The new agent is part of the company’s effort to broaden beyond its core consumer business as it spends aggressively on artificial intelligence.
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AI Is Reshaping the Future of Cyber Resilience
Cyber resilience has been a core focus in cybersecurity for years. During my recent conversation with Brandon Willitts, Director of Product Management for Cyber Resilience at Everpure, it became clear that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how organizations approach resilience strategies. According to Willitts, AI is not creating entirely new security problems as much…
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The Underground Malware-Signing-as-a-Service That Makes Ransomware Look “Verified” on Windows
The Core Technical Concept: Code Signing At the center of Microsoft’s disruption of the Fox Tempest cybercrime operation is a foundational trust mechanism that modern operating systems rely on heavily: code signing. Code signing is a cryptographic trust framework used by operating systems such as Windows to verify both the integrity and origin of executable…
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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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CVE-2026-9082: Highly Critical Drupal Core SQL Injection Flaw Threatens PostgreSQL Sites
Drupal has released security updates for a “highly critical” security vulnerability in Drupal Core that can be exploited by anonymous attackers against sites using PostgreSQL databases. Tracked as the CVE-2026-9082 vulnerability, the issue resides in Drupal’s database abstraction API, which is supposed to sanitize queries before they reach the backend database. Drupal rates the flaw…
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Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks
Drupal has released security updates for a “highly critical” security vulnerability in Drupal Core that could be exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-9082, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0, per CVE.org. Drupal said the vulnerability resides in a database…
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Drupal critical update to fix bug with high exploitation risk
Drupal has announced a “core security release” scheduled for later today, warning that threat actors might develop exploits within hours of the update disclosure. […]
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News alert: Orchid Security study finds invisible identities now outnumber managed accounts
NEW YORK, May 19, 2026, CyberNewswire—Orchid Security, the company solving identity at its core, today released its Identity Gap: 2026 Snapshot report, revealing that the majority of enterprise identity now exists outside the view of identity and access management systems. The report found that invisible identity (“identity dark matter”) now outweighs visible identity across enterprise…
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Drupal to Release Urgent Core Security Updates on May 20, Sites Told to Prepare
Drupal has issued an alert stating that it intends to release a “core security release” for all supported branches on May 20, 2026, from 5-9 p.m. UTC. “The Drupal Security Team urges you to reserve time for core updates at that time because exploits might be developed within hours or days,” the maintainers of the…
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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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CVE-2026-40372: Critical ASP.NET Core Flaw May Let Attackers Gain SYSTEM Privileges
Microsoft has released out-of-band updates for CVE-2026-40372, a high-impact ASP.NET Core privilege-escalation vulnerability tied to the platform’s Data Protection cryptographic APIs. Public reporting says the flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.1 and could allow an unauthenticated attacker to forge authentication material and ultimately obtain SYSTEM privileges on affected systems. The issue stands out not…
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CVE-2026-40372: Microsoft Patches ASP.NET Core Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to fix an ASP.NET Core vulnerability that could allow attackers to take full control of affected systems. The flaw enables unauthenticated privilege escalation, increasing risk for enterprises running .NET workloads. “Improper verification of cryptographic signature in ASP.NET Core allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network,” said…
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Microsoft out-of-band updates fixed critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation flaw
Microsoft fixed critical ASP.NET Core vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372 (CVSS score of 9.1), that lets attackers escalate privileges. Microsoft released out-of-band updates to address a serious ASP.NET Core vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-40372 (CVSS score of 9.1). Microsoft fixed the flaw in ASP.NET Core version 10.0.7. An attacker could exploit the flaw to gain SYSTEM-level privileges, access…
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Microsoft Patches Critical ASP.NET Core CVE-2026-40372 Privilege Escalation Bug
Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address a security vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It’s rated Important in severity. An anonymous researcher has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw. “Improper verification of…
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Microsoft releases emergency patches for critical ASP.NET flaw
Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. […]
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Scottish man pleads guilty to attack spree that created Scattered Spider’s notoriety
A core leader of the hacker subset of The Com responsible for a series of high-profile phishing attacks and cryptocurrency thefts from September 2021 to April 2023 pleaded guilty to federal charges, the Justice Department said Friday. Tyler Robert Buchanan of Dundee, Scotland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.…
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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
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Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. […]
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ZeroEyes Expands AI Security Platform Beyond Gun Detection
ZeroEyes is expanding beyond its core AI gun-detection roots, rolling out new analytics capabilities and product lines to deliver a more unified physical security platform for enterprises, public sector organizations, and channel partners. ZeroEyes broadens platform beyond gun detection The Philadelphia-based company announced it is adding knife detection, suspect tracking, and a broader analytics suite…
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RSAC 2026: AI Security Tools Aim to Cut Response Time
Security vendors at RSAC 2026 are zeroing in on one core problem: investigation speed. Across the show floor, new AI-powered tools promise to cut threat response times from hours to seconds while helping overwhelmed security teams keep pace with rising alert volumes. From autonomous investigation agents to platforms designed to secure enterprise AI systems, this…
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Enterprise laptops adopt Intel’s new Core Ultra Series 3 chips
Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 processors with Intel vPro, built for business PCs, are off to a fast start, already powering more than 125 designs including newly-announced systems from Dell and HP, the company said. Unveiled this week at an event in New York City, the Core Ultra Series 3 with Intel vPro brings what…
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Telemetry Pipeline: How It Works and Why It Matters in 2026
A telemetry pipeline has become a core layer in modern security operations because teams no longer send data from applications, infrastructure, and cloud services straight into a single backend and hope for the best. In 2026, most environments are distributed across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, which means more services, more data sources, more formats,…
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Lwart Environmental Solutions Expands Long-Standing Relationship with Rimini Street, Consolidating VMware and SAP Support to Regain Control of Licensing and Roadmap Decisions
Brazilian oil re‑refinery avoids forced upgrades, stabilises core systems and redirects IT investment toward business innovation
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AI Email Summaries Create a New Phishing Attack Surface
Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants are rapidly becoming a core part of workplace productivity, but new research suggests they may also introduce a previously overlooked phishing vector. Permiso researchers found that attacker-controlled text embedded in emails can manipulate Microsoft Copilot summaries through cross prompt injection attacks (XPIA), potentially inserting deceptive security alerts or malicious prompts into…
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VulHunt: Open-source vulnerability detection framework
Binarly has published VulHunt Community Edition, making the core scanning engine from Binarly’s commercial Transparency Platform available to independent researchers and practitioners. What VulHunt does VulHunt Community Edition is a framework for detecting vulnerabilities in compiled software. It operates against multiple binary representations simultaneously, working across disassembly, an intermediate representation layer, and decompiled code. Targets…
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Epic Fury introduces new layer of enterprise risk
Operation Epic Fury — the US administration’s sustained kinetic pressure on core Iranian regime assets — introduces a new layer of operational risk for every multinational with people, assets, or dependencies in the Middle East region and beyond. The immediate briefings from Washington — early damage assessments, stated intent, geopolitical framing, and situational updates and…
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IPFire ships its 200th core update with a new domain blocklist and kernel upgrade
Network firewall distribution IPFire released Core Update 200, marking the 200th incremental update to the 2.29 branch. The release bundles a kernel upgrade, a beta domain blocklist service, security patches for OpenSSL and glibc, and a range of component updates. The kernel has been rebased on Linux 6.18.7 LTS, bringing updated hardware security mitigations alongside…
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Inside AWS Security Agent: A multi-agent architecture for automated penetration testing
AI agents have traditionally faced three core limitations: they can’t retain learned information or operate autonomously beyond short periods, and they require constant supervision. AWS addresses these limitations with frontier agents—a new category of AI that performs complex reasoning, multi-step planning, and autonomous execution for hours or days. Multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a powerful…
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Coroot: Open-source observability and APM tool
Coroot is an open-source observability and application performance monitoring tool. The core software, published in Go and accompanied by companion repositories such as coroot-node-agent, focuses on collecting telemetry data across systems. It uses extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology to gather metrics and trace inter-service communications without manual instrumentation of application code. Coroot collects standard…
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GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Stability Fixes
GNU Coreutils 9.10 fixes critical bugs, improves performance, and refines core command behavior across Linux systems in a new stable release. The post GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Stability Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.
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Redpanda brings identity, policy control, and data governance to AI agents
Redpanda announced the availability of new core capabilities in the Redpanda Agentic Data Plane (ADP), including a centralized AI gateway, AI observability and evaluation via OpenTelemetry, AI agents, and unified authentication and authorization. Together, these features form a unified governance layer that allows enterprises to securely connect AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers…
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Java Adoption Accelerates for AI Workloads, Azul Survey Finds
Java is increasingly being positioned as a core language for enterprise AI development, even as organizations accelerate plans to move away from Oracle Java due to pricing and licensing concerns, according to Azul’s newly released 2026 State of Java Survey & Report. The annual study is based on responses from more than 2,000 Java professionals…