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Microsoft wants to put AI agents on a short leash

As enterprises race to adopt AI agents across software development workflows, Microsoft is rolling out new controls aimed at keeping the transformation from becoming a security headache. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the company unveiled a set of initiatives, including a brand new runtime containment offering, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), for agentic AI…

Microsoft wants to put AI agents on a short leash

As enterprises race to adopt AI agents across software development workflows, Microsoft is rolling out new controls aimed at keeping the transformation from becoming a security headache. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the company unveiled a set of initiatives, including a brand new runtime containment offering, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), for agentic AI…

Microsoft wants to put AI agents on a short leash

As enterprises race to adopt AI agents across software development workflows, Microsoft is rolling out new controls aimed at keeping the transformation from becoming a security headache. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the company unveiled a set of initiatives, including a brand new runtime containment offering, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), for agentic AI…

ENISA NIS360 2026: Progress Across the Board, But the Sectors That Matter Most Are Still Falling Short

ENISA NIS360 2026 shows cybersecurity improving across EU critical sectors, but health, water, rail, and space remain in the risk zone. ENISA has published its third annual NIS360 report, assessing the cybersecurity maturity and criticality of all sectors covered by the NIS2 directive. The headline finding is that things are improving across the board. The…

AI Growth Exposes Gaps in Governance and Readiness 

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption continues to grow across industries, but new research from Veeam suggests many organizations are still working through the governance, security, and operational challenges associated with deploying AI at scale. The study, which surveyed 300 technology and business leaders across financial services, healthcare, government, manufacturing, and technology sectors, found that 95% of…

TrapDoor malware campaign puts developer workstations in CISO spotlight

A malicious package campaign across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io has put developer workstations back under scrutiny, after researchers said it targeted developer workflows and AI coding assistant files. Researchers at Socket said the campaign, which they are tracking as TrapDoor, “spans more than 34 malicious packages and 384+ related versions and artifacts” across the three…

TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-05-24, (Mon, May 25th)

TeamPCP now operates across three package ecosystems in parallel, it reached GitHub’s own internal codebase, it trojanized an officially Microsoft-published Python SDK, and it appears to have open-sourced its own framework on GitHub. Bottom line up front Three escalations stacked inside a single week. First, GitHub’s CISO Alexis Wales publicly named a malicious Nx Console…

TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-05-24, (Mon, May 25th)

TeamPCP now operates across three package ecosystems in parallel, it reached GitHub’s own internal codebase, it trojanized an officially Microsoft-published Python SDK, and it appears to have open-sourced its own framework on GitHub. Bottom line up front Three escalations stacked inside a single week. First, GitHub’s CISO Alexis Wales publicly named a malicious Nx Console…

One Telecom Provider Hosted Most of the Middle East ’s Active C2 Infrastructure

Hunt.io mapped 1,350+ C2 servers across the Middle East, revealing how a small group of providers quietly supports major malware activity. For years, threat intelligence focused mostly on malware families, phishing domains, and individual indicators. But a new report from Hunt.io shows why defenders may need to pay closer attention to something more boring, hosting…

Automating identity lifecycle and security with AWS Directory Service APIs

Managing identities and access across complex environments has become more critical than ever. AWS Directory Service for Managed Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, has added new capabilities to manage users and groups. Now, you can perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on users and groups directly through AWS…

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…

Governing infrastructure as code using pattern-based policy as code

Organizations often struggle to enforce security and compliance requirements consistently across their cloud infrastructure. In one environment, a workload might be deployed in an AWS Region that was never approved for that class of data. In another, a security group might allow broader access than intended. Required tags might be missing. Encryption might be assumed…

INTERPOL Operation Ramz Disrupts MENA Cybercrime Networks with 201 Arrests

INTERPOL has coordinated a first-of-its-kind cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that led to 201 arrests and the identification of an additional 382 suspects. The initiative involved the efforts of 13 countries from the region between October 2025 and February 2026, aiming to investigate and neutralize malicious infrastructure, arrest perpetrators behind…

201 arrested in INTERPOL disruption of phishing and fraud networks

Operation Ramz, a cybercrime initiative coordinated by INTERPOL across the MENA region, focused on disrupting phishing campaigns, malware activity, and cyber scams that caused substantial financial losses across the region. The operation resulted in the arrest of 201 individuals and the identification of an additional 382 suspects. Moroccan authorities seized computers, smartphones and external hard…

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, Day One: $523,000 paid out, AI products fall

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 day one saw 22 entries and 24 zero-days across major software, with researchers earning $523,000 in total rewards. Day one of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 featured 22 entries targeting widely used technologies, including browsers, operating systems, AI platforms, and NVIDIA infrastructure. By the end of the day, researchers demonstrated 24 unique zero-day vulnerabilities…

Q&A: How MSP Platform Sprawl Strains Operations and Security

As MSPs across the US work to scale profitably while delivering stronger security outcomes, faster response times, and more consistent customer experiences, many are discovering that operational complexity is a major barrier to sustainable growth. We spoke with James Griffin, CEO of CyberSentriq, about why disconnected environments are creating inefficiencies across the channel, how platform…

Fortinet fixes two critical RCE flaws in FortiAuthenticator and FortiSandbox

Fortinet released a batch of patches across its products on Patch Tuesday, including two critical vulnerabilities that can lead to remote code execution. Fortinet flaws, both zero-day and n-day, have been exploited in the wild many times in the past, so companies should deploy patches as soon as possible. “Fortinet vulnerabilities are often attractive to…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2026 fix 138 bugs, some of them are alarming

Microsoft’s May 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 138 flaws, including 30 critical bugs, across Windows, Office, Azure, Edge, SQL Server, and more. Microsoft’s May 2026 Patch Tuesday patched 138 vulnerabilities in a single release. That is a number that gives pause even for people accustomed to these cycles. The affected products span virtually the entire Microsoft…

‘Mini Shai-Hulud’ malware compromises hundreds of open-source packages in sprawling supply-chain attack

A rapidly spreading malware campaign has infected hundreds of software packages across major open-source registries, embedding credential-stealing code into development tools downloaded millions of times a week. The attack, referred to as “mini Shai-Hulud,” targeted prominent software libraries, including TanStack, UiPath, and MistralAI. TanStack’s React Router package alone accounts for more than 12 million weekly…

Microsoft addresses 137 vulnerabilities in May’s Patch Tuesday, including 13 rated critical

Microsoft addressed another triple-digit batch of vulnerabilities cutting across its various enterprise products, components and underlying systems. Yet despite the high number of defects, the vendor reported no actively exploited zero-days in this month’s Patch Tuesday update. Thirteen of the 137 vulnerabilities Microsoft disclosed were assigned critical CVSS ratings, including a pair of vulnerabilities affecting…

How Can SMBs Keep Up With AI Governance? 

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates across organizations, security leaders are struggling to keep governance frameworks aligned with how quickly employees are integrating AI into daily workflows.  According to Matt Warner, CEO and co-founder of Blumira, small and mid-sized business (SMB) organizations are facing growing pressure to enable AI innovation while simultaneously maintaining governance, compliance,…

Your coworker might be selling company logins, and thinks it’s fine

Employee behavior once considered unacceptable is becoming tolerated across various industries, particularly in IT and telecommunications, and at all levels of seniority, including leadership. Cifas Workplace Fraud Trends research, based on a survey of 2,000 UK employees working at companies with more than 1,000 staff, shows that employee-driven fraud, such as selling login credentials or…

ShinyHunters Extorts Universities in New Instructure Canvas Hack 

Students across the United States were locked out of coursework, quizzes, and grades during finals week after threat actors defaced hundreds of Canvas login portals in a ShinyHunters-linked extortion campaign.  The disruption impacted colleges, universities, and school districts worldwide, underscoring the growing cybersecurity risks facing cloud-based education platforms.  “ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). Instead of…

CISOs: Align cyber risk communication with boardroom psychology

By now, executive boards across industries understand that cyberattacks can be costly. What they often lack, however, is a clear view of which risks pose the biggest threat to their business and why certain investments need to rise to the top. Many security leaders lose traction at that point. The challenge is less about sounding…

groundcover expands its observability platform with enhanced Synthetic Monitoring and RUM

groundcover has expanded its capabilities with new and enhanced offerings across Synthetic Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM). These innovations give engineering teams greater visibility into the user experience, from proactive testing to real-world session insights, while keeping data securely within their own cloud environments. “Modern observability isn’t just about infrastructure, it’s about understanding the…

Hackers target governments and MSPs via critical cPanel flaw CVE-2026-41940

Attackers exploit a critical cPanel flaw to target government and MSP networks across Southeast Asia and several countries, including the U.S. and Canada. A threat actor is exploiting critical cPanel vulnerability CVE-2026-41940 to target government and military organizations in Southeast Asia, along with MSPs and hosting providers in countries like the Philippines, Laos, Canada, South…

Security agencies draw red lines around agentic AI deployments

With prompt injection and other attack pathways consistently surfacing across agentic AI deployments, security watchdogs have stepped in, collectively, to draw some hard boundaries. A joint advisory from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and international partners has called for tighter control over permissions, stronger monitoring, and a more deliberate rollout strategy, urging…

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…

AI traffic is getting bigger, louder, and less predictable

AI workflows need storage that supports repeated movement across the model lifecycle. Large datasets are ingested, transformed, exported for training, pulled back for evaluation, and refreshed as models evolve. Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Network Stats report says this creates a shift from diffuse internet-style traffic to large, high-bandwidth flows between fewer endpoints. Monthly view of all…

Release Notes: Expanded Threat Intelligence Access, AI Assisted Search 1,770 New Detections and More

April brought several updates across ANY.RUN’s Threat Intelligence and detection coverage.  The biggest change is expanded access to Threat Intelligence: Free plan users now get 20 premium requests in TI Lookup and YARA Search. This gives security teams a practical way to check suspicious indicators, explore related sandbox sessions, and validate malware or phishing activity using real attack…

Struggling to Manage Multiple Screens – Here’s a Smarter Approach

Managing multiple screens across locations shouldn’t drain your team’s time and patience. Discover practical strategies to simplify multi-display management today. You walk into your office on Monday morning, coffee in hand, and three different people hit you with bad news. The lobby screen is frozen. The break room display is showing last month’s menu. The…

Adobe bets on AI agents to stay at the center of marketing workflows

Adobe is rolling out autonomous agents to orchestrate work across its applications, a move that will reinforce its position at the core of content and marketing workflows as AI disrupts the software landscape, analysts say. “We’re living at true inflection point; a moment where creativity and marketing are being reshaped by AI, unlocking incredible new…

GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it

A new measurement study of web tracking across ten countries offers a reality check for anyone working on privacy compliance. Researchers crawled the same set of globally popular websites from virtual machines located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, and California. The results show that European privacy law does…

GitLab 18.11 brings agentic AI to security fixes, CI pipelines, and delivery analytics

GitLab has released GitLab 18.11, expanding agentic AI across the entire software lifecycle with security remediation, pipeline configuration, and delivery analytics. AI-generated code moves faster than the systems around it can keep up with, creating the AI paradox: faster code generation without faster delivery, security, or operations to match. As code volume grows, so does…

ImmuniWeb brings AI upgrades, post-quantum detection and more in Q1 2026

ImmuniWeb unveiled technical updates, new features and functionalities across all products available on the ImmuniWeb AI Platform. ImmuniWeb Discovery Launch of a dedicated Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) dashboard Advanced detection of exposed AI-related assets, services and software Enhanced detection of phishing websites thanks to finetuning of our AI models Better and faster detection of IoC…

Wi-Fi roaming security practices for access network providers and identity providers

Public Wi-Fi roaming networks carry authentication credentials across multiple administrative boundaries, and the protocols governing that process vary widely in their security properties. The Wireless Broadband Alliance published a set of guidelines that specifies which authentication, encryption, and credential-handling practices operators should apply to networks running Passpoint and OpenRoaming. “What this work shows is that,…

What changed in nginx 1.30.0 and what it means for your upstream config

nginx 1.30.0 brings together features accumulated across the 1.29.x mainline series. The release covers a broad range of changes, from protocol support additions to security-relevant fixes and new configuration options. Keepalive to upstreams is now on by default One of the more operationally significant changes is that keepalive connections to upstream servers are now enabled…

Analysis of 216M Security Findings Shows a 4x Increase In Critical Risk (2026 Report)

OX Security recently analyzed 216 million security findings across 250 organizations over a 90-day period. The primary takeaway: while raw alert volume grew by 52% year-over-year, prioritized critical risk grew by nearly 400%. The surge in AI-assisted development is creating a “velocity gap” where the density of high-impact vulnerabilities is scaling faster than

Meta moves fast toward a world where AI builds the software

Meta Platforms is reportedly pulling top software engineers from across the company into a newly created AI unit on a mandatory basis, with the stated goal of eventually having autonomous agents perform the bulk of the work of building, testing, and shipping its products, and human engineers serving only to monitor them. The development was…

Iranian Threat Actors Target U.S. Critical Infrastructure

A new federal cybersecurity alert is raising alarms across critical infrastructure sectors, as Iranian-affiliated threat actors actively target programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the United States.  The campaign, confirmed by multiple federal agencies, has already caused operational disruptions and financial losses — marking a notable escalation in cyber activity against industrial environments. “The most notable…

OpenSSL 3.6.2 lands with eight CVE fixes

OpenSSL 3.6.2 patches eight CVEs across a range of components. The project rates the most severe issue in the release as Moderate. What got fixed The release fixes incorrect failure handling in RSA KEM RSASVE encapsulation (CVE-2026-31790) and a loss of key agreement group tuple structure when the DEFAULT keyword is used in server-side configuration…

Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs

Iran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned Tuesday. “These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality, manipulation of display data and, in some cases, operational disruption and financial

Feds quash widespread Russia-backed espionage network spanning 18,000 devices

Russian state-sponsored attackers compromised more than 18,000 routers spread across more than 120 countries to gain deeper access to sensitive networks for a large-scale espionage campaign before it was recently neutralized, researchers and authorities said Tuesday. Forest Blizzard, also known as APT28 and Fancy Bear, exploited known vulnerabilities to steal credentials for thousands of TP-Link…

DXC Partners with ServiceNow on a New Wave of AI-first Enterprise Transformation

DXC adopts ServiceNow’s Core Business Suite as Customer Zero, activating agentic AI across core business functions for a Global Business Services-led transformation   The partnership combines DXC’s transformation expertise with the ServiceNow AI Platform to power smarter, more resilient operations across the enterprise   DXC will enable customers to replicate these transformation outcomes at scale 

Cloudflare moves up its post-quantum deadline as researchers narrow the path to Q-Day

Cloudflare announced it is targeting 2029 to complete post-quantum security across its entire product suite, including post-quantum authentication. The company is following a revised roadmap that Google also adopted after announcing that it had improved the quantum algorithm used to break elliptic curve cryptography. Google stopped short of publishing the algorithm, disclosing only a zero-knowledge…

Is AI Driving Tech Layoffs or Masking Deeper Cuts?

Oracle’s latest round of layoffs is intensifying a broader question across the tech sector: Is artificial intelligence actually replacing workers, or simply being used to justify long-anticipated cost cuts? Oracle cuts jobs as AI spending reshapes cost structure In Oracle’s case, the company has added hundreds of billions to its books through AI investments.  As…

News Alert: TAC Security surpasses 10,000 customers, scaling global VM and AppSec platform

NEW YORK, Apr. 1, 2026, CyberNewswire—TAC Infosec, a global leader in cybersecurity (NSE: TAC), with presence across 100+ countries, announced a historic milestone by crossing 10,000 clients – 6,500+ of TAC Security and 3,500+ of CyberScope, since April 2024, delivering on its commitment to shareholders to achieve this by 2026. While building trusted access to…

Casbaneiro Phishing Targets Latin America and Europe Using Dynamic PDF Lures

A multi-pronged phishing campaign is targeting Spanish-speaking users in organizations across Latin America and Europe to deliver Windows banking trojans like Casbaneiro (aka Metamorfo) via another malware called Horabot. The activity has been attributed to a Brazilian cybercrime threat actor tracked as Augmented Marauder and Water Saci. The e-crime group was first documented by Trend…

SmartBear Doubles Down on AI Testing, Channel Services

SmartBear is expanding its AI-driven testing capabilities across its platform, positioning channel partners to capitalize on growing demand for quality assurance in AI-powered development environments. The updates, which span API testing, UI automation, and test management, reflect a broader shift in enterprise software development: as AI accelerates code creation, it is also introducing new risks…