JetStream Security enables on-demand shutdown of compromised AI agents
JetStream Security has announced the release of an AI Kill Switch that allows organizations to shut down compromised AI agents on-demand without impacting ot...
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7AI expands platform with Federated SIEM and AI workflow builder
7AI has announced two major platform capabilities: 7AI Federated SIEM, which lets security teams query, investigate, and act on data wherever it lives, inclu...
C1 adds shadow AI discovery to its identity governance platform
C1 has launched shadow AI discovery to eliminate the massive security blind spots created by unauthorized AI agents, tools, and credentials. By automatically...
Google changes how it names cyber threat actors
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has started using a new naming system for the threat actors it tracks. The change comes after Mandiant and Google’s T...
Booz Allen expands Vellox Suite with AI-driven threat detection platform
Booz Allen Hamilton has announced an expansion of its powerful suite of AI-powered cyber defense products. Now generally available, Vellox Ranger provides au...
PoC exploit released for critical AD CS domain-takeover flaw (CVE-2026-54121)
Security researchers who discovered and reported CVE-2026-54121 (aka “Certighost”), a critical privilege elevation vulnerability in Active Directory Certific...
ChatGPT joins the most impersonated brands in phishing attacks
Microsoft continued to be the most impersonated brand in Q2 2026, accounting for 23% of all brand phishing attempts. LinkedIn, Google, Apple, and Amazon foll...
AWS gives DevOps teams an AI investigator for firewall incidents
AWS DevOps Agent helps administrators inspect logs, review firewall rules and network paths, identify configuration changes that caused AWS Network Firewall ...
Marathon Petroleum’s CISO on OT security automation, supply chain risk
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mary Rose Martinez, CISO at Marathon Petroleum, talks about what happens to security when automation reaches deep i...
Nono: Open-source sandbox for AI agents
An AI coding agent opens a terminal, reads a config file, and finds a live cloud key sitting in plaintext. It runs with the permissions of the person who lau...
What the identity attack surface looks like when trust becomes the target
In this Help Net Security video, Joel Moses, VP, Strategic Engineering at F5, explains how attackers use identity instead of breaking through it. He walks th...
Product showcase: LastPass Authenticator brings Face ID, Apple Watch, and cloud backup to 2FA
LastPass Authenticator is a free app that provides two-factor authentication (2FA) for accounts and any service that supports time-based one-time passwords (...
GitHub delays version updates so malware gets caught first
An automated update tool watches a package registry, catches a new release the moment it publishes, and opens a pull request for your team. That is the job i...
Claude Opus 5 sharpens coding and cybersecurity work on AWS
Claude Opus 5 went live on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Anthropic says the model improves on Claude Opus 4.
Week in review: ServiceNow pre-auth RCE exploited in the wild, Hugging Face breached
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: AI agents are still logging in as humans Most large compani...
Meta takes on AI-generated accounts with free Facebook verification badge
Meta has introduced Facebook Verified, a free badge meant to show that a person behind a profile has completed identity verification through a selfie check. ...
Russian hackers exploit unpatched Zimbra servers to steal emails
Russian state-backed hacker group Laundry Bear has been breaking into government and commercial networks for at least a year by exploiting a vulnerability in...
Microsoft tightens Windows enterprise activation security
Microsoft is making Trusted Platform Module (TPM)-backed attestation a requirement for Windows Key Management Service (KMS), the on-premises service used for...
Google gives developers an AI bug hunter that also writes patches
Google has launched a preview of CodeMender, an AI agent built to scan code for security flaws, confirm they are exploitable, and generate fixes for develope...
Google’s newest sign-in method asks you to look at the camera
Google’s selfie video sign-in option verifies that an account owner is a real person and that the account wasn’t created or used by computer programs or bots...