Ed Sheeran has lost nearly 500,000 Instagram followers in the past week, according to Social Blade, amid backlash over Macklemore’s removal from his Loop Tour following pro-Palestine remarks and a performance of “Hind’s Hall.”

ICC launches measures to 'withstand' US attempts to dismantle institution

The precautions include replacing US technology.

Attackers are exploiting a Roundcube pre-auth SQL injection flaw patched in May.

CVE-2026-48842 can expose mail credentials and stored messages through the virtuser_query plugin.

Bill Gates warned that AI could become powerful enough to create catastrophic risks, saying it could “drive events that… cause a billion deaths.”

“Even though it's pretty hard to get to 100%, there's never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools.”

Iranian Official: Cyberspace Is Part of Netanyahu's Plan Against Iran — Government spokesman Bahadori Jahromi cited Netanyahu's UN display of a pager and Starlink gear as evidence of the cyber dimension of Israel's strategy.

US Court Upholds Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic — A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 to keep Anthropic on the "supply chain threat" list over its refusal to allow military use of Claude for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

Finland and Norway Lead Call for Stronger International AI Oversight — Backed by 22 leaders from 20 countries, the initiative urges independent model testing, transparency, and a possible international AI safety body.

Cisco Services Disrupted in Dubai — Cisco rerouted UAE user traffic through its Mumbai data center after an outage that began September 23, 2026; the cause remains under investigation.

US Intelligence: No Evidence Foreign Actor Changed 2024 Election Results — A classified assessment found Russia, Iran, and China conducted influence operations but did not alter votes or election infrastructure.

Critical Next.js Vulnerability (CVE-2026-94545) Allows Remote Code Execution — The flaw in the "next/og" ImageResponse feature affects versions 16.2.0 to before 16.3.6; users urged to update immediately.

Criticism Mounts Over New US Election Cybersecurity Plan Just 40 Days Before Vote — State officials say CISA's late plan and reduced services (after ~1,000 staff cuts) have forced some states to hire private firms.

Nvidia CEO: AI Companies Should Not Be Exempt from Antitrust Laws — Jensen Huang says AI firms seeking new regulations shouldn't simultaneously ask for exemptions from existing antitrust and product liability rules.

Israel is pushing propaganda through YouTube ads being served in Germany, carrying the State emblem and the line "Click to expose the UN's lies."

The ads follow "The UN's Lie Industry," a campaign Israel launched recently to influence the policies of US and European capitals toward Israel.

Google says it no longer serves political ads in the EU at all, yet here we are.

A former U.S. Army soldier who stole call and text metadata of over 100 million AT&T customers has been sentenced to 70 months in prison, after it was revealed that while awaiting sentencing he used other inmates' email accounts to have contacts prompt a commercial AI tool for working exploit code.

Cameron Wagenius, 22, known online as Kiberphant0m and arrested in December 2024, sought Windows privilege escalation scripts and code for the D-Link flaw CVE-2023-45208, and asked for help researching a prison escape, prosecutors say, though they know of no evidence he deployed any of it.

AT&T paid his group a $370,000 ransom, yet he made only around $1,500 selling stolen data.

Google says ShinyHunters is mass-exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft flaw, using a trick that slips past the firewall rules companies relied on instead of patching, and has planted web shells on dozens of systems worldwide.

ShinyHunters told The Register they hold very sensitive data on almost ALL FBI Agents and individuals who filed an application with the FBI for a job and that its FBI hack was "a public relations and marketing initiative for our business."

A 16-year-old hacker broke into an internal Microsoft analytics service with a forged, unsigned login token and ran SQL as admin, reaching databases that held over 17 trillion rows, including Bing search analytics and 17,990 employee email records.

The service, called Titan, checked every field on the token except its signature, so just claiming to be "admin" got him in, writes the researcher, who goes by Faav.

He says he only pulled metadata and two single rows of Bing data, never touched customer data, and reported the flaw to Microsoft the same night.

Microsoft locked the endpoint four days later, paid him $5,000, and had editorial control over his write-up, cutting sections and figures and reshaping how the impact was described before it went public.

The Pentagon, the Secret Service and ICE's investigative arm bought phone forensics software from Oxygen Forensics that prosecutors say five Russians secretly controlled through a Cyprus holding company, while selling the same software in Russia to customers including the FSB.

Their CEO Lee Reiber was arrested in Idaho and Russian co-founder Oleg Davydov at London's Heathrow Airport before boarding a flight to Istanbul, and both are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Prosecutors say Davydov moved the build servers to U.S. cloud computers so Reiber could tell federal buyers the code was built in America, while a team in Russia kept writing it.

The FBI hack exposed members of the Bureau's own secretive hacking team, leaving their addresses, phone numbers and in some cases their spouses' names in the stolen data.

Three entries in the list of 5,000 alleged FBI officials that ShinyHunters shared with media mention the Remote Operations Unit, which builds exploits and tools to break into targets' devices.