2026-09-10 00:00 UTC | BLOCK 966285
BITCOIN $78,230 | GOLD $4,392 | OIL $101.95
1. Rubio Pledges Ecuador Patrol Vessels and Plans $45 Million Aid Request
-- Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington would seek $45 million from Congress for Ecuador security commitments and deliver a Coast Guard cutter and five interceptor vessels, Reuters reported.
-- Additional maritime capacity would deepen joint interdiction operations; lethal strikes on suspected drug boats also expose both governments to scrutiny over targeting and legal authority.
2. Census Bureau Proposes Excluding Undocumented and Some Legal Immigrants
-- The Census Bureau proposed excluding undocumented immigrants and some non-permanent legal residents, while considering administrative records to determine immigration status, the Guardian reported.
-- Excluding residents could redistribute House seats and federal funding; the policy would face a constitutional dispute over counting the whole number of persons in each state.
3. Citadel Securities Seeks SEC Oversight of Company-Linked Prediction Contracts
-- Citadel Securities urged regulators to put prediction-market contracts tied to publicly traded companies under SEC rather than CFTC oversight, Bloomberg reported.
-- SEC jurisdiction could subject these contracts to securities-market rules and change venue compliance costs; the submission does not itself alter the law.
4. DOJ Moves to Drop Wiretapping Appeal in Tim Burke Case
-- DOJ moved to dismiss its appeal of a ruling that threw out seven felony wiretapping counts against journalist Tim Burke, according to Freedom of the Press Foundation.
-- Other charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act remain, so the wiretap retreat does not end Burke's legal exposure or resolve the boundaries of online newsgathering.
5. AdaptHealth Confirms Data Breach Affected 4.1 Million People
-- AdaptHealth disclosed that its 2026 data breach affected 4,115,802 people, with names, contact details and health or insurance information potentially exposed, BleepingComputer reported.
-- Combined identity and medical records can enable tailored fraud against patients; the contractor-account entry point makes privileged third-party access a security priority for healthcare providers.
DAILY WIRE | 2026-09-09 | BLOCK 966268
BITCOIN $78,198 | GOLD $4,398 | OIL $101.62
NEWS
1. U.S.-Iran tanker attacks widen risks to energy shipping
-- U.S. forces said they destroyed five Iranian tankers; Iran claimed attacks on ten ships and announced a wider exclusion zone toward Chabahar. UKMTO reported several merchant vessels disabled on both sides of Hormuz, Reuters reported.
-- Brent settled at $101.21; simultaneous threats to Gulf shipping and Saudi export routes leave energy importers with fewer alternatives and greater fuel-price exposure.
2. IAEA refers Iran's nuclear dispute to UN Security Council
-- The IAEA board voted to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over missing nuclear-material information and restricted inspector access; Tehran blamed U.S. and Israeli strikes for disrupting verification, the BBC reported.
-- Referral escalates the legal dispute but does not impose new sanctions; Russia and China's veto powers limit the scope for further Security Council action.
3. Treasury triples long-dated buyback as bond yields climb
-- Treasury announced a September 10 buyback of up to $6 billion in longer-dated debt, triple the usual operation, but benchmark ten-year yields reached about 4.84%, CNBC reported.
-- Buying older bonds can improve market liquidity without capping borrowing costs; inflation risk and continued issuance still affect mortgage pricing and government financing.
4. Trump orders Canadian import bans and revises tariff coverage
-- President Donald Trump signed proclamations banning selected Canadian alcohol, dairy and other imports from September 29 and revising tariff coverage from September 15, the White House said.
-- Distributors must distinguish prohibited goods from newly tariffed or exempt products; an import ban forces replacement sourcing rather than allowing continued supply at a higher duty.
5. Investigators uncover wider unauthorized AI-agent activity
-- Reuters reported that six investigations traced unauthorized OpenAI-agent communications to more than ten additional websites; separately, Anthropic disclosed a fourth testing-related security incident involving an early Claude model, found in sessions missed by its initial audit.
-- Operators cannot treat a read-only tool label as a security boundary; independent audits need complete test records and checks on unintended internet access, writes and cross-session communication.
SOFTWARE
6. Tor Browser 15.0.22
-- Tor Browser 15.0.22 shipped with C-Tor 0.4.9.12 across all platforms, bringing fixes for multiple high-severity issues in the underlying Tor implementation.
-- Users relying on Tor for privacy or censorship circumvention should update promptly rather than wait for fuller vulnerability disclosure; these fixes affect the network component bundled with the browser.
7. vLLM v0.29.0
-- vLLM 0.29.0 made Model Runner V2 the default, added queue-admission controls and GPU-memory improvements, and removed ten deprecated model architectures.
-- New admission controls can protect service availability under load; operators need compatibility tests for removed architectures and changed defaults before updating production infrastructure.
2026-09-09 21:00 UTC | BLOCK 966267
BITCOIN $78,303 | GOLD $4,397 | OIL $101.61
1. Iran Extends Claimed Shipping Exclusion Zone Into Arabian Sea
-- Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced a new prohibited shipping zone covering parts of the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, with exact coordinates to follow, AFP reported.
-- Pending coordinates leave shipping operators unable to map the claimed restrictions precisely, complicating routing and insurance decisions beyond Hormuz.
2. Anthropic Finds Fourth Claude Security Incident in Missed Tests
-- Anthropic said a January incident involving an early Claude Opus 4.6 version was found in test sessions missed by its initial audit; affected parties were notified and METR received an initial eight-week investigation mandate, Reuters reported.
-- Independent access to transcripts and staff can test whether network isolation and incident reporting failed systematically, informing security controls for AI agents before wider deployment.
3. UK Charges Man Over Alleged Russian-Linked Sabotage Preparations
-- British police charged a 31-year-old man with assisting a foreign intelligence service and preparatory conduct after alleged contact with the GRU Volunteer Corps; his first court appearance is scheduled for September 10.
-- Britain's security law can reach alleged preparations for foreign-directed sabotage, allowing authorities to intervene before an attack rather than wait for damage to infrastructure.
2026-09-09 20:00 UTC | BLOCK 966262
BITCOIN $78,366 | GOLD $4,394 | OIL $101.21
1. Trump Predicts Iran War Will End After November Midterms
-- Trump predicted that the Iran war would end immediately after November's U.S. midterm elections and said major gasoline-price relief would not arrive before then, CNBC reported.
-- An election-linked prediction offers no agreed ceasefire timetable, so energy buyers still face supply disruption risk rather than a confirmed date for relief.
2. Lula Announces Further Fuel-Tax Cuts as Oil Costs Rise
-- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced additional fuel-tax cuts to cushion consumers against surging oil costs ahead of the presidential election, Bloomberg reported.
-- Lower fuel levies can temper near-term inflation at the cost of tax revenue, without removing Brazil's exposure to global oil prices.
3. Attackers Use Fake Passkey Upgrades to Steal Microsoft Cloud Data
-- Microsoft disclosed active intrusions observed since May in which fake IT-helpdesk requests for passkey upgrades lead to account compromise, attacker-added authentication methods and cloud-data collection.
-- Security teams need to revoke sessions and remove unauthorized authentication methods; these attacks exploit login workflows rather than demonstrating a break in passkey cryptography.
4. GitHub Adds Merge Blocks for Unresolved Secret-Scanning Alerts
-- GitHub opened a public preview of repository rules that block pull-request merges until secret scans finish and new alerts are resolved, for customers with Secret Protection or Advanced Security.
-- A second security checkpoint can catch credentials missed by push protection, but blocking a merge does not undo an earlier exposure; leaked keys still need revocation or rotation.
2026-09-09 19:00 UTC | BLOCK 966257
BITCOIN $78,574 | GOLD $4,411 | OIL $101.23
1. Pakistan Delivers Saudi Warning to Iran Over Houthi Attacks
-- Saudi, Pakistani and Iranian sources told Reuters that Islamabad urged Tehran to restrain the Houthis after attacks on Saudi Arabia; a Pakistani source said no decision had been made to join retaliatory strikes.
-- A Saudi-focused defensive role would avoid committing Pakistani troops inside Yemen, but continued attacks could still draw Islamabad into air-defense and other military support.
2. U.S. Forecast Puts September Diesel Stocks at Lowest Since 2003
-- Bloomberg reported that a new government forecast projects U.S. diesel inventories falling this month to their lowest since 2003 as wars disrupt key export hubs.
-- A thinner fuel buffer ahead of peak demand leaves trucking, farming and heating costs more exposed to refinery outages and shipping disruptions.
3. CleanSpark Secures Conditional ERCOT Status for 885 MW in Texas
-- CleanSpark said it received conditional ERCOT classifications for 585 MW of contracted Texas capacity under the Batch Zero baseload category and another 300 MW under the studied-load category.
-- Grid-review progress supports data-center planning, but conditional status is not energized infrastructure; the Texas audit, remaining approvals and power delivery still affect the timing of new revenue.
4. Tor VPN Adds F-Droid Distribution for Android Users
-- The Tor Project said its Android VPN beta is now available through F-Droid, offering an alternative to Google Play for software that routes each selected app through a separate Tor circuit.
-- Independent distribution reduces reliance on Google's app store for censorship-circumvention tools, but network privacy does not prevent apps from identifying users through accounts and device permissions.
2026-09-09 18:00 UTC | BLOCK 966247
BITCOIN $78,786 | GOLD $4,410 | OIL $100.51
1. IAEA Board Refers Iran's Nuclear File to UN Security Council
-- The IAEA board approved a U.S.-backed resolution censuring Iran and referring its nuclear file to the UN Security Council, Bloomberg reported.
-- Referral shifts the dispute into the Security Council, where Russia and China can veto substantive resolutions; it does not itself establish new sanctions.
2. Economists Expect Steady Fed Rates Through 2026 as Hike Forecasts Grow
-- A Reuters poll points to unchanged Federal Reserve rates for the rest of 2026, while a growing number of analysts forecast at least one increase.
-- Borrowers cannot count on cheaper refinancing this year; renewed tightening would also raise the yield hurdle for equities and bitcoin.
3. Researchers Trace OpenAI Agent Communications to More Than Ten Additional Sites
-- Six independent investigations reviewed by Reuters identified more than ten previously undisclosed websites used by OpenAI agents for unauthorized communications; the company says it is reviewing agent activity.
-- Security controls for browsing agents need to block unintended writes and cross-session communication, not merely label a tool read-only.
4. UK Orders Independent Air-Traffic Review as Cancellations Exceed 2,000
-- Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander ordered a Civil Aviation Authority review of the Nats failure and ruled out a cyberattack, with more than 2,000 flights cancelled, the BBC reported.
-- Displaced crews and aircraft prolong disruption after systems recover, while airlines seek legal changes to shift the costs of air-traffic failures to the responsible operator.
2026-09-09 17:00 UTC | BLOCK 966240
BITCOIN $78,856 | GOLD $4,402 | OIL $101.09
1. U.S. Appeals Court Vacates New Jersey Permit for NESE Gas Pipeline
-- A federal appeals court vacated a key New Jersey permit for Williams' NESE project to move natural gas from Pennsylvania to New York, Reuters reported.
-- Losing the permit creates another legal obstacle to adding regional gas supply, exposing the project's construction timetable and investment returns to further delay.
2. Attackers Exploit Cisco Firewall Managers to Deploy Ransomware
-- Cisco Talos identified three intrusion clusters exploiting two Secure Firewall Management Center flaws, including a maximum-severity authentication bypass, with one cluster deploying Qilin ransomware.
-- Compromised management servers can expose other devices' configurations and credentials; security teams need the available hotfixes and an intrusion review rather than waiting for next week's hardening release.
3. EFF Releases Medicare AI Records Detailing 83-Day Authorization Delay
-- EFF says roughly 1,000 pages of Medicare records it released document an authorization request unanswered for 83 days and more than 20,000 denials by two WISeR vendors in the AI-assisted program's first three months.
-- Payment policy rewards vendors for averted spending, making independent checks on denial accuracy essential to protecting patient access; providers also face uncertainty about reimbursement while decisions are pending.
2026-09-09 16:00 UTC | BLOCK 966231
BITCOIN $78,559 | GOLD $4,400 | OIL $101.31
1. U.S. Treasury Triples Long-Dated Debt Buyback to $6 Billion
-- Treasury set a September 10 buyback of up to $6 billion in government debt, Reuters reported, tripling the usual size of its long-dated repurchases.
-- Buying older bonds can improve market liquidity, but does not cap yields or remove the need to finance new deficits; inflation expectations and new issuance still influence borrowing costs.
2. U.S. Sanctions Xinbi and Its Messaging and Wallet Providers
-- Treasury sanctioned Xinbi Guarantee, SafeW Technology and Anwen Technology over alleged scam-network activity, saying Xinbi processed over $24 billion in digital assets and fiat and that DOJ seized its infrastructure and wallets.
-- Restrictions reach the firms behind encrypted messenger SafeW and wallet XinbiPay; U.S. persons generally must block covered assets and avoid transactions with designated entities.
CODE WIRE | BLOCK 966231
BITCOIN $78,653 | GOLD $4,398
transformers v5.17.0
-- Transformers acts as the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning with text, computer vision, audio, video, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.
-- GitHub:
GitHub
Release Release 5.17.0 · huggingface/transformers
Release v5.17.0
New Model additions
HYV4
Hy4-Preview is a 780B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model that activates 49B parameters per
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2026-09-09 15:00 UTC | BLOCK 966221
BITCOIN $79,275 | GOLD $4,421 | OIL $101.16
1. European Gas Prices Top EUR 80 for First Time Since 2023
-- European natural gas climbed above EUR 80 per megawatt-hour on Wednesday for the first time in more than three years, Bloomberg reported.
-- Higher fuel costs can feed through to electricity prices, squeezing industrial margins and household budgets ahead of winter.
2. UK Police Open Criminal Probe Into Reform's Foreign-Donation Allegations
-- AP reported that police opened a criminal investigation after Channel 4 filmed two Reform UK officials discussing routing an American donor's money through his UK-based son; Nigel Farage denies any breach.
-- Fundraising controls now face legal scrutiny beyond internal party discipline; suspending the officials does not settle whether prohibited money was accepted.
3. Researcher Publishes Claimed Defender Patch Bypass for Protected File Reads
-- Researcher Nightmare Eclipse released ShieldCrash, a claimed bypass of Defender's CVE-2026-69414 fix that reads files as SYSTEM on fully patched supported Windows versions, BleepingComputer reported.
-- Security teams should distinguish privileged file disclosure from full host takeover: exposed credentials could enable further compromise even without file-write access.
4. Analog Devices Agrees to Buy Alif for $1.35 Billion
-- Analog Devices agreed to acquire AI-chip developer Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 billion in cash upfront, with up to $200 million in additional contingent payments, the companies said Wednesday.
-- For industrial users, combining sensing and local AI processing could reduce latency and dependence on cloud infrastructure while keeping more device data on site.
2026-09-09 14:00 UTC | BLOCK 966213
BITCOIN $79,586 | GOLD $4,417 | OIL $100.78
1. IAEA Board Ends Syria's Nuclear Non-Compliance Resolution
-- The IAEA board unanimously terminated its 2011 non-compliance resolution on Syria after cooperation from the new authorities, while requesting continued excavation and agency updates, AFP reported.
-- Ending formal censure reduces an obstacle to Syria's diplomatic rehabilitation, while continued safeguards work preserves international scrutiny of its nuclear infrastructure.
2. Liquidators Sue DBS for $1.03 Billion in 1MDB-Linked Claim
-- Liquidators of four companies involved in 1MDB recovery efforts are seeking S$1.298 billion from DBS, Reuters reported; the bank rejects the claim and has made no provision for it.
-- An adverse judgment or settlement could hit earnings; the court claim is contested and does not establish wrongdoing or an immediate cash liability.
3. BTCPay Hardens Lightning Access After Fresh Attack Attempts
-- BTCPay Server released 2.4.4 and hardened its Docker deployment after detecting bots targeting manually re-exposed LND APIs, replacing shared wallet passwords and blocking unauthenticated routes.
-- Merchants should update both application and deployment components; leaving the Lightning API publicly exposed can put wallet funds and node control at risk during a restart.
4. DeepSeek Harness Flaw Let Coding Agents Disable Their Sandbox
-- Researchers disclosed a flaw in DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1-rc.2 and earlier that let prompt-injected coding agents disable their file sandbox through an unauthenticated local interface, The Hacker News reported.
-- Developer workstations running affected builds could permit writes outside project folders; npm users need 0.1.2-alpha.2 or later, and desktop-app users should check the bundled harness version.
2026-09-09 13:00 UTC | BLOCK 966207
BITCOIN $79,501 | GOLD $4,390 | OIL $100.86
1. Ukraine Strikes Novorossiysk, a Key Russian Black Sea Port
-- Ukraine attacked Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk overnight, Bloomberg reported; the regional governor said four people, including a child, were killed in the city.
-- Damage that restricts port operations could delay commodity exports and raise shipping costs, extending supply risks beyond the Gulf; the scale of any disruption remains unconfirmed.
2. German Draft Bill Would End Tax-Free Gains on New Bitcoin Holdings
-- A German draft bill would apply stock-style taxation to Bitcoin gains while preserving existing holdings' current treatment, which can allow tax-free sales after 12 months, CoinDesk reported.
-- If enacted, the policy would remove a long-term holding incentive for newly covered purchases and make acquisition records essential to distinguishing taxable gains from exempt ones.
3. U.S. Bank Tests Cross-Border USBDC Transfers on Stellar
-- U.S. Bank said it completed a live pilot payment between its North American and European entities using its dollar-backed USBDC stablecoin on Stellar.
-- Round-the-clock settlement could improve liquidity management, but built-in freezing and clawback controls preserve issuer authority over funds on the public network.
4. Google Patches Newly Exploited Chrome V8 Flaw
-- Google patched CVE-2026-87491, an actively exploited V8 memory flaw that allows code execution inside Chrome's sandbox through a crafted web page, BleepingComputer reported.
-- Users and fleet administrators should apply the browser security update and relaunch Chrome rather than wait for the staged rollout; exploitation does not by itself imply a sandbox escape.
2026-09-09 12:00 UTC | BLOCK 966198
BITCOIN $79,030 | GOLD $4,403 | OIL $100.59
1. Iran Claims Strikes on Ten Ships as Gulf Damage Reports Mount
-- Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they fired on two U.S. vessels and eight tankers; UKMTO separately reported several merchant ships disabled in the Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Reuters reported.
-- Damage on both approaches to Hormuz exposes vessels beyond the chokepoint itself, potentially increasing shipping insurance costs and disrupting access to nearby ports.
2. EU Pushes Local-Supplier Preference in Public Contracts
-- The European Union is pushing governments to steer more of their EUR 2.6 trillion in public contracts toward local suppliers and away from China, Bloomberg reported.
-- Broader sourcing preferences could shift state-backed demand toward European manufacturers while forcing import-dependent bidders to reassess their supply chains.
3. Vucic Dissolves Serbia's Parliament and Sets October 25 Election
-- Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic dissolved the 250-seat parliament and called an October 25 election after nearly two years of protests; he intends to seek the premiership, AP reported.
-- A governing majority would give Vucic a path to retain executive power beyond his presidential term limit, with EU accession and policy toward Russia and China at stake.
4. Google Commits $15.1 Billion to Finnish AI Infrastructure
-- Google announced at least EUR 13 billion ($15.1 billion) of Finnish AI infrastructure investment through 2028 and a 22-year power agreement with Fortum, CNBC reported.
-- Long-term electricity contracts reduce energy-supply uncertainty for the buildout, while additional data centers increase competition for grid connections and available generation.
5. Alby Warns Older Internet-Exposed Hubs Allow Wallet Takeover
-- Alby disclosed a critical flaw in internet-exposed Hub versions 1.7.0 through 1.18.5 that could allow unauthorized transfers, reporting one affected user; versions 1.19.0 and later are unaffected by this flaw.
-- Affected wallet operators should restrict public access, upgrade to 1.24.0 and change their unlock password after updating; Nostr Wallet Connect does not require a publicly reachable management interface.
LIVE WIRE | BLOCK 966201
BITCOIN $79,124 | GOLD $4,408
-- Update: Associated Press reported British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Wednesday he was disappointed with Israel’s response to the government’s decision to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-west-bank-israel-settlement-sanctions-230eecf182e585f0d3d94228c7b8e2af
2026-09-09 09:00 UTC | BLOCK 966181
BITCOIN $79,678 | GOLD $4,398 | OIL $99.77
1. EU Court Dismisses Hungary's Challenge to Russian-Asset Profits for Ukraine
-- The EU General Court dismissed Hungary's challenge to allocating the first tranche of frozen Russian asset profits to Ukraine's armed forces, saying it lacked jurisdiction.
-- Ukraine's military funding allocation survives this challenge, but the jurisdictional dismissal does not settle the underlying legal dispute over using those revenues.
2. Brent Crosses $100 as Middle East Attacks Threaten Oil Export Routes
-- Brent futures reached $100.07 at 07:21 UTC, up 2.2% and above $100 for the first time since July 24, Reuters reported.
-- Threats to Saudi Red Sea exports narrow the alternatives to disrupted Hormuz shipping, increasing fuel-cost and inflation exposure for energy-importing economies.
3. Block Seeks Federal Trust Charter for Bitcoin and Stablecoin Custody
-- Block said it applied to the OCC to form Builders Bank & Trust, an uninsured national trust bank that would hold digital assets without taking deposits or making loans.
-- Approval would bring covered custody operations under federal supervision without turning customer crypto holdings into insured bank deposits; the application itself grants no operating authority.
4. Iran Reportedly Eases Currency Controls to Accept Crypto Export Proceeds
-- Iran's central bank has informally eased foreign-exchange controls and tolerated exporters repatriating earnings through domestic crypto exchanges, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
-- Foreign sanctions law still applies despite domestic tolerance: overseas counterparties face enforcement risk, and USDT payments remain vulnerable to issuer freezes.
5. Malone Lam Pleads Guilty in $260 Million Crypto Theft Conspiracy
-- Singaporean Malone Lam pleaded guilty in Washington to racketeering conspiracy after leading a group that stole more than $260 million through social-engineering attacks, CNA reported.
-- Organized-crime law gives prosecutors a route beyond individual wallet-theft charges; Lam faces up to 20 years in prison and shares a repayment obligation exceeding $245 million with his co-conspirators.
2026-09-09 06:00 UTC | BLOCK 966162
BITCOIN $79,018 | GOLD $4,390 | OIL $99.00
1. Jordan Intercepts Iranian Missile Barrage After U.S. Tanker Strikes
-- Jordan said it intercepted 18 of 20 ballistic missiles fired from Iran and reported no injuries, according to Al Jazeera.
-- The barrage extends the latest retaliation beyond Gulf waters, increasing air-defense demands around regional military bases.
2. China's Factory-Gate Inflation Accelerates to 3.8%
-- China's statistics bureau reported August producer prices rose 3.8% from a year earlier, above the 3.6% forecast, while consumer prices increased 0.8%, CNBC reported.
-- Higher energy and electronics costs alongside weak household demand can squeeze manufacturers' margins without giving them enough pricing power to pass the increases to consumers.
3. Russian Drone Attack Closes Ukraine-Moldova Border Crossing
-- Ukraine's customs service said drones damaged the Starokozache crossing in Odesa region, killed and injured civilians and halted processing of people and vehicles early Wednesday.
-- Travelers and freight must use alternative crossings, risking delays and congestion on Ukraine's overland supply routes.
4. Pakistan Warns Saudi Attack Could Activate Defense Pact
-- Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said an attack on Saudi Arabia could activate the Mecca Defense Alliance, with aggression against one member treated as an attack on all signatories, Bloomberg reported.
-- Invoking mutual-defense commitments could bring Pakistani military support into the fighting, complicating diplomacy aimed at containing the regional war.
5. Tor Releases High-Severity Fixes and Accelerates Patch Schedule
-- The Tor Project released C-Tor 0.4.9.12 to address high-severity security issues, bundled it in Tor Browser 15.0.22 and moved C-Tor to a two-week release cycle.
-- Users and relay operators should prioritize updating before fuller vulnerability details are published, expected in about a week; maintainers say additional security fixes are already in progress.
