The campaign commences with a spear-phishing email containing a ZIP archive with a malicious LNK file written in Pashto, designed to exploit the familiarity of the language within the Afghan government.
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Zoom CISO: AI as Security Enabler, Not Role-Replacer
As Zoom’s CISO, Sandra McLeod, discusses the challenges of securing a global communication platform, the promise of AI-driven security workflows, and advice for aspiring cybersecurity leaders.
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Sectigo launches AI-powered server for certificate lifecycle management
The MCP Server for Sectigo Certificate Manager acts as a secure intermediary between AI agents, such as Microsoft Copilot and Claude, and Sectigo’s certificate management platform.
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FBI-Flagged Phishing Kit Kali365 Expands Its Reach
Once targeting just Microsoft 365, the phishing-as-a-service platform now aims at AWS, Okta, and Russian platforms, while relying on device code phishing.
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HP Poly VoIP vulnerability sets the stage for executive voice deepfakes
HP has released patches for a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in multiple IP-enabled conference phones from its Poly Voice line. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to obtain root privileges on the underlying operating system, potentially enabling them to execute other attacks such as eavesdropping on conversations and recording voice data for AI-enabled impersonation attacks. The…
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News alert: Halo Security recognized for helping MSPs manage customers’ external attack surfaces
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., June 2, 2026, CyberNewswire—Halo Security today announced that its attack surface management solution has been named a 2026 MSP Today Product of the Year Award winner by TMC, a leading global media company recognized for building communities in technology and business through live events and digital marketing platforms. This marks the second…
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AI-built ransomware toolkit automates EDR evasion, AD discovery
A threat actor is using an AI-built ransomware attack toolkit that automates Active Directory discovery and helps evade endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. […]
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China Uses Dual-Method Cyberattack on Czech Orgs
China is stealing data from high-value targets via a sneaky, double-layer spear-phishing campaign that includes the Azureveil malware.
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Identify unused AWS KMS keys and prevent accidental key deletions
As you scale your use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), managing KMS keys becomes increasingly important. Whether you manage a handful of keys or thousands across multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions, there’s often a need to audit key usage to help you meet compliance requirements, evaluate your risk posture, and optimize key management costs.…
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Trump revives parts of canceled AI order with cybersecurity-focused directive
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at strengthening cybersecurity defenses and establishing a voluntary framework for cooperation between the federal government and developers of advanced artificial intelligence models, reviving portions of a broader AI initiative that he abruptly shelved less than two weeks ago. The order, “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and…
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Gamaredon Exploits WinRAR to Deliver GammaWorm and GammaSteel Against Ukraine
The Russian hacking group known as Gamaredon has been attributed to the continued exploitation of a WinRAR vulnerability to deliver multiple malware families aimed at data theft and propagation. Per Sekoia, the activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2025-8088, a path traversal flaw in WinRAR, to launch an HTML Application payload dubbed GammaPhish, which is then…
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Microsoft unveils Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
Microsoft has developed a new AI agent that can run autonomously around the clock to complete tasks across Microsoft 365 applications. Microsoft Scout, unveiled at the company’s Build event Tuesday, is a new type of always-on agent based on the OpenClaw agent framework that Microsoft calls “autopilots.” These act on a user’s behalf with their…
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Fake ChatGPT Desktop App Ads Used to Push Password-Stealing Malware
Fake ChatGPT desktop app ads pushed password-stealing malware by abusing trusted AI links, hiding from scanners, and tricking users into downloads.
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Claude Code GitHub Actions Flaw Created Supply Chain Attack Risk
Organizations using Claude Code GitHub Actions should review their CI/CD environments after a researcher found vulnerabilities that could expose repositories to compromise and supply chain attacks. The flaws, which have since been patched, allowed attackers to bypass permission controls and inject untrusted input into trusted workflows. These vulnerabilities allow “… an attacker [to] bypass its…
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DOD wants to integrate cyber in all operations, and integrate security into AI
The Pentagon is focusing on integrating cyber into all its operations, and wants to make sure it integrates security into artificial intelligence usage from the outset, the Defense Department’s top cyber policy official said Tuesday. Recent conflicts have made clear how important cyber is, said Katherine Sutton, assistant secretary for cyber policy and principal cyber…
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Microsoft Exchange Online outage causes email delays, failures
Microsoft is working to address a widespread service issue affecting the mail flow pipeline for Exchange Online customers across North America and Germany. […]
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Trump administration releases scaled-back AI executive order
The Trump administration issued a revised executive order Tuesday focused on artificial intelligence, offering a significantly pared-back vision for the federal government’s role vetting AI systems compared to a draft version that was spiked weeks ago. The order keeps in place the administration’s largely voluntary framework for companies to engage with the federal government around…
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Instagram Account Hijacks Expose the Security Risks of AI-Powered Support
Attackers exploited Meta’s AI support chatbot to reset Instagram passwords and hijack accounts without accessing victims’ email inboxes. Attackers abused Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot to reset Instagram passwords and hijack accounts without accessing victims’ email inboxes. The issue affected several users, including high-profile accounts, before Instagram fixed the flaw. Security researcher Jane Wong and other…
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The Pentagon Is Running an AI Propaganda Mill Targeting Latin America
The United States is feeding Pentagon propaganda to internet users in Latin American countries using a new AI-laden content mill, an investigation by The Intercept has found. La Tilde quietly began development early this year and appears to still be a work in progress, pitching itself as a modern media brand for Latin American audiences…
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Trump Signs AI Executive Order to Increase Government Oversight
The order is a slimmed-down version of the one Trump shelved last month and asks AI companies to give the administration access to powerful models 30 days before public release.
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Secure multi-tenant AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore resource-based policies
Software as a service (SaaS) providers building AI-powered applications on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore often need to serve multiple tenants with distinct security requirements from a shared infrastructure. Some tenants require cross-account access from their own Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, while others mandate that traffic stay within a private virtual private cloud (VPC) for regulatory…
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Google Patches Android Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation
Google has patched a high-severity Android zero-day vulnerability that attackers have already exploited in the wild. The issue affects multiple Android releases and serves as a reminder that mobile operating systems remain a valuable target for threat actors seeking access to sensitive enterprise and personal data. “There are indications that CVE-2025-48595 may be under limited,…
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Instagram users locked out after Meta AI abused to steal accounts
Multiple Instagram users had their accounts hijacked after attackers convinced Meta’s AI-powered support tools that they were the legitimate owners. […]
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Apple’s M1 MacBook Air refuses to die
Apple surprised everyone with the power and performance of the M1 MacBook Air when it launched the laptop in late 2020. And more than five years later, those Macs show no sign of slowing down, handling everything users care to throw at them. The Mac still boots almost instantly, races through daily tasks, offers battery life…
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HPE Earnings, Shares Surge on AI and Networking Demand
HPE shares surged after the company reported stronger-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results, powered by booming demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, networking equipment, and servers. HPE beats Q2 expectations The company reported revenue of $10.7 billion for the quarter ended April 30, a 40% increase from a year earlier and well ahead of Wall Street expectations. Adjusted…
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The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security Featuring In-Solutions Global Ltd
Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.
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U.S. CISA adds Oracle WebLogic flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Oracle WebLogic flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-21182 (CVSS score of 7.5), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The CVE-2024-21182 flaw is an easily exploitable vulnerability affecting Oracle WebLogic…
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FIRESIDE CHAT: Deepfakes exploit human emotion, making employee reflex training essential
The wire transfer went through. The CFO on the video call looked right, sounded right, and gave the authorization — except there was no CFO on that call. Related: The industrializing of identity fraud Corporate deepfake attacks of that kind, executives impersonated to authorize fraudulent wire transfers, accounted for roughly $550 million of the $2.19…
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Four questions to answer if a security product will survive in the AI-first world
AI is changing the world faster than anyone could have predicted. This isn’t because it is taking over jobs (this would be too simplistic), but because it is slowly taking over a growing number of tasks that used to be done by humans. Security is not in any way immune to these changes, and I…
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Infosecurity Europe: Cybersecurity Teams Which Don’t Leverage AI are “Doomed to Fail”
Humans still need to be part of cyber defense, but refusing to deploy AI is no longer optional against AI-enhanced cyber threats, warns Dataminr’s Joe Slowik
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Hackers Abused Meta’s AI Support Bot to Hijack Major Instagram Accounts
Hackers abused Meta’s AI support bot to hijack major Instagram accounts, bypassing security checks as videos showed the flaw before Meta fixed the issue.
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Workday Intros New Developer Capabilities for Enterprise AI Agents
Workday has made a series of announcements recently, including a new partnership with AWS and new capabilities designed to help developers build, run, and govern AI agents on trusted HR and finance data while using the agentic coding tools and clouds they already utilize. The new capability announcements include: New Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools…
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Why the browser is now the front line for AI security
AI-powered attacks and shadow AI adoption are creating new security risks inside the browser. Push Security explains why browser visibility is becoming critical for both threat detection and AI governance. […]
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Anthropic expanding access to Project Glasswing
Anthropic is broadening access to its Project Glasswing program, adding approximately 150 organizations in 15 countries, the company announced Tuesday, as its restricted Claude Mythos Preview model has already surfaced more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity software vulnerabilities since the program launched in early April. The expansion follows an initial cohort of roughly 50 partners…
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Portal26 Adds Visibility, Management for Anthropic Claude
Portal26 has announced new enterprise AI management capabilities for Anthropic’s Claude and Claude Cowork, positioning the offering as a control layer for organizations scaling generative and agentic AI across business workflows. The company said the capabilities are designed to give enterprises real-time visibility into Claude usage, token consumption, security controls, governance enforcement, auditability, and analytics…
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Noma brings visibility and access governance to AI agents and MCP servers
Noma has announced the launch of Noma Agent Access Control, which helps security teams discover, govern, and enforce access policies for AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers throughout the enterprise. AI agents and MCP servers have proliferated across developer environments faster than existing governance frameworks were designed to handle. In less than 12…
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Infosecurity Europe: Bayer Reinvents Security Awareness Training to Counter AI Threats
Bayer’s security awareness training now focuses on psychological approaches rather than technical methods for detecting social engineering
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Meta adds stricter guardrails for teen feeds
Meta has expanded its Teen Accounts 13+ content settings globally on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. The safeguards are designed to help young users see age-appropriate content by default. The company also introduced Limited Content on Instagram for parents seeking stricter restrictions. Meta plans to roll out the feature on Facebook and Messenger later this year.…
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Strengthening the Foundation: A Predictable, Customer focused Response to AI-Accelerated Vulnerability Discovery
Cisco is moving to a scheduled, twice-monthly security release model to address AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery, providing customers with greater predictability and streamlined, systemic security updates.
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64,000 accounts exposed in breach of GTA V cheat service Atlas Menu
Atlas Menu, a cheat service for Grand Theft Auto V and Counter-Strike 2, has been added to the Have I Been Pwned database following a data breach that exposed tens of thousands of user records. The incident exposed approximately 64,000 accounts, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, support tickets, and passwords hashed with bcrypt. The…
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Quantum Resilience Needs a Common Language. Here’s Where to Start.
Navigate the transition to quantum-safe security with Cisco’s Quantum Resilience Framework. We provide a clear path to protecting your network and data against future quantum threats through standardized, multi-layer resilience and clear roadmaps.
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Security at Cisco Live: Going Shields Up for the Agentic Era
In the post-Mythos era, AI makes exploits faster than ever. Cisco builds security right into your network and infrastructure, helping your organization stay resilient even when threats move faster than human response.
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Sectigo Launches MCP Server for CLM
Sectigo has announced the general availability of what it says is the first globally available, production-ready Model Context Protocol server for certificate lifecycle management, expanding how enterprises can use AI agents to manage digital certificates. The MCP Server for Sectigo Certificate Manager allows administrators to perform certificate operations using natural language through MCP-compatible AI agents,…
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Cisco Debuts Cloud Control for Agentic IT Operations
Cisco today unveiled Cisco Cloud Control, a new unified platform built for humans and AI agents to manage, monitor, and defend critical IT infrastructure. This platform is fully extensible, with more than 40 ecosystem tooling connectors, and fully customizable, enabling the creation of custom applications and agents using natural language directly within the platform. Cisco…
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CISA flags two-year-old Oracle flaw as actively exploited in attacks
CISA has ordered government agencies to secure their systems against a high-severity Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability that was patched two years ago and is now actively exploited in attacks. […]
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Codex knowledge work expands into research, reports, and spreadsheets
Office workers in the United States lose hours each week to email triage and to searching for files spread across disconnected systems. Roughly 40 percent of US labor, about 72 million people, works primarily with information such as analysis, documents, designs, and communication. Research from the McKinsey Global Institute puts the average knowledge worker at…
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Google fixes actively exploited Android vulnerability (CVE-2025-48595)
Google has announced the June 2026 Android security updates, which fix a bucketload of vulnerabilities, including a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-48595) in the Android Framework that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” About CVE-2025-48595 CVE-2025-48595 is an integer overflow vulnerability in the Android Framework, a set of APIs and system services that apps interact with directly.…
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Infected Red Hat npm packages expose developer credentials
Developers who pulled packages from Red Hat’s @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace over the weekend got a secret-stealing worm instead. Security researchers from several cybersecurity outlets are warning of a new supply chain attack compromising over 30 Red Hat Cloud Services-related npm packages to steal credentials, authentication tokens, and other secrets from developer environments. The campaign, which…
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Identity Elevated: A New Unified Identity Experience in Cisco Cloud Control
Identity in Cloud Control provides visibility, ability to take action on human, non-human, and AI agent identities, and powers identity-driven AgenticOps with AI Canvas.
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Beyond Assume-Breach: How AI-Native Security Will Reshape Enterprise Defense
Twenty years after Dark Reading launched, we’re looking ahead at what’s next for enterprise security. Spoiler: It’s hyper-segmented, AI-orchestrated, and way more sophisticated than your dad’s firewall.
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Security Needs a New Operating Model
Explore how Security in Cisco Cloud Control with AI Canvas unifies context, policy, and AI-guided action across fragmented security operations.
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AI-Driven Exploitation is Destroying Vulnerability Management. Here’s How to Handle It.
AI-driven exploitation timelines are rapidly shrinking, and they are not going to stop shrinking. Vulnerabilities are being discovered, reproduced, and weaponized faster than ever in the history of enterprise security. As a result, the window between a vulnerability being disclosed and indiscriminate exploitation observed across the internet is now measured in hours, not days. The…
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Diligent automates cyber risk assessments and reporting
Diligent has announced Diligent Cyber Risk Management, an agentic solution designed to help organizations manage cybersecurity risk in a business context. Available in summer 2026, the platform reduces cyber risk assessment work from weeks to hours and links cyber threats to strategic objectives, critical business processes, and board-level oversight, helping organizations prioritize security investments based…
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Attackers exploit Palo Alto GlobalProtect flaw days after disclosure
A Palo Alto Networks vulnerability that allows attackers to establish unauthorized VPN access into corporate networks is being actively exploited in the wild, weeks after the company disclosed the flaw as a medium-severity issue and said it was unaware of any attacks. However, according to Rapid7, threat actors began exploiting the bug within days of…
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Threat Actor Uses AI to Build EDR Evasion Tools
A threat actor used AI coding tools to build and test EDR evasion malware, Sophos finds
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China’s Chip Ambitions Run Into a Global Tech Wall
Plus, Huawei will likely trail rivals by six to eight years by 2031 despite its innovations.
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From Fake Purchase Orders to Remote Access: Analyzing the JS.MonoGlyphRAT Threat to US Enterprises
A previously unidentified cyberattack is quietly spreading through US businesses — and most security tools are not catching it. Researchers at ANY.RUN have identified a new backdoor called JS.MonoGlyphRAT, an advanced piece of malware delivered as an ordinary-looking JavaScript file disguised as a purchase order, quote, or business proposal. Once an employee opens the file,…
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Microsoft Entra pushes passkeys, tightens identity security
Microsoft has released multiple identity and network access capabilities for Entra, its family of identity and network access products that help organizations implement a zero trust security strategy, over the last 30 days. Features reaching general availability Identity and authentication updates Phishing-resistant MFA is now available on Linux desktops through the Microsoft identity broker. The…
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Sophos uncovers AI-powered malware lab built for EDR evasion
A threat actor used AI technologies to build a malware-testing framework for developing and refining endpoint detection and response (EDR) evasion techniques, according to Sophos. The investigation began after an anomalous endpoint in a customer environment triggered alerts tied to malicious payloads originating from a testing directory. The files pointed to a broader framework focused…
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Practical Event Handouts That People Actually Keep
In this post, I will talk about the practical event handouts that people actually keep. When businesses plan trade shows, local fairs, campus events, or community campaigns, printed handouts are often treated as a routine box to tick. Flyers get stacked on tables, brochures are skimmed and forgotten, and many giveaway items end up in…
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Infosecurity Europe: UK Firms Prioritize AI Threat Preparedness as Cyber Risks Evolve
UK organizations are prioritizing AI-driven cybersecurity as 43% cite AI-powered attacks as their top risk, prompting significant investment in advanced threat defense
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Attack targeting OpenAI Codex users exposes AI software supply chain risks
A malicious npm package posing as a remote user interface for OpenAI Codex exfiltrated developer authentication tokens, after attackers allegedly published code to npm that was not visible in the project’s public GitHub repository. Researchers at Aikido said the package, called codexui-android, appeared to offer legitimate functionality while collecting authentication tokens and sending them to…
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Red Hat npm packages compromised in new Mini Shai-Hulud malware wave
Unknown attackers have compromised 30+ Red Hat Cloud Services npm packages with malware that goes after credentials stored in developers’ build environment. What the malware stole and how it can spread further The compromised packages were published in two different GitHub source repositories on June 1, 2026, between 10:53 and 10:53:33 UTC and 13:44 and…
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Why ‘Nvidia Inside’ Can Work in the PC Market
The world’s only $5 trillion company can sell the concept that AI computing won’t be confined to data centers.
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Pakistan-Linked SideCopy Targets Afghanistan Finance Ministry with Xeno RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT. “The campaign opens with a spear phishing delivery – a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK file bearing a carefully crafted Pashto-language filename,”
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Cybanetix unveils Managed AI Service to secure users, models, and agents
Cybanetix has announced the launch of its Managed AI Service to address all three aspects of AI use within the enterprise. Covering employee AI usage, AI governance, and embedded AI, the Managed AI Service combines technology from NOMA, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and Exabeam with Cybanetix consultancy, managed services, and 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC) monitoring. The…
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OpenAI brings frontier AI to existing AWS environments
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS, giving customers access to OpenAI capabilities within AWS environments and the controls needed to move more quickly from evaluation to deployment. OpenAI capabilities on Amazon Bedrock These capabilities are available through OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock, a platform for building generative AI applications and agents…
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ENISA NIS360 2026: Progress Across the Board, But the Sectors That Matter Most Are Still Falling Short
ENISA NIS360 2026 shows cybersecurity improving across EU critical sectors, but health, water, rail, and space remain in the risk zone. ENISA has published its third annual NIS360 report, assessing the cybersecurity maturity and criticality of all sectors covered by the NIS2 directive. The headline finding is that things are improving across the board. The…
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Sensitive government personnel data posted online, Spanish police arrest suspect
The Spanish National Police arrested a man in Granada for allegedly leaking personal data belonging to members of several sensitive state institutions. According to police, the suspect published the information on multiple online platforms, exposing personnel associated with organizations including the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), the National Security Council, the National Police, the Civil Guard,…
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New Wave Of Phishing Emails with SVG Files, (Tue, Jun 2nd)
For a few days, my SANS ISC mailbox is flooded with emails that delivers SVG files. An SVG (“Scalable Vector Graphic”) is a web-friendly vector file format used for graphics and icons. No URL in the body, just “an image”, that’s the perfect way to deliver some malicious content. This isn’t the first time that we…
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The AI pricing conundrum — it started as a nightmare, now it’s worse.
Enterprise IT leaders have always struggled with AI pricing, especially the need to pay for AI in a way that delivers ROI. But the typical IT exec may not be right person to decide how a company uses AI — and how it tries to deliver ROI — because so many line-of-business workers and partners…
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7 tabletop exercise mistakes that sabotage incident response
Discussion-based, low-stress simulations during which IT, legal, and other key leadership stakeholders walk through theoretical scenarios to test their preparedness for cyber incidents is a popular and highly useful tool. Yet unless tabletop training is properly handled, the results can be misleading and potentially destructive. When your organization’s incident response training consistently fails to meet…
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Lemhi Emerges From Stealth With AI Platform Built for MSPs
Lemhi officially launches today after exiting stealth, introducing an AI Transformation-as-a-Service platform built specifically for managed service providers (MSPs). The company also confirms a pre-seed funding round led by Top Down Ventures, with participation from Lookout Ventures and Start Something Ventures. Why Lemhi says AI operations are a challenge worth addressing Lemhi positions itself as…
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GoDaddy found malware on 1,980 WordPress sites using Steam as C2 infrastructure
Malware on approximately 2,000 WordPress sites hid C2 instructions in Steam profile comments using invisible Unicode. GoDaddy researchers spotted a command-and-control infrastructure for a malware campaign abusing Valve’s Steam gaming platform. The experts discovered malware on approximately 1,980 WordPress sites that fetches its instructions by reading Steam Community profile comments, where the actual payload is…
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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge
In this interview with Help Net Security, Chuck Davis, VP, Global Information Security at Hikvision, explains how zero trust applies to physical security systems like cameras and door controllers. He breaks down how to make trust decisions at the edge without recreating old perimeter assumptions, why these devices should be treated as IT assets, and…
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This AI model backdoor attack stays hidden until you customize the model
Most teams that deploy AI start with a backbone model. They download a large pre-trained system, adapt it to a specific task, and put it into production. The download step carries a security question: the origin of the model. A research team built an attack called BadBone. It plants a backdoor inside a backbone model.…
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: June 2, 2026
Agentic Safety and Ecosystem Architect, Trust and Safety Google | USA | On-site – View job details As an Agentic Safety and Ecosystem Architect, Trust and Safety, you will define safety controls and permission models for autonomous agents on Android, helping ensure actions are reviewed before execution and access to sensitive data requires explicit consent.…
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Dashlane Discloses Brute-Force Attack, Encrypted Vaults of Fewer Than 20 Users Downloaded
Password manager Dashlane has disclosed that “fewer than” 20 users on the personal subscription plan had their encrypted vaults downloaded following a brute-force attack launched by an unknown party. On May 31, 2026, the company said an “external” threat actor launched a brute-force attack against certain Dashlane user accounts with the aim of breaking two-factor…
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Pointing a Cursor at evading detection
AI accelerated tool development and testing, but humans drove the workflow Categories: Threat Research Tags: AI, EDR
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Malware hides in Steam comments to infect WordPress sites
The malware campaign, discovered in July 2025, has affected approximately 1,980 WordPress sites.
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AI-powered threats target 2026 election communications
The report highlights a significant trend where threat actors are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to amplify the scale and effectiveness of their attacks.
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Fingerprint launches AI assistant detection tools
The new AI Assistant Detection product provides real-time visibility into traffic from major AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.
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Dragos acquires Phosphorus to enhance industrial cybersecurity
The acquisition aims to integrate Phosphorus’ platform, which identifies connected devices, assesses exposures, and automates remediation, into Dragos’ offerings.
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Microsoft resolves Windows 11 update installation errors
The installation failures, often accompanied by messages like “Something didn’t go as planned. Undoing changes,” and log entries indicating “SpaceCheck” and “ServicingBootFiles failed,” occurred when the ESP had 10 MB or less of available space.
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Meta AI customer support tricked into forwarding password reset codes
Cybercriminals engaged with Meta’s AI chatbot, convincing it to initiate a password reset sequence for a user’s account without proper identity verification.
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Grand Theft Auto V cheat service Atlas Menu hacked, user data exposed
The breach, reported by Have I Been Pwned, exposed nearly 64,000 accounts, including email addresses, usernames, scrambled passwords, IP addresses, and support tickets.
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Attackers are exploiting Palo Alto Networks defect that initially flew under the radar
Researchers and threat hunters are scrambling to respond to an actively exploited authentication-bypass vulnerability affecting Palo Alto Networks customers’ firewalls. The company initially tagged CVE-2026-0257 with a medium-severity rating when it disclosed the defect May 13, but quickly reassessed it as critical after Rapid7 observed and confirmed active exploitation in the wild. The Cybersecurity and…
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Hackers hijack thousands of sites for ClickFix and FakeUpdate attacks
A threat actor tracked as DriveSurge has been operating large-scale malware distribution campaigns using ClickFix and FakeUpdates techniques on compromised sites. […]
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Red Hat npm packages compromised to steal developer credentials
More than 30 npm packages under Red Hat’s ‘@redhat-cloud-services’ namespace were compromised in a supply-chain attack that distributed a new variant of the Shai-Hulud credential-stealing malware, dubbed “Miasma.” […]
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Fake Claude Code Installers Deliver Credential-Stealing Malware
Developers searching for Claude Code installation instructions could be walking into a sophisticated malware campaign that disguises itself as legitimate AI tooling documentation. Researchers found dozens of fake Claude Code and developer platform sites designed to steal credentials, API keys, and cryptocurrency. “The attack chain runs on the same unchecked trust that makes AI developer…
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Tina Peters, convicted in election-security breach, emerges defiant and vows legal fight
Former Mesa County, Colorado election clerk Tina Peters remained unapologetic in her first public interview since her prison sentence was commuted, reiterating many of the same conspiratorial beliefs about elections while vowing to recover her health and fight on in court to have her criminal record expunged. In an interview with former Trump campaign manager…
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PAN-OS authentication bypass bug added to list of exploited vulnerabilities
While NIST upgraded the bug to 9.1, experts say teams must focus more on how attackers can exploit this flaw to gain VPN access.
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Anthropic Moves Toward IPO as OpenAI Competition Heats Up
Anthropic has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO), becoming the latest artificial intelligence giant to move toward the public markets and potentially beating rival OpenAI to a public debut. The Claude developer submitted a draft registration statement to the SEC on June 1, a…
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AI security’s cost bottleneck isn’t tokens – it’s validation
Experts say attempting to replace deterministic tools and human analysts with AI could cost companies more.
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
USPS moving forward with mail-in ballot changes as courts weigh Trump’s election order
The U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with mail-in ballot restrictions, following a court’s rejection of a request by voting rights groups to immediately block an executive order from President Donald Trump ordering the changes. A new regulation proposed last Friday seeks to apply “uniform standards for the mailing of absentee ballots to and from…
AI, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Oracle’s first monthly patch release fixes 35 flaws, including 11 rated ‘critical’
Oracle has released the first security fixes in its new monthly Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU) cycle, designed to address urgent vulnerabilities that can’t wait for the company’s quarterly patching. The initial batch addresses 35 flaws, including several for which exploit code is publicly available. In total, there are 11 flaws rated ‘critical’, 18 rated…
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What One Predator Case Can Reveal About an Online Platform’s Safety Gaps
When a predator contacts a child through an online platform, the details of how it happened often expose…
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Miasma Supply Chain Attack Compromises Red Hat npm Packages with Credential-Stealing Worm
A new Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack campaign, codenamed Miasma, has compromised @redhat-cloud-services packages to steal credentials and secrets from developer machines and deliver a self-propagating worm. “This is effectively a Mini Shai-Hulud campaign: it uses the same core tactics of install-time execution, credential harvesting, CI/CD targeting, encrypted exfiltration, and potential
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Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant” bot into resetting account passwords. A screenshot from a video released on…
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Attackers use ChatGPT feature to spread malware
The campaign discovered by Push Security, dubbed “LLMShare,” utilizes Google ads to direct users searching for ChatGPT to a malicious shared page hosted on the legitimate chatgpt.com domain.