Open-source dependencies make up a large percentage of the code in production applications, and most vulnerability checks still run late in the pipeline, inside CI/CD systems or after a release ships. Meterian is moving those checks earlier with HEIDI, a free plugin for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs that flags vulnerable packages and offers…
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Linux kernel maintainers suggest a ‘kill switch’ to protect systems until a zero-day vulnerability is patched
Linux server admins may get the ability to turn off a vulnerable function in the OS kernel until a patch for a zero-day vulnerability is ready, if a proposal from a kernel developer and maintainer is accepted by the open source community. The idea of a kill switch for privileged operators has been suggested by…
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Official CheckMarx Jenkins package compromised with infostealer
Checkmarx warned over the weekend that a rogue version of its Jenkins Application Security Testing (AST) plugin had been published on the Jenkins Marketplace. […]
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AI Is Reshaping Software Supply Chain Risk
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how developers build software, but security controls are struggling to keep pace. According to Willem Delbare, co-founder and CEO of Aikido Security, AI-assisted development is fundamentally changing the software supply chain threat model by increasing automation around code generation, dependency selection, and tool installation. “As of 2025, 84% of developers…
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Identity security firm SailPoint discloses GitHub repository breach
SailPoint disclosed a GitHub repository breach on April 20. The company contained the incident and said no customer data was affected. SailPoint is a cybersecurity company that provides identity security and identity governance solutions for enterprises. Its products help organizations manage and control user access to systems, applications, and sensitive data. SailPoint revealed a cybersecurity…
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CVE-2026-43500 and CVE-2026-43284: Dirty Frag Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw Raises Post-Compromise Risk
Linux local privilege escalation bugs remain especially dangerous when they turn a limited foothold into full root access. The CVE-2026-43500 vulnerability is the RxRPC half of the Dirty Frag exploit chain, which Microsoft says is already linked to limited in-the-wild post-compromise abuse, while Qualys describes it as a page-cache write issue that can let an…
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Complimentary virtual training: Get hands-on with AWS Security Services
If you’re looking to strengthen your organization’s security posture on Amazon Web Services (AWS) but aren’t sure where to start, then we’re here to help. Security Activation Days are complimentary, virtual, hands-on workshops designed to help you get practical experience with AWS security services in a single session. What to expect Each Security Activation Day…
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Breach Secure Now Helps MSPs Secure SMB AI Use
Breach Secure Now is launching its AI Risk to Adoption Program, a new channel-focused offering designed to help managed service providers guide small and midsize businesses from unmanaged AI use toward secure, structured adoption. Art Gross, founder and CEO of Breach Secure Now (BSN), said MSPs are well-positioned to lead those conversations because AI risk…
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Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI
Google’s threat intelligence researchers have linked a zero-day exploit to AI-assisted development by a criminal group. The exploit targeted a popular open-source web-based system administration tool. It allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication once they had valid user credentials. The flaw stemmed from a semantic logic error, a case where a developer hardcoded a trust…
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Google discovers weaponized zero-day exploits created with AI
The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) today released evidence of a zero-day exploit developed by a cybercriminal group with the help of AI. It marks the first time the security research group has identified what it believes to be an AI-crafted zero-day exploit in the wild. While evidence of threat actors using AI models for…
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SailPoint Agentic Fabric expands identity governance to autonomous AI agents
SailPoint has introduced SailPoint Agentic Fabric, a new platform designed to help enterprises secure AI agents and other non-human identities at scale. As organizations deploy autonomous AI agents across cloud environments, applications, and endpoints, they face a growing governance gap. Unlike traditional users, AI agents can act at machine speed, often without clear ownership, oversight,…
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Malicious Hugging Face model masquerading as OpenAI release hits 244K downloads
A malicious Hugging Face repository posing as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows systems and logged 244,000 downloads before being removed, raising fresh concerns about how enterprises source and validate AI models from public repositories. The repository, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, impersonated OpenAI’s legitimate Privacy Filter release, copied its model card almost word-for-word, and included…
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AI security is repeating endpoint security’s biggest mistake
The security industry is experiencing déjà vu, and most teams haven’t recognized it yet. If you were in the trenches during the early 2000s, you remember the antivirus arms race. IT teams buried under signature updates. Configuration baselines checked obsessively. Patch cycles treated as the primary defense. Meanwhile, attackers pivoted. They wrote malware that matched…
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Official JDownloader site served malware to Windows and Linux users between May 6 and May 7
JDownloader website was hacked to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers carrying a Python RAT between May 6–7, 2026. JDownloader official website was compromised in a supply chain attack that replaced legitimate Windows and Linux installers with malicious files between May 6 and May 7, 2026. JDownloader is a free, open-source download management application designed…
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Braintrust security incident raises concerns over AI supply chain risks
Braintrust warned customers to rotate API keys after hackers breached an AWS account, exposing secrets tied to cloud-based AI models. AI observability startup Braintrust warned customers to rotate API keys after attackers gained unauthorized access to one of the company’s AWS accounts, potentially exposing secrets used to connect to cloud-based AI models. The company said…
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How Inefficient MSP Service Desks Drive Burnout
As MSP service desk operations become increasingly complex, inefficiency has emerged as a major contributor to technician burnout. Fragmented ticketing systems, overloaded inboxes, and overly complex workflows can demoralize teams and ultimately lead to burnout. At the same time, MSP teams are managing growing ticket volumes and alert fatigue as businesses become more interconnected and…
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Your CTEM program is probably ignoring MCP. Here’s how to fix it
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the connective tissue of modern AI tooling and has quietly become one of the most significant blind spots in modern security programs. Like shadow IT before it, shadow AI — especially as it relates to MCP risk — introduces a new class of exposures that security teams lack adequate tooling…
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Pen tests show AI security flaws far more severe than legacy software bugs
Penetration tests of AI-based systems are revealing a greater percentage of high-risk flaws than those discovered in legacy systems. Security consultancy Cobalt’s annual State of Pentesting Report reveals that 32% of all AI and large language model (LLM) findings are rated as high risk — nearly 2.5 times the rate (13%) of severe flaws found…
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Snyk integrates Claude to advance AI-native application security
Snyk has announced it is leveraging Anthropic’s Claude models to advance software security. Snyk has integrated Claude into the Snyk AI Security Platform, enabling automated vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and developer-ready fixes across code, dependencies, containers, and AI-generated artifacts. The threat driving that integration is real and accelerating. It’s a challenge that JPMorganChase’s Global Technology Leadership…
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April 2026 Leadership Recap: New CEOs and Promotions Start Q2
We’re at the start of Q2 of 2026, as hard as that is to believe – and with that comes new appointments to company leadership and promotions across the channel. Organizations such as Syspro, Kiteworks, Coro, and Paessler have all made significant updates to their executive benches to enhance their strategies. Read more about the…
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AI clones: the good, the bad, and the ugly
AI is capable of mimicking a real person. It’s clear this capability exists, and the ethics of using AI for this purpose are often very clear. But increasingly, new applications are leading to ethically murky results. The good For example, the CEO of a company, or a politician, could choose to create a clone using…
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13 new critical holes in JavaScript sandbox allow execution of arbitrary code
Thirteen critical vulnerabilities have been found in the vm2 JavaScript sandbox package that could allow an attacker’s code to escape the container and do nasty things to IT environments. As a result, developers using this library in their applications are urged to update the software to the latest version, which is currently 3.11.2. The warnings…
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Ollama vulnerability highlights danger of AI frameworks with unrestricted access
A critical vulnerability in Ollama poses a direct risk of sensitive information leaks to more than 300,000 internet-exposed servers, researchers have found. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-7482, stems from an out-of-bounds heap read in Ollama’s model quantization pipeline. Ollama is one of the most popular frameworks for running AI models on local hardware. The flaw…
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ICYMI: April 2026 @AWS Security
Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our new, monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered AI security, identity and access management, threat intelligence, data protection, and multicloud operations.…
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Inside the World of Laptop Farms: How They Help Foreign Remote Workers Look U.S.-Based to Earn More Money
The expansion of remote work fundamentally altered enterprise security models. Organizations that once relied on tightly controlled office environments suddenly began shipping pre-configured corporate laptops to workers they would never physically meet. VPN enrollment, SaaS identity platforms, remote onboarding systems, and cloud collaboration tools rapidly became the new trust perimeter. Criminal organizations and state-sponsored operators…
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Deepfakes Are Exposing Gaps in Cyber Insurance Policies
Deepfakes are creating new cybersecurity risks that many organizations — and their cyber insurance policies — may not be fully prepared to address. As attackers increasingly use AI-generated voice, video, and identity impersonation in fraud and ransomware attacks, cybersecurity experts warn businesses must reassess both security strategies and cyber insurance coverage. During a recent Channel…
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CloudZ RAT Abuses Windows Phone Link to Steal OTPs
A malware campaign is exploiting a built-in Windows feature to intercept sensitive data — without ever touching the victim’s phone. Cisco Talos researchers identified the CloudZ remote access trojan (RAT) using a custom plugin to monitor Microsoft’s Phone Link application and potentially capture SMS-based one-time passwords (OTPs). “MFA bypass is becoming a bigger and bigger…
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American duo sentenced for hosting laptop farms for North Korean IT workers
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison for running laptop farms that facilitated North Korea’s expansive remote IT workers scheme, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Matthew Issac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince both received and hosted laptops at their residences to dupe U.S. companies into thinking remote IT workers they hired were…
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World Password Day 2026: Why Strong Passwords Alone Are No Longer Enough
Every year, World Password Day reminds individuals and organizations to create stronger passwords, avoid password reuse, and enable multi-factor authentication (MFA). While these practices remain important, new research from Proton suggests that traditional password security advice is no longer enough to protect modern businesses from cyber threats. Key Takeaways Despite 92% of small businesses investing…
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Critical Palo Alto Networks software bug hits exposed firewalls
Palo Alto Networks is warning customers about a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting its PAN-OS user-ID authentication portal that is already being exploited in the wild. The flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on exposed firewalls, the company said in a security advisory. PAN-OS is the software that runs all Palo…
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Node.js 26 ships with Temporal API enabled by default
Developers managing JavaScript runtimes have a new major version to evaluate. Node.js 26.0.0 brings the long-awaited Temporal API to the platform alongside an updated V8 engine, a refreshed HTTP client, and several long-flagged removals that will require code changes in some applications. Temporal API ready for production code Temporal, a date and time API designed…
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Ten years later, has the GDPR fulfilled its purpose?
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the EU’s adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation, which became mandatory for all companies beginning on May 25, 2018. The aim of the GDPR was simple, but important: to improve individuals’ control over their personal data. This regulation replaced Directive 95/46/EC with the clear purpose of unifying data…
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Open-source MCP server monitoring for Python apps
Pythonic Model Context Protocol servers handle tool calls, session events, module imports, and subprocess activity. BlueRock has released MCP Python Hooks, an open source runtime sensor that gives developers a way to capture those signals without modifying application code. What the sensor captures The tool wraps a Python process at startup so its hooks initialize…
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Multi-model AI is creating a routing headache for enterprises
Application teams are moving AI inference into production systems that support business operations. Enterprises are expanding traffic management, identity controls, observability, and routing systems for multiple AI models and environments. F5’s 2026 State of Application Strategy Report found that 78% of organizations operate their own inference services and 77% identify inference as their primary AI…
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An Adaptive Cyber Analytics UI for Web Honeypot Logs [Guest Diary], (Wed, May 6th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Eric Roldan, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Through the expansion of Large Language Models (LLMs), cybersecurity has exploded with a variety of tools for both offensive and defensive purposes. A majority of software and cyber tools are integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions into their…
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A DOD contractor’s API flaw exposed military course data and service member records
A defense technology company with Department of Defense contracts exposed user records and military training materials through API endpoints that lacked meaningful authorization checks, according to an account published by Strix, an open-source autonomous security testing project. The issue affected Schemata, an AI-powered virtual training platform used in military and defense settings. According to Strix,…
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Tanium Teams With ServiceNow on Autonomous IT Solution
Autonomous IT organization Tanium is joining forces with ServiceNow to deliver a joint Autonomous IT solution, ITOM AI Prime. This bundled offering integrates Tanium Autonomous IT Platform with ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM) AI Prime into a single solution. Tanium and ServiceNow continue to support integrated workflows across IT operations The joint solution provides a…
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ServiceNow continues its AI transformation with an integrated experience
ServiceNow has unveiled updates to its workflow management platform advancing its redefinition of itself as the “AI control tower for business reinvention” at its Knowledge customer event this week. The AI Control Tower product itself, introduced at last year’s event, gets new integrations with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and…
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Cybersecurity M&A Targets AI Agents and Browser Security
AI has upended long-held assumptions about cybersecurity, and a wave of acquisitions by large vendors indicates a race to secure the tools and talent needed to navigate the new landscape. This is a new layer to the cybersecurity stack, adding agents, prompts, and data flows to the list of items that need to be monitored,…
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ServiceNow Pushes AI from Assistant to Operator
ServiceNow used its Knowledge 2026 conference to make a pretty direct case for where it thinks enterprise AI is headed. The company does not want AI sitting off to the side as a helpful assistant waiting to be called upon. It wants AI agents inside the systems where work actually happens, with enough governance to…
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Train like you fight: Why cyber operations teams need no-notice drills
St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto recently executed a full Code Orange simulation: A mass casualty emergency protocol requiring the activation of every clinical and operational team across the hospital. As a Level 1 trauma centre, it conducts large-scale exercises involving teams across the entire hospital: Emergency, surgery, communications, administration. The exercise is not a compliance…
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Supply-chain attacks take aim at your AI coding agents
Attackers too are looking to cash in on the AI coding craze, adapting their supply-chain techniques to target coding agents themselves. Many AI agents autonomously scan package registries such as NPM and PyPI for components to integrate into their coding projects, and attackers are beginning to take advantage of this. Bait packages with persuasive descriptions…
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CISA boasts AI automation improvements to threat analysis, mission support
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has gotten “by far” the biggest gains from artificial intelligence automation in its security operations unit to help analysts sift through threats, but it’s also proven valuable elsewhere within the agency, CISA officials said Tuesday. It’s “really allowing those analysts to do triage very fast, so they focus on…
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Introducing AI traffic analysis dashboards for AWS WAF
As AI agents, bots, and programmatic access become an increasingly significant portion of web traffic, organizations need better tools to understand, analyze, and manage this activity. Today, we’re excited to announce AI Traffic Analysis dashboards for AWS WAF protection packs—also known as web access control lists (web ACLs)—providing comprehensive visibility into AI bot and agent…
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Oracle will patch more often to counter AI cybersecurity threat
Oracle plans to issue security patches for its ERP, database, and other software on a monthly cycle, rather than quarterly, to respond to the increased pace of AI-enabled software vulnerability discovery. Other software vendors, notably Microsoft, SAP, and Adobe, already release patches on a monthly beat, always on the second Tuesday of each month. Oracle,…
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Five ways to use Kiro and Amazon Q to strengthen your security posture
A Monday morning security alert flags unauthorized access attempts, security group misconfigurations, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy violations. Your team needs answers fast. Security teams are using Kiro and Amazon Q Developer to handle repetitive tasks—scanning resources, drafting policies, and researching Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)—so engineers can focus on risk decisions…
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Netrio Expands MSP Services with AI Advisory Practice
Netrio has launched a new AI advisory and transformation practice to help mid-market enterprises move artificial intelligence projects beyond experimentation and into measurable business use. The McKinney, Texas-based MSP said the new offering will support customers across AI evaluation, strategy, governance, deployment, and adoption. The practice is designed for organizations struggling with disconnected AI pilots,…
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Android Zero-Click RCE Vulnerability Enables Remote Shell Access
Google has released a patch for an Android vulnerability that allows remote code execution (RCE) without requiring any user interaction. The flaw could “… lead to remote (proximal/adjacent) code execution as the shell user with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation,” said Google in its security advisory. Inside the…
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VIAVI CyberFlood CF1000 pushes 400G validation for multi-terabit AI data centers
VIAVI Solutions has announced the launch of its next-generation CyberFlood CF1000 Appliance, a native 400G security and application performance test platform for the validation of multi-terabit security and AI data center infrastructures at scale. Developed for network equipment vendors, hyperscale data center operators and service providers, the CyberFlood CF1000 enables OSI Layer 4-7 validation of…
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Stealthy malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to siphon SMS OTPs from enterprise PCs
A newly identified malware campaign is abusing Microsoft’s Phone Link feature to intercept SMS-based one-time passwords and other sensitive mobile data directly from Windows systems. The activity, first observed by Cisco Talos in January 2026, involves a remote access trojan dubbed CloudZ and a custom plugin named Pheno that together allow attackers to harvest credentials…
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Stealthy malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to siphon SMS OTPs from enterprise PCs
A newly identified malware campaign is abusing Microsoft’s Phone Link feature to intercept SMS-based one-time passwords and other sensitive mobile data directly from Windows systems. The activity, first observed by Cisco Talos in January 2026, involves a remote access trojan dubbed CloudZ and a custom plugin named Pheno that together allow attackers to harvest credentials…
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Beyond the Checkbox: A Strategic Guide to Software Penetration Testing in 2026
Here is a guide to software penetration testing. Your software has vulnerabilities. The only real question is whether you find them first — or an attacker does. That’s not alarmism. That’s the current state of application security. According to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, the average cost of a data breach in…
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Microsoft, Google push AI agent governance into enterprise IT mainstream
Microsoft and Google are adding new controls for AI agents, as enterprise IT teams try to keep up with tools that can access corporate data and act across business applications. Microsoft’s Agent 365, made generally available for commercial customers on May 1, is designed to help organizations discover, govern, and secure AI agents, including those…
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CISOs step up to the security workforce challenge
A robust cybersecurity program needs a range of skilled people, yet many CISOs continue to face an ongoing skills shortage — and the squeeze may only get worse as AI gains traction. Some 95% of cybersecurity practitioners and decision-makers noted at least one security skills gap at their organization, with almost 60% citing critical or significant…
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Maker of AI Targeting System for Drones Faces Protests for Shipments to Israeli Military
A company in Portland, Oregon, that specializes in AI targeting for drones has made significant shipments of materials to military contractors in Israel, according to cargo data reviewed by The Intercept. The shipments raise the possibility thaat a boutique Pacific Northwest tech firm has helped the Israeli military attack people in places like Gaza, Lebanon,…
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Why most zero-trust architectures fail at the traffic layer
Zero trust has become one of the most widely adopted security models in enterprise environments. Organizations invest heavily in identity systems, access policies and modern security tooling. On paper, these environments look well-protected. Yet during incidents, a different reality often emerges. I have worked with organizations where zero-trust initiatives were fully implemented from an identity…
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Anthropic Mythos spurs White House to weigh pre-release reviews for high-risk AI models
The Trump administration is in early discussions about whether advanced AI models should be vetted before public release, according to reporting from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Axios. The conversations center on systems capable of facilitating cyberattacks, particularly models that could help users identify and exploit software vulnerabilities. Officials are considering…
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MOVEit automation flaws could enable full system compromise
Progress fixes critical MOVEit Automation flaws, including an authentication bypass bug that could let attackers gain unauthorized access to systems. Progress Software addressed two vulnerabilities in MOVEit Automation, a critical authentication bypass flaw tracked as CVE-2026-4670 and a privilege escalation issue tracked as CVE-2026-5174. If exploited, these bugs could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access…
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Agentic AI and the Evolution of Code Security in Modern Development
The rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping how software is developed, tested, and secured. In a recent discussion with Jeremy Katz, VP of Code Security at Sonar, key insights emerged about how AI-driven workflows are accelerating development while introducing new security challenges that organizations must address. Agentic Workflows in Modern Development Agentic…
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Securing open proxies in your AWS environment
This article shows you how to identify and secure open proxies in your AWS environment to prevent abuse, protect your IP address reputation, and control costs. An open proxy is a server that forwards traffic on behalf of internet users without requiring authentication. While proxies can support legitimate use cases such as load balancing or…
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Start small, but start now: How to bring AI into your small business
Small and medium-sized businesses recognize the transformative nature of AI, with two-thirds of respondents in a recent ASUS survey agreeing AI is creating a significant evolution in business practices, and some even calling it “generational.” The question, then, is how best to realize AI’s potential. For SMBs, following a simple, three-pronged strategy is a good…
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TeamPCP Weekly Analysis: 2026-W18 (2026-04-27 through 2026-05-03), (Mon, May 4th)
Summary The most significant development of the week was the April 29 to 30 Mini Shai-Hulud worm, a self-propagating supply chain campaign that compromised four official SAP npm packages, two PyTorch Lightning PyPI versions, two intercom-client npm versions, and the intercom-php Packagist package across three package ecosystems. OX Security tracked roughly 1,800 GitHub repositories created…
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Penske Logistics launches platform for real-time supply chain visibility
Penske Logistics has announced the launch of Supply Chain Insight, a secure technology platform and mobile application that provides customers with a real-time view of their supply chain operations across transportation and warehousing. Supply chain leaders are under increased pressure to drive greater operational efficiency in the face of rising fuel costs, evolving regulations and…
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Progress warns of critical MOVEit Automation auth bypass flaw
Progress Software warned customers to patch a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in its MOVEit Automation enterprise-grade managed file transfer (MFT) application. […]
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Microsoft confirms April Windows updates cause backup failures
Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2026 security updates are causing failures in third-party backup applications using the psmounterex.sys driver. […]
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Why data centers now belong on the critical infrastructure list
Missile and drone attacks that took out cloud data centers in the Middle East underscored a critical vulnerability in the modern economy: reliance on digital infrastructure that sustains competitive advantage and operational continuity for corporations, nations, and militaries. The outages and downstream disruption were a preview of a new form of strategic and operational risk.…
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The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore
Hiring fake IT workers has been a growing problem in recent years — but it’s often a problem very few want to admit to. From Fortune 500 companies down to smaller organizations, remote hiring practices have been exploited to grant trusted access to individuals who are not who they claim to be creating an insider…
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Introducing Wallarm Middle East Cloud: Built for Data Residency Compliance
As API and AI adoption grows across the Middle East, so do the expectations around how data is handled. For many organizations operating in this region, it’s not just about securing applications. It’s about doing it in a way that keeps data in-country and aligned with local requirements. Today, we’re introducing the Wallarm Middle East…
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Security posture improvement in the AI era
It’s only been a few weeks since Anthropic announced the Claude Mythos Preview model and launched Project Glasswing with AWS and other leading organizations. This has generated a lot of discussion about the future of cybersecurity and what the ever-increasing capabilities of foundation models mean to organizations. As AWS CISO Amy Herzog pointed out in…
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Windows shell spoofing vulnerability puts sensitive data at risk
Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have sounded the alarm about a Windows shell spoofing vulnerability that is already being exploited by attackers. It is not clear by whom as yet, but the main suspects are hackers in Russia. CISA has mandated that all federal agencies patch this vulnerability, designated CVE-2026-32202, by…
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Windows shell spoofing vulnerability puts sensitive data at risk
Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have sounded the alarm about a Windows shell spoofing vulnerability that is already being exploited by attackers. It is not clear by whom as yet, but the main suspects are hackers in Russia. CISA has mandated that all federal agencies patch this vulnerability, designated CVE-2026-32202, by…
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Canonical Hit by Sustained DDoS Attack, Disrupting Ubuntu Services Worldwide
Canonical’s web infrastructure was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, disrupting core Ubuntu services relied on by developers and security teams globally. “A direct extortion message sent to the Ubuntu team by the hacktivist group ‘The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq – 313 Tea,’ has been detected,” said VECERT Analyzer in their X…
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Musk Warns of Killer AI — While He and the Rest of Silicon Valley Cash In on AI That Kills
The bitter courtroom brawl between Elon Musk and Sam Altman captivating the tech industry this week revolves in no small part around fears that artificial intelligence technologies both men are building could spiral out of control and exterminate humanity. Such far-looking scenarios obscure the fact that tech companies are enlisting to kill today. Musk’s break…
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25 great uses for an old Android device
Got extra smartphones sitting around your office? How about tablets? As we move multiple generations into mobile technology, more and more of us are building up collections of old, dated devices from both our work and our personal lives. And more often than not, those devices do little more than take up space and gather…
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Open-source privacy proxy masks PII before prompts reach external AI services
Enterprise developers routinely send prompts to external large language models that contain customer emails, support transcripts, and other identifying information, often without a sanitization layer between the application and the API. Dataiku has released Kiji Privacy Proxy, an open-source local gateway that detects and masks personally identifiable information before requests leave the network. The tool…
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TeamPCP Hits SAP Packages With ‘Mini Shai-Hulud’ Attack
Several npm packages for SAP’s cloud application development ecosystem have been compromised as TeamPCP’s supply chain attacks broaden.
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SAP npm Supply Chain Attack Targets Developer Credentials
A supply chain attack targeting SAP npm packages is putting enterprise development environments at risk. Aikido researchers discovered malicious code designed to steal credentials and secrets from developer systems and CI/CD pipelines. The attack “… harvests local developer credentials, GitHub and npm tokens, GitHub Actions secrets, and cloud secrets from AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes,”…
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Gartner sees untamed growth in agentic AI
Fortune 500 enterprises will be deploying armies of AI agents by 2028 — to the tune of 150,000 digital “workers,” Gartner said in a survey released this week. That would represent a sharp jump from the average of about 15 agents deployed per company last year. And agents as actual co-working tools are likely to…
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How Criminals Created SMS Blasters to Fake Cellphone Towers and Hack Thousands of Phones in Canada
Canadian authorities have dismantled what appears to be one of the most technically sophisticated financially motivated telecom attacks publicly documented in North America after arresting three suspects accused of operating vehicle-mounted “SMS blaster” systems that impersonated legitimate cellular towers, induced nearby mobile devices into attaching to rogue infrastructure, delivered phishing messages to those devices—likely through…
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April KB5083769 Windows 11 update causes backup software failures
The April 2026 KB5083769 security update breaks third-party backup applications from multiple vendors on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. […]
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SHARED INTEL Q&A: PKI’s unfinished business—’digital passports’ for content, models and agents
As if keeping track of machine identities wasn’t hard enough. AI agents are now arriving by the thousands — and most enterprises are just handing them borrowed credentials and hoping for the best. Meanwhile, the cryptographic infrastructure asked to absorb these threats faces a hard regulatory countdown requiring digital certificates — the credentials securing every…
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Cisco Introduces Model Provenance Kit to Strengthen AI Supply Chain Security
Organizations are rapidly adopting AI models, but many still lack visibility into where those models come from or how they’ve been modified along the way. Cisco is aiming to close that gap with the release of its open-source Model Provenance Kit, a tool designed to verify the origins of AI models and improve trust across…
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CVE-2026-41940: Critical cPanel & WHM Authentication Bypass Exposes Hosting Servers to Admin Takeover
A newly disclosed CVE-2026-41940 vulnerability in cPanel & WHM has put internet-facing hosting infrastructure under urgent scrutiny. The flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and can let an unauthenticated remote attacker bypass authentication and gain administrative access, while cPanel’s advisory says the issue affects cPanel software, including DNSOnly, across all versions after 11.40. For…
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Dismantle implicit trust in OT networks, CISA tells critical infrastructure operators
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has asked owners and operators of operational technology to stop assuming their networks are safe, and has released joint guidance to adapt zero trust principles for industrial systems that support US power, water, transportation, building automation, and weapons-support infrastructure. OT owners should design controls on the assumption…
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SAP npm package attack highlights risks in developer tools and CI/CD pipelines
A supply chain attack on SAP-related npm packages has put fresh scrutiny on the developer tools and build workflows that enterprises rely on to produce software. The campaign, referred to as “mini Shai-Hulud,” affected packages used in SAP’s JavaScript and cloud application development ecosystem. The malicious versions added installation-time code that could steal developer credentials,…
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Stopping the quiet drift toward excessive agency with re-permissioning
In their infancy, LLM models were not difficult to contain. You gave a prompt; they responded, and if something was wrong it was usually “just text.” This could take the form of a summary that missed the best bits, a tone-deaf line or a wordy sentence. But then, agents were co-opted as the core reasoning…
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Researchers unearth industrial sabotage malware that predated Stuxnet by 5 years
Designed to cripple Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, the 2010 Stuxnet worm set a cybersecurity precedent as the first time a nation escalated its activities from strategic espionage to sabotage in cyberspace. Now, a new discovery suggests such operations were in full swing years before Stuxnet came to light. Researchers from SentinelOne have tracked down samples…
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cPanel Vulnerability Exposes Servers to Takeover
An authentication vulnerability in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) is putting web hosting environments at risk, prompting the company to release an emergency patch and warn administrators to act quickly. The flaw affects multiple authentication paths and could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to servers if left unpatched. “Let’s call this what it…
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GitHub Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution With a Single Git Push
A vulnerability in GitHub’s infrastructure could have allowed attackers to execute code on backend systems using nothing more than a standard git push command. The flaw affected both GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES), exposing millions of repositories to potential compromise before it was patched. “By exploiting an injection flaw in GitHub’s internal protocol, any…
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Designing trust and safety into Amazon Bedrock powered applications
Generative AI brings promising innovation, transforming how individuals and organizations approach everything from customer service to content creation and more. As AI continues to expand its capabilities, organizations are increasingly focused on how they can integrate the responsible AI concepts into the development lifecycle of their AI applications. Research from Accenture and Amazon Web Services…
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Dreame Launches More Than 20 Smart Home Products at DREAME NEXT Living Next Showcase, Highlighting Bionic Robotic Arm Platform Expansion
Dreame Technology, a global high-end technology company, today launched more than 20 smart home products and dozens of industry-first technologies at the Living Next segment of DREAME NEXT in San Francisco. The centerpiece of the showcase is the expansion of Dreame’s bionic robotic arm technology into air conditioners, range hoods, steam ovens, and dishwashers, demonstrating how a core capability continuously evolves and compounds across product categories. Dreame first introduced bionic robotic arm technology in 2023. The technology has since been continuously refined…
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SAP npm Packages Compromised by “Mini Shai-Hulud” Credential-Stealing Malware
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about a new supply chain attack campaign targeting SAP-related npm Packages with credential-stealing malware. According to reports from Aikido Security, SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Google-owned Wiz, the campaign – calling itself the mini Shai-Hulud – has affected the following packages associated with SAP’s JavaScript and cloud application
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Netskope, Rubrik, Commvault Expand Google Cloud Security
At this year’s Google Cloud Next 2026 conference in Las Vegas, tech and cybersecurity companies across the channel unveiled their latest announcements spanning AI, security, infrastructure, and more. While artificial intelligence was firmly front and center, themes around enhanced cybersecurity, particularly AI guardrails and cyber resilience, emerged as equally important priorities. In this recap, we…
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AWS leans on prior ingenuity to face future AI and quantum threats
As Amazon celebrates the 20th anniversary of its AWS cloud this year, the world’s biggest cloud computing provider now faces two giant cybersecurity threats — AI and quantum. How the company will navigate these emerging issues to ensure the security and resilience of systems used by its millions of corporate customers remains an evolving question.…
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Margin vs. Madness: Fixing MSSP Top 5 Operational Nightmares
Leading a managed security services provider has never been a comfortable job. And it isn’t now, though the demand for MSSPs has never been higher. The global threat landscape is expanding faster than most enterprise security teams can keep pace with, and organizations across every sector are turning to managed providers to fill the gap. For MSSP leaders, this…
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Virtue AI PolicyGuard turns AI policies into enforceable runtime guardrails
Virtue AI has announced PolicyGuard, a system that enables enterprises to define, edit, and enforce custom AI runtime protection guardrails across models, agents, and applications. Most organizations have “AI acceptable use policies.” When they need to enforce those policies, however, the tooling is static, fragmented, and generic: built for no industry in particular and no…
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AWS unveils trio of key AI strategy announcements
AWS on Tuesday announced an expansion of its partnership with OpenAI and launched a major new agentic AI push with the introduction of a new desktop app for Amazon Quick, a personal AI assistant, and an expansion of Amazon Connect from a single product into four distinct offerings. News of the enhanced partnership comes 24…
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SAS makes AI governance the centerpiece of its agent strategy
Enterprises are quickly moving from AI experimentation to deployment, however, when agentic AI begins making more decisions, invoking more tools, and operating across fragmented data environments, there can be an erosion of visibility, governance, and trust. SAS laid out its answer to that problem at its annual conference, SAS Innovate, introducing a new family of…
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More fake extensions linked to GlassWorm found in Open VSX code marketplace
The threat actor seeding the Open VSX code marketplace with fraudulent extensions that download the GlassWorm malware has uploaded 73 more impersonated links, as its attempt to infect software supply chains continues. Philipp Burckhardt, head of threat intelligence at Socket, which revealed the latest activity, called it a “significant escalation” in the gang’s activity, after…