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Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon to Trusted Cyber Defenders, Plans Guardrail-Free Version
Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 4 Argon, that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program.
"It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," Koray Kavukcuoglu,
1 October 2026
From:
info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) [The Hacker News]

Angry Birds: Toy Ghouls’ new toys
Kaspersky GERT experts have discovered new backdoors used by the Toy Ghouls group. One version of the backdoor uses the HiveMQ MQTT broker as its command-and-control server; the other uses the Matrix-based Element messenger.
1 October 2026
From:
Kaspersky GERT, Kaspersky Security Services [Securelist]

Mirage Kitten targeting aviation and FinTech sectors across the Middle East and Africa with a new malware set
Kaspersky researchers have discovered new Mirage Kitten attacks using previously undocumented malware families: NodeRabbit in Node.js and PollCat in JavaScript.
1 October 2026
From:
Omar Amin [Securelist]

AI's Third Wave: Coworkers Break the Security Model That Worked for Agents
Persistent AI coworkers may operate continuously with standing access, creating identity risks that existing security models were not designed to handle. Token Security explains why these agents need their own identities, owners, scoped permissions, and lifecycle controls. [...]
1 October 2026
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Sponsored by Token Security [BleepingComputer]

CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76504 (CVSS score: 9.8), could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access an affected system with
1 October 2026
From:
info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) [The Hacker News]


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