Cybersecurity professionals were offered lessons of resilience in the most extreme circumstances from Ukraine’s former minister of foreign affairs. Dmytro Kuleba, who served as Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2020 and 2024, told Infosecurity Europe delegates that the key to Ukraine’s survival after the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022 was pre-planning, a lesson learned…
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IoT Botnet C0XMO Adds Competitor-Killing Capability
C0XMO is a new Gafgyt botnet variant exploiting old router flaws, spreading across IoT devices, killing rivals, and enabling large-scale DDoS attacks. In March 2026, FortiGuard Labs discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet, dubbed C0XMO, which is noticeably more capable than its predecessors. The malware spreads through CVE-2021-27137, a stack buffer overflow in…
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VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats. “When automatic updates are enabled, new versions are auto-updated two hours after they are published, adding an…
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Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack
Meta has revealed that over 20,000 Instagram users had their accounts hijacked in a recent incident where attackers used Meta’s AI-powered support system to reset passwords. […]
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DockSec: Open-source AI-powered Docker security scanner
DockSec is an OWASP Incubator Project that combines three container security scanners with a language-model layer for explanation and remediation. Created by Advait Patel, the Python tool runs Trivy, Hadolint, and Docker Scout against a developer’s Dockerfile and image, correlates the findings, returns a 0-100 security score, and proposes line-specific fixes. DockSec requires Python 3.12…
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When attacks spread too far: Lessons from real cyber attack case studies
In this Help Net Security video, Michael Adjei, Director, Systems Engineering at Illumio, explains three real world cyber attacks and what went wrong during detection. Adjei walks through a collaboration tool scam that copied Microsoft Teams, an identity phishing case used for payment fraud, and a long running advanced threat campaign. Each story follows the…
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Google Colab CLI opens runtimes to Claude Code and Codex
Google released the Google Colab Command-Line Interface, a tool that connects local terminals to remote Colab runtimes. The CLI provides an execution platform for developers and AI agents, letting users provision compute, run local Python scripts on remote runtimes, and retrieve artifacts back to local machines. Google Colab CLI (Source: Google) Commands and accelerator options…
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Cybercriminals create 19,000 FIFA-themed domains ahead of 2026 World Cup
Fans looking for tickets, accommodation and match broadcasts are already encountering scams tied to the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The 2026 FIFA World Cup will bring millions of visitors and an estimated 6 billion spectators to a tournament spread across 16 host cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In a new report, Intel…
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GitHub Copilot app launches as desktop home for AI coding agents
GitHub introduced the Copilot app, a desktop application built for working with AI coding agents, at Microsoft Build 2026. The release expands GitHub’s Copilot product line beyond editor integrations and command-line tools into a dedicated workspace for directing several agents at once. The Copilot app is available in technical preview to existing Copilot Pro, Pro+,…
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52% of direct-to-IP threats are missing from intelligence feeds
Security tools are good at inspecting websites, domains, URLs, and files, so attackers are moving lower in the stack and communicating directly with IP addresses, where visibility is limited. According to Palo Alto Networks’ report, this creates a visibility gap that allows malicious traffic to blend into normal internet activity and evade detection. At the…
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Old WinRAR Flaw Fuels Attacks on Ukraine: How Unmanaged Software Keeps the Door Open
Two separate Russia-aligned campaigns are still exploiting the WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 against Ukrainian organizations nearly a year after it was patched, showing how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long after the fix ships.
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Governing Claude Enterprise in Environments Where Inline Controls Can’t Go
TrendAI™ integrates Anthropic’s Claude Compliance API into TrendAI Vision One™ through two collectors that bring AI-aware visibility and detection to Claude Enterprise usage: one keeps all data inside the environment, while the other feeds TrendAI Vision One™ for deeper correlation and compliance.
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Hands on with Intelligent Terminal, an AI-powered Windows Terminal
Microsoft has created an open-source fork of Windows Terminal called “Intelligent Terminal,” and it allows you to use AI directly inside Terminal without interfering with the regular session. […]
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DentaQuest Breach: ShinyHunters Publish Data Impacting 2.6M People
ShinyHunters leaked 234 GB of data allegedly stolen from DentaQuest after failed negotiations, potentially impacting 2.6 million people. The ShinyHunters extortion group has published a 234 GB archive of data allegedly stolen from dental benefits administrator DentaQuest. The cybercrime gang added the company to its Tor data leak site in May, and the data was…
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The IoT Appliance Repair Gap: When Your Wi-Fi Dishwasher Breaks, Who Actually Fixes It?
In this post, I will talk about the IoT appliance repair gap and aswer the question – when your Wi-Fi dishwasher breaks, who actually fixes it? Connected appliances have created a category of failure that most authorised service networks are not set up to handle. When a smart dishwasher stops working in a Dubai apartment,…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 100
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Malware Targeting WordPress Abuses Steam Community Profiles for Command & Control Operations Legitimate-Looking Codex Remote UI Secretly Steals Your AI Tokens Operation Dragon Weave : Uncovering a China-Linked Campaign Targeting Czech Republic and Taiwan…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 580 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. U.S. CISA adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Report: Anthropic Deploys Engineers…
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Google’s Unique Approach to Getting Data Centers Built
Plus, a DIY solar hack, a country fights teen brain rot with free ChatGPT and Apple’s plans for a Siri-led AI comeback.
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Week in review: Cisco SD-WAN 0-day exploited, Patch Tuesday forecast
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory Agent Memory Guard is an open-source runtime defense layer that sits between an agent and its memory store, screening every read and write through a pipeline…
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How To Identify And Avoid Online Gaming Scams
Read on to find out how to identify and avoid online gaming scams. Online gaming scams have been around for almost as long as online games. Whether they were ways for hackers to steal your credit card details or a way for them to access your accounts, the scams were simple and effective in the…
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Automated Reconnaissance Is Reshaping Cyber Risk
A single email address may now be all cybercriminals need to build a surprisingly detailed profile of a target. Flare researchers identified an automated bot that can generate detailed dossiers from a single email address by aggregating data from multiple breached databases. “Tools like this Telegram bot show how little effort it now takes to…
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U.S. CISA adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SolarWinds Serv-U flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS ver 3.1 score of 7.5), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. SolarWinds Serv-U is a managed file transfer (MFT) and secure file…
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Report: Anthropic Deploys Engineers to Support NSA Use of Mythos
Reports claim Anthropic engineers are helping the NSA use its restricted AI model Mythos, known for advanced cybersecurity capabilities. This week, the Financial Times reported that Anthropic has placed approximately six “forward-deployed” engineers inside the National Security Agency to help the intelligence agency use Mythos, its most capable cyber model, for offensive operations. Two people…
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New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration
OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go,…
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Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors?
Anthropic’s high-profile spat with the Pentagon gave it a killer marketing advantage, burnishing its public image as a principled AI company that puts values over profits — unlike more mercenary rivals such as OpenAI or Google. But Anthropic’s double standard on authoritarianism suggests the nearly trillion-dollar firm is as calculating and ethically flexible as any…
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Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry. The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest…
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Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash’s Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It.
Claude Opus 4.8 helped uncover a four-year-old critical flaw in Zcash that could have enabled undetectable creation of counterfeit coins. On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He…
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AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in…
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Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories. “Access to this
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Suspicious Polyfill login prompts pop up on Toshiba, Muji websites
Tech giant Toshiba and mega-retailer Muji warned visitors that suspicious sign-in screens popping up on their websites could collect credentials. […]
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Anthropic deploys engineers to NSA to aid Mythos use
The deployment of Anthropic engineers to the NSA is intended to help the agency integrate and utilize the Mythos AI model for specific applications.
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Google to Pay SpaceX Nearly $1 Billion a Month in Cloud-Computing Deal
The agreement gives SpaceX a new stream of revenue for its AI business ahead of its IPO.
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Miasma Malware Hits 32 Red Hat Packages via Compromised GitHub Account
32 Red Hat npm packages compromised by Miasma malware expose cloud tokens, CI/CD secrets and developer credentials in supply chain attack.
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Six protobuf.js Vulnerabilities Expose RCE and DoS Risks
Six vulnerabilities discovered in protobuf.js could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, crash services, and compromise software supply chains across cloud, AI, messaging, and development environments. According to Cyera researchers, the flaws affect the widely used JavaScript implementation of Google’s Protocol Buffers, a data serialization framework that underpins communication across countless distributed systems. The library…
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AI Threats, Zero-Days, and Data Breaches Define This Week of June 2026 in Cybersecurity
Major Threats & Vulnerabilities Zero-Day Exploits and Critical Vulnerabilities A newly discovered Comodo zero-day vulnerability can crash Windows systems through a malformed IPv6 packet. Researcher Marcus Hutchins identified the flaw, but Comodo has yet to issue a patch. Users are advised to filter suspicious IPv6 headers and test incident response plans. Google patched an Android…
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IronWorm and New Miasma Worm Variant Hit npm in Supply Chain Attacks
Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively. According to JFrog, the information stealer “scrapes every secret it can find on a developer’s machine, hides behind an eBPF…
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Silent Ransom Group (SRG): Switching To DNS Fast Flux Infrastructure
Researchers exposed the Silent Ransom Group ‘s Fast Flux infrastructure as the FBI warns of ongoing attacks targeting U.S. law firms and businesses. Resecurity uncovered the Silent Ransom Group (SRG)’s Fast Flux network infrastructure and shares available intelligence with the cybersecurity community to disrupt their malicious activities and enable ISP/DNS providers to counter this threat.…
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Microsoft identifies seven new ways AI agents can be hacked
Microsoft has identified seven new failure modes in agentic AI systems, in addition to those it identified last year in its first Taxonomy of Failure Modes in Agentic AI Systems. Four things contributed to the growing list of ways agentic AI can go wrong: the speed at which the technology went mainstream, the growing maturity…
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Atlas Menu Data Breach Exposes 64,000 GTA V and CS2 Cheat Service Users
Atlas Menu Data Breach exposes 64,000 GTA V and CS2 cheat service users, leaking emails, IPs, support tickets and hashed passwords.
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Got a LinkedIn message from a recruiter? It might be Chinese intelligence, warn FBI and MI5
If you’ve ever received an out-of-the-blue message via LinkedIn from a recruiter offering some well-paid consultancy work, intelligence agencies have a message for you: be very careful. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Building secure B2C applications with fine-grained access control using Amazon Cognito and Amazon Verified Permissions
Modern web applications require robust security controls to protect user data and application resources. Authentication and authorization are two fundamental pillars of application security that answer critical questions: Who are you? and What are you allowed to do? Implementing these controls correctly can be challenging for developers, especially when building data-intensive applications with frameworks like…
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Patching fast and slow: Ruby devs delay to defend against supply chain attack
The team behind RubyGems, a package hosting site for Ruby developers, has added a new feature to bundler, a tool for managing Ruby packages (or ‘gems’) to protect developers against the recent wave of software supply chain attacks: A cooling-off period before recently updated packages are installed on their systems. Recent attacks on software repositories…
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Tech industry cut 38,242 jobs in May, worst since 2024
Technology companies announced 38,242 job cuts in the US in May 2026, the highest monthly total for the sector since August 2024, according to research by employment placement company Challenger, Gray & Christmas. So far this year the company has observed 123,653 US technology job cuts, a rise of 66 percent from the same period…
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CVE-2026-20245: Cisco SD-WAN Manager Zero-Day Enables Root Command Execution
Cisco has disclosed a seventh SD-WAN zero-day exploited in 2026, tracked as CVE-2026-20245. The flaw affects the command-line interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and can allow an authenticated remote attacker with netadmin privileges to execute arbitrary commands as root by uploading a crafted file. Cisco says exploitation has already been observed in limited cases,…
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Magecart campaign exploits Stripe API for credit card theft
The sophisticated attack utilizes Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Stripe domains, which are implicitly trusted by e-commerce sites, allowing the malicious code to bypass security measures.
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Understanding LLM Coding Personalities Is Now Key to Developer Improvement
Secure code development goes beyond tools and software – it is a complex activity grounded in risk management and involves an understanding of a developer’s strengths and weaknesses. Recognizing your developers’ level of expertise goes a long way, and helps determine where security issues are most likely to occur, and which developer is best suited…
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CVE-2026-49975: HTTP/2 Bomb Attack Can Knock Web Servers Offline in Seconds
A newly disclosed denial-of-service vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-49975, shows how long-known HTTP/2 weaknesses can still be chained into a highly effective modern attack. SecurityWeek reports that researchers at Calif demonstrated an HTTP/2 Bomb exploit capable of knocking major web servers offline within seconds by combining a compression bomb with a Slowloris-style hold that prevents the…
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How to Use AI Video to Boost Your Email Marketing Open Rates and Conversions in 2026
Discover how adding AI-generated video to your campaigns can significantly increase open rates and click-throughs. Complete guide with strategies, tools, and benchmarks. Email marketing isn’t dead — but it’s drowning in sameness. The average professional receives 121 emails per day, according to Radicati Group’s 2026 Email Statistics Report. Open rates across industries hover around 21%,…
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How to Use AI Video to Boost Your Email Marketing Open Rates and Conversions in 2026
Discover how adding AI-generated video to your campaigns can significantly increase open rates and click-throughs. Complete guide with strategies, tools, and benchmarks. Email marketing isn’t dead — but it’s drowning in sameness. The average professional receives 121 emails per day, according to Radicati Group’s 2026 Email Statistics Report. Open rates across industries hover around 21%,…
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Commvault offers recommendations for resilience in the age of frontier AI
Frontier AI models, while powerful for identifying vulnerabilities, also present new risks from bad actors, accelerating exploitation timelines to mere minutes.
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Android Spyware Asin Targets Arabic Users via Fake News, PDF and War Map Apps
Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin, according to findings from ESET. The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the malware spread via multiple campaigns in early 2025, with each attack wave making use of distinct websites mimicking utilities, war-related updates, and a government news source: govlens[.]net,…
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Nightmare Eclipse incident shows the researcher-vendor fights may never fully go away
Microsoft reopened some wounds and has reignited debate over the past couple weeks about vulnerability disclosure and the sometimes adversarial dynamic it creates between security researchers and vendors. The latest controversy ensued when Microsoft threatened criminal legal action against a security researcher who publicly disclosed a series of zero-day vulnerabilities with proof-of-concept exploits. Microsoft insisted…
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Ensono CTO: AI Success Starts with Data Discipline
Financial services firms racing to adopt AI may be overlooking the foundational work required to make those investments pay off, according to Syed Ali, CTO of Global Financial Services at Ensono. While many banks, insurers, and asset managers are experimenting with generative AI and agentic tools, Ali said the organizations seeing the strongest results are…
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Adaptive, Agentic AI Worms Loom as Next Enterprise Threat
AI worms, or “viruses with wings and brains,” adapt to new environments, seek out vulnerabilities, and will likely strike within a year, researchers say.
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Hugging Face Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution
Organizations using vulnerable versions of the Hugging Face Transformers library could unknowingly execute attacker-controlled code simply by loading a malicious AI model. Researchers at Pluto disclosed a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that bypasses the library’s built-in trust_remote_code=False security control, potentially exposing cloud credentials, SSH keys, API tokens, and other sensitive assets. “One poisoned field…
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What 2026 DBIR Confirms: Attacks Are Living in the Browser
Phishing, shadow AI, malicious extensions, and credential theft increasingly happen inside the browser. Keep Aware explains what the 2026 Verizon DBIR reveals about browser-layer security gaps and modern attacks. […]
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Cisco SD-WAN Has a New Root-Level Problem, and There’s No Fix Yet
Cisco warns of CVE-2026-20245 in SD-WAN Manager, a flaw that can lead to root access via file upload command injection; no patch or workaround yet. Cisco warns of a privilege escalation flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS base score of 7.8), in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, the platform formerly known as SD-WAN vManage. An authenticated local…
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Why Apple may be winning again
As we lean into WWDC, three strategically brilliant Apple moves have been exposed in the last couple of weeks, two of which will have immense consequences in the coming year, while one sets the scene for essential future growth. In each case, Apple’s leadership has found counter-intuitive gambits that actually secure the company’s future. Let’s start…
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Anthropic suggests slowing AI research until we can align it with human goals
AI could soon lead to systems capable of improving their own performance faster than humans can effectively supervise them, reviving concerns about the industry’s longstanding “alignment problem,” ensuring AI systems reliably pursue human goals, senior Anthropic researchers have warned in a new blog post titled “When AI builds itself.” Anthropic Institute lead Marina Favaro and…
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Malware could drain your fuel tank as well as your bank account
Ongoing cyber-attacks on automated tank gauges (ATGs) could result in fuel tanks being drained without businesses noticing, the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has warned. Connected ATGs are widely deployed in gas stations, as well as on military bases, in hospitals, and in manufacturing plants. And it’s not just fuel stores at risk: ATGs…
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Malicious podcast, PDF apps spread FlutterShell macOS backdoor malware
FlutterShell is linked to previous malvertising campaigns including TamperedChef.
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Attackers obtained encrypted password vaults from some Dashlane user accounts
Dashlane has disclosed new details about a brute-force attack that let a threat actor access some customer accounts and copy encrypted vaults. Dashlane said it found no evidence that the attackers compromised its internal systems. The company first acknowledged the incident on May 31 after users reported receiving account suspension emails and experiencing login problems.…
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Infosecurity Europe: Practical Lessons From Lloyds’ Agentic AI Security Playbook
Lloyds Banking Group shared its approach for securing agentic AI workflows, with a mix of hands on experimentation and cross functional governance
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Only 10% of SOCs Say They’re Getting Excellent Value From AI. Here’s What the Second Wave Has to Deliver
Eighteen months ago, the AI SOC was a marketing line. Today it’s a budget item. The category has crossed over from interesting to inevitable, with billions of dollars now flowing into AI-powered security operations platforms, agentic SOC tools, and AI co-pilots built into every layer of the security stack. The data shows SOCs are buying,…
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Infosecurity Europe: OWASP Introduces Agentic AI Security Maturity Framework
The OWASP agentic AI security framework helps organizations assess governance maturity vs adoption and adjust governance as needed
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Leader in Malware Analysis: ANY.RUN Named Top Vendor in G2 Summer 2026 Awards
We are proud to announce that ANY.RUN has earned the title of Momentum Leader and ranked #1 in the Relationship Index in the latest G2 Summer Reports. Reflecting real security teams’ actual experience, these rankings once again prove how critical ANY.RUN’s solutions are for daily SOC operations in modern enterprises. Why ANY.RUN’s Momentum Leader Title Matters for Your Team G2 awards…
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PCPJack Exposed: Researchers Uncover 230-Node Cloud Email Relay Network
Researchers uncovered a 230-node cloud-based email relay network after the actor PCPJack accidentally exposed tools, logs, and C2 files online A threat actor tracked as PCPJack compromised 230 cloud servers across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and turned them into a covert email relay network. Hunt.io researchers discovered the operation because PCPJack…
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16 ways to speed up Windows 11
Windows 11 does a lot under the hood to speed up a PC’s performance, but PCs tend to slow down over time as they accumulate apps, files, drivers, and other detritus. Even zippy new Windows 11 devices can be sped up — and protected against future slowdowns — with a few minor system tweaks. It’s simple to…
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Claude Code has an MCP security problem — and your developers are already using it
Claude Code is Anthropic’s AI coding assistant — a command-line tool that developers are adopting fast. It connects to external services through Model Context Protocol, the standard that lets AI tools interact with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, databases and internal APIs. When a developer connects one of those services, Claude Code runs an OAuth flow, the…
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Infosecurity Europe: AI Coding Tools Need Built-In Security for Agentic Development Era
Ox Security field CTO, Boaz Barzel, makes the case for vibe security to tackle AI agent coding risks
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Cisco SD-WAN 0-day exploited, no patch available (CVE-2026-20245)
A 0-day privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-20245) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has yet to be patched by Cisco is being leveraged by attackers. “To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must have netadmin privileges on an affected system. This would require valid credentials or exploitation of CVE-2026-20182 or CVE-2026-20127. Cisco is not aware of successful…
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AI is helping low-skill hackers pull off advanced cyberattacks
Anthropic has published an analysis of cyber-related misuse of its AI systems, examining 832 accounts that were banned for malicious cyber activity between March 2025 and March 2026. The company mapped the observed behavior to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which documents tactics and techniques used by attackers. “These 832 cases are just a subset of…
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May 2026 Leadership Recap: Channel Execs Move Toward AI
We’re barreling toward the midway point of the year, and May has seen a number of new executive leadership shuffles to guide organizations through the second half of the year and beyond. Organizations across the ecosystem have made shifts to their leadership teams, including new hires, promotions, and the addition of their first-ever AI executives.…
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May 2026 M&A Recap: Security and AI Remain Top Priorities
WatchGuard, Torq, and Asana are just a few organizations that have made strategic acquisitions in the IT ecosystem to expand their capabilities and provide more services to a greater number of customers. Before we reach the summer months, take stock of the mergers and acquisitions in the channel from May. Security consolidation continues as firms…
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10 Free Managed Services Pricing Templates for MSPs in 2026
Many managed service providers (MSPs) know which services they want to offer but struggle to determine how to package, price, and present those services to clients. Managed services pricing templates provide a framework for organizing service offerings, comparing pricing models, and communicating value more clearly. Whether you’re building your first service packages or refining an…
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Fake Context Alignment: The Attack That Made Gemini Obey Strangers Through Your Notifications
SafeBreach tricked Gemini into obeying attackers via WhatsApp notifications, using hidden foreign-language text to bypass Google’s defenses and control smart home devices. SafeBreach Labs researcher Or Yair spent months trying to break Google’s Gemini voice assistant after Google patched the vulnerabilities he found in his previous research. The new attack class he developed, named Fake…
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Commvault Provides Resilience Approach for Frontier AI
Commvault, a data protection and cyber resilience organization, has made recommendations to help organizations stay resilient in the age of frontier AI. Frontier models create new security risks while helping address them As frontier models, hosted in the cloud, excel at identifying vulnerabilities at speed and compressing exploitation timelines, they also present exploitable threats to…
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AI tools becoming hot commodities on ransomware marketplaces
Sales of AI-based tools is accelerating within underground ransomware marketplaces, lowering the barrier to entry for new actors in the process. An analysis of Telegram channels, 20 dark web forums, and five underground markets by anti-ransomware platform vendor Halcyon found that AI utility posts grew to 1,486 in February 2026, up from just 38 in…
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Why Waymo settled for the wrong car
Forget “Florida Man.” Want to hear a California Man story? Here goes. A California man rolled up to a yoga studio in San Francisco’s Marina District in a self-driving Waymo car, walked into the studio, grabbed an armful of yoga shorts, got back in the Waymo and took off. Six months later, police still haven’t…
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FIFA World Cup 2026 Scams Are Already Live: Fake Sites, Banking Malware, and Stolen Logins
Security researchers and the FBI are warning that a wave of FIFA-themed fraud is already hitting World Cup 2026 fans, days before the June 11 kickoff. Recent reports describe thousands of lookalike FIFA domains, banking malware hidden inside pirate streaming apps, and at least one operation that copies FIFA’s login page well enough to take…
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Photos: Infosecurity Europe 2026
Infosecurity Europe 2026 is a cybersecurity event that took place from June 2 to 4 in London. Help Net Security was on-site and here’s a closer look at the conference. The featured vendors are: Microsoft, JupiterOne, Menlo Security, Cato Networks, Falkin, Vivida, Pen Test Partners, Netskope, Qualys, Syteca, runZero, Vanta, OneTrust, Panaseer, Airia. The post…
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Compliance chaos: NY regulators see a data breach — then focus on IT errors
The age-old IT defense when compliance violations are investigated by regulators is to try and keep a low profile — and hope no one looks too closely. But with enhanced SEC interest in all data breaches encouraging regulators around the globe to take those closer looks at IT, data breach disclosure rules are becoming more…
AI, Apps, Global Security News
The Evil MSI Background is Back!, (Fri, Jun 5th)
A few months ago, I wrote a diary about a payload that was embedded into a JPEG picture. It was a MSI-branded background[1]. Yesterday, I spotted another one! It seems that the technic is getting more and more popular. This time, it started with a mail containing a WeTransfer link. Often, the WeTransfer brand is…
AI, APAC, Global Security News
AgentGG: Open-source agentic SAST scanner
Static analysis tools have spent years matching source code against known-bad patterns and handing engineers long lists of candidate issues to triage by hand. AgentGG approaches the same job with AI agents that read the code, follow imports, walk the call graph, and confirm a finding before they report it. The project is an open-source…
AI, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security
PCPJack Hijacks 230 AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Servers for Covert SMTP Relay Network
The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network. “Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into SMTP proxies, verified for mail relay capability, and synced to a downstream consumer…
AI, Global Security News
Thieves can pull off keyless car theft in under a minute and here’s how to stop them
A keyless car can be stolen in under a minute. Two people, a pair of cheap radio amplifiers, and a fob sitting on a hallway table inside the house. That is enough. No broken glass. No alarm. No sound. Most keyless cars remain vulnerable The vulnerability runs across the global market. Germany’s largest auto club,…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
AI agent governance gets harder when agents outnumber your people
In this Help Net Security video, Amit Gautam, CTO at Abluva, explains the security risks that autonomous AI agents bring into enterprise environments. He opens with a real case: a reconciliation agent at a financial services firm had legitimate access to a customer database. A poison instruction from upstream changed its behavior, and it scanned…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
Most pros have seen AI hallucinations in IT operations
Autonomous AI is taking action inside enterprise IT environments. Software is restarting services, isolating risky devices, and applying patches without waiting for a human to approve the step. The capability is spreading at the same time IT professionals are reporting frequent encounters with AI output errors that can carry operational impact. Ivanti’s 2026 AI Maturity…
AI, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
New infosec products of the week: June 5, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Asimily, depthfirst, Diligent, Hyland, MazeBolt, and Noma. Asimily turns device risk into automated network policy Asimily has launched Segmentation Orchestration, enabling connected-device risk intelligence to flow directly into enforceable network policy without manual translation. No other platform combines full asset…
AI, Global Security News
U.S. Officials Discuss Taking Financial Stakes in AI Industry
The talks have been with artificial-intelligence leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman who pitched the idea.
AI, Global Security News, Russia
Real-Time Satellite Intel Is Making Ukraine’s Drone Strikes Deadlier Than Ever
Commercial satellite imagery, sent straight to soldiers’ phones, is speeding up the kill chain and causing new problems for Russian forces.
AI, Cybersecurity, Funding, Global Security News, Government & Policy
US government report slams NIST for NVD backlog
A report from the US Commerce department’s inspector general blames the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the ever-growing backlog of vulnerabilities for inclusion in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). But cybersecurity practitioners say that the backlog, although very real, has been building for years, and that the government is doing little to…
AI, Global Security News
Apple’s Plan for AI Dominance Rests on Fixing Its Much-Maligned Chatbot
The iPhone-maker has clear advantages to lead in consumer AI, but only if it can finally modernize Siri.
AI, Global Security News
China-linked actors using job sites to target government workers, Five Eyes warns
The intelligence agencies, comprising the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, detailed a sophisticated espionage campaign.
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
iFood confirms data breach affecting 1.2 million users
The breach resulted in the exposure of names, phone numbers, addresses, and CPF numbers, which are crucial Brazilian taxpayer identification documents used for various daily transactions.
AI, Global Security News
AI tools pose insider threat risks as integration accelerates
Researchers from DTEX have detailed how common workflows using AI agents, such as Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, can grant extensive access to sensitive corporate data.
AI, Global Security News
Fake document marketplace aiding migrant smuggling dismantled in Spain
The investigation, initiated by French authorities who identified the website, culminated in Spain with the arrest of a suspect in Alicante.
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Why Dubai Villas Are Quietly Becoming the World’s Largest Smart-Home Testbed
In the latest development, I will show you why Dubai villas are quietly becoming the world’s largest smart-home testbed. The average new-build villa in Arabian Ranches now ships with pre-wired conduit for 40-plus connected devices before the owner places a single purchase order. What started as a luxury differentiator has become a distributed IoT laboratory,…
AI, Global Security News
DentaQuest data breach exposes sensitive information of 2.6 million accounts
The incident came to light last month when the extortion group ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen over 234 GB of data from the company.
AI, Global Security News
Rust-Written IronWorm Hits NPM Supply Chain
Like Shai-Hulud, the campaign targets developers to steal credentials and reuses them to propagate across the software supply channel.