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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…

Bitget has suspended withdrawals after unauthorized transfers drained about $351.6 million from a limited number of its hot and warm wallets.The crypto exchange detected the transfers at 18:31 UTC on Sept. 24 and activated its emergency response procedures within minutes, Chief Executive Officer Gracy Chen said. Bitget’s cold wallets and most assets held on the platform were unaffected.Fifteen transfers drained nearly $192 million across seven assets, with Ethereum accounting for the largest share at 44.4%. Source: BubblemapsChen said customer balances remain accurate and the losses are covered by Bitget’s User Protection Fund, which currently holds more than $464 million. Deposits…

Côte d’Ivoire signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday as the 75th signatory during a signing ceremony in the nation’s largest city Abidjan, marking the largest milestone yet for the international coalition of like-minded countries committed to peaceful and responsible space exploration. “The United States and Côte d’Ivoire already cooperate on Earth,” said NASA’s Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson. “Today, we expand that partnership beyond it. Joining the Artemis Accords opens new opportunities for our scientists, engineers, and institutions to work together as humanity returns to the Moon and prepares for what comes next. We’ve aligned on the principles. The opportunities are in front…

Petronas LNG Ltd. (PLL), a subsidiary of Malaysia’s energy giant Petronas, has added a new vessel to its liquefied natural gas (LNG) fleet with the delivery of the newly built LNG carrier (LNGC), which was built at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding and is designed to bolster reliable global LNG deliveries amid growing worldwide demand. Puteri Kelantan LNG carrier; Source: K Line Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), a Japanese major maritime transportation and shipping company, has disclosed that the Puteri Kelantan LNG carrier, which was built for Petronas LNG, was delivered on September 24, 2026, at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China. This vessel is…

Momentum has been building for the U.S. federal government to impose regulations on artificial intelligence. U.S. President Donald Trump opposes new strictures on the industry, but the public has grown concerned about the potential for the technology to produce catastrophic consequences for the economy and human society more broadly. Might normal liability law be adequate for regulating AI technology? How does the apocalyptic potential of AI relate to the financial value of AI companies? Does the U.S. government have sufficient expertise to regulate AI? Those are just a few of the questions that came up in my recent conversation with…

Opposition defence spokesperson says PM’s AI hack timing not a coincidenceCatie McLeodThe opposition’s defence spokesperson, James Paterson, has questioned the timing of the prime minister’s announcement that an AI agent hacked Medicare.Paterson made the claim on the ABC’s 7.30 program last night after Anthony Albanese publicly disclosed that an AI agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare in June and that the tech giant only notified the government earlier this month using an email sent to a “public mailbox”.Paterson told 7.30 he believed Albanese had chosen to make the announcement at the UN summit in New York, as part of his…

The Italian government has approved a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools, along with a limit on the share of pupils who speak little Italian in any one class. A 30% cap will be imposed on children without Italian citizenship or poor knowledge of the Italian language in the first year of primary, middle and high school.Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the measures as “common-sense tools that do not divide but really help to integrate”.Opposition parties accuse the government of pandering to the policies of the hard-right Futuro Nazionale party, ahead of a general election next year.Education Minister…

ZDNET’s key takeaways Google Wallet can do much more now than store cards. The app gained several major features in 2026. You can give your child their allowance, go through TSA, and more. Most people know by now that Google Wallet can do things besides store your credit cards, but you might have missed that Google has added a lot to its digital wallet app in just the past few months. In addition to a massive home screen and interface redesign, Google introduced several significant features in 2026 that make the app much more useful (it’s even reportedly coming to…

Swati KhandelwalSep 24, 2026Vulnerability / Mobile Security A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats, chained two flaws in OnePlus’s own software to gain root access, the highest level of control over an Android phone. OnePlus told him the same flaws affect many more of its own devices and those of OPPO, though it has not said which. OnePlus confirmed both flaws in May. In the same reply, the company told Moorats that it alone decides when to make a…

The work addresses a possible future threat to Bitcoin. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could use a wallet’s exposed public key to work out its private key and steal the coins. StarkWare’s method adds a form of protection based on hashes, which are expected to withstand that attack. It fits within Bitcoin’s existing rules, so trying it did not require the network to approve an upgrade.As such, the method is an emergency option for moving eligible coins if the quantum threat arrives before Bitcoin adopts a broader fix. Using it widely would be expensive at $320 of computing per transaction…