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Check Point Software released emergency hotfixes to address a critical Security Management Server vulnerability that could let attackers run arbitrary scripts. The Security Management Server is a central repository that stores and manages security policies, processes administrator changes, and collects system logs across enterprise networks. Tracked as CVE-2026-93616, this path traversal flaw lets unauthenticated threat actors upload arbitrary scripts on vulnerable Check Point Management Servers and execute them in low-complexity attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI have urged software companies since May 2024 to remove path traversal weaknesses from their products before shipping, saying such…

In brief White-hat actors moved 40.71 BTC (~$3.31 million) tied to the Coldcard exploit on Sept. 21 in a transaction carrying a “crypto recovery trust” message. Galaxy’s Alex Thorn said a broader sweep pulled 52.37 BTC from several attacker clusters into a fresh address flagged for the same trust—roughly 2.8% of the total exploit. The exploit, which peaked around $130 million, stemmed from a March 2021 Coldcard firmware flaw that made seed phrases guessable. Some of the Bitcoin stolen in the sprawling Coldcard hardware wallet exploit is being routed toward a recovery effort, with white-hat actors moving funds into what…

Arid shrublands in Western Australia were bursting with life in late austral winter 2026, when a profusion of wildflowers brought vivid colors to the rusty ochre landscape. After several wetter-than-normal months earlier in the year, dormant seeds in the soil awoke to produce carpets of blooms. Local experts think the display could be the best the area has seen in nearly two decades. The images above, captured with the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on the NASA-USGS Landsat 8 satellite, compare the more verdant landscape of late August 2026 (right) with a similar time in 2025 (left), when it was drier.…

They have told the BBC the demand for this procedure, which normally costs thousands of pounds in the UK, has increased as part of a wider aesthetic trend to tighten, smooth and lift the face.Surgeons say complications have been linked to clinics across mainland Europe, Africa and Asia, and, when they occur, the lack of aftercare puts a burden on the NHS.As well as Nikita, we have spoken to dozens of people who have experienced problems – including one woman who had to tape her eyes shut to sleep because too much eyelid skin had been removed, while another feared…

Over four years after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disastrous full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the West is still sending mixed messages to the Kremlin. Many Western leaders talk tough, arm Ukraine, impose sanctions, and warn Moscow against further aggression. Yet while Russia continues to immiserate Ukraine and Putin carries out an increasingly reckless campaign of provocations on NATO territory, those same governments—still struggling to wean themselves off of Russian oil and gas—often seem more worried about whether their response might be considered escalatory than about Russia’s own actions. This signals to Putin that he has plenty more runway for an asymmetric…

Trump has also been meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung and leaders from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.This latter meeting, which also involved leaders from other Arab and Islamic countries, “discussed current regional developments and the situation in the Middle East, as well as ways to consolidate security and stability,” the UAE’s foreign minister said in a statement.Earlier, Guterres gave his farewell speech as UN secretary general, urging unnamed superpowers to recognise “that their power isn’t so super”.”The fault lines in our world…

A thinktank linked to Reform UK has called for the abolition of the state pension and £75bn worth of sweeping tax cuts in a “radical” report likely to influence the party’s platform for the next election.The Centre for a Better Britain’s (CFABB) report – which also calls for weaker rules for UK banks and Trump-style investment accounts offering £1,000 to newborns – will be formally launched at a private event with City executives on Wednesday.The 183-page report, entitled “Boosting Britain”, proposes abolishing taxes typically levied on wealthy Britons, including capital gains tax and inheritance tax, which it says disrupts family…

After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward.On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians tasked with advising it and other AI companies on their interactions with mathematical research and the wider mathematics community, including how new results are presented and released. Its abrupt arrival caught many mathematicians by surprise. Researchers told The Verge the group is a good first step, but many said they were left with basic questions about what it will actually do, how much…

Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then have to clean up and move somewhere else. SpeakON attacks that gap with hardware: a 25 g magnetic button that snaps to the back of an iPhone, carries its own microphone, and writes finished text straight into whatever app is already open. The Positioning: a Communicator, not a Dictation App SpeakON calls the category an AI Communicator, and takes its…

Ravie LakshmananSep 22, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious npm package named “tw-pkgprobe-7731” that masquerades as a security tool targeting developers integrating Twilio into their applications, while stealthily attempting to harvest sensitive data. The package, named “tw-pkgprobe-7731,” was first uploaded to the npm registry in mid-August 2026 by an npm account named “twdepprobe7731.” In total, 11 versions of the package were published in quick succession on the same day over an approximately 45-minute time period. The npm user account no longer exists as of writing. “The first version of tw-pkgprobe-7731 posed as an…