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A federal judge in Massachusetts struck down major sections of a Trump administration executive order that would have restricted mail-in ballots through the U.S. Postal Service and required states to adopt federally approved voter lists. The ruling Thursday from Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts found those parts of the order…

Mistic is a stealthy backdoor used by KongTuke-linked actors to keep long-term access in ransomware-targeted networks. Mistic is the kind of backdoor that tells you the operator wants time, not noise. Symantec security researchers say it has shown up in financially motivated attacks against insurance, education, IT, and professional services firms, and they link it…
Russian authorities used Cellebrite phone-cracking technology to break into a device belonging to a prominent domestic human rights activist they arrested and imprisoned, despite the company canceling its contract with the Russian government, according to a report published Thursday. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab reached its conclusions after analyzing a phone belonging to Andrey…

A 21-year-old Minnesota man who operated under the online alias “Snoopy” was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for his role in a 2022 credential stuffing attack that compromised roughly 60,000 user accounts on the fantasy sports and betting platform DraftKings, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses to customers. Nathan…

An analysis of a popular Google Chrome ad block extension for YouTube has uncovered the ability to execute arbitrary JavaScript code. According to Island, the extension, named Adblock for YouTube (ID: cmedhionkhpnakcndndgjdbohmhepckk), has more than 10 million installs and carries a Featured badge on the Chrome Web Store. The extension description states that it allows…

A relatively new backdoor called Mistic has been deployed in multiple attacks since April 2026 targeting organizations in the insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors, according to Symantec. The malware appears to be associated with Woodgnat, also known as KongTuke, a financially motivated initial access broker (IAB) active since at least May 2024 that…

Checksum has launched the API Agent, a continuous testing agent that generates and maintains journey-based tests for backend APIs. The agent builds multi-step tests that mirror how a product actually uses its API, keeps them current as the API changes, and runs them in a team’s existing pipeline. It closes the gap that opens when…

Reco announced Reco Agent Security, which expands the Reco Platform with advanced capabilities that prevent data exposure, unintended use and process disruption caused by AI agents operating across connected applications and workflows. Agents function inside interconnected enterprise ecosystems where they can read sensitive data, invoke tools, trigger workflows, update records, communicate with other systems and…

Mitiga has announced Agentic Runtime Security, a new approach to runtime detection and response across cloud, SaaS, identity, AI, and third-party services that anticipates, detects, interrupts, and stops active attacks before they impact the business. For two decades, security operations centered on the endpoint. EDR carried the load, most detections were built there, and most…
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As enterprises move from AI experimentation to deployment and operationalization, HPE executives and partners at HPE Discover 2026 said the company’s channel strategy is increasingly focused on helping MSPs and other channel partners capture new market opportunities while simplifying the way customers adopt emerging technologies. AI adoption opens infrastructure opportunities for partners Brandon Harris, VP…

ControlMonkey announced its Data Backup Correlation, a new capability that extends its Cyber Resilience Platform by connecting data backup posture with cloud configuration recovery. The first release supports AWS Backup and Azure Backup. CISOs and cloud teams often lack full visibility into data backup coverage and available recovery points across critical data sources, including databases,…
AppControl reveals which apps are chewing up your memory and system resources – so you can better control them.

Veritone has announced the launch of Veritone Assess, an AI-powered data analysis solution designed to help public sector agencies identify inconsistencies, missing information, and critical intelligence gaps hidden within complex datasets. By automatically evaluating reports, witness statements, financial records, and other evidentiary materials against policies, regulations, and investigative criteria, Assess reduces the time required for…
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It’s dumb out there again. This week has the usual smell of prod on fire and nobody wanting to admit who left the door open — old creds still working, trusted apps doing sketchy crap, browser tricks jumping the fence, and “normal” workflows turning into phishing pipes because apparently email was not enough hell already.…

runZero has announced runZero 5.0, a major platform evolution designed to help organizations defend their expanding attack surfaces against high-velocity, AI-fueled threats. The new release unifies the exposure management lifecycle into an automated workflow that enables security teams to seamlessly discover assets and network connections, identify and prioritize critical risks, and initiate and validate remediation…
Account takeover attacks continue to challenge security teams because attackers often operate through legitimate accounts and trusted services. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations identify compromised accounts faster and automate response workflows. […]

BlackLine has announced new governance and observability capabilities within its Agentic Financial Operations Platform, further advancing the trust infrastructure finance organizations need to deploy, govern, and scale AI across the Office of the CFO. As finance teams transition from deploying a handful of AI agents to managing potentially hundreds of thousands across BlackLine, partner, customer-developed,…
The first Windows Secure Boot expiration date is here for more than a billion PCs, with more to come – and even some Linux distros are affected. Is your PC ready?

Lack of alert context makes it difficult for Security Operations Centers (SOC) to distinguish actual threats from false positives. ANY.RUN’s integration with Torq, a no-code/AI SOC automation platform, bridges this gap by delivering conclusive malware & phishing verdicts and actionable intelligence. The result for your team is faster incident resolution, reduced alert fatigue, and proactive threat detection. ANY.RUN…

As enterprises deploy increasing numbers of AI agents across applications and organizations, the Linux Foundation on Wednesday announced plans to launch a new Agent Name Service framework designed to establish identity, ownership, and trust for these systems. The ANS framework, which is expected to allow systems and users to verify who an agent represents, what permissions…
Despite the abundance of telemetry at analysts’ disposal, many security operations teams struggle to answer a few basic questions during incident investigation: What happened? What evidence do we have? How do we know we’re seeing it all, in context? Answering these questions requires teams to go beyond alerts, the most common basis for initial triage.…

Google released a security update for Chrome that fixes 18 vulnerabilities, including four rated Critical. There is no indication that any of these newly patched bugs are being actively exploited in the wild. The stable channel has been updated to 149.0.7827.196/197 for Windows and Mac and 149.0.7827.196 for Linux. The update will roll out over…

As France seeks to reduce its dependence on non-European technology suppliers across the public sector, open-source software is playing an increasingly prominent role. Among the projects that reflect this trend is Nuage, a file-sharing and storage platform developed by the Ministry of National Education for teachers, administrators and other staff. Aimed at its 1.2 million…

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from its Claude AI models, in what the US AI company described as the largest known attack of its kind against it. The campaign, carried out between April 22 and June 5, generated more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude, according to…

You receive an email warning that your website’s domain name is about to expire. Renew now, it says, or your website and email could stop working. The link opens a professional-looking page that already knows your domain name, displays your registrar and expiry date, and starts a countdown timer. It feels urgent and personal, so…
A 21-year-old man known online as “Snoopy” was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme that hacked user accounts on a fantasy sports and betting website and sold access to them, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. Nathan Austad of Farmington, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to…
Security vendors were prime targets in the first half of 2026, with 55 confirmed exploitation incidents involving 66 CVEs across the main vendors. Explore the full interactive timeline and charts.

The new CIO mandate is clear: facilitate AI adoption across the enterprise at speed. According to CIO.com’s State of the CIO survey, CEOs’ top priority for their IT executives is to capitalize on AI. From researching to evaluating AI products, CIOs are now the central figures in their organizations’ AI strategies. And company leaders are…
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Component Object Model (COM) is a fundamental Windows technology used by legitimate applications for object activation, inter-process communication, automation and language-independent component reuse. Those same qualities make it useful to threat actors. Malware frequently uses COM interfaces for lateral movement, execution, download and exfiltration, persistence, evasion, system discovery and automation of built-in Windows and Office functionality. Reverse engineering COM-heavy binaries requires researchers to move from opaque GUIDs…

SpyCloud has announced the launch of SpyCloud Research Agent, a conversational AI investigation agent now available in its Cybercrime Investigations console. Cybercrime investigations have a tax: hours of manual pivot work that experienced analysts run by instinct and junior analysts struggle to replicate. SpyCloud Research Agent eliminates it. Security practitioners, CTI analysts, SOC teams, fraud…

Flare has announced the expanded capabilities for Flare CTI, and an Okta integration within its Identity Exposure Management (IEM) offering. These updates extend Flare’s identity expertise into tactical threat intelligence use cases and agentic workflows to reshape security operations. As security teams face growing volumes of threats, many continue to rely on costly, disconnected tools…

Seemplicity has launched AI Analysts for exposure management and response. The autonomous agents replace manual vulnerability triage by working directly within remediation workflows to conduct structured, evidence-based exploitability investigations. The old playbook is broken. AI-generated exploits have collapsed the window between disclosure and weaponization from days to hours, and the static scores and external signals…

A previously undocumented Rust-based macOS implant and information stealer has been found to embed a prompt injection payload designed to trick a malware analyst’s artificial intelligence (AI) tools and trick it into aborting or refusing an analysis of the artifact. The malware has been codenamed Gaslight owing to this deceptive behavior. It’s been assessed with…

Hackers exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw CVE-2026-20245 as a zero-day months before disclosure, enabling privileged command execution. Google-owned Mandiant reported that an unknown threat actor exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS base score of 7.8) as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed. The flaw allows an authenticated attacker with…

Entrust has introduced a new approach to preventing account takeover. As attackers increasingly target high-risk moments like account recovery, device changes, and large transactions, organizations need to modernize authentication from verifying access to verifying the real human behind the transaction. The Entrust Biometric Authentication solution brings identity-centric assurance to these critical interactions, helping organizations reduce…

Some organizations exist to be exclusive. They’re invite-only, and discreet, the kind of place where the membership directory is the product. Dialog, the exclusive network founded by billionaire investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, whose members include a sitting NATO commander, two US senators, and the US Treasury Secretary, is one of those. Last week,…

YesWeHack announces Agentic Pentest, an on-demand solution using autonomous AI agents to test organisations’ assets and deliver same-day findings. Shaped by YesWeHack’s extensive offensive security experience, Agentic Pentest helps organisations identify vulnerabilities, test their real-world exploitability and uncover attack paths across in-scope assets. The solution supports black box, grey box and white box testing of…
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When CISA issues an emergency directive, the message to every federal agency and every security team paying attention is to patch now. For CVE-2026-50751, a CVSS 9.3 authentication bypass in Check Point Remote Access VPN, that directive landed on June 21. despite exploitation beginning in early May. That, six-week active intrusion gap is not a…

Forescout has announced the launch of its Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Readiness and Encryption Hygiene Dashboards. The new dashboards are designed to help organizations identify, prioritize, and manage quantum risk across information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), and medical devices (IoMT) environments. As organizations face new pressures from regulators, auditors, and boards…

A new, stealthy backdoor named Mistic has been deployed as part of suspected financially motivated attacks aimed at multiple organizations spanning insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors since April 2026. According to Symantec and Carbon Black’s Threat Hunter Team, the backdoor, also tracked as MLTBackdoor, is said to be linked to an initial access…

WhatsApp is rolling out a warning screen on Android and iOS that appears before users open chats with unfamiliar phone numbers. Meta hopes that this new feature will help users avoid scammers. WhatsApp chats warning screen (Source: WABetaInfo) “WhatsApp now checks the phone number before someone tries to open a chat with it. If WhatsApp…

Stellar Cyber has announced continued momentum across Stellar Cyber 6.5 and 6.6. The releases advance the company’s AI-driven, human-augmented SOC vision with governed AI workflows, improved Auto Triage visibility, sharper detections, stronger platform health monitoring, expanded integrations, and faster self-service data onboarding for MSSPs and enterprise security teams. “Customers and partners do not need more…

Bitdefender has announced the launch of Bitdefender RealCheck, a standalone solution that helps consumers evaluate the authenticity of video content circulating across digital platforms and whether it carries malicious intent, such as financial fraud, credential theft, or defamation. As deepfakes proliferate across social media at an unprecedented pace, Bitdefender RealCheck gives consumers a powerful and…

Google Wallet has joined the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) PreCheck Touchless ID program, allowing travelers to pass through security checkpoints using the TSA’s facial comparison technology. The system verifies identity by matching a live photo taken at a checkpoint with identity and flight information, reducing the need to present a physical ID. The program is…

Third DraftKings hacker gets 18 months in prison for a 2022 credential-stuffing attack that compromised 1,600 accounts and stole $600,000. Nathan Austad, the third person sentenced over the 2022 DraftKings credential-stuffing attack, received 18 months in prison. The group used usernames and passwords stolen from other breaches to access about 1,600 accounts and steal roughly…

In this interview with Help Net Security, Mattias Geniar, CTO at Oh Dear, explains why most outages start quietly, as creeping latency or a slow rise in errors. He argues teams alert on the wrong things: absolute numbers instead of changes, isolated endpoints instead of real user outcomes. He covers alert fatigue, the DNS and…

Plenty of people now type their security worries straight into a chatbot. A hacked account, a suspicious email, a stalker who might be tracking a phone, all of it lands in the same window someone would use to ask about dinner. A benchmark called HelpBench tests how well chatbots handle those moments, and the results…

An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8), allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges

AI models are solving more and more of the offensive-cyber tests built to measure them. Once a model solves most of a benchmark, that benchmark runs out of room and says little about the best systems anymore. Many of those tests also lean on bugs that already have public writeups, so a strong score can…

Free and open source software developers us AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Antigravity, and OpenCode in their daily work. The Software Freedom Conservancy responded to that trend with a set of recommendations for contributors who use these tools, which it groups under the label LLM-gen-AI, meaning generative AI systems backed by…

In this Help Net Security video, Michael Loewy, co-founder, Tide Foundation, explains how cyber insurance is rewriting security programs at renewal time. Insurers want more questionnaires, more evidence, and more attestations, because the market is moving from trusting your answers to verifying them. Loewy argues that compliance is not security, and that a control which…
AI-assisted development has settled into everyday practice across software organizations, and developers using it move from idea to working code in hours. That code does not stay with the developers who prompt it. It flows downstream to the DevOps and platform teams who deploy and maintain it, and those teams are not getting the same…
Avalara, Inc., the agentic AI leader in global tax and compliance, has announced the appointment of Nikita Khatri as Senior Manager, Field & Revenue Marketing for Australia and…
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With the FIFA World Cup 2026™ underway, an ExpressVPN survey of 6,000 football fans finds that 44% of those who have shared a password so someone else could watch sports also…
[This is a Guest Diary by Nicole Phillips, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] “I was just sitting here enjoying the company. Plants got a lot to say, if you take the time to listen.“ — Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh Introduction: Listening to the Static Setting up and contributing to the…