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The summer of 2026 taught the security industry a new phrase: the stolen AI login. In late August, as BleepingComputer reported, Anthropic responded to infostealer-driven hijacking of Claude sessions by signing users out, wiping saved payment methods, and refunding charges it identified as unauthorized. That is the supply side. SOCRadar’s AI Identity Exposure Report goes after the demand side: the enterprises whose employees are the credentials being sold. Starting from more than one million infostealer records tied to AI services across 80,000-plus corporate domains, the research narrowed the set to 482 major established enterprises to answer a single question: when…

Citigroup is working with America’s biggest crypto exchange, Coinbase, in its latest blockchain-based venture.  The two companies said in a joint statement Monday that they were teaming up to allow Citi clients to move between regular money and stablecoins without having to build or manage both banking and crypto systems themselves. The announcement comes as banks worldwide utilize Bitcoin’s underlying technology to speed up their processes and cater to crypto-hungry customers.  Citi last month said it would allow institutional investors to custody both traditional assets and bitcoin within one framework, rather than needing separate systems, later this year.  “Our clients…

Hurricane Polo is lashing the northern Pacific coast of Mexico with intense winds as it moves ashore with the threat of life-threatening flash floods. The powerful category three storm, with maximum sustained winds near 115 mph (185 km/h), is expected to make landfall on Monday evening over the state of Baja California Sur, a region popular with tourists and home to the resort destination of Los Cabos.Meteorologists at the US-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) have warned that life-threatening winds and flash foods had begun to hit portions of the regionResidents boarded up homes and businesses and stocked up on essentials…

The World Health Organization has officially recognized Bhutan for eliminating dog-transmitted human rabies as a public health problem  — in time for World Rabies Day on Sept. 28. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Bhutan is the first country in the Southeast Asia region, and the second to be named globally after Mexico, to achieve this validation. Nearly 99% of all human rabies cases globally are caused by the bite or scratch of an infected dog. Once symptoms appear, rabies is almost always fatal. On Sept. 4, the WHO confirmed that Bhutan has recorded zero human deaths from…

Russian forces have again struck the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, hours after a drone hit the National Academy of Sciences in the historic centre of the city, killing at least two people.Explosions were heard across Kyiv early on Tuesday, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko saying missile debris had fallen in the courtyard of one building while a second had caught fire in another part of the city.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe attacks come as Russia has begun hitting Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with faster, high-flying jet drones.Emergency officials said the strike on the National Academy of Sciences on…

Einst ein Shootingstar der CDU, nun auf dem politischen Abstellgleis: Jens Spahn hat sich massiv verkalkuliert. Nachdem er über den Widerspruch zu seiner öffentlichen Position zur Leihmutterschaft und diametralen privaten Entscheidungen als Unions-Fraktionschef gestolpert ist, zieht er sich nun auf Druck nach nur kurzer Zeit von seinem neuen Posten im Haushaltsausschuss zurück. Rixa Fürsen analysiert zusammen mit Rasmus Buchsteiner, ob dies das endgültige Ende von Spahns Karriere bedeutet und wie sehr diese Personalie – längst nicht die einzige – der CDU schadet. Der noch recht frische CDU-Gesundheitsminister Carsten Linnemann muss nun ausgerechnet als eine seiner ersten Handlungen die hoch umstrittene…

OpenAI will not release its new AI model – GPT-6.1 Astra – due to safety concerns, the ChatGPT-maker confirmed on Tuesday.The AI system – which performs tasks like browsing the web and using apps by itself – “didn’t quite meet the bar” of the company’s standards, Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI, said.On Tuesday, OpenAI also issued an update on incidents, that occurred in June but were not made public until last week, in which its models accessed Australian government websites and systems without authorisation.Those incidents and similar breaches by models developed by major AI firms have in…

The District of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) is notifying nearly 400,000 people that their personal information was potentially compromised in a data breach. According to the agency, the incident impacts Medicaid and the DC Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries who enrolled between 2023 and 2026. The data breach was not the result of hacking. Instead, DHCF discovered in July that two reports on its website contained hidden personal information accessible to unauthorized individuals. “These reports were intended to display only summary information about groups of people, such as enrollment counts and other statistics, and did not show anyone’s personal…

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has appeared to slam Reform Party leader Nigel Farage’s use of Bitcoin.  In a Monday speech, the finance minister said that Nigel Farage — a pro-crypto member of parliament — was “Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account.”  Farage, who is leading the increasingly popular Reform Party, has come under fire recently for receiving donations from crypto entrepreneurs. Liz Truss was the UK’s shortest serving Prime Minister who was heavily criticised for her debt-fueled 2022 mini budget.  “Nigel Farage — he wants you to think he’s a man of the people,” Healey said. “But…

Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on Sept. 28, 2026, with ticketing information for the public. The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission will participate in an event hosted by industry and community partners at the University of Houston to discuss their mission around the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft. It will be the first event in Houston for the public following their lunar mission earlier this year and marks the conclusion of their post-flight campaign. Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch of NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen will share highlights from their…