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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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,…
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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.
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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.
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Amazon Cognito unlocks advanced capabilities with next-generation infrastructure
Amazon Cognito recently introduced high-throughput performance for demanding workloads, customer-managed keys for full control over data encryption at rest, and multi- Region replication for business continuity improvement. These capabilities were made possible through a next-generation storage infrastructure designed for extensibility and scale. To deliver this, we migrated hundreds of millions of user profiles, and you…
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Brave Software releases Origin for a paid, bloat-free browsing experience
Brave has announced the public release of Brave Origin, a paid minimalist version of its browser that strips out cryptocurrency, AI, rewards, and other monetization-focused features. […]
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Hola Browser for Windows compromised to deliver cryptominer
The Windows version of the Hola Browser has been compromised in a supply chain attack that delivered an undeclared executable identified by researchers as a cryptocurrency miner. […]
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4 Critical Threats Where Attackers Have the Advantage
Gartner analysts issued a call to action to bolster defenses against several emerging critical threats, such as deepfakes and prompt injections.
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AI Threats Are Outpacing Enterprise Cybersecurity Defenses in 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the digital risk landscape, creating new challenges for organizations already struggling to manage online fraud, impersonation, and brand abuse. According to the 2026 Digital Risk Report, enterprises face growing exposure to AI-generated attacks while many lack the visibility, ownership, and response capabilities needed to address them effectively. “The question isn’t…
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Credit card theft campaign abuses Stripe to host stolen payment info
A new Magecart campaign is using Stripe’s API infrastructure to host the credit card-stealing payload and the data exfiltrated from checkout pages. […]
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Hill Dems hammer GOP for $250M CISA budget cut
House Democrats criticized a draft Republican Department of Homeland Security spending bill Thursday that they said would cut funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by $250 million. Republicans said the bill provides $2.4 billion for CISA, and that among its focuses are “improving cybersecurity resilience,” in the words of House Appropriations Chairman Tom…
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Microsoft makes Linux developers feel more at home in Windows with Coreutils release
Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s Build 2026 developer conference in Seattle, Coreutils is about reducing what Microsoft terms the “cognitive load” faced by developers when moving between Windows and…
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Deepfakes, AI Scams, and the Future of Social Media Safety
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has intensified challenges related to deepfakes, impersonation scams, and manipulated content across social media platforms. As synthetic media becomes easier to create and harder to detect, companies are being forced to adopt more sophisticated trust and safety strategies. In an email interview with eSecurityPlanet, Alexandra Ryabova, COO…
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Meta’s own AI chatbot to blame for Instagram accounts being stolen in seconds
Hackers have been hijacking Instagram accounts at scale by exploiting Meta’s AI support chatbot. And, as if that weren’t bad enough, the technique required no technical skill whatsoever. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
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Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk
The $1 trillion startup warns that AI models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention.
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Video: What Partners Need to Know About Cisco Cloud Control
Cisco has launched Cisco Cloud Control, a new platform designed to manage networking, security, observability, compute, and collaboration from a single interface. But the bigger story is Cisco’s vision for AgenticOps—an operating model where AI agents help investigate issues, correlate data, recommend actions, and eventually automate IT operations. In this video, we break down what…
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How to Secure Your Email Server on an SMB Budget
You don’t have to be rich to secure your email server. Learn how to keep out the bad guys and safeguard your email communications in 10 steps without spending a… The post How to Secure Your Email Server on an SMB Budget appeared first on InfoSec Insights.
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Gain visibility into DDoS attacks with flow logs in AWS Shield Advanced
Reconstructing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack traffic used to mean combining data from multiple sources after the fact. AWS Shield Advanced attack flow logs change that—they capture traffic metadata during attacks so you can pinpoint sources, verify mitigations, and feed your existing analysis pipelines. Shield publishes logs to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),…
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Apple to open its first developer center in Europe
Apple in recent years has opened Apple Developer Centers in Cupertino, CA, Shanghai, Singapore, and Bengaluru to allow developers to meet, exchange ideas or get help from trained staffers. It is now clear a new developer center will open in Europe, specifically in the German capital of Berlin, later this year. “Europe is home to…
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Your AI agent could become your biggest insider threat
Government agencies, cybersecurity companies and threat researchers are pouring resources into studying how fast-developing AI tools can be wielded by malicious actors to hack into victim organizations. But as agentic AI becomes more embedded in business infrastructure, there’s also a high possibility that a breach could be caused by an insider guiding the tool, whether…
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iFood Confirms Data Breach Affecting 1.2 Million Users in Brazil
iFood confirms a data breach affecting 1.2 million customers in Brazil, while hackers on BreachForums claim the actual theft is much larger.
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U.S. CISA adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-45247 (CVSS ver 4.0 score of 9.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The CVE-2026-45247 flaw is a…
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HTTP/2’s speed abused to slow webserver performance in DoS attack
Security researchers are warning of an issue with the default HTTP/2 configuration used by major web servers which reportedly survived more than a decade of human review before showing up in Codex-assisted analysis. A flaw in the handling of the HTTP/2 protocol made a denial-of-service (DoS) attack possible on web servers including nginx, Apache HTTP…
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OpenAI responds to White House executive order on AI governance
OpenAI has proposed mandatory federal evaluations of the most capable AI models before public release while arguing that regulators should stop short of deciding whether those systems can be deployed, staking out a middle ground in the debate over how frontier AI should be governed. The company’s proposal came a day after the White House…
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What Safari reveals about Apple’s AI strategy ahead of WWDC
Apple’s latest Safari privacy campaign is more than pre-WWDC marketing. It is an early signal of how the company plans to frame artificial intelligence (AI): as something that only works if users trust the platform behind it. The week before WWDC is often significant, as Apple tends to make announcements it simply can’t fit into the…
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Asana launches AI ‘chief of staff’ to keep projects on track
Asana has launched an AI personal assistant that can track various data sources to alerts users when a work project runs into problems and recommends next actions. It’s one of a range of product announcements made Thursday at the company’s Work Innovation Summit in London, including updates to its existing AI teammates product. These follow…
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Customize federated sign-in with new Amazon Cognito Lambda trigger
You can use Amazon Cognito user pools to add sign-up and sign-in functionality to your web and mobile applications. You can authenticate users directly with Amazon Cognito managed accounts using passwords, passwordless flows, or custom authentication flows, or let users federate in through external identity providers (IdP) using SAML, OpenID Connect, or social providers such…
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New IronWorm malware hits 36 packages in npm supply-chain attack
A new supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) index with infostealer malware called IronWorm. […]
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Inside the race to adapt to an AI-powered security world
Troy West was in Warsaw when his dinner was interrupted by his phone. But he was happy about it. West, associate director of cybersecurity for autonomous offensive security company XBOW, had just learned that a trial version of the company’s platform had found a vulnerability that led to a full takedown of a development environment…
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Bugcrowd Launches EU Data Residency Option For Evolving Data Sovereignty Needs
Organizations are growing serious about what nation’s rules apply to their data. Experts point to geopolitical tensions as a main contributing factor.
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The Trump AI EO strikes a compromise to balance innovation with accountability
The AI EO underscores the need for innovation and secuirty to evolve together.
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Agents Gone Wrong, Sketchy C2 Tools, ClickFix Tricks, JS Backdoors & 20+ New Stories
It got stupid again. The internet still feels held together with tape. Bad plugins, old bugs, fake tools, trusted apps doing shady things. Same mess, new wrapper. And now the weird stuff is normal. Forums go down and come back worse. Cheap hackers get better toys. AI starts breaking real systems. Great. Read the whole…
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Infosecurity Europe: AI Adoption Creates New Opportunities for Attackers to Distribute Malware, Microsoft Warns
Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) details how it has uncovered malicious AI applications as cyber criminals manipulate organizations adopting AI tools
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Stock exchange executive’s Outlook mailbox stolen over course of 5 months
The approximately 150-day espionage campaign incrementally exfiltrated emails to cloud services.
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Introducing the Wallarm AI Control Platform: One closed loop for AI security and API security.
TL;DR- AI deployment has outpaced AI governance. Most enterprises running AI on AWS cannot answer four basic security questions about what’s running, what it’s doing,how to stop it, and how to prove it’s under control.- The Wallarm AI Control Platform closes this gap: one platform for Discover, Observe,Enforce, and Govern — running natively in your…
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Critical Cisco Unified CM Bug Patched as Public Exploit Code Emerges
Cisco patched a critical Unified CM flaw with public PoC code that allows unauthenticated attackers to launch SSRF attacks remotely. Cisco has addressed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20230, affecting Unified CM and Unified CM SME. The flaw, caused by improper validation of certain HTTP requests, allows a remote attacker without authentication to perform server-side…
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Infosecurity Europe: Mythos Outperforms GPT5.5 on Google Chrome Vulnerability Exploits, Says New Benchmark
A Bugcrowd researcher has unveiled ExploitBench, an independent benchmark of AI models for vulnerability exploitation
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Report: AI Phishing Raises Costs Despite Faster Response
Email security vendor IRONSCALES has released new research that found that AI-powered defenses are making security teams faster at handling phishing emails, but AI-generated attacks have made phishing more expensive. Phishing threat grows as AI enables threat actors The research report, The (Higher) Business Cost of Phishing, was conducted by Osterman Research and measures the…
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Barracuda Finds Malicious Microsoft 365 Logins Are Blending In
Organizations that rely heavily on failed login attempts to detect account compromise may be missing a growing threat. According to recent data from Barracuda, attackers are increasingly using legitimate credentials and trusted-looking infrastructure to successfully access Microsoft 365 environments while blending into normal user activity. “Attackers know many security teams are looking for the obvious…
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Print 5X Faster Instantly: How a CoreXY 3D Printer Changes the Game for Fast 3D Printer Enthusiasts
Print 5X Faster Instantly: How a CoreXY 3D Printer Changes the Game for Fast 3D Printer Enthusiasts To turn 3D printing from a wait overnight task into finishing a prototype before a meeting, the secret lies in switching to a CoreXY 3D printer. By using lighter moving parts, higher travel acceleration (up to 30,000 mm/s²…
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Infosecurity Europe: How Proton Fights Against Cybercriminals Using Its Services
Proton uses machine learning models to detect abuse of its services – especially email addresses used by cybercriminals
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Evergreen Expands ANZ Footprint with OSIT Acquisition
Evergreen has acquired Office Solutions IT (OSIT), expanding its managed services presence in Australia and New Zealand through its Lyra Technology Group portfolio. The deal marks Evergreen’s largest acquisition in the ANZ region and its first regional MSP acquisition involving a company with an existing employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). OSIT will join two other…
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Why Local AI Agents Are Creating a New Governance Blind Spot
Artificial intelligence (AI) governance efforts have largely focused on cloud-based tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. According to Josh McCarthy, Chief Product Officer at Arms Cyber, organizations may be overlooking a much larger risk: autonomous AI agents running locally on employee endpoints. As AI capabilities increasingly move from cloud environments…
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Hugging Face Transformers RCE flaw enables stealthy compromise via AI model configs
A high severity vulnerability in Hugging Face Transformers enables attackers to compromise systems that use the popular Python library to test and run AI models. The flaw impacts library versions that continue to be actively downloaded and comes at a time when attackers are increasingly targeting the AI supply chain, including through malicious models hosted…
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OAuth marketplace apps keep access after publishers vanish
Installing an app from the Google Workspace Marketplace or GitHub Marketplace can grant a third party access to company email, files, calendars, code repositories, CI workflows, organization settings, and secrets. Marketplace presence gives these apps the appearance of approval. The OAuth grants behind them often reach into business systems beyond the listed function. An audit…
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FlutterShell Backdoor Spreads to macOS via Malicious Google and YouTube Ads
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a macOS malvertising campaign codenamed Operation FlutterBridge that spreads a new backdoor called FlutterShell. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the campaign is said to be the next stage of a previously reported activity cluster dubbed JSCoreRunner (aka FileRipple) in late August 2025. The cybercrime group behind the…
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Q1 2026 Cyber Risk Report: Insights from 2.1 Million Malware and Phishing Investigations
Based on 2,101,483 malware and phishing investigations from Q1 2026, ANY.RUN‘s Cyber Risk report provides a real-world view of modern attack trends. It covers trending malware families, TTPs, and other technical observations, while also delivering executive insights CISOs and SOC teams can use to connect attacker behavior to business risk. Combining data-backed malware trends with strategic guidance for security leaders, the report reveals critical gaps in detection, response, and visibility that directly impact business resilience, and outlines solutions organizations can use…
AI, Global Security News
Cisco warns of critical Unified CM flaw with PoC exploit code
Cisco has released security updates to patch a critical-severity Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) flaw that allows attackers to gain root privileges. […]
AI, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Network Security, Russia
Gamaredon Uses WinRAR Vulnerability to Launch Modular Spy Campaign on Ukrainian Targets
Gamaredon exploits a WinRAR flaw to drop modular, nearly fileless malware on Ukrainian targets, hiding payloads in Windows streams and resolving C2s via Telegram. Sekoia’s Threat Detection & Research team dropped a YARA rule in late December 2025 to hunt for new initial access vectors, and by January 2026 it had already generated a dozen…
AI, Apps, Compliance, Endpoint, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
Google brings local AI agents to laptops with Gemma 4 12B
Google has released new tools that allow developers to run agentic AI workflows locally using Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter model from Google DeepMind. In a blog post, the company said the model, combined with the Google AI Edge stack, can be used to build and test applications on everyday machines. The model-runtime combination supports…
AI, Global Security News
Hackers Spied on a Stock Exchange Executive’s Outlook Mailbox for Five Months
Unknown attackers spent at least five months inside the Outlook mailbox of a senior executive at a major global stock exchange, copying the inbox out in small, repeated batches and routing it through Dropbox and OneDrive so the traffic blended into normal cloud activity. Symantec and Carbon Black’s Threat Hunter Team reported the campaign this…
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Infosecurity Europe: How Businesses Can Prepare for a Cybersecurity Crisis with Effective Plans
Cybersecurity and business leaders with experience of dealing with major incidents from within the NCSC and at JLR detail what you need to prioritize if your organization is hit by a cyber-attack
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
Researcher Drops a New VS Code Zero-Day After Losing Trust in Microsoft’s Disclosure Process
A researcher publicly released a VS Code exploit within hours, citing past disputes with Microsoft over bug handling. The security researcher Ammar Askar found a new serious zero-day in Visual Studio Code, told a contact at GitHub about it, and published a working exploit one hour later. “Just by clicking a link, it’s possible for…
AI, Europe, Global Security News
Infosecurity Europe: Ukraine’s Experience Highlights the Need for Preparation and Resilience in Cybersecurity
Former Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, urges Infosecurity Europe attendees to fight the good fight
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
Hyland Announces New Partner Program
Hyland, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, is launching the Hyland Global Partner Network. This partner program is a reimagined program designed to help partners confidently build the next generation of the agentic enterprise, underpinned by Hyland’s content intelligence, industry-specific AI, and enterprise-grade governance. Why Hyland is unifying its partner base under new…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Network Security
ChannelCon 2026 Agenda Centers on Practical Strategies for ITSPs
The Global Technology Industry Association (GTIA) has announced the agenda for ChannelCon 2026, with programming focused on AI, cybersecurity, sales, leadership, workforce transformation, and partner ecosystem growth. The event, themed “The Channel Effect,” will take place Aug. 3-5 at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina. Registration is open and free for GTIA members. GTIA said…
AI, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News
New SonicWall Channel Chief Leans on Partner Experience
SonicWall’s new SVP of global channels and alliances, Jonathan Berger, is stepping into the channel chief role with a perspective many vendor executives do not have: he has spent years on the partner side of the table. Berger, who joined SonicWall after years with Virtual Graffiti and BlueAlly, said that background is already influencing how…