================================================================ INFOSECFOLLOW -- security, markets, business, pittsburgh Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - 7:37 PM EDT ================================================================ ShinyHunters says an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day handed it records on every FBI employee, while attackers worked live exploits in Check Point, Arista, and Zyxel gear. CONTENTS: Emerging Trends and Key Updates | Security | Business and Politics | Pittsburgh | Sports | Reading | Markets | Feed Health EMERGING TRENDS AND KEY UPDATES ---------------------------------------------------------------- * [TREND] Attackers are hitting the boxes that set policy: an exploited zero-day in Check Point Security Management Servers, CISA flagging VeloCloud Orchestrator, and a crew looting Zyxel switches. see: Check Point Management Servers Face an Exploited Zero-Day; VeloCloud Orchestrator and D-Link Routers Under Fire; Chinese-Speaking Crew Loots 996 Zyxel Switches * [TREND] Malware keeps outsourcing its decisions to models, with CLOSEDQUORUM querying Gemini and DeepSeek from compromised Windows hosts and the AI-built EvilTokens phishing service now seized by Microsoft. see: CLOSEDQUORUM Runs Its Own Command and Control; EvilTokens Phishing Service Falls to Microsoft * [TREND] Iran's war premium lands locally as Pittsburgh diesel hits $6.65 and heating oil nears $6, while Trump weighs an export ban and Hormuz talk sinks Brent. see: Diesel at $6.65 Squeezes Farms, Food Trucks, and Transit; Home Heating Oil Prices Balloon Across Western Pennsylvania; Trump Backs a Ban on United States Diesel Exports; Iran Dangles a Hormuz Reopening and Brent Breaks Below $100 * [UPDATE (new)] Checkmarx exposed indexed-btree, an npm package impersonating sorted-btree to steal credentials and repositories, while WordPress shipped 7.1.2 for a third core path to server-side code execution. see: Malicious npm Packages Steal Credentials and Repositories; WordPress Core Yields Two Paths to Server Code * [UPDATE (updated)] ShinyHunters claims data on every FBI employee via an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, while Abdelhamid Naceri unmasked themselves as Nightmare Eclipse and published a Microsoft Defender zero-day. see: Hackers Claim Data on Every FBI Employee; Nightmare Eclipse Drops a Defender Zero-Day * [UPDATE (new)] The Foxborough fallout continues as Footbahlin dissects 3.5 yards a play and Noah Hiles pins the roster on Omar Khan, while the Pirates cut Camilo Doval. see: Footbahlin Digs Into 3.5 Yards a Play; Hiles Lays the Roster at Omar Khan's Feet; Doval Goes and Ashcraft Takes the Pitching Award SECURITY ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CLOSEDQUORUM RUNS ITS OWN COMMAND AND CONTROL AI Security · [ai, malware, threat-intel] Latest developments: Cisco Talos released CAIRN, a research toolkit that classifies AI-integrated malware entirely from file metadata such as submitter, import hash, domain, and AI provider, with no download and no detonation, and used it on September 22, 2026 to surface CLOSEDQUORUM, a Windows binary that drives its entire command and control loop through AI chatbots with no operator involvement; BleepingComputer named the four models it queries for post-compromise decisions, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral. CLOSEDQUORUM is the first reported implant that decides its own next actions through a language model instead of waiting on a human handler, which moves large stretches of the attack chain off the attacker's keyboard. Talos published CAIRN so defenders can hunt for the same pattern in their own telemetry. - Cisco Talos: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/the-closed-quorum-inside-the-first-reported-autonomous-ai-c2-implant/ - Cisco Talos: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/introducing-cairn-frontier-tracking-for-ai-integrated-malware/ - Wired Security: https://www.wired.com/story/a-tool-for-tracking-ai-integrated-malware-uncovered-an-autonomous-command-system/ - BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-closedquorum-windows-malware-uses-ai-for-attack-decisions/ 2. CHINESE-SPEAKING CREW LOOTS 996 ZYXEL SWITCHES Vulnerabilities and Exploits · [exploit, patch, kev] Latest developments: BleepingComputer widened the picture on September 22, 2026: the same Chinese-speaking actor GreyNoise caught exploiting CVE-2026-7273 across 996 Zyxel GS1900 switches in 48 countries also exploits WordPress flaws, and has pulled more than 18,500 records out of backend databases holding government data, one day after CISA cataloged the switch flaw with a federal patch deadline of Thursday, September 24, 2026. CVE-2026-7273 is a stack-based buffer overflow rated 8.8 in the Zyxel GS1900 line of Gigabit Ethernet switches that yields arbitrary operating system command execution; the compromised devices sit mostly in Italy, the United States, Taiwan, South Korea, and other European Union countries. Zyxel has shipped fixes, and CISA cataloged a Veeam flaw granting SYSTEM access alongside it. - BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-exploit-multiple-technologies-to-steal-govt-data/ - Help Net Security: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/22/zyxel-switches-cve-2026-7273-vulnerability-exploited/ - BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-patch-actively-exploited-zyxel-flaw-by-thursday/ - SecurityWeek: https://www.securityweek.com/recent-zyxel-switch-vulnerability-exploited-by-chinese-hackers/ 3. WORDPRESS CORE YIELDS TWO PATHS TO SERVER CODE Vulnerabilities and Exploits · [patch, rce, cms] Latest developments: WordPress shipped version 7.1.2 on September 22, 2026 for a third core flaw, this one letting an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders and, on some servers, run their own code, and backported the fix to every branch the project still supports, back to 4.7; researchers published a working proof-of-concept for Click2Shell the day before. Click2Shell is a cross-site request forgery bug in WordPress core that installs and previews a theme when a logged-in administrator opens a crafted link, ending in remote code execution; Comment2Shell, CVE-2026-93485, lets an anonymous visitor leave a comment carrying a hidden script that runs code on the server once an administrator views the page. Site owners should move to WordPress 7.1.2 now. - The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/wordpress-issues-patch-for-critical.html - BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wordpress-click2shell-flaw-lets-hackers-execute-php-on-the-server/ - The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/wordpress-comment2shell-flaw-can-turn.html - SecurityWeek: https://www.securityweek.com/wordpress-patches-click2shell-vulnerability/ 4. VELOCLOUD ORCHESTRATOR AND D-LINK ROUTERS UNDER FIRE Vulnerabilities and Exploits · [zero-day, exploit, patch] Latest developments: CISA put CVE-2026-93952, the 10.0-rated improper input validation flaw Arista disclosed in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator, into its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 22, 2026 alongside CVE-2026-94127, a heap-based buffer overflow in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager; D-Link warned the same day of CVE-2026-86296, a maximum-severity zero-day in legacy DIR-822A dual-band Wi-Fi routers that carries public proof-of-concept code and no patch, and Dinh Ho Anh Khoa of Viettel Cyber Security showed that CVE-2026-65660, which Microsoft first filed as a 6.5 spoofing bug, gives an authenticated user remote code execution on SharePoint Server 2016, 2019, and Subscription Edition. VeloCloud Orchestrator manages the Edge devices in a VeloCloud SD-WAN, and only orchestrators that authenticate their Edges with certificates carry the flaw. Microsoft has shipped SharePoint patches, D-Link owners of DIR-822A hardware have no fix and should retire the devices. - The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-cvss-100-velocloud-orchestrator.html - CISA Advisories: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/09/22/cisa-adds-four-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog - BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/d-link-warns-of-max-severity-zero-day-bug-in-dir-822a-routers/ - The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/sharepoint-flaw-initially-listed-as.html 5. EVILTOKENS PHISHING SERVICE FALLS TO MICROSOFT Ransomware and Cybercrime · [phishing, law-enforcement, ai] Latest developments: Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit seized 50 websites and disabled more than 150 domains on September 22, 2026 under an order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, working with Health-ISAC, Cloudflare, Coinbase, OpenAI, Railway, SpyCloud, and the Shadowserver Foundation, after EvilTokens compromised more than 12,000 Microsoft accounts at over 10,000 organizations; police in the United Kingdom arrested two people. EvilTokens sold device code phishing on Telegram for a $1,500 initiation fee plus $500 a month, pairing AI-written lures and automated infrastructure with token theft that walks past passwords, then helping buyers mine the stolen inboxes for fraud. Organizations should block device code authentication flows they do not use and hunt for unfamiliar token grants. - Microsoft Security Blog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/09/22/unmasking-eviltokens-getting-to-the-root-of-device-code-phishing/ - Dark Reading: https://www.darkreading.com/identity-access-management-security/microsoft-disrupts-eviltokens-device-code-phishing-service - The Record: https://therecord.media/two-arrested-in-uk-after-microsoft-takedown-eviltokens - BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/eviltokens-phaas-disrupted-after-compromising-12-000-microsoft-accounts/ 6. MALICIOUS NPM PACKAGES STEAL CREDENTIALS AND REPOSITORIES Ransomware and Cybercrime · [supply-chain, npm, credential-theft] Latest developments: Checkmarx detailed indexed-btree on September 22, 2026, a package that impersonates the legitimate sorted-btree indexing utility, hides its loader in a prototype method inside ordinary runtime code to dodge install-script defenses, and collected millions of downloads before npm pulled it; The Hacker News described a second package, tw-pkgprobe-7731, which the npm account twdepprobe7731 uploaded in mid-August 2026 posing as a Twilio bug-bounty security tool while harvesting credentials, and Dark Reading traced CrowdSec's loss of 170 private GitHub repositories to an OAuth token the Shai-Hulud worm lifted from a former employee's computer through the TanStack npm compromise. Attackers now bury malicious logic in the code a package runs during normal use, which slips past the registry and enterprise controls built to inspect install scripts. Development teams should pin dependencies, review new packages that mimic popular utility names, and revoke OAuth tokens belonging to departed employees. - The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/malicious-npm-package-indexed-btree-hid.html - SecurityWeek: https://www.securityweek.com/malicious-b-tree-npm-package-accumulates-millions-of-downloads/ - The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/malicious-npm-package-poses-as-twilio.html - Dark Reading: https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/shai-hulud-attack-cyber-firm-crowdsec-github-data 7. CHECK POINT MANAGEMENT SERVERS FACE AN EXPLOITED ZERO-DAY Vulnerabilities and Exploits · [zero-day, exploit, patch] Latest developments: Check Point Software shipped emergency hotfixes on September 22, 2026 and identified the flaw as CVE-2026-93616, a path traversal that lets anyone who reaches the Security Management Server's web service run scripts on it without logging in, which attackers used in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, 2026; CISA added that flaw and CVE-2026-85102, an improper certificate validation bug in multiple Check Point products, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day. A Security Management Server holds the policy, logs, and credentials for an organization's entire Check Point firewall fleet, so code execution there reaches every gateway it manages. Administrators should install the hotfix immediately and review management server logs for unexplained script execution. - BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/check-point-patches-management-server-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks/ - The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/check-point-warns-of-management-server.html - CISA Advisories: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/09/22/cisa-adds-four-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog 8. NIGHTMARE ECLIPSE DROPS A DEFENDER ZERO-DAY Vulnerabilities and Exploits · [zero-day, exploit, endpoint] Latest developments: Abdelhamid Naceri, a former employee of Microsoft Germany, revealed that they are the exploit leaker known as Nightmare Eclipse and Chaotic Eclipse, and published the tool behind the latest Microsoft Defender zero-day on GitHub on September 19, 2026: BigDiskBuster, which fills every byte of available disk space so Defender cannot install platform or signature updates, and which carries no CVE, no patch, and no Microsoft advisory. A machine whose Defender cannot pull updates runs on stale detection while an attacker works. Administrators should monitor Defender update status, signature age, and free disk space across their fleets. - The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/researcher-drops-bigdiskbuster-zero-day.html - SecurityWeek: https://www.securityweek.com/nightmare-eclipse-drops-new-microsoft-defender-exploit-after-revealing-identity/ - BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-defender-zero-day-blocks-microsoft-antivirus-updates/ 9. HACKERS CLAIM DATA ON EVERY FBI EMPLOYEE Data Breaches · [breach, extortion] Latest developments: The ShinyHunters extortion gang told BleepingComputer on September 22, 2026 that it broke into Federal Bureau of Investigation systems through a new Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, reached internal services, and took data on employees and job applicants, hours after hackers showed 404 Media a sample of 5,000 alleged agents carrying names, home addresses, phone numbers, and details about spouses. The FBI has confirmed neither the intrusion nor the PeopleSoft flaw, and Oracle has published no advisory for it. Home addresses and family details on federal agents expose them and their households to physical risk well beyond ordinary identity theft. - BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shinyhunters-claims-fbi-hack-data-theft-in-peoplesoft-zero-day-breach/ - 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/ 10. JAPAN DISMANTLES ITS FIRST NORTH KOREAN LAPTOP FARM Nation-State Activity · [apt, cryptocurrency, law-enforcement] Latest developments: Japanese authorities took down the country's first North Korean laptop farm, SecurityWeek reported on September 22, 2026, as the United States, Japan, Germany, and Australia published a joint report on the WaterPlum campaign that counts funds or credentials taken from more than 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets. WaterPlum, the operation also tracked as Contagious Interview, poses as artificial intelligence and blockchain companies, recruits through fake job postings, and has infected at least 30,000 devices in more than 100 countries, moving $10.71 million in stolen cryptocurrency to North Korea. Web designers, engineers, and cryptocurrency specialists are the primary targets. - SecurityWeek: https://www.securityweek.com/japan-dismantles-first-north-korean-laptop-farm-as-us-and-allies-detail-wider-scheme/ - The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/contagious-interview-campaign.html BUSINESS AND POLITICS ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Trump Backs a Ban on United States Diesel Exports Latest developments: President Trump said Tuesday, September 22, that he would support suspending American diesel exports and that a decision would come "fast," a day after Republican lawmakers began pressing him for the ban. The average United States diesel price has climbed past $6.50 a gallon as the war with Iran and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries choke distillate supply worldwide. A ban would strand Gulf Coast cargoes that Europe and Latin America rely on, push the shortage onto foreign buyers, and reprice freight, farming, and heating costs six weeks before the midterm elections. - FT Home: https://www.ft.com/content/22d1154b-8bea-4f8d-bfc4-5db7761d3612?syn-25a6b1a6=1 - WSJ Markets: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/trump-weighs-diesel-export-ban-as-fuel-prices-soar-6d1a3d2e?mod=rss_markets_main * Trump Threatens to Annihilate Iran at the United Nations Latest developments: President Trump said Tuesday evening, September 22, that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met an Iranian delegation for three hours on the sidelines of the United Nations gathering, the first talks between the two governments since June, and he called the meeting good. Trump told the General Assembly Tuesday morning that he could "annihilate" Iran, defended his decision to start the war, and predicted Tehran will strike a deal after the United States midterm elections. The speech ran campaign-style: he declared a "Golden Age of America," called international efforts to slow artificial intelligence a "globalist scheme," and suggested he could use further military force against America's neighbors. Iranian and Cuban delegates walked out during it. - FT Home: https://www.ft.com/content/1434496d-0eaf-4270-8ad3-87724cd3721e?syn-25a6b1a6=1 - WSJ World News: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tells-u-n-he-is-confronting-world-threats-and-putting-america-first-5fe48626?mod=rss_worldnews - WSJ World News: https://www.wsj.com/world/five-takeaways-from-trumps-speech-to-the-united-nations-4f0ba7da?mod=rss_worldnews - FT World: https://www.ft.com/content/0e03521f-c4f1-4242-8fff-0e34a27a26db?syn-25a6b1a6=1 * Iran Dangles a Hormuz Reopening and Brent Breaks Below $100 Latest developments: Oil futures settled lower for a fifth straight session Tuesday, September 22, after Japan's Kyodo News reported that Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the United States lifts its naval blockade, and the Financial Times reported that Washington is discussing a $10 billion fund with Arab allies to build energy infrastructure routing around the waterway. Saudi Arabia has signaled it will restore the East-West pipeline that drone strikes shut two weeks ago, and dark transits continue through Hormuz, which carries roughly a fifth of the world's seaborne oil. Cheaper crude pulled buyers back into technology shares, carrying the Nasdaq 100 to a record, while United States natural gas futures jumped 4.5% to $2.965 per million British thermal units, their biggest one-day gain in six weeks. The diesel and inflation shock running through American prices hangs on whether the strait opens. - WSJ World News: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/oil-prices-rise-as-hormuz-shipping-risks-persist-363fbeb1?mod=rss_worldnews - FT Home: https://www.ft.com/content/5b4f8738-3b93-40c8-88d6-08c8ea684e83?syn-25a6b1a6=1 - WSJ Markets: https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/oil-edges-higher-focus-on-signs-of-diplomacy-in-mideast-conflict-2712f57a?mod=rss_markets_main - FT World: https://www.ft.com/content/99ba134a-6252-45f3-b312-07b8752a5a98?syn-25a6b1a6=1 - FT Home: https://www.ft.com/content/2c60812b-77b4-4de5-a276-5e3eb2ceb5c3?syn-25a6b1a6=1 - WSJ Markets: https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/european-gas-prices-fall-but-mideast-lng-disruptions-limit-downside-74c9d5e5?mod=rss_markets_main * The EU Delists Fridman and Usmanov to Extend Its Russia Sanctions Latest developments: The Financial Times reported Tuesday, September 22, that the European Union will strike Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov from its sanctions list under a deal that extends the bloc's Russia measures for three years. Fridman co-founded Alfa Group, Russia's largest private banking business, and Usmanov built a fortune in metals and telecommunications; each has fought his listing in the European courts since 2022. The trade frees European banks and asset managers to deal again with two of the largest individual Russian exposures on their books while the wider restriction regime runs three more years. - FT World: https://www.ft.com/content/760091dd-20be-4152-aa0d-561475a99ee8?syn-25a6b1a6=1 * Xi Brings Taiwan to the Summit With Trump Latest developments: Washington and Beijing agreed to open an "AI dialogue" ahead of the summit, the Financial Times reported Tuesday, September 22, and the Wall Street Journal reported the same morning that Chinese chief executives will likely skip the meeting, a sign both sides expect little business to come out of it. Chinese leader Xi Jinping goes into his coming summit with President Trump aiming first to extend the trade truce between the two economies, and he also plans to raise Taiwan, Iran, and the race to dominate artificial intelligence. Beijing quietly helped stage the mainland visit of Taiwan's opposition leader and reads Trump as a rare window to persuade the island that resistance is futile. - WSJ World News: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/trump-xi-taiwan-f236f228?mod=rss_worldnews - FT Home: https://www.ft.com/content/9bea08f4-c9e8-450a-9d0f-0af0bf47b64e?syn-25a6b1a6=1 - WSJ World News: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/before-the-trump-xi-summit-an-insiders-read-on-how-beijing-sees-taiwan-3f2f5535?mod=rss_worldnews - WSJ US Business: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-u-n-speech-and-china-talks-put-tariffs-ai-and-energy-in-focus-36a90be6?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f - WSJ World News: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/trump-summit-with-xi-unlikely-to-include-chinese-ceos-7a9e90dd?mod=rss_worldnews * Ineos Idles Three Hull Chemical Plants as Gas Prices Soar Latest developments: Ineos, the conglomerate Jim Ratcliffe owns, suspended production at three chemical plants in Hull on Tuesday, September 22, as the oil and gas price surge touched off by the war with Iran made the factories uneconomic to run. The three plants employ 300 people, and the shutdown marks the energy shock moving from prices into shuttered European industrial capacity. Bank of America told clients the same morning that higher-for-longer natural gas prices on the continent will lift European utilities' earnings, the mirror image of the squeeze crushing gas-hungry manufacturers. - FT Markets: https://www.ft.com/content/7c176006-9ec9-4083-933f-3d5cf2752e6b - WSJ Markets: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/nikkei-could-rally-on-modest-catalysts-as-shorts-pile-up-39640022?mod=rss_markets_main * DWS Weighs Emergency Curbs on Its German Property Fund Latest developments: The Financial Times reported Tuesday, September 22, that DWS, the asset manager Deutsche Bank controls, is considering emergency measures to limit withdrawals from its open-ended German real estate fund as retail investors pull money out. Open-ended property funds promise daily liquidity against buildings that take months to sell, and gating one of Germany's largest such retail products would mark the sharpest sign yet of strain in European commercial real estate. Investors across the German market have been redeeming steadily as valuations fall and financing costs stay high. - FT World: https://www.ft.com/content/d773c1d5-b515-48d7-9713-14c253972e3a?syn-25a6b1a6=1 PITTSBURGH ---------------------------------------------------------------- Weather: Tonight: Chance Rain Showers, low 55F. Wednesday: Chance Rain Showers then Partly Sunny, high 65F. Wednesday Night: Mostly Cloudy, low 51F. Business: * Diesel at $6.65 Squeezes Farms, Food Trucks, and Transit Latest developments: KDKA and WPXI reported Tuesday, September 22, that the average diesel price around Pittsburgh has reached $6.65 a gallon, nearly 80 cents above a month ago, and that farmers, food truck operators, and transit agencies are eating the increase. Diesel runs the region's tractors, delivery trucks, and buses, and the fuel line item now moves faster than the prices those operators can charge. The Westmoreland County Transit Authority is weighing a switch from gasoline to propane for the Go Westmoreland senior shared-ride program to cut what it spends at the pump. - KDKA: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-diesel-prices-farming-public-transit/ - WPXI: https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/rising-diesel-prices-pinch-food-truck-owners/5Z3BL6LWZNFXTHRRRN7D4Y5WRY/ - WTAE: https://www.wtae.com/article/westmoreland-county-transit-authority-propane-shared-ride/73839720 * Pennie Premiums Jump Again for 2027 Latest developments: TribLive reported Tuesday, September 22, that Pennsylvania regulators approved double-digit rate increases for 2027 plans sold on Pennie, the state's Affordable Care Act marketplace, a second straight year of sharp hikes. Pennie covers Pennsylvanians who buy their own health insurance, among them self-employed workers and small business owners across Western Pennsylvania. The increases land the same day Vice President JD Vance and White House officials announced they will strip 760,000 enrollments they call fraudulent from the federal exchanges and tighten eligibility for subsidies. - TribLive: https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/pa-approves-steep-rate-hikes-for-2027-pennie-health-insurance-plans/ - WTAE: https://www.wtae.com/article/trump-removing-affordable-care-act-enrollees/73838084 * Home Heating Oil Prices Balloon Across Western Pennsylvania Latest developments: TribLive reported Tuesday evening, September 22, that heating oil has reached roughly $6 a gallon across the region, with 73-year-old Sam Avampato facing the costliest winter of his life, hours after the Post-Gazette found prices ballooning and one customer saying, "I might not make it." Roughly one in ten Pennsylvania households burns oil for heat, and the distillate squeeze that carried the average United States diesel price above $6.50 a gallon feeds the same barrel into home furnaces. Households on fixed incomes in rural Westmoreland, Armstrong, and Indiana counties, where natural gas lines never reached, absorb the increase directly. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: https://www.post-gazette.com/business/money/2026/09/22/western-pennsylvania-home-heating-oil-prices/stories/202609150058 - TribLive: https://triblive.com/local/regional/6-per-gallon-heating-oil-prices-spike-as-global-supply-chokes/ * Rural King Looks at Hillcrest Shopping Center in Lower Burrell Latest developments: KDKA reported Tuesday, September 22, that Rural King may become the anchor tenant at the Hillcrest Shopping Center, two years after Nassimi Realty bought the Lower Burrell plaza and set out to land a major retailer, and TribLive reported the same day that Tractor Supply Co. has opened its own delayed Lower Burrell store. Rural King, a family-owned chain, sells livestock feed, tools, clothing, lawn and garden equipment, and pet supplies. Hillcrest Shopping Center sits along Leechburg Road in Westmoreland County, and a Rural King there would give the Alle-Kiski Valley a single stop for home, clothing, and farming goods. - TribLive: https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/rural-king-eyeing-hillcrest-shopping-center-in-lower-burrell-for-new-location/ - KDKA: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/hillcrest-shopping-center-rural-king/ - TribLive: https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/tractor-supply-opens-in-lower-burrell/ * Pittsburgh International Wins Airport of the Year Again Latest developments: Air Transport World named Pittsburgh International Airport its 2027 Airport of the Year, KDKA and Pittsburgh Magazine reported Tuesday, September 22. Pittsburgh International took the same award in 2017, the first United States airport to win it, and now becomes the first American airport to win it twice. The honor arrives while the Findlay Township airport works to rebuild passenger traffic lost when Spirit Airlines shut down in May. - KDKA: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-international-named-airport-of-the-year-by-air-transport-world/ - Pittsburgh Magazine: https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburgh-international-airport-airport-of-the-year-2027/ * Tandem Foods Expands in Allegheny County Latest developments: Governor Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday, September 22, a $42 million expansion by the nutritional snack food manufacturer Tandem Foods in Allegheny County. Tandem Foods will add 83 jobs and hold onto 446 existing full-time positions over the next three years under the project. The expansion lands as Pennsylvania courts food manufacturers, among them Chobani's new Lehigh Valley plant. - WPXI: https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/gov-shapiro-announces-42m-expansion-project-by-tandem-foods-allegheny-county/RHAKLNNIJJAOZNYGR5OI6JCWZU/ * JCPenney Closes at Ross Park Mall Latest developments: TribLive reported Tuesday, September 22, that the JCPenney at Ross Park Mall has closed, taking with it the last of the mall's original anchor stores. Ross Park Mall, in Ross Township north of Pittsburgh, now operates without any of the anchors it opened with. Three JCPenney stores remain in the immediate Pittsburgh area. - TribLive: https://triblive.com/local/north-hills/ross-park-mall-loses-final-original-anchor-with-closing-of-jcpenney/ * Point Park Pays $1.7 Million on Smithfield Street Latest developments: WPXI reported Tuesday, September 22, that Point Park University paid $1.7 million for a nearly vacant three-story commercial building in the middle of Smithfield Street downtown, according to public transaction records. Point Park's campus already occupies a cluster of buildings around Wood Street and Boulevard of the Allies in downtown Pittsburgh. The purchase puts more of Smithfield Street in university hands as the city starts its reconstruction of that street between Liberty Avenue and Fort Pitt Boulevard. - WPXI: https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/heres-what-point-park-university-paid-its-new-building-smithfield-street-downtown/DNCJRJLXWJDGHKJJTNTNA7QP4A/ * Chobani's Lehigh Valley Plant Needs Pennsylvania Milk Latest developments: The Post-Gazette reported Tuesday, September 22, that state officials call Chobani's new Lehigh Valley plant a game-changer for Pennsylvania dairy and now need farmers to supply it. Governor Josh Shapiro, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding, and Community and Economic Development Secretary Rick Siger courted the yogurt maker to Pennsylvania, and filling the plant's tanks depends on dairy farms that have been shrinking in number for two decades. Pittsburgh's Turner Dairy figures in the supply picture. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: https://www.post-gazette.com/business/pittsburgh-company-news/2026/09/22/chobani-lehigh-valley-turner-dairy-shapiro-siger-redding/stories/202609160003 Around town: * The Controller Calls Pittsburgh's Finances Delicate Latest developments: City Controller Rachael Heisler told the Pittsburgh Economic Club at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh that the city's finances sit in a delicate position with no room for error, KDKA and WTAE reported Tuesday, September 22, a week before Mayor Corey O'Connor releases his 2027 budget. Heisler walked the audience through the decisions that produced the current deficit and pointed to a few trends moving the right way, telling the city it must be decisive about what it spends. O'Connor's first full budget arrives next week. - KDKA: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-city-controller-finances-2026/ - WTAE: https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-budget-deficit-city-controller/73840992 * Uptown Opens 34 Affordable Apartments Latest developments: State, county, and city representatives gathered in Pittsburgh's Uptown neighborhood Tuesday, September 22, to open a $22 million apartment building holding 34 units of affordable housing for low-income residents. The building sits in Uptown, the corridor between downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland that has drawn redevelopment attention around the Fifth and Forbes avenues bus rapid transit line. Some of the first tenants come from populations that housing programs usually overlook. - TribLive: https://triblive.com/local/new-uptown-development-creates-34-units-of-affordable-housing/ - KDKA: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/video/new-affordable-housing-complex-opens-in-pittsburghs-uptown-neighborhood/ * Shapiro Outspends Garrity 20 to 1 Latest developments: Campaign finance reports released Tuesday, September 22, show Governor Josh Shapiro outspent his Republican challenger, state Treasurer Stacy Garrity, by a 20-to-1 margin over the 13 weeks that ended September 14. Shapiro, a Democrat, seeks a second term in November against Garrity, who has held the treasurer's office since 2021. The spending gap sets the terms of a race that decides who signs or vetoes Pennsylvania's energy, data center, and education legislation for the next four years. - TribLive: https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/shapiro-outspending-garrity-by-20-to-1-margin-in-race-for-pa-governor/ * Smithfield Street Breaks Ground Downtown Latest developments: City officials held the groundbreaking Tuesday, September 22, for the Smithfield Street reconstruction, which covers the stretch from Liberty Avenue to Fort Pitt Boulevard in downtown Pittsburgh. The project redesigns the street end to end and brings traffic and bus detours through the heart of downtown for about two years. - KDKA: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-smithfield-street-reconstruction-project/ - WPXI: https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/groundbreaking-held-smithfield-street-reconstruction-project-downtown-pittsburgh/57JZWI4C4JFSFDT3KQ3RKBMW44/ * The Flood Watch Runs to Wednesday Morning on the First Day of Fall Latest developments: The rain wound down Tuesday evening, September 22, and WTAE forecast returning sunshine, closing out a stretch that kept a flood watch over parts of Southwestern Pennsylvania through 8 a.m. Wednesday, September 23. Thick clouds and an east wind held highs in the low 60s on the first day of fall, with scattered rounds of showers rather than all-day washouts, and the Post-Gazette expects a dry week ahead for Allegheny County. Washington County residents along a swollen creek told WTAE they feared another round of flooding after two straight weekends of high water, one saying, "My trailer might go down the creek next." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/weather-news/2026/09/22/flood-watch-likely-to-expire-tuesday-morning-for-allegheny-county-dry-week-ahead/stories/202609220026 - TribLive: https://triblive.com/local/regional/flood-watch-extended-for-southwestern-pa-to-midweek/ - WTAE: https://www.wtae.com/article/impact-day-showers-linger-flood-watch-extended/73831175 - WTAE: https://www.wtae.com/article/pennsylvania-flooding-creek-swells-washington-county/73829099 - KDKA: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cooler-temperatures-in-place-today-for-the-first-day-of-fall-in-the-pittsburgh-area/ * Transit Proposes Seven-Day Service Between Harrison and New Kensington Latest developments: TribLive reported Tuesday, September 22, that Pittsburgh Regional Transit has proposed a bus connection running seven days a week between Harrison Township in Allegheny County and New Kensington in Westmoreland County. The two Allegheny River communities sit across the county line from each other in the Alle-Kiski Valley, and transit leaders describe the link as part of a round of proposed route changes. - TribLive: https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/pittsburgh-regional-transit-proposal-creates-7-day-service-between-harrison-and-new-kensington/ * Pitt's Faculty Union Bargains Over AI Teachers Latest developments: PublicSource reported Tuesday, September 22, that college unions in Pittsburgh are writing protections against artificial intelligence teachers and evaluators into their contract talks. Tyler Bickford, president of the University of Pittsburgh faculty union, said universities have moved fast to adopt AI tools with what he called "much more kind of inconsistent thinking and policy development about guardrails," leaving open whether software grades student work or stands in for instructors. - PublicSource: https://www.publicsource.org/pitt-unions-ai-bargaining/ * Sto-Rox Climbs Out of the Red Latest developments: The Post-Gazette reported Tuesday, September 22, that the Sto-Rox School District has balanced its books after years of financial struggle. Sto-Rox, which serves McKees Rocks and Stowe Township in Allegheny County, has spent years among the most financially distressed districts in Western Pennsylvania, running deficits that drew state scrutiny and repeated warnings about its ability to stay solvent. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2026/09/22/sto-rox-school-district-budget/stories/202609170039 * Upstream Rebuilds the Creek Under Fern Hollow Latest developments: TribLive reported Tuesday, September 22, on the work to restore the Fern Hollow ecosystem in Pittsburgh's Frick Park more than four years after the bridge came down. Mike Hiller had just taken over as executive director of Upstream, a Pittsburgh group that works on urban waterways, when the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed on January 28, 2022, dropping tons of steel into the creek below and damaging its ecosystem. - TribLive: https://triblive.com/local/environmentalists-work-to-restore-fern-hollow-ecosystem-after-bridge-collapse/ * Pennsylvania Creates Teaches Teenagers to Use AI Latest developments: TribLive reported Tuesday, September 22, on Pennsylvania Creates, an initiative that aims to make teenagers artificial intelligence literate and responsible in their use of it. West Allegheny High School senior Trevor Manno, who leans on the tools for schoolwork, describes their usefulness firsthand. The program arrives as Pittsburgh universities bargain over guardrails for the same technology in their classrooms. - TribLive: https://triblive.com/news/education-classroom/pennsylvania-creates-initiative-aims-to-make-teenagers-ai-literate-and-responsible/ * Westmoreland County Gives Away Narcan Next Week Latest developments: TribLive reported Tuesday, September 22, that Westmoreland County officials will blanket the region with free doses of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone during an annual statewide prevention event next week. The giveaway rides on Pennsylvania's yearly prevention push, and county officials want the medication in as many hands as they can reach across Westmoreland's boroughs and townships. - TribLive: https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/free-narcan-doses-available-in-westmoreland-county/ Events: * CCAC Turns 60 With a North Side Festival Latest developments: WPXI reported Tuesday, September 22, that the Community College of Allegheny County will hold a festival Saturday, September 26, for its 60th anniversary, with street closures on Pittsburgh's North Side taking effect Friday. The celebration centers on CCAC's Allegheny Campus on the North Side. Drivers should expect closed streets around the campus from Friday through the event Saturday. - WPXI: https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/street-closures-planned-pittsburghs-north-side-ccacs-60th-anniversary-celebration/PGAD53LXVZEPXFJ3BIGIANAB7Y/ * Wiz Khalifa Opens the Wylie in the Hill District Latest developments: Wiz Khalifa told Pittsburgh City Paper in an interview published Tuesday, September 22, that he will open the Hill District's new venue, Citizens Live at The Wylie, on Friday, October 2, promising "lots of energy and a lot of weed smoke." The Pittsburgh rapper, who grew up in the city and broke through with "Black and Yellow," headlines the first show at Citizens Live at The Wylie, the new concert hall on Wylie Avenue in the Hill District. - Pittsburgh City Paper: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-entertainment-2/music/wiz-khalifa-citizens-live-at-the-wylie/ * Backyard Docs Spreads Across Several Venues Latest developments: Pittsburgh City Paper reported Tuesday, September 22, that the Backyard Docs Film Festival, which started as a do-it-yourself backyard screening series, has grown into a multi-day event running at several Pittsburgh venues. This year's program takes up labor fights, immigration enforcement in the courts, a campaign to stop a pipeline, a fresh look at the East Palestine derailment, and a popular local haunt with a grim history. - Pittsburgh City Paper: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-entertainment-2/backyard-docs-highlights-labor-issues-ice-in-the-courts-and-more/ * October Fills With Oktoberfests, Apples, and Giant Pumpkins Latest developments: The Post-Gazette published its October food calendar Tuesday, September 22, listing Oktoberfest celebrations, apple harvest events, and giant pumpkin weigh-offs across the Pittsburgh region. Pittsburgh City Paper's food column the same morning reported that Oktoberfest season has opened around the city and that the Pleasure Bar has closed. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: https://www.post-gazette.com/life/food/2026/09/22/october-food-events/stories/202609270029 - Pittsburgh City Paper: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/food-drink/oktoberfest-kicks-off-pleasure-bar-closes-and-more-pittsburgh-food-news/ SPORTS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pirates (79-77) Up Next · Cardinals @ Pirates · Wed Sep 23, 6:40 PM https://plaintextsports.com/mlb/2026-09-23/stl-pit Steelers (1-1, T-2nd in AFC North) Up Next · Bengals @ Steelers · Sun Sep 27, 1:00 PM https://plaintextsports.com/nfl/2026/teams/pittsburgh-steelers Around the Teams: * Footbahlin Digs Into 3.5 Yards a Play Latest developments: Ben Roethlisberger's Footbahlin posted episode 140 Tuesday evening, September 22, taking apart why the Steelers' offense looked stuck at New England. Roethlisberger and the crew start with the offensive line, arguing that broken protection dries up the run game and turns third downs long, and they work through how Pittsburgh won time of possession while averaging 3.5 yards a play. - Ben Roethlisberger / Channel Seven (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP2MEEl-1Es * Hiles Lays the Roster at Omar Khan's Feet Latest developments: Post-Gazette columnist Noah Hiles wrote Tuesday, September 22, that every one of the Steelers' biggest problems traces back to general manager Omar Khan. Hiles spent the past two weeks arguing the offense lacks talent, and he now names the executive who assembled it. Khan built the 2026 roster around quarterback Aaron Rodgers and receiver DK Metcalf, both of whom drew poor Week 2 grades from the paper after the trip to Foxborough. - Post-Gazette Steelers: https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2026/09/22/noah-hiles-column-omar-khan/stories/202609220039 * Doval Goes and Ashcraft Takes the Pitching Award Latest developments: The Pirates parted ways with reliever Camilo Doval Tuesday, September 22, and Pittsburgh's chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America the same day named right-hander Braxton Ashcraft the team's top pitcher over ace Paul Skenes, with Brandon Lowe taking most valuable player. Doval came to Pittsburgh in a trade at the deadline, as did Lowe and outfielder Jake Mangum. Ashcraft's season ended Saturday, September 19, when the club put him on the injured list for the year, and Skenes has spoken publicly about the struggles that marked his 2026 and the part the World Baseball Classic played in them. - Post-Gazette Pirates: https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirates/2026/09/22/camilo-doval-dfa-bullpen-kirby-yates/stories/202609220041 - Post-Gazette Pirates: https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirates/2026/09/22/awards-braxton-ashcraft-brandon-lowe-jake-mangum/stories/202609220052 * SNR Drive Takes Apart the Trip to Foxborough Latest developments: Matt Williamson and Wes Uhler returned to the Week 2 game on SNR Drive Tuesday, September 22, after rewatching it, brought in The Athletic's Mike DeFabo to open the show, went through the Steelers' snap counts player by player, and ran the league's Week 3 power rankings. Monday's episode opened with first impressions of the offense and gave Steelers radio voice Rob King roughly 25 minutes on the air. The Steelers host the Cincinnati Bengals at Acrisure Stadium Sunday, September 27, at 1 p.m. ET on CBS. - Pittsburgh Steelers (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubHFY0RmqJI - Pittsburgh Steelers (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z-tP3vP7BE * Week 2 Grades Fall Hardest on Rodgers and the Line Latest developments: The Post-Gazette published its Week 2 grades Tuesday morning, September 22, handing poor marks to quarterback Aaron Rodgers, receiver DK Metcalf, and the offensive line after the trip to New England. The grades follow a week in which the Steelers' offense produced almost nothing at Gillette Stadium, head coach Mike McCarthy took the blame publicly, and the team began weighing changes up front, with rookie tackle Max Iheanachor in the conversation. Pittsburgh hosts the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday, September 27, at 1 p.m. ET on CBS. - Post-Gazette Steelers: https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2026/09/22/steelers-week2-grades-rodgers-metcalf-offensive-line/stories/202609220016 - Post-Gazette Steelers: https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2026/09/21/joey-porter-contract-max-iheanachor/stories/202609210038 * Beazley Fields Pirates Questions Latest developments: Post-Gazette beat writer Colin Beazley held his Pirates chat Tuesday, September 22, taking reader questions with ace Paul Skenes among the subjects. The chat follows the Pirates' elimination from playoff contention on Saturday, September 19, and Skenes' interview with the paper describing the struggles that marked his 2026 season and the part the World Baseball Classic played in them. - Post-Gazette Pirates: https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirates/2026/09/22/colin-beazley-live-chat-mlb-paul-skenes/stories/202609220028 * Louis Lipps Cooks Louisiana Food on the North Shore Latest developments: The Post-Gazette profiled former Steelers receiver Louis Lipps on Tuesday, September 22, and printed the recipes he brings to his tailgate outside Acrisure Stadium. Lipps, who grew up in Louisiana and caught passes for the Steelers from 1984 through 1991, feeds his tailgate crowd the food he was raised on before home games on the North Shore. - Post-Gazette Steelers: https://www.post-gazette.com/life/food/2026/09/22/tailgating-steelers-louis-lipps-acrisure-stadium-pittsburgh-recipes/stories/202609270022 Team USA: * Pepi Calls His Injury a Minor Setback Latest developments: Ricardo Pepi said Tuesday, September 22, that the injury that took him out of PSV Eindhoven's match amounts to a "minor setback" and that his recovery has already begun. The United States striker came off hurt Sunday, September 20, and Damion Downs took his place on Mauricio Pochettino's roster for four coming friendlies. Pepi aims to return to action with his club in the Netherlands. - ESPN Soccer: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/50006307/united-states-ricardo-pepi-calls-injury-minor-setback-recovery-started * The USWNT Pipeline Draws Alarms Latest developments: ESPN published an assessment Tuesday, September 22, asking whether the United States women's national team's grip on the world game is slipping as its youth sides keep losing. The piece follows a run of poor results at the under-20 and under-17 levels, among them Brazil's penalty-shootout elimination of the United States in the round of 16 at the Under-20 Women's World Cup, and weighs how much of the alarm the numbers actually support. - ESPN Soccer: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/50000963/is-uswnt-talent-pipeline-risk-running-dry READING ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Ed Zitron -- Where're All The AI Chips? Zitron goes looking for the graphics processors behind the industry's enormous reported capital spending and questions how much of that hardware has actually reached data centers and started earning revenue. https://www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/ * Stratechery -- Amazon Blocks Muse, Amazon’s Moat, Aggregator v Aggregator Ben Thompson argues Amazon's move to block the AI agent Muse was predictable, and that the two sides still have room to strike a deal because Amazon's warehouses, delivery network, and physical-world investments amount to a moat artificial intelligence cannot cross on its own. https://stratechery.com/2026/amazon-blocks-muse-amazons-moat-aggregator-v-aggregator/ * Cal Newport -- Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm. Newport dismisses the notion that current systems lead to a superintelligence capable of killing billions, a claim Anthropic employees floated publicly, and argues that the race to build it does real damage regardless. https://calnewport.com/superintelligence-is-a-fairy-tale-but-chasing-it-can-still-cause-harm/ MARKETS (weekly average, change vs prior week) ---------------------------------------------------------------- S&P 500 7,673.88 ▲ +0.7% Dow 51,767.02 ▼ -1.0% Nasdaq 26,657.13 ▲ +1.9% WTI crude 101.25 ▲ +2.7% EUR/USD 1.1486 ▼ -1.0% GBP/USD 1.3395 ▼ -1.0% USD/JPY 156.36 ▲ +1.6% FEED HEALTH ---------------------------------------------------------------- Security: 24 of 24 feeds loaded, 79 items in the 24-hour window. No recent items: Krebs on Security, Securelist (Kaspersky), Sophos News, Unit 42 (Palo Alto), Google Online Security Blog, Graham Cluley, Google Project Zero, The DFIR Report, Kim Zetter (Zero Day), Frank on Fraud. 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