Cyber AI Digest

September 30, 2026

  1. Deepmind Sep 30, 2026
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    Release

    Google DeepMind opens Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, to trusted cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program.

    • Trusted defenders and Google's internal teams will receive Argon without cyber guardrails.

    • According to Google DeepMind, Argon can autonomously find, validate and fix critical software vulnerabilities.

    • At Wiz, the model discovered a critical vulnerability in health software used by hospitals.

    • On CWE-bench v1, which evaluates vulnerability fixing, Argon shares first place with 68%.

    Read the original article Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence deepmind.google

  2. Embrace the red Sep 30, 2026
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    Vulnerability

    Copilot's read-only mode in SSMS can be bypassed to run arbitrary T/SQL.

    • The flaw carries the identifier CVE-2026-65669, a privilege escalation that Microsoft classifies as critical.

    • Copilot runs its queries with the privileges of the connected user, including sysadmin.

    • Via a malicious constitution planted by a db_owner, a demo adds the attacker to the sysadmin role.

    Read the original article From SELECT to SYSADMIN with SQL Copilot (CVE-2026-65669) embracethered.com

  3. OpenAI Research Sep 30, 2026
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    Attack

    OpenAI says it disrupted a coordinated campaign to extract the protected reasoning of its models.

    • The peaks of July 24 and 25 count 16,000 requests from more than 4,000 users, attempts not necessarily successful.

    • A core of the activity is attributed by OpenAI to people associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi.

    • A path allowing the encrypted reasoning of another user to be replayed to recover its content was closed.

    Read the original article Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign openai.com

  4. Cloud Security Alliance Sep 30, 2026
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    Attack

    A joint advisory from CISA, the NSA and the FBI attributes large-scale distillation campaigns to six Chinese AI companies.

    • The advisory AA26-251A, published on 8 September 2026, mentions billions of tokens extracted from American models.

    • The campaigns did not steal the model weights: they went through APIs, subscriptions and proxies.

    • Anthropic reports around 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million exchanges in campaigns it attributes.

    • According to the author, account-by-account defenses are ineffective against a campaign spread across providers.

    Read the original article Industrial Scale AI Distillation is a Cloud Security Failure cloudsecurityalliance.org