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Fri, Sep 18 · 12:00 PM CDT

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Generated Fri, Sep 18 · 12:00 PM CDTWindow last 6 hours

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Coverage now updates on a rolling 6-hour window, while NVD entries come from the live API using a last-24-hours modified window and are sorted by severity.

Fast take

News stays on the current 6-hour slice, videos now use the last 24 hours, and NVD uses the API instead of the traditional feed to better match the live site behavior.

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Worth skimming
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Tracked videos
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NVD vulnerabilities
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Top stories

Fri, Sep 18 · 12:00 PM CDT

New Settra Ransomware Variant Deployed in Attacks on Retail and Manufacturing

9.8/10 · Must read/watch
Infosecurity Magazinemalwareai

Summary
Collected from the Infosecurity Magazine news page during the latest run.

Fri, Sep 18 · 12:00 PM CDT

Manufacturing Accounts for 22% of all Ransomware Victims

9.2/10 · Must read/watch
Infosecurity Magazinemalware

Summary
Collected from the Infosecurity Magazine news page during the latest run.

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:17:04 +0530

Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation

9.2/10 · Must read/watch
The Hacker Newsvulnaiidentity

Summary
Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "Missing

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:31:01 +0530

Plugin4Shell Lets Repository Owners Swap Pinned Plugin Code Across Four AI Coding Agents

9.0/10 · Must read/watch
The Hacker Newsai

Summary
A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin's code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to a specific reviewed version, security firm Air Security said

Fri, Sep 18 · 12:00 PM CDT

CISA Upgrades Vulnerability Reporting Platform with More Automation

8.9/10 · Worth your time
Infosecurity Magazinevuln

Summary
Collected from the Infosecurity Magazine news page during the latest run.

Worth skimming

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:54:16 +0530

Transparent Tribe Deploys New Rust Backdoor Using Private GitHub Repositories for C2

8.9/10 · Worth your time
The Hacker Newssupply-chainpolicy

Summary
The Pakistan-aligned threat group tracked as Transparent Tribe (aka APT36 and Earth Karkaddan) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting government and defense entities in India and Afghanistan. The attacks, per Zscaler ThreatLabz, involve

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:31:16 +0530

An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It.

8.6/10 · Worth your time
The Hacker Newsai

Summary
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 websit

Fri, Sep 18 · 11:00 AM CDT

GrassLobster: AI Agentic Generation of Parametric Geometry Workflows

8.5/10 · Worth your time
Hacker Newsai

Summary
Surfaced from Hacker News front page during collection run. Freshness on HN: 1 hour ago.

Fri, Sep 18 · 10:00 AM CDT

Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich

8.1/10 · Worth your time
Hacker Newsai

Summary
Surfaced from Hacker News front page during collection run. Freshness on HN: 2 hours ago.

Fri, Sep 18 · 12:00 PM CDT

New Chinese-Made ‘RatHat’ Android Malware Leverages AI to Steal Financial Data

8.0/10 · Worth your time
Infosecurity Magazinemalwareai

Summary
Collected from the Infosecurity Magazine news page during the latest run.