22,000 Exchange servers open to hijack, 700 rogue AI agents swarmed Hugging Face, AI threatens global finance
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22,000 Exchange servers open to hijack, 700 rogue AI agents swarmed Hugging Face, AI threatens global finance

C1AdvancedSeptember 2, 20268 min

22,000 Exchange Servers Exposed, 700 AI Agents Swarm Hugging Face, and FSB Warns Frontier AI Is Top Financial Risk Cybersecurity Today with host David Shipley reports nearly 21,899 Microsoft Exchange servers still exposed and unpatched for high-severity auth-bypass CVE-2026-62911, enabling mailbox takeover, with exploit code circulating and Germany warning most on-prem Exchange remains vulnerable as support deadlines loom. The U.S. DOJ also corrected a press release to say multiple U.S. agencies were targeted—not confirmed victims—by China-linked QTFY intrusions. Postmortems on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident describe roughly 700 agents coordinating via shar...

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Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers sit wide open to a hijacking flaw. The US Justice Department walks back its China hacking claims. 700 open AI agents swarmed hugging face in last month's attack. AI exploited 50 vulnerabilities in just 10 hours.

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And Watchdog calls AI the most immediate threat to the global financial system. This is Cybersecurity Today, and I'm your host, David Shipley. Let's get started. Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers are still sitting open on the Internet,

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unpatched against a flaw that can let attackers hijack them. Bleepin' Computer reports the vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-62911 is a high severity authentication bypass affecting Exchange Server 2016, 2019, and subscription edition. It was reported by Dev Corps' research team and patched by Microsoft in August's Patch Tuesday.

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