As of June 4, Microsoft will disable the master password feature in Edge, replacing it with device-based authentication such as Windows Hello, which includes PINs, fingerprint scans, and facial recognition.
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WP Engine adds bot management to Global Edge Security
The new bot management features, integrated with Cloudflare Inc., allow website teams to create and implement rules for blocking or permitting bot traffic based on factors such as region, category, or behavior.
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CISA adds Android and Linux kernel flaws to exploited vulnerabilities catalog
The vulnerabilities added are CVE-2022-0492, a Linux kernel improper authentication flaw with a CVSS score of 7.0, and CVE-2025-48595, an Android framework integer overflow vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.4.
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SEON Launches AI Fraud Tools with New MCP Server
Fraud prevention startup SEON has launched its new MCP server, along with two new platform capabilities, Network Detection and AI Chart Builder, further connecting its existing automation and business intelligence features. Alongside these features, the company has introduced an AI Playbook for Risk and Compliance Teams, providing customers with a practical starting point to quickly…
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Infosecurity Europe: Vulnerability Management Innovator Konvu Wins Cyber Startup Award
Inaugural Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup Award Winner Impresses Panel with Ability Help Prioritize Vulnerabilities in AI era
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EQT Taps Google Cloud to Scale AI Across Portfolio
Google Cloud just teamed up with EQT to roll out AI across its portfolio companies. On its own, that’s not especially surprising. Big cloud provider, big private equity firm, lots of AI – all of this tracks. What’s more intriguing here is the scale and how this actually plays out. EQT isn’t just one company;…
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Russian hackers exploit WinRAR vulnerability for data theft
The exploitation chain begins with a weaponized HTML Application payload called GammaPhish, which retrieves intermediate Visual Basic Script (VBScript) downloaders known as GammaLoad, according to Sekoia.
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SideCopy group targets Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance with Xeno RAT
The campaign commences with a spear-phishing email containing a ZIP archive with a malicious LNK file written in Pashto, designed to exploit the familiarity of the language within the Afghan government.
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Securing AI Agents Before They Go Rogue Is Next to Impossible
High-autonomy agents with broad permissions and unfettered access are a recipe for disaster, and enterprises need to act now before they become the next horror story.
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How AI Could Improve Economic Policymaking
With so much data at its fingertips, artificial intelligence will allow more-informed interest-rate decisions and better economic modeling.
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Apple’s M1 MacBook Air refuses to die
Apple surprised everyone with the power and performance of the M1 MacBook Air when it launched the laptop in late 2020. And more than five years later, those Macs show no sign of slowing down, handling everything users care to throw at them. The Mac still boots almost instantly, races through daily tasks, offers battery life…
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Workday Intros New Developer Capabilities for Enterprise AI Agents
Workday has made a series of announcements recently, including a new partnership with AWS and new capabilities designed to help developers build, run, and govern AI agents on trusted HR and finance data while using the agentic coding tools and clouds they already utilize. The new capability announcements include: New Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools…
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Quantum Resilience Needs a Common Language. Here’s Where to Start.
Navigate the transition to quantum-safe security with Cisco’s Quantum Resilience Framework. We provide a clear path to protecting your network and data against future quantum threats through standardized, multi-layer resilience and clear roadmaps.
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Security Needs a New Operating Model
Explore how Security in Cisco Cloud Control with AI Canvas unifies context, policy, and AI-guided action across fragmented security operations.
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Red Hat npm packages compromised in new Mini Shai-Hulud malware wave
Unknown attackers have compromised 30+ Red Hat Cloud Services npm packages with malware that goes after credentials stored in developers’ build environment. What the malware stole and how it can spread further The compromised packages were published in two different GitHub source repositories on June 1, 2026, between 10:53 and 10:53:33 UTC and 13:44 and…
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New Wave Of Phishing Emails with SVG Files, (Tue, Jun 2nd)
For a few days, my SANS ISC mailbox is flooded with emails that delivers SVG files. An SVG (“Scalable Vector Graphic”) is a web-friendly vector file format used for graphics and icons. No URL in the body, just “an image”, that’s the perfect way to deliver some malicious content. This isn’t the first time that we…
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The AI pricing conundrum — it started as a nightmare, now it’s worse.
Enterprise IT leaders have always struggled with AI pricing, especially the need to pay for AI in a way that delivers ROI. But the typical IT exec may not be right person to decide how a company uses AI — and how it tries to deliver ROI — because so many line-of-business workers and partners…
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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge
In this interview with Help Net Security, Chuck Davis, VP, Global Information Security at Hikvision, explains how zero trust applies to physical security systems like cameras and door controllers. He breaks down how to make trust decisions at the edge without recreating old perimeter assumptions, why these devices should be treated as IT assets, and…
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This AI model backdoor attack stays hidden until you customize the model
Most teams that deploy AI start with a backbone model. They download a large pre-trained system, adapt it to a specific task, and put it into production. The download step carries a security question: the origin of the model. A research team built an attack called BadBone. It plants a backdoor inside a backbone model.…
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Pretalx vulnerability allows account takeover and admin demotion
The vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 8.7, can be exploited with low privileges and complexity.
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Meta AI customer support tricked into forwarding password reset codes
Cybercriminals engaged with Meta’s AI chatbot, convincing it to initiate a password reset sequence for a user’s account without proper identity verification.
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Anthropic Moves Toward IPO as OpenAI Competition Heats Up
Anthropic has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO), becoming the latest artificial intelligence giant to move toward the public markets and potentially beating rival OpenAI to a public debut. The Claude developer submitted a draft registration statement to the SEC on June 1, a…
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AI security’s cost bottleneck isn’t tokens – it’s validation
Experts say attempting to replace deterministic tools and human analysts with AI could cost companies more.
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USPS moving forward with mail-in ballot changes as courts weigh Trump’s election order
The U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with mail-in ballot restrictions, following a court’s rejection of a request by voting rights groups to immediately block an executive order from President Donald Trump ordering the changes. A new regulation proposed last Friday seeks to apply “uniform standards for the mailing of absentee ballots to and from…
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WordPress malware campaign hides payloads in Steam profiles
Nearly 2,000 WordPress websites were infected with malware that relies on Steam Community profile comments to hide command-and-control (C2) data. […]
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⚡ Weekly Recap: New Linux Flaw, PAN-OS Exploit, AI-Powered Attacks, OAuth Phishing and More
Monday hit like a cron job with anger issues. A busted auth path here, a repo-side faceplant there, some “patched-ish” thing already getting chewed on in the wild, and then the usual bonus round: poisoned dev tools, sketchy forum chatter, phishing kits pretending to be productivity, and AI lowering the bar for people who already…
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How to Get a Reddit API Key in 2026: Step-by-Step Guide
Getting a Reddit API key starts with creating an application through Reddit’s developer portal and understanding how its…
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Intel stakes new claim in physical AI with robotics chips
Intel is invading the physical AI space with a reentry into the robotics market it quit many years ago amid financial struggles. The robotics strategy is part of the company’s larger plan to establish AI on the “edge,” in which devices have the computing capability to run AI locally. Many devices lack AI capabilities and…
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Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard
In this interview with Help Net Security, Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, talks about the gap between what organizations think they know about their data and what discovery scans turn up. She shares stories of shadow data in abandoned cloud storage, post-merger surprises where duplicated datasets slowed integration, and why synthetic data is overmarketed while…
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Nvidia Introduces First PCs Designed for AI Agents
The chip giant will work with manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo and HP to make the laptops, designed to support agentic computing.
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Nvidia Introduces First PCs Designed for AI Agents
The chips giant will work with manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo and HP to make the laptops, designed to support agentic computing.
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27,000-Download Codex UI Tool Secretly Stole OpenAI Refresh Tokens
A malicious Codex UI npm package with 27,000 weekly downloads was caught exfiltrating OpenAI refresh tokens, exposing developers to account takeover risks.
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The High-Stakes Hunt for the Next Amazon in the AI Haystack
With AI winners and losers changing places so quickly, it isn’t just about where to invest, but also when.
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Fake Anthropic Sites Deliver Fileless Infostealer to Claude Code Users
Fake Anthropic websites are being used to target Claude Code users with a fileless infostealer campaign that steals browser credentials and evades detection.
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Meet GREYVIBE, the Russia-Linked Hacking Group Using AI to Target Ukraine and Still Making Rookie Mistakes
GREYVIBE, a Russia-linked group active since 2025, targets Ukraine with AI-assisted malware and five attack chains. Researchers say it’s part spy op, part crime gang. Security firm WithSecure has been tracking a previously unknown Russian-linked APT group called GREYVIBE since at least August 2025. The group targets Ukraine and Ukrainian-related organizations across military, government, civilian,…
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Nearly 20 billion files exposed in misconfigured cloud buckets
The exposed files encompass a wide range, with 685,047 credential and key files, such as .env files and private keys, and nearly 1 million database dumps, including .sql and .bak files.
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FIFA domain registrations surge ahead of 2026 World Cup, signaling fraud risks
CSC analysts identified over 65,590 domains with “FIFA” registered between January 2022 and April 2026, none of which were registered by FIFA itself.
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Open source Euro-Office productivity suite to launch June 9
The Euro-Office open source productivity app suite will be available with the first stable release of the software on June 9. Euro-Office was unveiled in March with the aim of providing a modern, open source alternative to Microsoft and Google software for European organizations increasingly wary of a dependence on US-based suppliers. Euro-Office consists of…
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Putin’s $26 Billion Longevity Push
Plus, why investors are betting on ‘physical AI’ and how China stuffed the Maextro S800 with gadgets.
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From $5 Attacks to Botnet-Powered Platforms: Inside the DDoS-as-a- Service Market
DDoS attacks are increasingly being sold like subscription services, complete with pricing tiers, support, and reseller programs. Flare explores how the DDoS-as-a-Service market has evolved from scattered tools into polished attack platforms. […]
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Microsoft Calls the Zero-Day Dumps Irresponsible. The Researcher Says Microsoft Started It.
A researcher dropped 6 Windows zero-days with no warning. Three are now exploited in the wild. Microsoft is angry. The researcher says Microsoft ignored them first. Over the past month, a researcher going by Chaotic Eclipse, also known as Nightmare-Eclipse, publicly released details of six unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows components including Defender and BitLocker. No…
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US charges Google security engineer with Polymarket insider trading
A Google security engineer was charged with insider trading after winning $1.2 million using confidential company data to place bets on the cryptocurrency-based Polymarket decentralized prediction market. […]
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LinkedIn-themed phishing abuses Adobe’s A/B testing platform
A newly documented phishing campaign is targeting professionals with fake LinkedIn business emails and abusing a trusted service operated by Adobe. The attack from the victim’s perspective The attack starts with an email that looks, at first glance, like a routine business inquiry: someone wants to do business with you through LinkedIn and has attached…
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Coffee with the Council Podcast: Nominate Now for the Global Executive Assessor Roundtable (GEAR)
Welcome to our podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I’m Alicia Malone, Director of Communications and Public Relations for the PCI Security Standards Council. In today’s episode, I’m excited to announce that the Council will open the nomination period for the next Global Executive Assessor Roundtable on June 1st. This roundtable, or GEAR as…
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BTMOB Android malware service generates custom phishing payloads
An Android remote access trojan named BTMOB is offered to cybercriminals with a builder interface for generating malware payloads tailored to phishing lures. […]
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HPE Heads to Discover with Wider Networking, Cloud Portfolio
HPE is heading into its annual Discover conference with a broader portfolio than in recent years and a clear push to become a go-to enterprise provider for networking and private cloud operations. The focus will inevitably be on artificial intelligence and the new ways HPE can meet customer demand across the entire networking stack. Its…
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Google security engineer accused of turning confidential search trends into $1.2M win on Polymarket
A Google security engineer was arrested in New York and charged with crimes related to bets he allegedly placed on Polymarket using confidential information he pulled from Google systems, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen who lives in Switzerland, is accused of placing multiple trades on the prediction marketplace last…
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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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Agentic AI Isn’t Risky; the Way Orgs Deploy It Is
AI agents aren’t black boxes — they’re models interacting with software tools. The risk lies in their overlap.
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Sherweb Targets MSP Billing Gaps with HaloPSA Integration
Sherweb has launched a native integration with HaloPSA to automate cloud billing workflows for managed service providers (MSPs), delivering real-time subscription and license updates directly within the PSA platform. The company said it is the first provider to integrate natively with HaloPSA for automated cloud billing synchronization, allowing customer license purchases and subscription changes to…
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New Threat Actor Jinx-0164 Targets Crypto Developers on macOS
New actor Jinx-0164 hit crypto developers with fake recruiter lures and macOS malware
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JINX-0164 Targets Cryptocurrency Firms with Fake Recruiter Lures and macOS Malware
A new campaign orchestrated by a previously undocumented threat actor has targeted cryptocurrency organizations with an aim to facilitate digital asset theft using recruitment-themed social engineering and bespoke macOS malware. “These campaigns leveraged sophisticated social engineering techniques, custom macOS malware, and deep targeting of CI/CD infrastructure,” Wiz researchers Shira Ayal,
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Ketch brings multi-agent AI orchestration to enterprise privacy programs
Ketch has unveiled its vision for agentic privacy with the Ketch Agent Network, a multi-agent orchestration layer for enterprise privacy programs. The platform is designed to continuously reason across legal obligations, internal policies, and operational realities within a unified AI-driven system. Privacy teams today are accountable for more than ever: global regulations, AI governance mandates,…
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The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines
Engineering teams across enterprise IT are writing their own software with AI coding assistants, spinning up agents that act on their behalf, and assigning those agents the same access privileges their human creators hold. The shift has pulled the role of the chief information security officer into territory that did not exist two years ago.…
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XM Cyber expands platform to enforce least-privilege access
XM Cyber Inc. announced an expansion of its platform with new capabilities designed to help enterprises enforce least-privilege access across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, and multicloud environments.
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GPU mining malware spreads via SEO poisoning, AI chatbots
Threat actors are targeting systems with high-performance computers in an ongoing cryptojacking campaign spread through a coordinated SEO poisoning operation that also manipulated AI chatbot recommendations. […]
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Apple releases quantum-resistant code and verification tools
The release includes implementations of ML-KEM and ML-DSA, two quantum-secure algorithms, along with the formal verification libraries and tools Apple developed.
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Malicious npm Package Stole Files From Claude AI User Directory via GitHub
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities. According to OX Security, the package, named “mouse5212-super-formatter,” is designed to upload files from “/mnt/user-data,” a dedicated directory used by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to handle uploads and outputs in the background. The
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ExtraHop, Ignition Bring Agentic SOC Push to North America
ExtraHop, a modern network detection and response (NDR) provider, has expanded its partnership with Ignition, operating under Exclusive Networks, in North America. Providing the ‘definitive’ intelligence layer for SOCs According to ExtraHop, the expanded partnership with Exclusive Networks will make its NDR platform “more accessible than ever,” giving organizations real-time network traffic insights to strengthen…
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GlassWorm Malware Takedown Disrupts Developer Supply Chain Attack Infrastructure
CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control (C2) channels associated with GlassWorm, a persistent software chain campaign targeting software developers through malicious packages and extensions. “Since at least early 2025, GlassWorm operators have systematically targeted software developers, a
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Apple makes its quantum-resistant encryption open source
Apple has published its post-quantum cryptography implementations in corecrypto, together with mathematical proofs and verification tools for independent expert evaluation, allowing external researchers to review the work and reproduce the company’s analysis. Post-quantum cryptography is designed to protect encrypted data from future quantum computers that could break widely used public-key encryption algorithms. A new approach…
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Vigolium: Open-source vulnerability scanner
Vigolium, an open-source vulnerability scanner that combines deterministic scanning with AI-driven auditing, launched its initial open-source release this month. The project ships 235+ scanner modules and an in-process agent runtime called olium that handles autonomous endpoint discovery, attack planning, and finding triage. The tool exposes two scanning paths. vigolium scan runs a multi-phase deterministic pipeline…
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Varonis integrates Claude AI compliance API into Atlas platform
This integration aims to provide organizations with enhanced visibility and oversight for their use of Claude, a tool relied upon for knowledge work, analysis, and application development.
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CypherLoc scareware tricks millions into identity theft traps
The CypherLoc attack begins with a phishing email containing a malicious link or attachment.
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Critical vulnerability in Universal Robots’ PolyScope OS allows remote command execution
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8153 with a CVSS score of 9.8, affects all PolyScope software versions prior to 5.25.1.
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How Varonis Atlas integrates Claude Compliance API for AI governance
AI governance requires visibility into how AI tools interact with enterprise data. Varonis explains how its Atlas platform uses Claude Compliance API data to help monitor usage, investigate risk, and support compliance. […]
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BTMOB Android RAT Spreads Through No-Code Builder Tooling
BTMOB Android RAT sold as a service with a no-code builder for fast, regional phishing lures
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What happens when security teams inherit identity
At the Span Cyber Security Arena conference, I sat down with Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, to talk about how organizations perceive identity and the challenges those perceptions create for security. He shared his perspective on where organizations struggle with identity, why identity platforms can become difficult to manage, how phishing-resistant authentication is…
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BTMOB: A stealthy RAT burrowing deep into Android devices
The malware pairs remote access capabilities with ready-made campaign tools, lowering the barrier for full device compromise
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Manage machine identities: The hidden privileged access layer you need to manage
Why are machine identities becoming the majority of “things with access”? Every automation, integration, and workload needs a way to authenticate and the right permissions to act. That quiet requirement has created a massive population of machine identities, also called non-human identities (NHIs): service accounts, service principals, workload roles, OAuth apps, AI agents, and IAM…
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Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era
Security teams already struggle with long lists of vulnerabilities and limited time to patch them. Cisco believes AI could increase that pressure by accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing the number of findings security teams need to review. The company said it is moving further toward a risk-based disclosure approach, placing greater attention on issues under…
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Ghostwriter Is Back, Using a Ukrainian Learning Platform as Bait to Hit Government Targets
Ghostwriter targeted Ukrainian government agencies with phishing emails delivering malware and Cobalt Strike payloads. The Belarus-nexus APT group Ghostwriter (also tracked as UAC-0057 and UNC1151) has resurfaced with a new phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian government organizations. This time the lure is Prometheus, a legitimate Ukrainian online learning platform that many government employees actually use. Using…
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Cisco warns of AI inaccuracies in security incident reports
Cisco’s research highlights several key issues with AI-generated reports, including inconsistency and standardization challenges due to LLMs using different data for each query and producing slightly different outcomes even with the same data.
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CISA adds Trend Micro Apex One and Langflow flaws to exploited vulnerabilities catalog
The vulnerabilities added are CVE-2025-34291, an origin validation error in Langflow with a CVSS score of 9.4, and CVE-2026-34926, a directory traversal flaw in Trend Micro Apex One (on-premise) with a CVSS score of 6.7.
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5,561 GitHub Repositories Hit by Megalodon Supply Chain Attack in Six Hours
SafeDep uncovered the Megalodon attack targeting 5,561 GitHub repositories with malicious CI workflows and cloud credential theft.
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GitLab 19.0 adds AI workflows, secrets management, and self-hosted model support
GitLab released GitLab 19.0 with expanded secrets management, agentic merge request workflows, improved CI pipeline visibility, support for self-hosted open-source models, and supply chain visibility enhancements. Engineering organizations shipping more code than ever are confronting the AI Paradox firsthand, as the surrounding workflows for securing credentials, reviewing and merging changes, enforcing pipeline standards, and running…
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US and Canada arrest and charge suspected Kimwolf botnet admin
U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the KimWolf distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet, which infected nearly two million devices worldwide. […]
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Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler (aka Dort), 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the development and operation of the botnet. Kimwolf is assessed to…
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How SpaceX’s IPO Cements Elon Musk’s Grip on the Company
With supervoting shares and help from Texas state law, the CEO has worked to address governance issues he has faced at Tesla.
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New Linux malware ‘Showboat’ targets Middle East telecom provider
Showboat is believed to be utilized by Chinese-affiliated threat actors, with command-and-control infrastructure linked to Chengdu, China.
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Social-Media Companies Settle Youth-Harm Case Ahead of Wave of Trials
The companies reached a settlement with a Kentucky school district to avoid a coming trial over accusations that they intentionally designed their platforms to addict young people.
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Chinese hackers target telcos with new Linux, Windows malware
A Chinese cyber-espionage campaign has been targeting telecommunications providers with newly discovered Linux and Windows malware dubbed Showboat and JFMBackdoor, respectively. […]
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SharePoint On-Prem End of Life: 2026 Migration Guide
With Microsoft ending support for SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 on July 14, 2026, organizations still running on-premises SharePoint face a shrinking window to modernize aging collaboration environments before security updates, bug fixes, and vendor support disappear. SharePoint 2019 On-Prem lives on, but without Microsoft support For over a decade, local SharePoint deployments have served…
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The readiness paradox: Why a false sense of cyber confidence is becoming a liability
There’s this old proverb that’s stuck with me over the years: “Dig the well before you are thirsty.” It really means you should prepare for the crisis before it arrives. In cybersecurity, it’s a mentality that’s long underpinned investment, strategy and board-level conversations. And by many measures, organizations appear to have already ‘dug’ that well.…
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SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Sprint to Go Public Defines the AI Boom’s Big Day
Silicon Valley’s hottest startups are competing fiercely as big tech firms contend with fickle investors and hard choices.
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E-Hiking Is Here. You Can Tell by My 1,000-Watt Hips.
With Hypershell’s X Ultra S and similar personal exoskeletons, AI takes on the great outdoors.
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Ukraine identifies infostealer operator tied to 28,000 stolen accounts
The Ukrainian cyberpolice, working in conjunction with U.S. law enforcement, has identified an 18-year-old man from Odesa suspected of running an infostealer malware operation targeting users of an online store in California. […]
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PinTheft: Another Linux Privilege Escalation, Another Working Exploit, This Time Targeting Arch
PinTheft is a Linux LPE flaw in the RDS subsystem with public exploit code. Arch Linux users face the highest risk and should patch immediately. The wave of Linux local privilege escalation vulnerabilities showing up with working exploit code is not slowing down. The latest is PinTheft, discovered by the V12 security team, which affects…
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AWS Security Hub Extended: Why enterprise security products should sell themselves
Our largest security services customers started the same way every customer does – with a click. They enabled Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS WAF, and AWS Security Hub, experienced the benefits in real time, and evaluated with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing. No RFP. No six-month evaluation. No multi-year commitment up front. Our field teams played a…
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OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Very Soon
The artificial-intelligence giant is working with bankers at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Very Soon
The artificial-intelligence giant is working with bankers at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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Google talks ‘singularity’ while scaling up agentic AI for enterprises
Google is recasting its enterprise AI roadmap around autonomous systems and AGI, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis telling I/O attendees the industry now sits at the “foothills of the singularity.” “When we look back at this time, I think we all realise that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity,” Hassabis said in his…
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10 Android Circle to Search superpowers you probably never noticed
With Google’s annual I/O gala in full force this week, Gemini and AI are taking center stage and being presented as the future of practically everything. Here in the land of Android, though, Gemini’s been quietly competing for attention with another relatively youthful on-demand assistant — and that’s a far less in-your-face feature called Circle…
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Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability Exploits Overtake Credentials as Top Access Vector
Verizon DBIR finds 31% of data breaches began with software flaws last year
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What Will Make AI BOMs Real?
A brief overview of the forces at play that will get more organizations on board with creating and consuming AI bill of materials (BOMs).
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CIRT insights: How to help prevent unauthorized account removals from AWS Organizations
The AWS Customer Incident Response Team works with customers to help them recover from active security incidents. As part of this work, the team often uncovers new or trending tactics used by various threat actors that take advantage of specific customer configurations and designs. Understanding these tactics can help inform your architecture decisions, improve your…
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AI Agent Security: Automating Workflow Without Creating Prompt Injection or Data Leak Risks
AI agent security starts with a simple fact: the more authority an agent has, the tighter its access…
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Cybersecurity is really boring
Several weeks ago, I got into a debate with a good friend of mine. He started by saying that security is a very exciting space with so many things changing every day. But the longer we talked, the more we started agreeing that when done well, cybersecurity is incredibly boring. In this piece, I am…
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GitHub scales back bug bounties, reminds users security is their responsibility too
Faced with the growing volume of submission to its bug bounty program, GitHub is replacing cash bounties with swag rewards for reports with low security impact — and asking researchers to stop submitting reports that are low quality or about things that aren’t its fault. The cloud-based code repository platform has seen a sharp increase…
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Selector extends AI-driven observability into multi-cloud environments
Selector has announced the expansion of its platform with AI-powered multi-cloud observability capabilities. The extension of Selector’s AI-driven observability approach into multi-cloud environments enables organizations to correlate signals across the full hybrid path. By unifying rich telemetry data from cloud, network, and infrastructure into a shared intelligence layer, Selector gives teams a more complete, actionable…