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Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta's Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a proof-of-concept released on September 21. It works by changing a hidden setting so that when the user taps the microphone and dictates a prompt, the words go to the attacker instead of Meta.
A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Zyxel GS1900 series switches to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-7273 (CVSS score: 8.8), is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary operating system (OS) command execution.
This threat intelligence report covers major attacks and breaches from the week of September 21, including a data breach at Japan's Digital Agency via a VPN vulnerability, cyberattacks on two oil tankers, a supply chain attack on Brevo affecting 100,000 websites, and a Gyazo data breach exposing millions of records. The report highlights diverse attack vectors targeting government, maritime, and digital infrastructure.
Unbounded consumption is an issue that OWASP currently ranks sixth in its Top 10 for LLM Applications, and it could be an extremely costly one.
Ecommerce platform BigCommerce has alerted multiple merchants to data breaches after attackers compromised credentials for third-party Ribon applications and used them to inject malicious scripts into online stores.