A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. CVE-2026-9082: Drupal’s Highly Critical SQL Injection Flaw Is Already Under Active Attack Why pure extortion is…
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Anthropic’s Project Glasswing: 10,000+ Vulnerabilities Found in One Month, and the Patching Problem Has Never Been More Obvious
Anthropic said its AI Project Glasswing found over 10,000 serious vulnerabilities in one month, exposing a growing patching gap. Anthropic announced on Friday that Project Glasswing, its defensive cybersecurity initiative built around Claude Mythos Preview, has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in the month since the program went live. The number is…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Drupal Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Drupal Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server, tracked as CVE-2026-9082 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Drupal issued a highly critical security patch on May…
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Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software
Anthropic on Friday disclosed that Project Glasswing has helped uncover more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across some of the most “systemically” important software across the world since the cybersecurity initiative went live last month. Project Glasswing is an effort led by the artificial intelligence (AI) company, as part of which a small set…
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RondoDox Botnet Exploits Critical 2018 Vulnerability to Hijack ASUS Routers
Cybersecurity firm VulnCheck reveals hackers are using a critical 2018 vulnerability to bypass authentication and hack over a million ASUS routers.
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Laravel-Lang PHP Packages Compromised to Deliver Cross-Platform Credential Stealer
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has targeted multiple PHP packages belonging to Laravel-Lang to deliver a comprehensive credential-stealing framework. The affected packages include – laravel-lang/lang laravel-lang/http-statuses laravel-lang/attributes laravel-lang/actions “The timing and pattern of the newly published tags
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Drupal Core SQL Injection Bug Actively Exploited, Added to CISA KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Drupal Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9082 (CVSS score: 6.5), an SQL injection vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Drupal Core. “Drupal Core
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Data Sanitization Challenges Are Increasing in the AI Era
Data sanitization has long played an important role in protecting sensitive information, but growing data volumes and stricter compliance requirements are making secure end-of-life data management more critical than ever. The 2026 State of Data Sanitization Report by Blancco highlights growing concerns among organizations regarding data privacy, regulatory pressure, and end-of-life device management. The report…
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Zscaler acquires Symmetry Systems to enhance AI security
The acquisition of Symmetry Systems is expected to bolster Zscaler’s cybersecurity offerings, particularly in protecting artificial intelligence applications.
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The Patching Race Was Already Lost. AI Just Made It Obvious.
AI just rewrote the offensive economics of finding and weaponizing vulnerabilities. Most peers I’m talking to, and most vendor write-ups I’m reading, already get that patching alone isn’t enough. Yet patching still tends to land near the top of most response lists, and from what I’ve seen in the past 30 years, it’s the part…
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FBI warns of Kali Oauth stealers
The FBI has warned of the danger from a new wave of phishing attacks generated by a tool called Kali365. It enables cyber criminals to obtain Microsoft 365 access tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protocols without intercepting the user’s credentials by capturing Oauth tokens linked to the victim’s Microsoft 365 account. The scam works…
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FBI warns of Kali Oauth stealers
The FBI has warned of the danger from a new wave of phishing attacks generated by a tool called Kali365. It enables cyber criminals to obtain Microsoft 365 access tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protocols without intercepting the user’s credentials by capturing Oauth tokens linked to the victim’s Microsoft 365 account. The scam works…
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Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub account. The inquiry comes as CISA is still struggling to contain…
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State officials urge Congress to reauthorize cybersecurity grant program
State officials emphasized that the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) provided essential aid to local governments, many of which lack dedicated cybersecurity staff and resources.
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AI-Driven Threats, Critical Vulnerabilities, and Supply Chain Breaches Define the Week in May 2026
Major Threats & Vulnerabilities AI-Powered Cyberattacks and Exploits The 2026 Verizon DBIR revealed that vulnerability exploitation has surpassed credential abuse as the leading breach vector, accounting for 31% of incidents. The report highlights how generative AI is accelerating attack automation and expanding third-party risk exposure, particularly among SMBs facing ransomware threats. Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities are…
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12 Common Online Scam Tactics: Shielding Yourself from Digital Deception
The Internet offers many opportunities for connection, information, and commerce. However, this digital landscape also harbors a dark side: common online scam tactics that trick unsuspecting users into revealing personal information or parting with their money. These scams can be sophisticated and persuasive; even the most tech-savvy individuals can fall victim. This guide explores various…
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Trend Micro warns of Apex One zero-day exploited in the wild
Japanese cybersecurity software company Trend Micro has addressed an Apex One zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks targeting Windows systems. […]
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Cork CEO Dan Candee on Evolution of Security Services & AI
Cork is pushing MSPs to rethink cybersecurity delivery as AI accelerates both business technology adoption and the sophistication of attackers. In an interview with Channel Insider, CEO Dan Candee said the company has moved beyond compliance reporting and intelligence into active security remediation tooling. As AI and other forces seem to push tighter deadlines for…
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Megalodon GitHub Attack Targets 5,561 Repos with Malicious CI/CD Workflows
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new automated campaign called Megalodon that has pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories within a six-hour window. “Using throwaway accounts and forged author identities (build-bot, auto-ci, ci-bot, pipeline-bot), the attacker injected GitHub Actions workflows containing base64-encoded bash payloads that exfiltrate CI
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Why your AI strategy stops where the PLC starts: Hard lessons from the OT frontlines
I spent two days at a substation connecting a major offshore wind farm to the grid. The control room featured three new AI-ready dashboards and a board mandate to “leverage machine learning for resilience.” It also had a maintenance laptop running Windows 7, literally taped to the inside of a cabinet because the Velcro had…
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CISA’s new KEV nomination form opens reporting to vendors and researchers
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched a new nomination form that lets researchers, vendors, and industry partners report known exploited vulnerabilities for possible inclusion in its KEV catalog. The form gives outside contributors a direct way to submit vulnerabilities to CISA. Email submissions remain available at vulnerability@cisa.dhs.gov for organizations and individuals who prefer that…
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Pros And Cons Of Open Source CMS
Today, we will show you the pros and cons of open-source CMS. In today’s digital landscape, Content Management Systems (CMS) are the cornerstones of website creation. These software applications empower users to publish content, manage media, and build websites without extensive coding knowledge. However, a crucial decision arises: Open-source or closed-source CMS? Let’s delve into…
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U.S. CISA adds Trend Micro Apex One and Langflow to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Trend Micro Apex One and Langflow flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2025-34291 Langflow Origin Validation Error Vulnerability…
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Identity as the primary attack surface: What modern breaches are really exploiting
The “retro” way “The thing about the old days is… they are the old days” – Slim Charles, The Wire Protecting a specified network perimeter was the main focus of enterprise security strategy for several decades. Businesses made significant investments in firewalls, intrusion detection systems, endpoint security and segmentation controls, all of which were built…
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CISA Adds Exploited Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerabilities to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-34291 (CVSS score: 9.4) – An origin validation error vulnerability in Langflow that could
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Microsoft patches two zero-day flaws in Defender
Microsoft released emergency fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities in the malware protection components of Microsoft Defender. The flaws allow local attackers to gain system-level privileges or cause the anti-malware service to stop working correctly. Both conditions are valuable in a malware attack, first to prevent detection if the system relies only on Microsoft endpoint protection…
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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft and Adobe flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2009-1537 Microsoft DirectX NULL…
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Lawmakers from both parties say CISA cuts have gone too far
Two cybersecurity-focused members of Congress agreed Thursday that reductions to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have done too much damage to an agency essential to defending civilian networks against foreign adversaries. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., and Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., spoke during a discussion at the National Cyber Innovation Forum. Despite representing different parties,…
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Trump postpones executive order focused on AI security
President Donald Trump said he would postpone the release of an executive order that would set up a 90-day testing and vetting regime for frontier AI models, hours before the White House was set to publicly announce the signing. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, Trump said he opted to delay the order…
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CISA chief frets about open-source vulnerabilities, delayed security improvements
Securing some of the open-source technology that serves as the backbone for all modern digital infrastructure is going to require some “hard decisions” amid a wave of malware attacks, the leader of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Thursday. “The open-source community is one that I’m particularly worried about when we start to think…
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7 Best Attack Surface Management Software in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders and security teams looking to improve visibility into organizational risks and reduce their attack surface in 2026. It covers the best attack surface management (ASM) software and the key features businesses should evaluate when selecting the right solution for proactive threat detection and risk mitigation. Key Points on Attack…
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6 Best Vulnerability Management Software & Systems for 2026
This guide is for IT leaders, security teams, and vulnerability management professionals looking to improve security visibility and remediation across their environments in 2026. It covers the best vulnerability management software and systems, along with the key features organizations should evaluate when selecting the right solution for their security operations. Key Takeaways about the Best…
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2026 Verizon DBIR: The New Era of Cyber Threats
The 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) paints a clearer picture of today’s cybersecurity landscape: attackers are moving faster, artificial intelligence is accelerating cybercrime, and organizations continue to struggle with foundational security practices. Key Takeaways from the 2026 Verizon DBIR Report Vulnerability exploitation (31%) overtook credential abuse (13%) as the top initial access vector…
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Showboat Linux Malware Hits Middle East Telecom with SOCKS5 Proxy Backdoor
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux malware dubbed Showboat that has been put to use in a campaign targeting a telecommunications provider in the Middle East since at least mid-2022. “Showboat is a modular post-exploitation framework designed for Linux systems, capable of spawning a remote shell, transferring files, and functioning as a…
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AI, Cybersecurity Education, and the Defense of America’s Digital Border
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cybersecurity at a pace that is forcing educators, businesses, and governments to rethink workforce development and national defense strategies. During a recent discussion with cybersecurity entrepreneur and ConnectSecure Chairman, Arnie Bellini, key themes emerged around the evolution of cyber threats, the importance of protecting America’s “digital border,” and the urgent…
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Your AI Agent Doesn’t Care About Your Controls
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on AI agents and control assurance. Read Part 2: Controlling AI Agents: Why Detection Is Too Late The cybersecurity industry has spent years investing in visibility. Dashboards have improved, detection tooling has matured, and the volume of telemetry available to security teams has increased significantly. Most organisations…
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AI-generated reporting: Lessons learned from Cisco Talos Incident Response
Talos IR shares prompt engineering lessons for consistent, accurate AI-generated cybersecurity reports with a realistic case study.
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Android Malware Spotted Subscribing Victims to Paid Services Without Consent
Cybersecurity researchers expose a 10-month global Android malware campaign using fake apps to secretly charge users through premium SMS bills.
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The readiness paradox: Why a false sense of cyber confidence is becoming a liability
There’s this old proverb that’s stuck with me over the years: “Dig the well before you are thirsty.” It really means you should prepare for the crisis before it arrives. In cybersecurity, it’s a mentality that’s long underpinned investment, strategy and board-level conversations. And by many measures, organizations appear to have already ‘dug’ that well.…
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Hackers Stealing Bank Accounts from iPhone and Android Users Using AI
As the AI universe expands, so have the cybercriminals that use AI for hacking. Recent reports are showing that bank attacks using AI has increased over 400%, with savvy criminals staying ahead of anti-fraud measures. Another report for 2025 has identified 1,243 financial brands as their main targets in 90 countries and 34 active malware…
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Tenable Hexa AI automates remediation across attack surfaces
Tenable has announced the general availability of Tenable Hexa AI, the agentic AI engine of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. Tenable Hexa AI is an advanced agentic AI for cybersecurity solution, equipped with advanced multi-step reasoning and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, enabling custom agent building and workflows that accelerate risk reduction at machine…
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9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several…
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The world of AI tokens — and why they matter
Google has only one way to measure the phenomenal AI growth it’s seen: in tokens. The company processes 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during this week’s I/O keynote, adding, “never imagined I’d say quadrillion…, but here we are.” Basically, tokens are a unit of measure used by large language models…
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AI becoming an SOC imperative for curtailing emerging cyber threats
The cybersecurity profession is on the verge of a sea change, and security pros must begin to master AI tools to combat emerging threats by building more autonomous, real-time protections. Expert panelists at a recent DTX conference session in Manchester, titled “Bot vs Bot: Surviving the Era of Autonomous Cyber Warfare,” highlighted how bringing AI…
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Cyber threats push SMBs to spend more on security
Cybersecurity has become a key priority for small and medium-sized businesses due to growing threats and wider AI adoption. An IDC survey of 2,200 SMBs in eight markets examined how organizations manage cyber risks, prepare for AI-related threats, and handle third-party vendor security. Top business priorities for the year (Source: IDC) 60% of SMBs expect…
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Microsoft is working on a patch for ‘YellowKey’ attack on Bitlocker, offers temporary fix
Microsoft says it is considering a patch for a zero-day vulnerability, dubbed YellowKey, that allows attackers with access to a Windows device to bypass Bitlocker encryption protection and read and write files. The flaw was disclosed last week, and there is already a public proof of concept available. The company issued an advisory Tuesday saying…
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Microsoft is working on a patch for ‘YellowKey’ attack on Bitlocker, offers temporary fix
Microsoft says it is considering a patch for a zero-day vulnerability, dubbed YellowKey, that allows attackers with access to a Windows device to bypass Bitlocker encryption protection and read and write files. The flaw was disclosed last week, and there is already a public proof of concept available. The company issued an advisory Tuesday saying…
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Drupal admins rushing to patch maximum severity SQL injection vulnerability
Administrators of the Drupal open source content management platform are rushing to install an emergency patch issued today to fix a “highly critical” SQL injection vulnerability in the application’s core. While the vulnerability only affects websites that use the PostgreSQL database, there may be upstream issues with Symfony, a set of PHP packages and web…
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Smashing Security podcast #468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers
A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His defence in court? Possibly the most creative excuse we’ve heard all year. Meanwhile, owners of $4,000 robot lawnmowers are discovering that their gadget can be hijacked over…
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Browser Threats Are Expanding the SMB Attack Surface
Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are facing a growing wave of cyberattacks, and according to Palo Alto Networks, many of those threats are now originating directly inside the browser. During a recent discussion with eSecurityPlanet, Shivam Srivastava, VP of Product Management for Prisma Browser for Business at Palo Alto Networks, discussed the growing cybersecurity challenges…
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Cyber Pros Can’t Decide If AI Is a Good or a Bad Thing
There is nothing cybersecurity professionals are more excited about, and nothing they fear more, than AI.
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AWS Security Hub Extended: Why enterprise security products should sell themselves
Our largest security services customers started the same way every customer does – with a click. They enabled Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS WAF, and AWS Security Hub, experienced the benefits in real time, and evaluated with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing. No RFP. No six-month evaluation. No multi-year commitment up front. Our field teams played a…
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ISC2 Report: AI Is ‘Double-Edged’ Sword of Cybersecurity
A new study from ISC2 has found that cybersecurity professionals now see AI as both their biggest opportunity and biggest threat. The findings point to a field at an inflection point, with teams moving to adopt AI for defense while preparing for more scalable, convincing AI-enabled attacks. AI ranks as top security opportunity and threat…
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Microsoft issues YellowKey mitigation, no patch yet
Microsoft acknowledged the YellowKey BitLocker bypass flaw and released mitigations, urging admins to disable autofstx.exe and enable TPM+PIN. A week after Chaotic Eclipse publicly dropped the YellowKey vulnerability, Microsoft acknowledged it and published a mitigation. Not a patch, a mitigation. The distinction matters, and we will get to why. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-45585 (CVSS…
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Agentic AI Security Risks Increase Governance Demands for MSPs
BYOD was a headache. AI agents are an existential crisis. Advanced AI models pose a massive security and governance challenge for the channel, forcing managed service providers (MSPs) and tech partners to rethink how they protect corporate data. Agentic AI adoption exposes governance gaps The shift from passive, generative AI chatbots to fully autonomous agents…
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Google talks ‘singularity’ while scaling up agentic AI for enterprises
Google is recasting its enterprise AI roadmap around autonomous systems and AGI, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis telling I/O attendees the industry now sits at the “foothills of the singularity.” “When we look back at this time, I think we all realise that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity,” Hassabis said in his…
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Webworm Deploys EchoCreep and GraphWorm Backdoors Using Discord and MS Graph API
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh activity from a China-aligned threat actor known as Webworm in 2025, deploying custom backdoors that employ Discord and Microsoft Graph API for command-and-control (C2 or C&C) communications. Webworm, first publicly documented by Broadcom-owned Symantec in September 2022, is assessed to be active since at least 2022, targeting government agencies
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How Can MSSPs Scale Threat Detection Without Burning Out Their Analysts?
Scaling threat detection as an MSSP doesn’t mean hiring more analysts — it means enabling the analysts you already have to handle more clients, more alerts, and more complex threats without burning out. The practical path forward combines three capabilities: continuous real-time intelligence that keeps detection systems current automatically, instant IOC investigation that cuts triage…
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Communicating cyber risk in dollars boards understand
In this Help Net Security interview, Nick Nieuwenhuis, Cybersecurity Architect at Nedscaper, explains why cybersecurity has not delivered the resilience that decades of investment have promised. He argues that spending has leaned too heavily on technical controls while neglecting people, processes, and organizational dynamics. He unpacks the gap between security teams and boards, pointing to…
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EnterpriseClaw wants to bring governance to the OpenClaw era
Autonomous agent orchestration tool OpenClaw hit the scene last November and immediately went viral, but its dramatic flaws were exposed just as quickly. Still, it marked a pivotal step in the agentic AI era, and enterprises have been exploring ways to deploy fleets of autonomous agents safely and securely ever since. Automation Anywhere Tuesday rolled…
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CISA credential leak raises alarms, and Capitol Hill demands answers
Congressional Democrats want answers from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about the reported public exposure of sensitive agency credential data on GitHub in an incident that the security researcher who discovered it called one of the worst leaks he’s ever seen. Other security professionals also voiced concern Tuesday about the leak and the potential…
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CIRT insights: How to help prevent unauthorized account removals from AWS Organizations
The AWS Customer Incident Response Team works with customers to help them recover from active security incidents. As part of this work, the team often uncovers new or trending tactics used by various threat actors that take advantage of specific customer configurations and designs. Understanding these tactics can help inform your architecture decisions, improve your…
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Attackers hit vulnerabilities hard last year, making exploits the top entry point for breaches
Attackers couldn’t get enough of the vulnerabilities at their disposal last year, making exploits the top initial access vector across more than 22,000 breaches Verizon analyzed in its latest Data Breach Investigations Report released Tuesday. The massive annual study uncovered a surge of exploited vulnerabilities during a one-year period ending in October 2025. Exploited defects…
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Contractor’s public GitHub account exposed GovCloud and CISA credentials
Until a few days ago, a publicly-accessible GitHub repository exposed credentials for both US government AWS accounts and internal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) systems. That’s according to cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, who first broke the news over the weekend, acting on a tip from researcher Guillaume Valadon at GitGuardian. Valadon confirmed the information…
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How Will The Right CRM System Improve Your Business Today?
How will the right CRM System improve your business today? Read this post to find out how. When you look around the roofing business and see which firms are genuinely nailing it in their regions, you’ll see a few things in common among the most successful contractors. Using a customer relationship management (CRM) system is…
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Cybersecurity is really boring
Several weeks ago, I got into a debate with a good friend of mine. He started by saying that security is a very exciting space with so many things changing every day. But the longer we talked, the more we started agreeing that when done well, cybersecurity is incredibly boring. In this piece, I am…
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Westcon-Comstor Launches White-Label OneSOC Service
Westcon-Comstor has launched OneSOC, a vendor-agnostic, white-label security operations service designed to help channel partners offer SOC capabilities under their own brand without upfront investment. The global technology distributor, which specializes in cybersecurity, networking, and hybrid cloud, announced the service on May 19. OneSOC targets partner barriers to SOC delivery OneSOC is available across Europe,…
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Splunk: Downtime Costs Hit $600B as Shadow AI Grows
The average cost of downtime has reached $600 billion across the Global 2000, a 50% increase in just two years, according to a newly published report from Splunk. Produced in partnership with Oxford Economics, Splunk’s “The Hidden Costs of Downtime” report highlights the rising financial impact of cyber incidents, outages, and breaches, including a growing…
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Trapdoor Android Ad Fraud Scheme Hit 659 Million Daily Bid Requests Using 455 Apps
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ad fraud and malvertising operation dubbed Trapdoor targeting Android device users. The activity, per HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team, encompassed 455 malicious Android apps and 183 threat actor-owned command-and-control (C2) domains, turning the infrastructure into a pipeline for multi-stage fraud. “Users
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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Closes With $1.3 Million in Zero-Day Payouts
Cybersecurity researchers successfully demonstrated 47 unique zero-day exploits at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, targeting major enterprise software and AI platforms.
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GitHub scales back bug bounties, reminds users security is their responsibility too
Faced with the growing volume of submission to its bug bounty program, GitHub is replacing cash bounties with swag rewards for reports with low security impact — and asking researchers to stop submitting reports that are low quality or about things that aren’t its fault. The cloud-based code repository platform has seen a sharp increase…
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Top 5 Phishing-Driven Social Engineering Attacks on Companies in 2026
Your employees are not falling for “bad grammar” phishing anymore. They are being pulled into fake Microsoft logins, banking pages, AI tool instructions, real OAuth flows, and event invitations that look close enough to daily work to pass without alarm. For CISOs, that is the real social engineering problem in 2026: attacks are no longer…
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7 tips for accelerating cyber incident recovery
Despite strong and redundant defenses, enterprises remain vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. And because attacks — and cyber incidents — are inevitable, developing an incident response and recovery process that’s quick, comprehensive, and coordinated is essential. Expediting incident recovery time is critical because the longer an outage persists, the more costs, risk, and business…
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Poland shifts away from Signal following cyberattacks on officials’ accounts
Poland told officials to stop using the popular instant messaging app Signal after cyberattacks targeted government accounts. Poland has instructed government officials to stop using Signal for sensitive communications and move to a state-developed alternative. The decision follows repeated cyberattacks targeting Signal accounts belonging to politicians, military personnel, and public servants. Officials believe the campaigns…
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Massive MENA cybercrime Operation Ramz disrupts infrastructure and arrests 201 suspects
INTERPOL led Operation Ramz in MENA, resulting in 201 arrests and 382 suspects tied to cybercrime networks. INTERPOL coordinated Operation Ramz across the Middle East and North Africa, leading to 201 arrests and identifying 382 additional suspects. ” A first-of-its-kind cybercrime operation in the MENA region has led to the arrest of 201 individuals, with a…
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Compromised Nx Console 18.95.0 Targeted VS Code Developers with Credential Stealer
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a compromised version of the Nx Console extension that was published to the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace. The extension in question is rwl.angular-console (version 18.95.0), a popular user interface and plugin for code editors like VS Code, Cursor, and JetBrains. The VS Code extension has more than 2.2…
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Shai-Hulud worm copycats emerge after source code leak
Shai-Hulud worm copycats are already attacking NPM developers after its source code leaked, enabling fast supply chain exploitation. The first copycats of the Shai-Hulud worm have already started showing up online, only a few days after the malware’s source code was dumped on GitHub. Researchers had warned this would happen almost immediately, and they were…
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Mini Shai-Hulud Pushes Malicious AntV npm Packages via Compromised Maintainer Account
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has compromised various npm packages associated with the @antv ecosystem as part of the ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud attack wave. “The attack affects packages tied to the npm maintainer account atool, including echarts-for-react, a widely used React wrapper for Apache ECharts with roughly 1.1…
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Are Attackers Hiding Inside Your Network Traffic?
I believe one of the important shifts in cybersecurity over the past several years is how attackers are hiding in plain sight. According to the 2026 IP Intelligence Study released by Spur Intelligence, anonymizing infrastructure, such as virtual private networks (VPNs) and residential proxies, are now involved in nearly every modern cyberattack. These tools allow…
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CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and…
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AI might cut false positives, but it won’t stop the slop
As defenders get their hands on newer AI models with more powerful cybersecurity capabilities like Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s Daybreak, organizations are being told to prepare for a flood of new vulnerability reports. But for bug bounty programs across the nation, that day may already be here, as yesterday’s frontier models and today’s open-source AI…
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Cisco Trims Workforce as AI Demand Drives Record Revenue
Even with record quarterly revenue, Cisco is axing jobs again. The company said it will eliminate “fewer than 4,000 roles,” representing less than 5% of its workforce, as it reorganizes around AI. That comes as revenue climbed to $15.8 billion, up 12% year over year and ahead of expectations The timing may feel counterintuitive, but…
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Microsoft May security patch fails for some due to boot partition size glitch
“Something didn’t go as planned. Undoing changes.” That’s all the clue some Windows 11 users will get when Microsoft’s May Security Update fails to install because of insufficient free space on the EFI System Partition (ESP), leaving their systems unprotected by the dozens of patches it contained. This issue affects devices with limited free space…
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Microsoft May security patch fails for some due to boot partition size glitch
“Something didn’t go as planned. Undoing changes.” That’s all the clue some Windows 11 users will get when Microsoft’s May Security Update fails to install because of insufficient free space on the EFI System Partition (ESP), leaving their systems unprotected by the dozens of patches it contained. This issue affects devices with limited free space…
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Grafana confirms GitHub token breach cybercrime group claims the attack
Grafana confirmed a GitHub token breach that exposed source code, but said no customer data or systems were affected. Grafana Labs confirmed a security incident after the extortion group Coinbase Cartel listed it on a leak site and claimed data theft on May 15. The breach was triggered by a compromised token that gave attackers…
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Device Code Phishing Targets Microsoft 365 Users
Cybercriminals are adopting device code phishing as a new way to bypass traditional phishing defenses and compromise enterprise Microsoft 365 accounts. According to Proofpoint, threat actors are abusing legitimate Microsoft authentication workflows to steal authentication tokens without using traditional phishing pages. “The spike in device code phishing coincides with publicly released criminal toolkits, and the…
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MY TAKE: AI agents force a rethink of enterprise service lines as vendors move up the tech tack
ORLANDO — Companies are pulling AI agents into their daily operations through a dozen side doors. Related: SaaS and AI agents converge One of them was in focus at KB4-CON, KnowBe4’s annual customer conference at the Marriott World Center here last week. The Clearwater, Fla.-based cybersecurity training vendor used the conference to lay out a…
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10 Tips for Phrasing Employee Feedback in Reviews
Performance reviews inside cybersecurity teams carry unusually high stakes. Security analysts, incident responders, IT administrators, and compliance staff…
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Public Amazon bucket leaks sensitive guest data from Japanese hotel platform Tabiq
A hotel check-in system exposed over 1 million passports, IDs, and selfies online due to a misconfigured cloud storage bucket. A security lapse in the Reqrea’s Tabiq hotel check-in system exposed over 1 million passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos online. The issue came from a misconfigured Amazon cloud storage bucket that was left…
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Top 21 MSSP Software to Best Serve Security Clients in 2026
MSSP software is a tool or platform that enables managed security service providers (MSSPs) to deliver outsourced cybersecurity services to organizations. Unlike traditional MSP software, MSSP tools focus specifically on security functions such as threat detection, access control, vulnerability management, and infrastructure protection. MSSPs support organizations ranging from small businesses to enterprises and play a…
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What Your Board Gets Wrong About AI Security
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Craig Riddell on LinkedIn. It has been republished here with the author’s permission. Boards are giving AI security more airtime than ever. What they’re not giving is the right framing. A year or two ago, AI was mostly a question of experimentation risk. Today, it’s tied directly…
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ANY.RUN Turns 10: Special Offers for Stronger Security Operations
Ten years in cybersecurity is a long journey. Threats have changed, attacks have become harder to spot, and security teams now need answers faster than ever. ANY.RUN has grown with those teams. What started as an interactive sandbox is now a trusted company with threat analysis and intelligence solution used by 15,000+ organizations, 600,000 security professionals, and teams at Fortune…
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Bank of England, FCA and Treasury Raise Alarm Over Frontier AI
The UK’s financial authorities have set expectations for the sector on cybersecurity and operational resilience
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Why the best security investment a board can make in 2026 isn’t another tool
There is a conversation that happens in boardrooms every quarter that security leaders will recognize. The CISO presents the threat landscape. The board asks what the company needs. The answer, almost always, is another tool. Another platform, another module, another vendor to close the latest gap. The budget gets approved. The tool gets deployed. And…
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Chaotic Eclipse discloses MiniPlasma zero-day, suggesting a missing or undone 2020 Windows security fix
MiniPlasma: a Windows SYSTEM privilege escalation believed patched in 2020 (CVE-2020-17103) is still fully working on every patched Windows 11. Once again, security researcher Chaotic Eclipse has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a new Windows privilege escalation zero-day called MiniPlasma, which can grant attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched systems. The flaw affects “cldflt.sys,” the…
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Experts warn of active exploitation of critical NGINX flaw CVE-2026-42945
A critical NGINX flaw (CVE-2026-42945) is actively exploited, allowing crashes or possible code execution via malicious HTTP requests. A critical vulnerability in NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS v4 score of 9.2), is already being actively exploited shortly after disclosure. “We’re seeing active exploitation of CVE-2026-42945 in F5 NGINX, a heap buffer…
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Optiv: AI is Reshaping the MDR Security Approach for Partners
Cybersecurity is fundamentally different today from many other industries being disrupted by AI. Defenders are constantly facing active adversaries, and AI has only intensified these threats. Many sectors are focused on AI-driven efficiency and automation, while cybersecurity teams must simultaneously defend against attackers who are rapidly adopting AI-powered tooling. In a conversation with Benjamin Spencer,…
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Flexpoint CEO Says MSPs Overlook Back-Office AI
Flexpoint CEO and founder Victor Lopez says MSPs may be looking at AI too narrowly, with much of the channel focused on technician productivity while back-office operations remain overlooked. In a conversation with Channel Insider, Lopez discussed how AI could reshape billing, payments, and owner time for MSPs as the industry prepares for another wave…
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Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent
Penetration testing has usually required weeks of manual work, specialized tooling, and teams with narrow skill sets. Lyrie, an open-source autonomous security agent built by OTT Cybersecurity, compresses that process into a command line tool and publishes the entire codebase. The project reached version 3.1.0 this month. The release adds XChaCha20-Poly1305 memory encryption for sensitive…