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Election threats are focused on campaign systems, not voting machines

Cybersecurity threats to the 2026 midterm elections are targeting the accounts and platforms that campaigns, donors and voters use to communicate, according to a security report released Monday by Check Point Software Technologies. So far in this election cycle, threats are not aimed at voting machines or ballot-counting systems. Instead, threat actors are going after…

7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report

In 2025, trusted Git hosting platforms became a playground for cyber criminals. This is the main conclusion from the latest “DevOps Threat Unwrapped Report 2026” by GitProtect. If you want to effectively counter attacks targeted at your code (and business), you need security measures, good practices, and knowledge. Strengthen your organization’s security posture. Learn about…

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition

Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers — including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Oracle — fixing near…

Claude Code MCP Attack Enables Persistent Token Theft

AI coding assistants are becoming deeply integrated with enterprise SaaS platforms, but new research shows those connections may introduce hard-to-detect credential theft risks.   Researchers demonstrated a MitM attack targeting Anthropic’s Claude Code that abuses MCP integrations to steal OAuth tokens and maintain persistent access to connected SaaS platforms and APIs.  “AI agents used for code…

Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads

A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform’s trending list by impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users. The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai/privacy-filter), including copying the entire

Bots in translation: Can AI really fix SIEM rule sprawl across vendors?

Enterprises migrating between SIEM platforms often have to manually rewrite detection rules because vendors such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, and Google Chronicle use different query languages and data models. Researchers now say AI may be able to automate much of that work, though security experts remain divided over whether the problem really requires…

From Mailbox to Revenue: Top 7 Direct Mail Platforms That Actually Deliver Results

In this post, I will show you the top 7 direct mail platforms that actually deliver results. Direct mail is no longer the slow, analog underdog of the marketing world. Today, the most forward-thinking brands are pairing physical mail with data intelligence, automation, and API-driven workflows to outperform purely digital campaigns. Whether you are a…

ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.4 million records from Udemy

The ShinyHunters group claims it has breached the Udemy, one of the world’s largest online learning platforms. According to Have I Been Pwned, the leaked dataset contained 1.4 million unique email addresses of customers and instructors, along with names, physical addresses, phone numbers, employer information, and instructor payout methods, including PayPal, cheque, and bank transfer.…

GopherWhisper APT group hides command and control traffic in Slack and Discord

Attackers continue to lean on everyday collaboration platforms to hide command and control traffic inside normal enterprise noise. A newly identified China-aligned APT group pushes that trend further, running its operations through Slack workspaces, Discord servers, Outlook drafts, and the file.io sharing service. GopherWhisper toolset overview ESET researchers have named the group GopherWhisper and tied…

Attackers abuse Microsoft Teams to impersonate the IT helpdesk in a new enterprise intrusion playbook

Attackers are increasingly exploiting enterprise collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams to gain initial access, impersonating IT helpdesk staff and persuading employees to grant remote control, according to new research from Microsoft. In a blog post, Microsoft described a “cross-tenant helpdesk impersonation” technique in which threat actors initiate conversations with employees via Teams’ external access…

Legitify: Open-source scanner for security misconfigurations on GitHub and GitLab

Misconfigured source code management platforms remain a common entry point in software supply chain attacks, and organizations often lack visibility into which settings put them at risk. Legitify, an open-source tool from Legit Security, addresses that gap by scanning GitHub and GitLab environments and reporting policy violations across organizations, repositories, members, and CI/CD runner groups.…

When Trust Becomes a Weapon: Google Cloud Storage Phishing Deploying Remcos RAT

Modern phishing campaigns increasingly abuse legitimate services. Cloud platforms, file-sharing tools, trusted domains, and widely used SaaS applications are now part of the attacker’s toolkit. Instead of breaking trust, attackers borrow it.  This shift creates a dangerous asymmetry. Security controls often whitelist or inherently trust these services, while users are far less likely to question them. The…

29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control

AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of external services. Every integration point requires an identity. Most organizations are handling this badly, and the evidence is in the code. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl Report found 28,649,024 new…

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…

ADLINK Unveils Next-Generation Edge AI Platforms Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Thor and NVIDIA IGX Thor to Accelerate Physical AI

ADLINK Technology Inc, a global leader in edge computing, announced its next-generation Edge AI platforms, the DLAP-IGX Series, featuring NVIDIA IGX T7000. ADLINK sees strong potential for the NVIDIA IGX Thor platform to drive the next generation of safe, high-performance AI at the edge—particularly in industrial robotics and the humanoid market. Compared with NVIDIA IGX…

Phishers sneak through using GitHub and Jira’s own mail delivery infrastructure

Attackers are abusing the notification systems of SaaS platforms like GitHub and Jira to send phishing and spam emails, Cisco Talos researchers are warning. “Because the emails are dispatched from the platform’s own infrastructure, they satisfy all standard authentication requirements (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC), effectively neutralizing the primary gatekeepers of modern email security,” they note.…

Google study finds LLMs are embedded at every stage of abuse detection

Online platforms are running large language models at every stage of LLM content moderation, from generating training data to auditing their own systems for bias. Researchers at Google mapped how this is happening across what the authors call the Abuse Detection Lifecycle, a four-stage framework covering labeling, detection, review and appeals, and auditing. Earlier moderation…

The Ultimate Guide to Secure Sweepstakes Gaming Platforms

Discover the most secure sweepstakes gaming platforms. Learn how fair play technology and encrypted social casino platforms protect your virtual currency entertainment. The digital entertainment landscape has shifted dramatically, with social casinos becoming a powerhouse of online play. However, as the industry grows, so does the importance of discernment. Choosing secure sweepstakes gaming platforms isn’t…

AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet

Vendors selling AI-powered security operations platforms have built their pitches around a consistent set of promises: autonomous threat investigation, dramatic reductions in analyst workload, and an accelerating path toward humanless operations. Practitioners buying and deploying those platforms describe something different. A report by Anton Chuvakin, Security Advisor at Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO, and…

Russian hackers go after high-value targets through Signal

Russian intelligence-linked hackers are targeting commercial messaging platforms, with Signal a primary focus, the FBI and CISA warn. The campaign is aimed at individuals of intelligence interest, including government personnel, journalists, and others with access to sensitive communications. It is believed that the campaign has compromised thousands of commercial messaging applications accounts. People who use…

12 ways attackers abuse cloud services to hack your enterprise

Attackers are increasingly abusing trusted SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure, and identity systems to blend malicious activity into legitimate enterprise traffic. Adversaries are pushing command and control (C2) through high-reputation services, including OpenAI and AWS, to blend in with normal business traffic and evade blocklists. The shift from “living off the land” to “living off the…

VulnCheck Raises $25M to Expand Channel Threat Intelligence

VulnCheck has raised $25 million in Series B funding as demand grows for exploit intelligence platforms that help enterprises and government agencies respond to vulnerabilities in real time. The cybersecurity company plans to use the capital to expand its threat intelligence capabilities and scale its global channel partner program. We spoke with Mike Deskewies, head…

Enterprises are racing to secure agentic AI deployments

AI assistants are tied into ticketing systems, source code repositories, chat platforms, and cloud dashboards across many enterprises. In some environments, these systems can open pull requests, query internal databases, book services, and trigger automated workflows with limited human involvement. The State of AI Security 2026 from Cisco places this level of access inside a…

Quantum security is turning into a supply chain problem

Supplier onboarding, invoice processing, and procurement platforms run on encrypted data flows that were built for long-term trust. In many organizations, that trust still depends on cryptographic standards like RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), even as security teams begin planning for a post-quantum world. A recent apexanalytix research report argues that supply chain leaders…

5 key trends reshaping the SIEM market

Security information and event management (SIEM) platforms have evolved far beyond their basic log collection and correlation roots. With cyber threats moving too fast for manual intervention, leading vendors have been integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies into their SIEM platforms. In addition, modern SIEM platforms now incorporate extended detection and response (XDR) and…

Digital Fingerprinting in 2026: What Platforms Know About You Before You Click

Platforms don’t need cookies to track you. Learn how digital fingerprinting works across four layers and practical steps to reduce your exposure. You cleared your cookies. You’re using incognito mode. Maybe you even have a VPN running. None of that matters as much as you think. Modern platforms don’t need cookies to identify you. They’ve…

Android Quick Share Support for AirDrop: A Secure Approach to Cross-Platform File Sharing

Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP, Platforms Security & Privacy, Google Technology should bring people closer together, not create walls. Being able to communicate and connect with friends and family should be easy regardless of the phone they use. That’s why Android has been building experiences that help you stay connected across platforms. As part of…