Microsoft marked its largest-ever Patch Tuesday this month, by shipping fixes for nearly 200 vulnerabilities. Within hours, “Nightmare Eclipse”, the researcher behind weeks of escalating Windows exploit releases, dropped a proof-of-concept exploit for a new zero-day: “RoguePlanet”, which abuses a race condition in Windows Defender to spawn a command shell running with SYSTEM-level privileges. Various…
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Exploits, Global Security News
Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday: Many fixes, but no zero-days
Microsoft has marked May 2026 Patch Tuesday by releasing fixes for 120+ CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, none of which (for a change) are actively exploited or have been publicly disclosed. Still, some deserve more consideration and should be addressed sooner than others. Patches to prioritize For Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable, the four critical…
AI, Global Security News
Bringing governance and visibility to machine and AI identities
In this Help Net Security interview, Archit Lohokare, CEO of AppViewX, explains how the rise of AI marked a turning point where machine and AI agent identities began converging into a single problem. Drawing on his experience across IBM and CyberArk, he describes the shift from human-driven systems to autonomous machines. Lohokare also shares how…
AI, APAC, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Risk Management
How botnet-driven DDoS attacks evolved in 2H 2025
The second half of 2025 marked a pivotal shift in the world of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Organizations across the globe faced a perfect storm: Artificial intelligence (AI) matured as an offensive weapon, botnet infrastructure reached new heights with multiterabit attack capacity, and DDoS-for-hire services became more accessible—even to nontechnical adversaries. NETSCOUT’s ATLAS global threat intelligence…
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Government & Policy
VRP 2025 Year in Review
Posted by Dirk Göhmann, Tony Mendez, and the Vulnerability Rewards Program Team 2025 marked a special year in the history of vulnerability rewards and bug bounty programs at Google: our 15th anniversary 🎉🎉🎉! Originally started in 2010, our vulnerability reward program (VRP) has seen constant additions and expansions over the past decade and a half,…
AI, Cybersecurity, Europe, Global Security News
RSAC 2026 is back, and the certificate automation gap is impossible to ignore
RSAC 2026 Conference marked a return to form, more vibrant and better attended than any show I can recall over the past decade. The audience was distinctly international, with strong representation from North America, Europe and Latin America, and it was refreshing to see the energy and overall vibe of the show return to what…
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CVE-2026-21385: Google Patches Qualcomm Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Android Attacks
Steady cadence of Android zero-days marked as exploited in the wild makes its path to 2026. Following CVE-2025-48633 and CVE-2025-48572, two Android Framework bugs Google flagged for active exploitation, defenders keep seeing the same familiar pattern. Mobile-chain vulnerabilities can move fast from limited attacks to real enterprise risk when patching lags. In March 2026, that…