• New Settra Ransomware Variant Deployed in Attacks on Retail and Manufacturing
• Bots with good manners are better at fooling people on social media
• CISA Upgrades Vulnerability Reporting Platform with More Automation
• Zero-click RCE vulnerability hit four major AI coding agents, two remain unpatched
• Android apps can now check security patches down to individual device components
• Manufacturing Accounts for 22% of all Ransomware Victims
• Abandoned IoT apps keep sending sensitive data to broken servers
• Hardcoded MCP credentials found in public GitHub files
• 98% of fraudulent hires have company credentials by the time they’re caught
• Most WordPress pros still lack a breach recovery plan
• New infosec products of the week: September 18, 2026
• FamousSparrow Swaps SparrowDoor For New SparroWocky Backdoor
• CISA Urges Critical Infrastructure to Plant Decoys Inside Networks
• Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE
• New Chinese-Made ‘RatHat’ Android Malware Leverages AI to Steal Financial Data
• Cyber Essentials Has Record Year but Takeup Remains Low
• Cisco Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical ISE Flaw
• AI Agent Carries Out Multi-Stage Data Theft Attack
• PHP Webshell Campaign Targets WordPress Through Critical WooCommerce Plugin Bug
• CISA and NIST Issue Guidance to Protect Cloud Identity Tokens
• Cyber-Attacks Cost Organizations $52,000 on Average
• Zero-Day Flaw in TP-Link Cameras Enables Eavesdropping
• Major Cyber Vendors Turn to New UK Testing Program as MITRE Evaluations Face Changes
• NCSC and Allies Warn of Iranian Spyware Campaign

Huntress researchers highlighted a new ransomware variant, named Settra, and the post-compromise techniques used in two recent attacks