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AWS Security Agent full repository code scanning feature now available in preview

Today, we’re excited to announce the preview release of full repository code review, a new capability in AWS Security Agent that performs deep, context-aware security analysis of your entire code base. AI-driven cybersecurity capabilities are advancing rapidly. AWS Security Agent can now find vulnerabilities and build working exploits across your entire code base at a…

Malicious Hugging Face model masquerading as OpenAI release hits 244K downloads

A malicious Hugging Face repository posing as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows systems and logged 244,000 downloads before being removed, raising fresh concerns about how enterprises source and validate AI models from public repositories. The repository, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, impersonated OpenAI’s legitimate Privacy Filter release, copied its model card almost word-for-word, and included…

Kloudfuse 4.0 delivers AI-governed observability and scalable workload isolation

Kloudfuse has announced the general availability of Kloudfuse 4.0. The release helps enterprises meet rising compliance requirements, adopt AI-driven observability with production-grade governance, and scale their observability infrastructure without platform bottlenecks, while keeping every byte of telemetry data inside their own cloud environment. Kloudfuse 4.0 addresses three converging pressures: the FIPS 140-2 sunset on September…

UiPath adds agentic AI capabilities to Automation Suite for government agencies

UiPath has announced the release of agentic AI capabilities on UiPath Automation Suite. The Automation Suite updates help government agencies and regulated industries accelerate agentic AI and automation adoption and are designed to address strict data sovereignty and compliance requirements. These new capabilities empower agencies to deploy agentic AI within their own infrastructure using cloud-hosted…

Wireshark 4.6.5 Released, (Sun, May 3rd)

Wireshark release 4.6.5 fixes 43 vulnerabilities (38 CVEs) and 35 bugs. This high number of fixes is due to AI: “This release fixes quite a few vulnerabilities. This is due to to a recent trend in AI-assisted vulnerability reports.“   Didier Stevens Senior handler blog.DidierStevens.com (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0…

Announcing the ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management on AWS Compliance Guide

AWS Security Assurance Services is announcing the release of our latest compliance guide, ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management on AWS, which provides practical guidance for organizations establishing and operating a risk management program in AWS environments using ISO 31000:2018 principles. The guide explains how organizations can integrate AWS services into their risk management processes to support…

Everyone’s building AI agents. Almost nobody’s ready for what they do to identity.

Anthropic recently announced that it would not release Mythos, its most powerful AI model, to the public. The model discovered thousands of previously unknown software vulnerabilities — flaws that had sat undetected in major operating systems and web browsers for as long as nearly three decades. Anthropic said the model was too dangerous to deploy…

Former OpenAI research scientist launches new AI model for Tencent

Tencent has updated its Hunyuan AI model, its first major release since it recruited Yao Shunyu, a leading AI scientist from OpenAI. Tencent’s Hy3 model, currently available in preview, offers improvements in areas from complex reasoning to coding. The Chinese technology conglomerate is playing catch-up with other Chinese AI developers including ByteDance, Alibaba and DeepSeek.…

VirtualBox 7.2.8 is out with Linux kernel 7.0 support and crash fixes

Oracle shipped VirtualBox 7.2.8 on April 21, 2026, as a maintenance release covering crashes, networking problems, clipboard issues, and extended Linux kernel compatibility. The update touches the VMM layer, NAT networking, graphics, UEFI, and both Linux and Windows guest support. VMM and core stability A Guru Meditation error carrying the code VERR_IEM_IPE_4 is fixed in…

Intruder expands cloud security with agentless container image scanning

Intruder has announced the release of Container Image Scanning, a new upgrade to its cloud security capabilities that automatically scans container images for vulnerabilities, granting customers actionable insight into container risk without deploying and maintaining scanning agents across their estates. Leveraging existing integrations with major cloud providers, Intruder supports Amazon Web Services Elastic Container Registry,…

New compliance guide available: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 on AWS

We’re excited to announce the release of our latest compliance guide, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 on AWS, which provides practical guidance for organizations designing and operating an Information Security Management System (ISMS) using AWS services. As organizations migrate critical workloads to the cloud, aligning with globally recognized standards such as ISO/IEC 27001:2022 becomes an important step toward…

Kali Linux 2026.1 ships BackTrack mode, eight new tools, and a kernel upgrade to 6.18

Penetration testers running Kali Linux have a new release to work with. Version 2026.1 delivers the annual theme refresh, a new BackTrack-inspired mode in kali-undercover, eight tools added to the network repositories, a kernel bump to 6.18, and several Kali NetHunter changes. 2026 theme refresh Each year’s first Kali release brings a visual overhaul, and…

Java 26 ships with new cryptography API and HTTP/3 support

Oracle released JDK 26, the 17th consecutive feature release delivered under the six-month cadence the project adopted in 2018. The release includes ten JDK Enhancement Proposals spanning language changes, garbage collection improvements, cryptographic tooling, and network protocol support. PEM encoding API targets cryptographic integration JEP 524 introduces a second preview of a PEM encoding API…

Blumira enhances EDR and ITDR to speed up threat detection and containment

Blumira has announced the release of expanded endpoint detection and response (EDR) and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) capabilities in its platform. Security teams on Blumira Respond and Automate editions can now contain active threats by isolating compromised endpoints, stopping malicious processes, and locking out attackers across Microsoft 365 and Active Directory, without ever…

Stellar Cyber 6.4.0 reduces alert noise and speeds investigations with Autonomous SOC capabilities

Stellar Cyber has announced he general availability of version 6.4.0 of its platform. With this release, Stellar Cyber delivers new Autonomous SOC capabilities designed to reduce alert noise, accelerate investigations, and transform the day-to-day experience of security analysts. Ushering in the human-augmented Autonomous SOC Security teams are overwhelmed by escalating alert volumes and increasingly complex…

SOC Prime’s DetectFlow Enterprise moves threat detection to the data ingestion layer

SOC Prime has announced the release of DetectFlow Enterprise, a solution that brings real-time threat detection to the ingestion layer, turning data pipelines into detection pipelines. Running tens of thousands of Sigma detections on live Kafka streams with millisecond MTTD using Apache Flink, DetectFlow Enterprise enables security teams to detect, tag, enrich, and correlate threat…

SOC Prime Launches DetectFlow Enterprise To Enhance Security Data Pipelines with Agentic AI

BOSTON, MA — March 12, 2026 — SOC Prime today announced the release of DetectFlow Enterprise, a solution that brings real-time threat detection to the ingestion layer, turning data pipelines into detection pipelines. Running tens of thousands of Sigma detections on live Kafka streams with millisecond MTTD using Apache Flink, DetectFlow Enterprise enables security teams…

YARA-X 1.14.0 Release, (Sat, Mar 7th)

YARA-X’s 1.14.0 release brings 4 improvements and 2 bugfixes. One of the improvements is a new CLI command: deps. This command shows you the dependencies of rules. Here is an example. Rule rule1 has no dependencies, rule rule2 depends on rule rule1 and rule rule3 depends on rule rule2: Running the deps command on these rules…

Arkose Device ID uses AI to recognize devices across changing fingerprints

Arkose Labs has announced the latest release of Arkose Device ID, a solution within the new Arkose Titan platform. It layers AI-driven similarity analysis on top of exact-match identification, enabling recognition of the same device across evolving fingerprints while maintaining the accuracy enterprises require. Arkose Device ID delivers persistent device recognition that remains intact even…

South Korean Tax Agency Leak Leads to $4.8M Crypto Theft

A public press release intended to highlight a tax enforcement victory instead exposed millions in confiscated cryptocurrency.  South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) inadvertently revealed the mnemonic seed phrase of a seized Ledger hardware wallet, enabling an unknown actor to transfer approximately $4.8 million in digital assets.  “The thief first deposited a small amount of…

Compliance Scorecard v10 delivers context-driven AI for explainable compliance decisions

Compliance Scorecard announced the release of v10, introducing governed, audit-ready AI designed to support defensible compliance decision-making for managed service providers (MSPs). Compliance Scorecard v10 applies AI only within a structured system of validated context and controls. The platform is built on a simple premise: AI can only be trusted in compliance if the required…

Microsoft Edge 145 lands with major enterprise security upgrades

Microsoft has begun rolling out Edge 145 to the Stable release channel, adding several enterprise-focused security enhancements. The update is being deployed in phases, with some features available through preview and targeted release programs. Edge 145 brings expanded data protection capabilities to Edge for Business. The browser supports cross-tenant enforcement of Intune App Protection Policies…

A new approach for GenAI risk protection

When generative AI (GenAI) hit the consumer market with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, users worldwide flocked to the product and started experimenting with the tool’s capabilities across industries. The release also sent an instant panic through the hearts of information security professionals whose job is to protect organizations from risks, including the loss or…

Channel Insider Announces the 2026 CML100 List

Channel Insider is proud to release the 2026 CML100, our annual list recognizing the organizations and leaders having the greatest impact on the global IT channel. Now in its latest edition, the CML100 (Channel Marketing Leaders 100 List) serves as both a recognition program and an editorial benchmark. It highlights the companies and executives shaping…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-21509: Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Zero-Day Forces Emergency Patch

Shortly after its January Patch Tuesday release, addressing 114 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Windows Desktop Manager (CVE-2026-20805), Microsoft rushed out an emergency out-of-band update to fix another bug under active exploitation. This time, attackers are targeting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office zero-day that allows threat actors to bypass built-in security features.  In view of the…

CVE-2026-0227: Palo Alto Networks Fixes GlobalProtect DoS Flaw Allowing Remote Firewall Disruption

Shortly after Microsoft’s massive January Patch Tuesday release addressing the CVE-2026-20805 zero-day vulnerability in Windows Desktop Window Manager, another technology giant has issued a security fix. This time, Palo Alto Networks has warned of a high-severity flaw affecting its GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal, noting that a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit is available. GlobalProtect is Palo Alto…

CVE-2026-0227: Palo Alto Networks Fixes GlobalProtect DoS Flaw Allowing Remote Firewall Disruption

Shortly after Microsoft’s massive January Patch Tuesday release addressing the CVE-2026-20805 zero-day vulnerability in Windows Desktop Window Manager, another technology giant has issued a security fix. This time, Palo Alto Networks has warned of a high-severity flaw affecting its GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal, noting that a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit is available. GlobalProtect is Palo Alto…

CVE-2026-0227: Palo Alto Networks Fixes GlobalProtect DoS Flaw Allowing Remote Firewall Disruption

Shortly after Microsoft’s massive January Patch Tuesday release addressing the CVE-2026-20805 zero-day vulnerability in Windows Desktop Window Manager, another technology giant has issued a security fix. This time, Palo Alto Networks has warned of a high-severity flaw affecting its GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal, noting that a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit is available. GlobalProtect is Palo Alto…

CVE-2026-0227: Palo Alto Networks Fixes GlobalProtect DoS Flaw Allowing Remote Firewall Disruption

Shortly after Microsoft’s massive January Patch Tuesday release addressing the CVE-2026-20805 zero-day vulnerability in Windows Desktop Window Manager, another technology giant has issued a security fix. This time, Palo Alto Networks has warned of a high-severity flaw affecting its GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal, noting that a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit is available. GlobalProtect is Palo Alto…