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Agentic AI Security Risks Increase Governance Demands for MSPs

BYOD was a headache. AI agents are an existential crisis. Advanced AI models pose a massive security and governance challenge for the channel, forcing managed service providers (MSPs) and tech partners to rethink how they protect corporate data. Agentic AI adoption exposes governance gaps The shift from passive, generative AI chatbots to fully autonomous agents…

Google talks ‘singularity’ while scaling up agentic AI for enterprises

Google is recasting its enterprise AI roadmap around autonomous systems and AGI, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis telling I/O attendees the industry now sits at the “foothills of the singularity.” “When we look back at this time, I think we all realise that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity,” Hassabis said in his…

How Can MSSPs Scale Threat Detection Without Burning Out Their Analysts?

Scaling threat detection as an MSSP doesn’t mean hiring more analysts — it means enabling the analysts you already have to handle more clients, more alerts, and more complex threats without burning out. The practical path forward combines three capabilities: continuous real-time intelligence that keeps detection systems current automatically, instant IOC investigation that cuts triage…

Jamf Elevates Former CTO Beth Tschida to CEO Role

Jamf has appointed Beth Tschida as chief executive officer, naming its former chief technology officer to lead the Apple device management and security company as it begins its next chapter under private ownership. Tschida’s appointment is effective immediately. She had served as interim CEO since March 2026 and previously spent eight years as Jamf’s CTO,…

Agent AI is Coming. Are You Ready?

New Industry Data Just Released Suggests Not. On May 19th, 2026, Orchid Security released the results of our Identity Gap: Snapshot 2026. Among the findings, “identity dark matter” (the unseen, unmanaged elements of identity) now overshadows the visible elements 57% vs. 43%. And it couldn’t have occurred at a worse time, with enterprises embracing Agent…

SHub Reaper impersonates Apple, Google, and Microsoft in one MacOS attack chain

A newly disclosed macOS infostealer campaign is exploiting user trust in some of the biggest names in tech to slip past defenses.  Researchers at SentinelOne have detailed a new variant of the SHub malware family, dubbed “Reaper,” that impersonates Apple, Google, and Microsoft at different stages of a single attack chain targeting Mac users. The…

ArmorCode gives security teams AI workers for exposure and remediation

ArmorCode has announced Anya Agents, a new agentic AI framework delivered on the patented ArmorCode Agentic AI Platform that enables organizations to operationalize AI-driven security workflows at enterprise scale. Built on ArmorCode’s Context Risk Graph, Anya Agents help security teams move beyond generic AI assistants by turning unified security and business context into purpose-built AI…

Novata uses AI to map risk across portfolios and supply chains

Novata has announced the launch of Risk Atlas, a new AI-powered risk monitoring tool designed to help organizations identify, compare, and prioritize risks across portfolios and supply chains. Framework for comparative risk visibility Risk Atlas provides a single, customizable framework for comparing risk across entities, normalizing diverse risk signals into a comparable view across portfolios…

TeamPCP breached GitHub’s internal codebase via poisoned VS Code extension

Following TeamPCP’s claim that they’ve breached GitHub’s own private code repositories, the Microsoft-owned company launched an investigation and confirmed the compromise. “Our current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories only. The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with our investigation so far,” GitHub stated. The source of the…

Trust3 AI focuses on AI agent risks with MCP Security layer

Trust3 AI has announced the launch of Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security, establishing a new standard for safeguarding enterprise agentic AI workloads. This solution forms a key capability within Trust3 AI’s enterprise agent control plane, empowering security and governance teams with a unified trust layer to seamlessly and safely connect AI agents with vital business…

Typosquatting Is No Longer a User Problem. It’s a Supply Chain Problem

AI-generated lookalike domains are now embedded inside the third-party scripts running on your web properties. Here’s why your current stack can’t see them, and what detection actually requires. Download the CISO Expert Guide to Typosquatting in the AI Era → TL;DR  Typosquatting is no longer a user problem. Attackers now embed lookalike domains inside legitimate…

Darwinium updates mobile SDKs to detect remote access scam activity

Darwinium has announced updates to its Android and iOS mobile SDKs. It enables banks, payment providers, and digital businesses to tackle the proliferation of remote access scams, including those that manipulate live sessions and account farming operations that run mule networks. “Most fraud platforms validate trust at a single moment, typically at login or payment,…

Why some security fixes never reach your vulnerability dashboard

On April 22, for roughly 90 minutes, a malicious version of Bitwarden CLI appeared on npm. Version 2026.4.0 contained a credential-stealing payload that executed an obfuscated loader and harvested AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, and npm tokens from any developer machine that ran npm install. The attackers reached Bitwarden’s npm publishing path through a compromised GitHub…

A malicious VS code extension just breached GitHub ‘s internal repositories

One employee installed a trojanized VS Code extension. Result: ~3,800 GitHub internal repositories exfiltrated. TeamPCP claims credit, wants $50K. There is something almost ironic about GitHub, the platform that hosts the code for most of the world’s software, getting breached through a trojanized plugin for a code editor. But that is exactly what happened, and…

Virtuozzo CEO: AI Infrastructure Is a Channel Opportunity

Virtuozzo is positioning its new AI infrastructure platform as more than a product launch: CEO Kurt Daniel sees it as a channel opportunity for service providers facing rising hardware costs, GPU demand, and pressure to modernize cloud offerings. The company recently introduced its Virtuozzo Infrastructure System, an integrated platform combining compute, storage, networking, orchestration, automation,…

DirtyDecrypt: PoC Released for yet another Linux flaw

DirtyDecrypt (CVE-2026-31635): working PoC out for a Linux kernel LPE flaw. Missing COW guard in rxgk_decrypt_skb lets local attackers reach root. After Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia, here comes DirtyDecrypt, another local privilege escalation vulnerability in the kernel, this time with a working proof-of-concept already out in the open. The flaw was discovered and…

Communicating cyber risk in dollars boards understand

In this Help Net Security interview, Nick Nieuwenhuis, Cybersecurity Architect at Nedscaper, explains why cybersecurity has not delivered the resilience that decades of investment have promised. He argues that spending has leaned too heavily on technical controls while neglecting people, processes, and organizational dynamics. He unpacks the gap between security teams and boards, pointing to…

When your AI assistant has the keys to production

Large language models in operational roles query telemetry, propose configuration changes, and in some deployments execute those changes against live infrastructure. Ticket drafting and alert summarization were the starting point. Vendors describe this work as autonomous remediation or self-healing infrastructure. A recent survey on agentic AI in network and IT operations gives it a more…

Alleged Huawei zero-day blamed for the 2025 Luxembourg telecom crash

A Huawei zero-day flaw reportedly caused Luxembourg’s 2025 nationwide outage, disrupting landline, 4G/5G, and emergency services On July 23, 2025, a nationwide telecom outage in Luxembourg was reportedly triggered by a previously undisclosed flaw in Huawei enterprise routers. The attack disrupted landline, 4G, 5G, and emergency communications for more than three hours after specially crafted…

7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report

In 2025, trusted Git hosting platforms became a playground for cyber criminals. This is the main conclusion from the latest “DevOps Threat Unwrapped Report 2026” by GitProtect. If you want to effectively counter attacks targeted at your code (and business), you need security measures, good practices, and knowledge. Strengthen your organization’s security posture. Learn about…

GitHub Investigating TeamPCP Claimed Breach of ~4,000 Internal Repositories

GitHub on Tuesday said it’s investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after the notorious threat actor known as TeamPCP listed the platform’s source code and internal organizations for sale on a cybercrime forum. “While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’…

EnterpriseClaw wants to bring governance to the OpenClaw era

Autonomous agent orchestration tool OpenClaw hit the scene last November and immediately went viral, but its dramatic flaws were exposed just as quickly. Still, it marked a pivotal step in the agentic AI era, and enterprises have been exploring ways to deploy fleets of autonomous agents safely and securely ever since. Automation Anywhere Tuesday rolled…

Microsoft disrupts malware code-signing service used by ransomware gangs

Microsoft has disrupted the infrastructure powering the largest malware code-signing service used to help ransomware groups and other cybercriminals make malicious programs harder to detect on Windows. The threat actors behind the service used stolen identities and impersonated legitimate organizations to obtain more than 1,000 code-signing certificates. Microsoft seized the group’s website, signspace[.]cloud, revoked the…

CISA credential leak raises alarms, and Capitol Hill demands answers

Congressional Democrats want answers from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about the reported public exposure of sensitive agency credential data on GitHub in an incident that the security researcher who discovered it called one of the worst leaks he’s ever seen. Other security professionals also voiced concern Tuesday about the leak and the potential…

CIRT insights: How to help prevent unauthorized account removals from AWS Organizations

The AWS Customer Incident Response Team works with customers to help them recover from active security incidents. As part of this work, the team often uncovers new or trending tactics used by various threat actors that take advantage of specific customer configurations and designs. Understanding these tactics can help inform your architecture decisions, improve your…

Attackers hit vulnerabilities hard last year, making exploits the top entry point for breaches

Attackers couldn’t get enough of the vulnerabilities at their disposal last year, making exploits the top initial access vector across more than 22,000 breaches Verizon analyzed in its latest Data Breach Investigations Report released Tuesday. The massive annual study uncovered a surge of exploited vulnerabilities during a one-year period ending in October 2025. Exploited defects…

Contractor’s public GitHub account exposed GovCloud and CISA credentials

Until a few days ago, a publicly-accessible GitHub repository exposed credentials for both US government AWS accounts and internal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) systems. That’s according to cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, who first broke the news over the weekend, acting on a tip from researcher Guillaume Valadon at GitGuardian. Valadon confirmed the information…

News alert: Orchid Security study finds invisible identities now outnumber managed accounts

NEW YORK, May 19, 2026, CyberNewswire—Orchid Security, the company solving identity at its core, today released its Identity Gap: 2026 Snapshot report, revealing that the majority of enterprise identity now exists outside the view of identity and access management systems. The report found that invisible identity (“identity dark matter”) now outweighs visible identity across enterprise…

Drupal is rolling out an emergency security update on May 20. You cannot miss it

Drupal Is Pushing an Emergency Security Update Tomorrow. If You Run a Drupal Site, This Is Not One to Miss. Something significant is coming out of the Drupal project tomorrow, and the way the announcement is worded should be enough to get any site administrator’s attention. The Drupal Security Team has confirmed it will release…

AntV data visualization tool the latest to be hit by ongoing npm supply chain attacks

The world’s largest open-source registry, node package manager (npm), has been hit by another fast-moving malware attack, this time targeting the widely-used AntV enterprise data visualization tool. Unlike last week’s high-profile npm attack on TanStack, which exploited a complex GitHub Actions cache poisoning weakness, the latest incident early on May 19 took the more conventional…

Arxiv: Researchers who submit AI-generated junk could get 1-year suspension

Arxiv, the open-access repository where researchers publish scientific articles before they have undergone formal peer review, is introducing stricter rules against AI-generated articles containing obvious errors and fabricated content. Researchers who submit texts with clear signs of so-called “AI slop” can now be banned from the platform for a year, according to 404 Media. Red…

CISA GitHub Leak Exposes AWS GovCloud Secrets 

A public GitHub repository tied to a CISA contractor reportedly exposed sensitive AWS GovCloud credentials, plaintext passwords, and internal deployment files.  Researchers said the exposure may have provided privileged access to multiple internal systems and cloud environments before the repository was removed.  “Passwords stored in plain text in a csv, backups in git, explicit commands…

Microsoft dismantled malware-signing network Fox Tempest

Microsoft disrupted Fox Tempest, a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) that allowed attackers to sign malware with fake trusted certificates. Microsoft said it disrupted a cybercrime operation run by a threat actor named Fox Tempest, which helped threat actors sign malware with short-lived certificates to make malicious software appear legitimate. The service abused Microsoft Artifact Signing and supported…

Westcon-Comstor Launches White-Label OneSOC Service

Westcon-Comstor has launched OneSOC, a vendor-agnostic, white-label security operations service designed to help channel partners offer SOC capabilities under their own brand without upfront investment. The global technology distributor, which specializes in cybersecurity, networking, and hybrid cloud, announced the service on May 19.  OneSOC targets partner barriers to SOC delivery OneSOC is available across Europe,…

Splunk: Downtime Costs Hit $600B as Shadow AI Grows

The average cost of downtime has reached $600 billion across the Global 2000, a 50% increase in just two years, according to a newly published report from Splunk. Produced in partnership with Oxford Economics, Splunk’s “The Hidden Costs of Downtime” report highlights the rising financial impact of cyber incidents, outages, and breaches, including a growing…

Trapdoor Android Ad Fraud Scheme Hit 659 Million Daily Bid Requests Using 455 Apps

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ad fraud and malvertising operation dubbed Trapdoor targeting Android device users. The activity, per HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team, encompassed 455 malicious Android apps and 183 threat actor-owned command-and-control (C2) domains, turning the infrastructure into a pipeline for multi-stage fraud. “Users

Governing infrastructure as code using pattern-based policy as code

Organizations often struggle to enforce security and compliance requirements consistently across their cloud infrastructure. In one environment, a workload might be deployed in an AWS Region that was never approved for that class of data. In another, a security group might allow broader access than intended. Required tags might be missing. Encryption might be assumed…

GitHub scales back bug bounties, reminds users security is their responsibility too

Faced with the growing volume of submission to its bug bounty program, GitHub is replacing cash bounties with swag rewards for reports with low security impact — and asking researchers to stop submitting reports that are low quality or about things that aren’t its fault. The cloud-based code repository platform has seen a sharp increase…

Microsoft disrupts cybercrime service that abused software verification systems en masse

Microsoft seized infrastructure and disrupted a cybercrime service that created and sold more than 1,000 code-signing certificates that other cybercriminals used to make malware-riddled software appear trusted and legitimate for follow-on cyberattacks, including ransomware, the company said Tuesday. The financially-motivated threat group, which Microsoft tracks as Fox Tempest, provided the malware-signing-as-a-service to multiple ransomware groups,…

PDQ Targets MSP Workflows with Connect Platform Upgrade

Salt Lake City-based IT management firm PDQ announced today a massive upgrade to its PDQ Connect platform tailored specifically for managed service providers (MSPs).  PDQ Connect adds multitenant management The update introduces a highly requested multitenant architecture and centralized user management system. Instead of constantly logging in and out of disconnected systems to check on…

Cato Networks Adds Cyera DSPM Integration to XOps

Cato Networks has integrated Cyera’s Data Security Posture Management capabilities into Cato XOps, giving enterprise security teams more context around sensitive data when detecting, investigating, and responding to threats. The integration, announced May 19, embeds Cyera’s data intelligence into Cato XOps, Cato’s combined XDR and AIOps solution. The companies said the goal is to help…

Selector extends AI-driven observability into multi-cloud environments

Selector has announced the expansion of its platform with AI-powered multi-cloud observability capabilities. The extension of Selector’s AI-driven observability approach into multi-cloud environments enables organizations to correlate signals across the full hybrid path. By unifying rich telemetry data from cloud, network, and infrastructure into a shared intelligence layer, Selector gives teams a more complete, actionable…

Internet Explorer may be dead, but its ghost still runs malware

Microsoft’s aging “mshta.exe” utility, a leftover component from Internet Explorer, is still being actively abused in modern malware campaigns years after the browser itself was retired. According to new research from Bitdefender, attackers continue to abuse Microsoft HTML Application Host (MSHTA), a built-in Windows utility capable of executing VBScript and JavaScript from local or remote…

TrustedTech: Executives Drive Shadow AI Risk in Enterprises

TrustedTech has released new research indicating that senior leaders are among the biggest sources of shadow AI risk within organizations, with executives using unapproved AI tools at significantly higher rates than lower-level employees. The Irvine, California-based Microsoft cloud solutions and IT modernization provider said its global and U.S. data points to a growing gap between…

GoTo Launches Connect CX Complete and LogMeIn AI Updates

Cloud communications and IT organization GoTo has announced two new products: the launch of a new AI-powered offering called GoTo Connect CX Complete and a series of new features for its LogMeIn Resolve and LogMeIn Rescue solutions. These announcements coincide with the company’s publication of its latest industry research on the IT workplace amid the…

LaunchDarkly adds real-time controls for AI agents in production

LaunchDarkly has launched AgentControl, a new solution that gives software teams real-time control over AI agents in production. With AgentControl, teams can change how an agent behaves at runtime without redeploying the underlying application. As AI agents move into production, engineering teams need new ways to manage configuration, quality, and runtime behavior. Unlike traditional code,…

Canonical ships Ubuntu Core 26 with 15 years of security maintenance

Operators of industrial sensors, edge AI controllers, and connected medical equipment now have a refreshed long-term Linux option for fleets that must stay patched for more than a decade. Canonical released Ubuntu Core 26, the latest long-term supported version of its minimal, immutable operating system, with security maintenance lasting up to 15 years. The release…

New macOS infostealer impersonates Apple, Microsoft, and Google in a single attack chain

A SHub macOS infostealer variant called Reaper impersonates Apple, Microsoft, and Google to trick users into executing malicious code, then targets browser data, password managers, and cryptocurrency wallets while establishing persistence for continued access, SentinelOne found. ClickFix gives way to a new delivery method Consistent with earlier SHub versions, Reaper uses a multi-stage execution chain.…

How Apple turned circular manufacturing into a competitive edge

Apple is realizing real business benefits as it builds a circular manufacturing process across the company. Manufactured using recycled materials and renewable energy, the popular new MacBook Neo is a great illustration of this. Apple says the Neo is manufactured using 45% renewable electricity and holds 60% recycled materials by weight. That recycling includes 90% recycled aluminium and 100%…

Top 5 Phishing-Driven Social Engineering Attacks on Companies in 2026

Your employees are not falling for “bad grammar” phishing anymore. They are being pulled into fake Microsoft logins, banking pages, AI tool instructions, real OAuth flows, and event invitations that look close enough to daily work to pass without alarm.  For CISOs, that is the real social engineering problem in 2026: attacks are no longer…

SEPPMail Secure E-Mail Gateway Vulnerabilities Enable RCE and Mail Traffic Access

Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in SEPPMail Secure E-Mail Gateway, an enterprise-grade email security solution, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and enable an attacker to read arbitrary mails from the virtual appliance. “These vulnerabilities could have been exploited to read all mail traffic or as an entry vector into the…

7 tips for accelerating cyber incident recovery

Despite strong and redundant defenses, enterprises remain vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. And because attacks — and cyber incidents — are inevitable, developing an incident response and recovery process that’s quick, comprehensive, and coordinated is essential. Expediting incident recovery time is critical because the longer an outage persists, the more costs, risk, and business…

Poland shifts away from Signal following cyberattacks on officials’ accounts

Poland told officials to stop using the popular instant messaging app Signal after cyberattacks targeted government accounts. Poland has instructed government officials to stop using Signal for sensitive communications and move to a state-developed alternative. The decision follows repeated cyberattacks targeting Signal accounts belonging to politicians, military personnel, and public servants. Officials believe the campaigns…

Massive MENA cybercrime Operation Ramz disrupts infrastructure and arrests 201 suspects

INTERPOL led Operation Ramz in MENA, resulting in 201 arrests and 382 suspects tied to cybercrime networks. INTERPOL coordinated Operation Ramz across the Middle East and North Africa, leading to 201 arrests and identifying 382 additional suspects. ” A first-of-its-kind cybercrime operation in the MENA region has led to the arrest of 201 individuals, with a…

Compromised Nx Console 18.95.0 Targeted VS Code Developers with Credential Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a compromised version of the Nx Console extension that was published to the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace. The extension in question is rwl.angular-console (version 18.95.0), a popular user interface and plugin for code editors like VS Code, Cursor, and JetBrains. The VS Code extension has more than 2.2…

Babel Street targets AI-driven threats with new agentic investigation capabilities

Babel Street has launched Insights Investigator, a new agentic capability that puts tradecraft-trained AI agents at the front edge of investigative work while ensuring analysts remain in control of scope, logic, and outcomes of their missions. As part of the Babel Street Insights platform, Investigator represents a shift from search and AI-assisted queries to analyst-directed,…

iProov brings identity verification to video meetings to reduce fraud risks

iProov has launched iProov Verified Meetings, a new solution that enables organizations to verify the identity of video call participants without adding friction to the user experience. Video meetings have become a trusted and scalable communication channel, but attackers are increasingly exploiting them through AI-generated deepfake and injection attacks, creating new fraud risks. Verified Meetings…

Shai-Hulud worm copycats emerge after source code leak

Shai-Hulud worm copycats are already attacking NPM developers after its source code leaked, enabling fast supply chain exploitation. The first copycats of the Shai-Hulud worm have already started showing up online, only a few days after the malware’s source code was dumped on GitHub. Researchers had warned this would happen almost immediately, and they were…

Egnyte unveils Email Capture and AI features to unify fragmented data

Egnyte has announced a new set of capabilities designed to consolidate fragmented knowledge. Email Capture centralizes critical communications and attachments from siloed inboxes into the Egnyte folder structure, assisting users to make more informed data-driven decisions based on their entire knowledge base. Egnyte is also launching a set of AI-driven integrations and capabilities specifically designed…

Why ‘open AI’ models are gaining ground on LLMs

While proprietary AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini remain popular, the tide may be shifting to open models as IT leaders move to customize AI and control costs. Sometimes known as “open-weight models,” the alternatives to large language models (LLMs) can provide decision-makers with better visibility and control over internal AI use,…

Public Instagram posts provide raw material for AI phishing campaigns

A handful of public Instagram posts can give attackers enough material to generate convincing phishing emails with GenAI. Research from the University of Texas at Arlington and Louisiana State University showed how public social media activity can be turned into phishing messages that appear personal and credible to human recipients. Attack pipeline overview (Source: Research…

GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Redirects Tags to Steal CI/CD Credentials

In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server. “Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point to an imposter commit that does not appear in the action’s normal…