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New RemControl Android banking malware targets users in Europe and Canada

A new Android malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called RemControl is targeting users through malvertising campaigns that impersonate the TVTap IPTV application.

Although the infrastructure has been active since at least May, the first samples were observed in July and contained more than 30 phishing overlays designed to steal banking credentials.

Researchers at cybersecurity company Group-IB say that the malware targets users in Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Portugal), Canada, and countries in the Middle East.

Hackers start exploiting critical WordPress flaw for code execution

Threat actors have moved from probing WordPress sites vulnerable to CVE-2026–87902 to exploiting the flaw to write files to disk that execute shell commands when accessed.

Initial attack traffic was only for reconnaissance and started less than five hours after the patch was released in WordPress 7.1.2. Malicious activity increased by ten times, and attackers are now trying to deliver payloads.

WordPress security firm Patchstack reports that it observed the first malicious requests at 17:44 UTC on September 22 from a small group of IP addresses targeting multiple sites under its protection.

Check Point warns of hackers exploiting Security Gateway VPN RCE flaw

Cybersecurity company Check Point has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026–85102, a pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the VPN certificate-handling functionality of its Security Gateway product.

The same advisory also warns of threat actors exploiting a pre-authentication path traversal flaw tracked as CVE-2026–93616, which impacts the Management web service and can allow script execution and Java class loading.

The company says that CVE-2026–93616 has been exploited as a zero-day since July 23.

Qualcomm PickNik Acquisition Is A Software Land Grab Nobody Priced In

Qualcomm agreed to acquire PickNik Robotics on September 23, 2026, bringing MoveIt—the world’s most widely adopted open-source robot manipulation framework—under its Dragonwing physical AI platform. Qualcomm committed to keeping MoveIt open-source, but the Qualcomm PickNik acquisition consolidates the software layer that sits between AI models and physical robot motion. The procurement implication is structural: a semiconductor company now controls the dominant open-source framework for robot manipulation, and every integrator building on MoveIt inherits a new corporate dependency.

Qualcomm PickNik acquisition landed on September 23, 2026, when Qualcomm Technologies announced it had agreed to acquire PickNik Inc., the Boulder-based company that stewards MoveIt, the open-source manipulation framework used across robotics research and commercial deployments worldwide. The acquisition was announced at ROSCon Toronto, the annual gathering of the Robot Operating System community.

The strategic logic is straightforward. Qualcomm wants to own the software layer that connects AI models to physical robot motion. MoveIt is that layer for a large share of the robotics industry.

Breakthrough drug reverses skin aging and dramatically speeds healing

ABT-263 also increased the activity of genes involved in rebuilding damaged tissue. These included genes associated with collagen production and the formation of new blood vessels.

Collagen is a structural protein that provides strength and support to skin and other tissues. New blood vessel growth is equally important because healing tissue needs a steady supply of oxygen and nutrients as it rebuilds itself.

Together, these changes suggest that ABT-263 did more than simply remove damaged cells. The treatment also appeared to create conditions that helped aging skin mount a stronger regenerative response.

Video: Terminator dominates first human vs. robot cage match

On the plus side skynet might not decide to wipe humans out as it already knows it can kick the biological animal waste product out of them personally. Figuratively speaking. I think.

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We’ve seen some robot vs. robot cage matches, and those were pretty cool. Now we have what’s being billed as the first human vs. robot cage match, and it’s … pretty freaky?

We’ve all heard of how artificial intelligence and robots are going to take over the world and put everyone out of a job. That may include cage fighters if the technology on display here continues to improve. At a small private 100 person event in San Francisco on Friday September 18th, YouTuber Frankie LaPenna took on a six foot tall T-800 Terminator-style robot in a cage.

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