimize production configurations, and analyze telemetry across hybrid cloud environments. At the …

NIST
NIST and CISA finalize playbook to stop token theft and forgery

NIST and CISA have finalized guidelines to help federal agencies and cloud service providers (CSPs) protect identity and access tokens from forgery, theft, and misuse. The …

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MSPs say nearly half their customers rely on them for CISO services

MSPs estimate that 46% of their customers, on average, look to them to act as CISOs, according to Sophos. Most of those providers do that job without the full set of …

Microsoft
Microsoft sets security and safety rules for its AI models

Microsoft AI has published the first draft of its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, a training manual outlining how it develops AI models and intends them to behave during …

mSecure password manager
Product showcase: mSecure makes one vault do more than remember passwords

mSecure is a password manager and data vault for storing credentials and other sensitive information. It is available for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows, with data …

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