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OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users With Anthropic
The company might lower prices for tokens, the central unit for gauging AI costs, though the discussions are still in flux.
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Anthropic’s New Fable AI Model Is Met With User Backlash Over Restrictions
Guardrails make the powerful model less useful for AI researchers, though the company said it would grant safeguard-free access to the science community.
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What the SpaceX IPO Means for This Texas Border Town
Watch Micah Maidenberg report from Brownsville, Texas, the largest city in a region already straining to accommodate Elon Musk’s grand ambitions.
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GitHub finally pulls the plug on automatic install script execution for npm
The ability for attackers to leverage automatic install script execution in npm will finally come to an end when expected changes arrive from GitHub in July. Coders will still be able to enable the function, but the default setting will block it. In V12, default settings are changing, GitHub said in its changelog, noting, “it…
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What to Know About Drone-Boat Maker Behind Iran Helicopter Crew Rescue
Saronic’s unmanned Corsair plucked two aviators from the Strait of Hormuz; startup is worth $9.3 billion.
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The hidden cost of enterprise AI: 6.4 hours a week babysitting bots
While AI is proliferating across the workplace, it is introducing a new productivity paradox: While the technology makes work feel faster, it actually pushes more burden onto employees to provide context, perform quality checks, then rinse and repeat across numerous disparate tools. This, according to a new survey of 6,000 full-time digital workers by Glean’s…
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Check Point Advances Secure AI Transformation for MSPs with New Platform, AI Security Capabilities, and Unified Security Bundles
Check Point Advances Secure AI Transformation for MSPs with New Platform, AI Security Capabilities, and Unified Security Bundles. Security coverage from iTWire.
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Chinese, N. Korean Threat Groups Build on Asia-Pacific Success
North Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) has grown, in part because of the cybercrime gains of groups linked to the nation, which target business and financial firms.
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Bug bounties in the Mythos era
How AI is rewriting vulnerability research, and how our program has adapted
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JDY botnet expands, enabling rapid exploitation of disclosed vulnerabilities
Initially flagged as part of the KV-botnet, JDY has evolved into an independent reconnaissance capability following the U.S. government’s takedown of KV in early 2024.
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ShinyHunters gang targets Oracle PeopleSoft servers in data theft attacks
The ShinyHunters gang is exploiting a combination of old and zero-day vulnerabilities, referred to as a “gadget chain,” to target both cloud and on-premises Oracle PeopleSoft instances.
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Smashing Security podcast #471: This AI worm just rewrote its own rules
Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the powerful ones to host its own AI brain. And then the researchers discovered their creation had quietly removed the list of…
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Path traversal flaw in AI dev platform Langflow exploited in attacks
Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-5027, a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in the AI development platform Langflow, to write arbitrary files on exposed servers. […]
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FBI Seizes China-Linked Fake Consulting Sites Targeting US Clearance Holders
The Justice Department and FBI seized 13 fake consulting websites that officials say targeted US clearance holders with paid research work designed to obtain sensitive government information.
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The ‘Miasma’ worm source code briefly leaked on GitHub
The Miasma credential-stealing attack framework, which has recently targeted open-source ecosystems through supply-chain attacks, was briefly open-sourced on GitHub. […]
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CISA tells agencies to patch smarter, not harder — foreshadowing broader industry practice
Security teams’ patching practices have come under intense pressure over the past year, as active exploitation is up, time-to-exploit windows are accelerating, and vulnerabilities have become attackers’ top initial access vector of choice. Last year, organizations fully remediated only 26% of the vulnerabilities that attackers were actively exploiting in the wild — down from 38%…
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OpenAI: ‘Likely’ Chinese influence operation tried to use ChatGPT to stir debate on data centers
OpenAI’s threat intelligence team tracked what it believes are two distinct clusters of activity online from groups with ties to China and posting content seemingly designed to stoke anger around divisive topics like AI and data centers. The first, dubbed “Data Center Bandwagon,” used ChatGPT to create imagery and social media comments claiming data center…
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Ivanti patches critical Sentry flaws that lead to full device takeover
IT software provider Ivanti fixed two vulnerabilities in Ivanti Sentry, a secure mobile gateway appliance formerly called MobileIron Sentry. The flaws could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to gain complete control of deployments. One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-10523, credited to researcher Bryan Lam, allows attackers to bypass authentication and create arbitrary administrative accounts on appliances. The…
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GitHub announces npm security changes to tackle supply-chain attacks
GitHub has announced that npm v12, expected next month, will introduce several security-focused changes aimed at blocking supply-chain attacks abusing behaviors triggered by the ‘npm install’ command. […]
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News alert: Cloud security report finds fragmented tools widening the cloud complexity gap
WASHINGTON, Jun. 10, 2026, CyberNewswire–The 2026 Cloud Security Report from Cybersecurity Insiders, produced in collaboration with Fortinet, finds that 69% of organizations cite tool sprawl and visibility gaps as the top factor limiting cloud security effectiveness. Based on a survey of 1,163 IT and cybersecurity professionals, the report shows the strain: 66% lack strong confidence…
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Oracle PeopleSoft servers hacked in ShinyHunters data theft attacks
Oracle PeopleSoft servers are being targeted in ongoing data theft attacks by the ShinyHunters extortion gang, which claims to have stolen data from over 100 organizations. […]
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ConnectWise Platform Brings Predictive IT to MSPs
ConnectWise is making a substantial change to the way it wants customers to interact with its software stack. This week, the company unveiled the ConnectWise Platform, a new environment that pulls together PSA, RMM, cybersecurity, automation, orchestration, agentic AI, and third-party integrations. ConnectWise introduces its Predictive IT platform The launch sits within a larger Predictive…
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Apple Silicon boosts the TCO benefit of Macs — report
Apple Silicon Macs fail at less than half the rate of Intel Macs, dramatically reducing the platform’s already industry-leading total cost of ownership (TCO), according to data revealed by London, UK-based Apple reseller Hoxton Macs. While it’s true the data is based on a relatively small sample group, it does seem to reflect what the industry in…
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CISA directive orders agencies to prioritize vulnerability patching in a new way
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday ordered federal agencies to prioritize vulnerabilities based on four criteria, as part of push to “patch smarter, not harder.” Federal agencies should emphasize patches for vulnerabilities that affect a publicly exposed asset, allow an attacker to fully automate exploitation, give attackers the ability to take over control…
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The missing link in enterprise AI: unpacking Snowflake’s context layer architecture
The missing link in enterprise AI: unpacking Snowflake’s context layer architecture. AI and Data coverage from iTWire.
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What Israeli dominance in cyber means for non-Israeli cybersecurity founders
Over the past five years, it surely feels like Israeli cybersecurity startups have taken over. The biggest exit of recent years – Wiz – is an Israeli company. CyberArk, acquired by Palo Alto Networks, is an Israeli company. Armis, which just exited to ServiceNow, is also an Israeli company. That is not to say that…
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Unpatched Langflow Flaw CVE-2026-5027 Exploited for Unauthenticated RCE
A high-severity unpatched security flaw in Langflow, an open-source low-code platform to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-5027 (CVSS score: 8.8), a case of path traversal that could allow an attacker to write files to arbitrary locations.…
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China-linked JDY botnet expands targeting of U.S. military networks
The JDY botnet, a malware network previously associated with Chinese threat actors like Volt Typhoon, has significantly expanded its targeting scope and reconnaissance efforts. […]
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June Patch Tuesday marks a ‘new normal’ with over 200 CVEs, 32 rated ‘critical’
June’s Patch Tuesday security updates have arrived, with SAP fixing four critical vulnerabilities and Microsoft addressing over 200 CVEs. Microsoft’s to-do list includes fixes for three zero days, 32 patches rated as ‘critical’, and a batch of other high-risk vulnerabilities that need urgent assessment. There’s also one older flaw under exploit, and some patches affecting…
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AI coding assistants move from novelty to necessity as software development enters a new era
AI coding assistants move from novelty to necessity as software development enters a new era. Business Software coverage from iTWire.
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The ultimate prison break: Hearthstone returns to Warcraft’s most notorious jail
The ultimate prison break: Hearthstone returns to Warcraft’s most notorious jail. Entertainment & Gaming coverage from iTWire.
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Identity theft is turning into a chain reaction for victims
For a growing number of victims, identity theft no longer ends with a fraudulent charge or a compromised account. More than one in four people who contacted the Identity Theft Resource Center during the reporting period were dealing with multiple identity-related incidents, according to the organization’s 2026 Trends in Identity Report. The report is based…
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How AI Is Changing IT Channel Partner Programs
Partner programs across the IT channel are undergoing a major transformation as AI adoption accelerates and vendors rethink how they engage with MSPs and solution providers. In this Channel Insider Partner POV discussion, Victoria Durgin and Jordan Smith explore how traditional vendor programs are evolving, why collaboration and ecosystem strategies are becoming more important, and…
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Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by victims. This post examines clues pointing to a real life identity for the administrator…
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Kaseya Unveils MSP Success Ecosystem for Efficient Growth
Global provider of AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software, Kaseya, announced the launch of MSP Success, a unified growth ecosystem that brings together Kaseya’s growth and business acceleration programs, including MSP Success Digital Marketing, MSP Success Peer, and the Kaseya Community. Kaseya unifies its partner marketing and peer groups This unification is meant to help…
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AISLE Snapshot keeps source code under enterprise control during vulnerability scanning
AISLE has introduced AISLE Snapshot, a new offering that gives regulated and security-sensitive enterprises access to frontier-class vulnerability detection inside their own environments, at a fraction of the cost, with source code and security data that never leave their control. Organizations are under increasing pressure to secure growing codebases against a rapidly expanding vulnerability landscape.…
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EU Unveils Tech Sovereignty Package and Chips Act 2.0
The EU has unveiled its much-anticipated European Technological Sovereignty Package, comprising two pieces of legislation intended to boost the continent’s independence in cloud services, AI and semiconductors. The Cloud and AI Development Act seeks to foster the growth of AI models and apps, as well as the buildout of supporting infrastructure, with a specific goal…
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Russian APTs Still Exploiting Patched WinRAR Flaw CVE-2025-8088
Despite a 2025 patch, Russian-linked groups still exploit a WinRAR flaw (CVE-2025-8088) to deploy malware via phishing archives. CVE-2025-8088 is a path traversal flaw in WinRAR that lets an attacker write files outside the extraction directory using NTFS Alternate Data Streams. WinRAR fixed it in version 7.13 in July 2025. Nearly a year later, Trend…
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Drata brings visibility, control and auditability to enterprise AI agents
Drata has introduced AI Agent Governance, a new security category focused on managing the risks and oversight requirements of AI agents, while extending its trust platform to support enterprise adoption of autonomous AI systems. While McKinsey finds 57% of business leaders cite governance friction as the top blocker to deploying more AI, this move is…
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Critical Ivanti Sentry flaw allows root-level remote code execution (CVE-2026-10520)
Ivanti has patched two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-10520 and CVE-2026-10523) in Ivanti Sentry and has urged customers to implement the fix right away. Though the vulnerabilities are not known to be actively exploited, security researchers have already released technical details about the former, which may be used by attackers to craft a working exploit. About Ivanty…
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New Browser-in-the-Browser phishing uses fake login popups to steal Microsoft 365 credentials
A new Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) phishing campaign is targeting Microsoft 365 users with fake login popups designed to closely mimic legitimate browser authentication windows, according to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The attack relies on a fake browser window embedded within a webpage. Victims who click a Microsoft sign-in button are presented with what appears to…
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Intelligence-Driven Threat Hunting: How SOCs Find What Alerts Miss
Talk to any threat hunter long enough, and beneath the polished case studies and conference talks, the same frustrations surface. Hunting is supposed to be proactive. In practice, it often feels reactive. You are chasing whispers of activity through log noise, querying SIEM fields that barely reflect real attacker behavior and writing detections against technique descriptions that…
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Boomi extends Agentstudio with Snowflake Cortex Agents support as enterprises grapple with AI governance
Boomi extends Agentstudio with Snowflake Cortex Agents support as enterprises grapple with AI governance. AI and Data coverage from iTWire.
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Microsoft feud escalates as researcher drops new Windows zero-day
The long-running feud between Microsoft and security researcher Nightmare Eclipse has entered a new chapter. Eclipse, who has spent the past several months publicly releasing unpatched Windows vulnerabilities while sparring with Microsoft over vulnerability disclosure practices, has published exploit code for a new zero-day flaw dubbed RoguePlanet. The researcher said their exploit uses a race…
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Building reusable workflows with custom agents in Copilot CLI
Developers spend much of their working time in the terminal, generating commands, debugging issues, and running scripts close to their systems. Repeated terminal work tends to pile up small steps such as re-running the same commands, re-explaining context, and translating logs into a form a team can act on. Custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI…
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Why I’m leaving Copilot for Gemini
I’ve been using and writing about Microsoft Copilot since it was publicly released in 2023. I’ve reviewed it, written articles about using it more effectively, explained how to curb hallucinations in it and other similar tools, and detailed how to use it in concert with Microsoft 365. It’s also been my go-to generative AI (genAI)…
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U.S. CISA adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), and Google Chromium V8 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), and Google Chromium V8 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added BerriAI LiteLLM and Check Point Security Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two flaws added to…
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New Fable 5 Is a “Mythos-Class” LLM Available to All, Anthropic Announces
Anthropic unveils Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5, a restricted-access frontier AI model and guardrailed version for everyone to use
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Autonomous AI agents duped into leaking sensitive data in phishing test
AI agents given access to corporate email and business applications could become a new phishing target for attackers, according to cybersecurity researchers, after a test agent built on OpenClaw was tricked into sharing cloud credentials and customer data with an external attacker. Varonis Threat Labs said it built an OpenClaw AI agent called Pinchy to…
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Microsoft patches YellowKey, GreenPlasma, MiniPlasma zero-days
On Tuesday, Microsoft patched two zero-day vulnerabilities that let attackers gain SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems, and a third one that grants access to BitLocker-protected drives. […]
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Welcome to AI’s creepy era
For the past few days, I’ve been immersed in Google’s latest vision of the future — an AI-infused dashboard that taps into info from all of your Google app activity and then uses that data to cook up a series of daily “stories” designed to “connect you with what matters.” And — believe me, I…
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Chaotic Eclipse Unveils RoguePlanet Exploit Targeting Fully Patched Windows
The researcher Chaotic Eclipse released a PoC for the RoguePlanet Microsoft Defender zero-day, which can grant SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as Nightmare-Eclipse, has published a new proof-of-concept exploit for a RoguePlanet Microsoft Defender zero-day. The flaw relies on a race condition that can provide attackers with…
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Rubrik launches Autonomous Business Recovery to rebuild cloud applications after cyberattacks
Rubrik has unveiled Autonomous Business Recovery (ABR) for Cloud Applications, the agentic cyber resilience solution that recovers cloud applications from data to network, identity and configurations. The end result is a rebuild of an organization’s Minimum Viable Business (MVB) at machine speed. At a time when powerful AI models collapse the window between vulnerability discovery…
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Apple brings Private Cloud Compute to third-party data centers
Apple is bringing its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) platform to Google Cloud, expanding the infrastructure behind Apple Intelligence to third-party data centers. Introduced in 2024, PCC provides cloud-based processing for AI workloads that exceed the capabilities of on-device models while maintaining Apple’s security and privacy guarantees. The system was originally built on Apple silicon and…
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F5 adds AI-powered threat detection and API security for on-premises environments
F5 has introduced new web application and API protection (WAAP) capabilities for its Application Delivery and Security Platform. The company said the updates are intended to address a threat landscape in which AI models can accelerate the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, giving attackers faster access to offensive capabilities. The new features expand the…
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Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is out for public use, with safeguards for high-risk requests
Days after publishing research on how advanced AI systems could amplify cyber operations in the wrong hands, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model for general use. “Releasing a model this capable comes with risks. Without safeguards, Fable 5’s capabilities in areas like cybersecurity could be misused to cause serious damage,” Anthropic wrote. The…
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AI red teaming comes of age
When Ram Shankar Siva Kumar launched Microsoft’s AI red team in 2019, the discipline barely existed. “The running joke used to be that people who used to work in AI red teaming, you can round them up in a 14-foot catamaran,” he tells CSO. At the time, Microsoft’s approach looked familiar to anyone in cybersecurity:…
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“AI Worms”, researchers demonstrate autonomous malware capable of adapting to any online device
A study by the University of Toronto shows how artificial intelligence can power autonomous worms capable of tailoring attacks against Windows, Linux and IoT devices. A group of researchers from the University of Toronto has demonstrated how open-source artificial intelligence models can be used to create a new category of computer worms capable of autonomously…
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Every set of AI guardrails can be broken by the right prompt
Companies that build AI systems wrap them in guardrails meant to block harmful output, including deepfakes, malware, and instructions for making biological weapons or illicit drugs. When a user prompts the system for such content, the guardrails are designed to flag the request and refuse. A new mathematical proof sets a limit on how secure…
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How has use of framing protection security headers changed in the past 3 years?, (Wed, Jun 10th)
Back in 2023, I wrote a diary[1] discussing how commonly X-Frame-Options and CSP headers containing the frame-ancestors directive were used on 1 million most popular domains on the internet (based on the Tranco list[2]), and how they were set. Given that three years have passed since then, I thought it might be interesting to repeat…
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France’s Government Messaging App Tchap Got Breached
France’s government chat app Tchap was breached after a single account was compromised, exposing messages and data from public channels. Tchap, the encrypted messaging platform developed by the French government for its civil servants and made mandatory last year, was breached on June 7. ANSSI, France’s cybersecurity agency, detected the intrusion. The vector was straightforward:…
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Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Its Most Powerful AI Yet, With Cyber Safeguards
On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the most capable model it has ever made, generally available. It also did something unusual: it shipped one model as two products, split not by capability but by a layer of safety classifiers. Fable 5 goes to the public. Its twin, Claude Mythos 5, the same underlying…
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Plugable CEO: Local AI Creates MSP Opportunity
As businesses reassess the cost, privacy, and performance tradeoffs of cloud-based AI, Plugable CEO Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy sees local AI becoming a more urgent channel opportunity for IT resellers and MSPs. In an interview with Channel Insider, Smurthwaite-Murphy said AI adoption remains “all over the map” as companies experiment with cloud-based models, emerging open-source tools, and…
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ServiceNow Flaw Exploited to Gain Unauthorized Access to Customer Instances
ServiceNow has warned about a security incident in which unknown threat actors exploited a flaw to obtain deeper unauthorized access to susceptible instances. “On June 5, 2026, ServiceNow applied a security update to hosted customer instances,” the company revealed in an advisory that requires customer access. “The update concerned a security issue that could allow…
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The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills
Billions of working smartphones reach the end of their service lives each year and move into drawers, recycling streams, and waste piles. The WEEE Forum estimated that 5.3 billion mobile phones became electronic waste in 2022. Many of these devices still function. The average smartphone stays in use for about three years, and owners often…
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NOVA microhypervisor brings AMD DMA isolation to shared AI infrastructure
BlueRock has issued the latest open-source release of its NOVA Microhypervisor with DMA remapping support for AMD platforms that have IOMMU hardware virtualization. The capability is enabled by default and extends hardware-level isolation across virtual machines, devices, and memory in shared execution environments. Background on NOVA NOVA combines microkernel and hypervisor functions in a small…
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Microsoft Defender RoguePlanet Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Access on Updated Windows
The anonymous security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for yet another Microsoft Defender zero-day named RoguePlanet. “The exploit is a race condition, so it’s a hit or miss,” the researcher, who published the exploit under a new GitHub account, “MSNightmare” said. “I have managed to…
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Product showcase: Staying ahead of the threat horizon with Aunoo
Aunoo is an open strategic intelligence platform that uses AI agents to monitor intelligence sources, including for cybersecurity, to compile a daily briefing and alert on defined criteria. Each source is checked for credibility and quality before it is included. The platform runs in any browser and can send its findings via Slack, Discord, Teams,…
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Cyber resilience metrics that drive action
In this Help Net Security video, Pete Bowers, COO at NormCyber, explains how organizations can build a cyber resilience metrics program that supports better decisions. He questions common ways of measuring resilience, such as risk registers, tool scores, and annual tests, and points out their limits. These methods often rely on opinion, narrow data, or…
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UK move to filter photos and messages triggers encryption worries for CISOs
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s speech on Monday insisting that tech companies create device controls to somehow block children from viewing or creating sexually explicit imagery has raised alarms among CISOs, who worry that the same technology could undermine enterprise security. Starmer gave tech firms three months to create and implement such restrictions voluntarily, at…
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UK move to filter photos and messages triggers encryption worries for CISOs
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s speech on Monday insisting that tech companies create device controls to somehow block children from viewing or creating sexually explicit imagery has raised alarms among CISOs, who worry that the same technology could undermine enterprise security. Starmer gave tech firms three months to create and implement such restrictions voluntarily, at…
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Scams now operate like real businesses with budgets and targets
Social media has overtaken email as a primary attack vector, showing changes in how people consume information and interact online, according to Bitdefender’s Global Scam Intelligence Report 2026. Fraud campaigns use advertisements, sponsored content, impersonation pages, and direct messages to reach users. Global scam breakdown by category (Source: Bitdefender) One in seven consumers fell victim…
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Enterprises know AI-generated code is vulnerable; they’re shipping it anyway
AI-generated code is riddled with security flaws, yet enterprises are shipping more of it than ever before. Why? Perhaps they’re over-confident, lack true visibility into security risks, or are simply choosing to ignore the problem and hope it goes away. It’s a dangerous game to play at the dawn of the agentic AI era, as…
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Working group formed to develop standard for AI-native docs
LF AI & Data Foundation, a division of the Linux Foundation, launched a working group on Tuesday that will focus on the development of DocLang, a specification intended to support interoperable document processing across AI and agentic workflows. The working group, founded by premier members IBM, Nvidia and Red Hat, is tasked with the creation…
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Anthropic rolls out Claude Fable 5, but it’s available for a limited time
Anthropic has begun rolling out a new model called “Fable,” which is based on the same underlying model as Mythos, its most powerful AI model class. […]
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Economists Weigh In on the Future of Work and AI
How 16 top economists think AI will change the job market, and how to prepare.
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GenAI Is Both Hunter and Hunted at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026
This year’s Pwn2Own competition in Berlin revealed just how much of the AI stack remains exposed — and the gap between what these tools promise and what they can withstand point to the fragile security foundations underneath.
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Microsoft Releases Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday With 208 CVEs
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2026 fix a record 208 CVEs, including one actively exploited zero-day and multiple critical RCE flaws. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2026 mark a record. Microsoft shipped fixes for 208 CVEs across Windows, Office, Azure, Exchange, Hyper-V, Secure Boot, BitLocker, and a range of AI tooling.…
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AI-driven computer worm demonstrates autonomous network exploitation
The AI worm, tested on an isolated 33-host network, demonstrated a significant ability to adapt and exploit.
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Veeam releases security update for critical backup server vulnerability
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-44963, affects Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) versions 12.3.2.4465 and earlier, with the fix available in version 12.3.2.4854.
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Rubrik enhances data security with AI agents and autonomous recovery
Rubrik introduced Rubrik AI, an agent-first interface for its Security Cloud and Agent Cloud, allowing customers to define business outcomes that the software executes by reasoning over data, identities, and deployed agents.
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CISA to reevaluate risk prioritization for critical infrastructure and federal agencies
CISA is set to release a binding operational directive for federal agencies, aiming to revise vulnerability management practices.
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Iranian-linked hackers claim cyberattack on Israeli military, but evidence is weak
As reported by HackRead, an Iranian-linked hacker group named Handala claimed on Sunday, June 7, 2026, to have conducted significant cyberattacks against Israeli military targets, including disrupting signal networks and radar systems.
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A Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday for June 2026
Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company’s monthly Patch Tuesday cycle. Nearly three dozen of those bugs earned Microsoft’s most dire “critical” rating, and exploit code for at least three of the weaknesses is now…
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OpenClaw AI agent found falling for phishing attacks, spills user data
Phishing simulation on an OpenClaw email agent with various configuration profiles showed that it was susceptible to tactics commonly used to compromise human users. […]
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Microsoft Exchange Flaw Lets Attackers Spoof Any Email Address
“Ghost-Sender” uses Exchange Online or on-premises in hybrid mode with a third-party mail server or spam filter to achieve this level of spoofing.
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Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 206 vulnerabilities
Microsoft addressed a whopping 206 vulnerabilities lurking in its vast portfolio of business products and foundational systems in this month’s Patch Tuesday update, marking the vendor’s largest monthly batch of security patches on record, according to researchers. The massive assortment of vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s latest defect dump accentuates an alarming trend across technology — fears…
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Anthropic releases Mythos-class Fable 5 model with safeguards for cyber risks
Anthropic unveiled two new powerful AI models built on its previously restricted Mythos architecture: Claude Fable 5, which is being made broadly available, and Claude Mythos 5, which remains limited to a small group of cybersecurity and infrastructure partners. Anthropic describes Fable 5 as the most capable model it has ever released to the public,…
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Nextcloud adds Euro-Office to Hub workplace suite, expands AI assistant
MUNICH — Nextcloud has integrated Euro-Office into its workplace application suite, one of several updates to Nextcloud Hub unveiled on Tuesday that include a new compliance app for large organizations and a program to support developers building for its platform. The announcements came during the company’s Nextcloud Summit 2026 here. Euro-Office, announced in March, is…
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CVE-2026-11645: Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Google has released emergency Chrome updates to address a Chrome zero-day vulnerability, a high-severity out-of-bounds read/write issue in the V8 JavaScript engine. Google says an exploit exists in the wild, and the patched Stable builds are rolling out as 149.0.7827.102.103 for Windows and Mac and 149.0.7827.102 for Linux. Public reporting says the flaw can be…
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CVE-2026-50751: Check Point VPN Authentication Bypass Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Organizations continue to face elevated risk from edge-device flaws that can hand attackers an initial foothold without valid credentials. CVE-2026-50751 is a critical authentication bypass issue in Check Point VPN Remote Access and Mobile Access that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to establish a VPN session without a valid user password. According to public reporting,…
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Microsoft June 2026 Patch Tuesday, (Tue, Jun 9th)
Microsoft today released patches for 204 vulnerabilities. 38 of these vulnerabilities are considered critical, and three have been disclosed before today. Six of the vulnerabilities affect Microsoft cloud solutions and do not require any user action. In addition, Microsoft incorporated 360 different vulnerabilities affecting Chromium into its Edge browser. This is certainly a busier-than-usual patch…
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Rubrik Brings Claude-Focused Tooling, Partner Program to Market
Rubrik, a security and AI operations company, has announced a new partner program and enhancements to bolster AI resilience and recovery. Rubrik Agent Cloud for Anthropic’s Claude Code and Claude Cowork will enable organizations to deploy Claude-powered agents at scale with observability, control, and agent rewind. Rubrik’s new cross-platform Rubrik AI automates and accelerates response…
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Meta to Use Off-Site Business Data for Feed and AI Personalization
Meta on Tuesday announced that it will use information shared by other businesses to personalize users’ feed and responses from its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, expanding its scope beyond targeted ads. “Businesses often share information about people’s activity on their sites with us to make ads more relevant,” Meta said in a statement. “We already…
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Anthropic’s new model is Mythos on a leash
Earlier this year, Anthropic executives said that their new AI model, Claude Mythos, had such powerful capabilities for harm that they would not release it publicly. On Tuesday, the company said it was making an altered version of Mythos available to the public, promising “new guardrails” that thwart the model’s best-in-class performance in hacking and…
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Critical Veeam RCE Flaw Lets Low-Privilege Users Take Over Backup Servers
Veeam addressed a critical RCE vulnerability flaw in Backup & Replication that lets low-privileged domain users take control of backup servers. Veeam has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-44963 (CVSS v4 Score of 9.4), affecting Backup & Replication version 12.x. The flaw could allow a low-privileged domain user to execute code on…
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Veeam Backup & Replication RCE Flaw Lets Domain Users Run Remote Code
Veeam has released security patches to address a critical flaw in its Backup & Replication software that could result in remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-44963, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. “A vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) on the Backup Server by an authenticated domain…
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Microsoft Restores Some GitHub Repos, Keeps Others Offline as Miasma Probe Continues
Microsoft on Monday confirmed that it temporarily removed some GitHub repositories in response to a recent security incident that led to 73 of its open-source projects being compromised to inject an information stealer into the code. “Our priority is to protect customers and the broader ecosystem,” a Microsoft spokesperson told The Hacker News via email.…
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CISA is rethinking how it prioritizes risks and vulnerabilities for feds, private sector
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency wants to fundamentally reevaluate how it prioritizes risks and vulnerabilities, both for privately-owned critical infrastructure and within the federal government, acting director Nick Andersen said Tuesday. The plans include a binding operational directive for federal agencies set to be published Wednesday and getting more specific with critical infrastructure owners and…