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A new variant of the MacSync info-stealing malware targeting macOS systems now uses public iCloud calendar events to deliver fresh payloads. MacSync is a Swift-based malware that emerged in April 2025 and has been observed recently being delivered in ClickFix campaigns disguised as Homebrew and macOS disk space analyzer tools. Kaspersky researchers say that while earlier versions of the malware were derived from the AMOS stealer family, MacSync evolved and added new capabilities via modules. Delivery chain MacSync has been distributed to victims through social engineering, including ClickFix-style attacks, and through software presented as free, cracked, or as new applications.…

In brief The Federal Reserve proposed rules requiring Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers to fully back their tokens with permissible assets like short-term Treasury bills, plus standardized capital requirements, risk-management standards and rules for safekeeping reserves. A second proposal would create a tailored application process for Board-supervised banks seeking to issue stablecoins, with procedures for appeals and hearings; the comment period closes 60 days after Federal Register publication. The move adds the Fed’s piece to a multi-agency GENIUS Act rollout, alongside the OCC’s November push and Treasury’s restrictions on noncompliant stablecoins. The Federal Reserve is moving to set the ground rules…

Warnings of an El Niño unlike any other are starting to become reality. For months, scientists have cautioned that the natural climate pattern could grow into a record-breaking beast, releasing extraordinary amounts of heat from the ocean and fueling droughts, floods, heat waves and severe storms. Now, a traditional strength measurement of El Niño, called the Oceanic Niño Index, indicates that the pattern has reached an intensity unseen in recorded history. On September 21, the daily sea surface temperature in the region where El Niño develops — the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean — reached 3.08 degrees Celsius warmer…

EL PASO—While Texas officials have hit pause on data center permitting, one project is still moving ahead: Meta’s $10 billion, 1-gigawatt data center in northeast El Paso. Meta had already signed tax abatement agreements with El Paso, jumped through regulatory hoops and started construction before Texas officials tapped the brakes on data center development this year. But one hurdle the project must still clear is securing approval for El Paso Electric’s application to the Public Utilities Commission of Texas to build a 366-megawatt natural gas facility, using modular generators, to power the data center. Once operational, Meta’s data center would…

A consortium of Global OTEC, a UK-based pioneer in ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) development, and the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has been selected to study a site in the Bahamas for OTEC.Photographed from the International Space Station by NASA’s Randy Bresnik in 2017. Source: Global OTEC This has been requested by the Government of the Bahamas to provide an evidence base for a go or no-go decision on advancing OTEC toward project implementation. According to Global OTEC, the lead technical partner, over 90% of electricity in the Bahamas is generated from imported diesel and heavy fuel…

Your youth unemployment editorial (18 September) sees the crisis clearly, but reaches for the wrong tools. Placements, apprenticeships and work coaches cannot conjure jobs that do not exist. We need macro solutions to macro problems. Youth unemployment is not a crisis of skills or geography. It is insufficient government deficit spending. There is not enough money circulating to employ everyone who wants to work and that is a policy choice, not an accident.Macroeconomists divide the economy into three sectors: government, households and businesses, and the rest of the world. One sector’s spending is another sector’s income. Put simply, government spending is income for…

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.In July, Donald Trump gave a speech saying DHS had found a combined 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls in Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Follow-up letters to each of those states weakened the claim, saying there only could be as many as 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls, including up to 15,903 in Nevada.In August, DHS officials told staffers…

Exit polls conducted by Manx Radio predict seven outgoing MHKs will lose their seats, three of whom are current members of the Council of Ministers.They suggest outgoing Environment, Food and Agriculture Minister Clare Barber, Education, Sport and Culture Minister Daphne Caine, and Enterprise Minister Tim Johnston have lost their seats.Former minister Rushen MHK Michelle Haywood, and deputy speaker of the Keys are also predicted to lose their seats.In Ayre and Michael, the exit polls predict that Chief Minister Alfred Cannan is in a fight to retain his place in the House of Keys, with only 1% between him and the…

ZDNET’s key takeaways Okta, AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce, and others form an AI agent security coalition. The Alliance offers a blueprint for companies seeking visibility, control, and governance of agents. AI agents need the equivalent of a kill switch to expeditiously terminate suspicious behavior. When a swarm of AI agents, many autonomously provisioned by other poorly governed AI agents, escaped OpenAI’s labs and stole information from servers belonging to another company (Hugging Face), many experts viewed the incident as a major tipping point in cybersecurity and AI cyber capabilities. (To what extent are models now resourceful enough to engage in self-directed harm?) OpenAI…

Ravie LakshmananSep 24, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News This week, the dangerous stuff keeps arriving dressed as something boring. An update. A login box. A search answer. A coding tool. A link you have clicked a hundred times before. That is the thread running through the pile. Trusted paths get poisoned. Old bugs find new jobs. AI tools leak more than expected. Fake prompts look real enough. And some attacks barely need an exploit at all — just one weak setting or one person doing what the screen tells them. Nothing here looks especially dramatic. That is what makes it…