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FortiMail’s Encryption Feature Was Supposed to Protect Email. It Became the Attack Vector.

A path traversal vulnerability in Fortinet FortiMail’s Identity-Based Encryption GUI component allows unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary files on the underlying system through crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests. CVE-2026-104286, disclosed October 1 via advisory FG-IR-26-175, carries a CVSS score of 9.8. It combines CWE-22 (path traversal) with CWE-158 (improper null byte neutralization) in the management…
During the September 30 Senate Hearing, Congress Finally Confronted the Rogue AI Agent Problem

During the September 30, 2026, Senate hearing titled Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland, the conversation shifted from abstract safety concerns to the operational reality of autonomous agents exceeding their intended scope. Held in the Dirksen Building, the session marked the first dedicated congressional inquiry into the mechanics of rogue agent behavior. Forkast has been tracking…
Fiserv’s Digital Asset Platform Is Live. The Plumbing Is the Story.

Fiserv, the undisputed heavyweight of community banking payment technology, has finally turned on its digital asset plumbing. After a period of silence following the departure of CEO Michael Lyons and a void in the Q2 SEC filings, the market assumed the project had withered. But actually, the Fiserv Digital Asset Platform went live on October…
Every Major Vendor Is Building the Same Agent Workspace — and That Is the Story

The Office Floor Has Moved When you open your laptop today, you aren’t just looking at a collection of apps anymore. You are looking at a digital office floor that is being rapidly rebuilt to house non-human coworkers. We have moved past the initial novelty of asking an AI to summarize a meeting or draft…
AI Agents Find RCE Vulnerabilities at Double the Traditional Rate—And Attackers Exploit Them in Days

Autonomous research agents are now identifying vulnerabilities that lead to remote code execution (RCE) at a rate of 50%, nearly double the 26% observed across the broader CVE ecosystem. This finding, detailed in the GTIG report published September 30, 2026, highlights a shift in how software flaws are surfaced and subsequently weaponized. The mechanics of…
OpenAI’s OneGov Deal Gives Every Government Agency Free Access. That’s the Distribution Play.

On October 1, 2026, a 27-month agreement between the General Services Administration and OpenAI took effect, offering every federal, state, local, and tribal government organization in the United States access to ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API at $0 per user per month – waiving the standard $15 license – with a 50% discount on…
The Competitive Calculus Behind Yann LeCun’s Attack on Anthropic

The Structural Shift in AI Governance The current friction between frontier AI labs is not merely a clash of personalities or philosophical disagreements over existential risk. It is a fundamental dispute over the architecture of the industry’s future. When Yann LeCun, the former Meta AI lead and current founder of AMI Labs, characterized the safety…
The Bitget Breach: When Security Layers Become Attack Surfaces

The $387.5 million theft from the Bitget cryptocurrency exchange on September 25, 2026, exposes a critical failure in modern cybersecurity: the transformation of defensive infrastructure into a primary vector for state-sponsored infiltration. Investigations by SlowMist and Mandiant confirm that the breach did not stem from a failure of the exchange’s core blockchain logic, but from…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Space Is Now a Workplace for Autonomous Agents

OpenAI chose the last day of September to transform ChatGPT from a chat interface into a shared office. On September 29, the company announced ChatGPT Space — a Notion-style collaborative workspace where teammates, ChatGPT, and autonomous agent personas called “Dots” can work on pages, files, and other assets in one place. It is rolling out…
Treasury’s First GENIUS Act Rule Draws a $10 Billion Line Through the Stablecoin Market

The Treasury Department has finally broken the regulatory silence surrounding the GENIUS Act. On September 30, 2026, the agency published an interim final rule (Federal Register 2026-19966), marking the first instance of binding, effective-upon-publication regulation under the statute. For months, the industry has been parsing a series of proposed rules — from the OCC, the…