Unit 42 on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/unit-42/Recent content in Unit 42 on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:51:16 +0000Meta ships Muse Spark 1.3, Google drops a cheap Flash, and a ransomware crew finishes in hourshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-03-ai/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:51:16 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-03-ai/Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 for coding and agentic work, while its consumer &ldquo;Muse&rdquo; superapp waitlist went live with computer-use settings on the desktop build. Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash at the same $0.75/$3.75 per million token pricing as 3.7 and a Flash Cyber variant for defenders. Cursor&rsquo;s cloud agents can now run on customer-managed Lambda MicroVMs inside the buyer&rsquo;s AWS account, and a Unit 42 investigation details a ransomware crew that compressed weeks of tradecraft into under 10 hours using frontier AI. Anthropic is bringing METR inside to review security incidents and has paused its highest-risk RL efforts.