Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-09-05 03:00 PDT
- Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
The Hacker News • 2026-09-05 00:55 • thehackernews.com
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox.The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that runs
https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/thousands-of-openai-agents-quietly.html - Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
The Hacker News • 2026-09-05 00:31 • thehackernews.com
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe.The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain – to conduct command execution and reconnaissance, as well as
https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/attackers-exploit-papercut-flaws-to.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
