The automotive software vulnerabilities hiding in your dashboard
Pop the hood on a new car and you won’t find much you can fix with a wrench. What you’ll find is software, and a lot of it.
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Governing Al agents at scale: Lessons from the leaders who’ve done it
Enterprise AI leaders from ZoomInfo, Docusign and AppViewX share what it took to build AI Centers of Excellence and govern agent identities inside two compan...
Ransomware gangs go after EMEA healthcare’s supply chain
A ransomware attack against a hospital makes headlines, while attacks on the rest of the ecosystem around it tend to stay quiet despite doing damage that can...
The best-funded companies open the most phishing attachments
An employee gets an email dressed as a password reset. She clicks the link, types her credentials into a page built to copy her company’s login screen, and m...
Ransomware in 2026: More groups, more victims, no slowdown
Ransomware activity followed a recognizable pattern during the previous four years. Each year was defined by a dominant actor, its collapse, or a major suppl...
New infosec products of the week: July 24, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Astelia, Druva, Swimlane, and ThreatDown. Druva brings backup, rec...
How attackers hosted a fake Claude download page on the claude.ai domain
A threat actor abused Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts feature to funnel users toward malware, Huntress researchers have disclosed. Employees at at least 29 orga...
Cobalt adds Autonomous Pentest to scale application security testing
Cobalt has introduced Cobalt Autonomous Pentest, a new offering that enables continuous offensive security across an organization’s application portfolio by ...
Months-long breach exposes South Korean diplomats’ personal data
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry has disclosed that attackers breached the Korea National Diplomatic Academy’s online education system, compromising personal d...
Attackers exploit critical Check Point flaw to take over firewall management (CVE-2026-16232)
Attackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-16232) that affects Check Point Security Management and Multi-Domain Securi...
Chaos ransomware msaRAT hides its C2 channel inside a legitimate browser process
Cisco Talos has identified a Rust-based remote access trojan it attributes to the Chaos ransomware group, named msaRAT after four of the binding names left i...
PyPI hardens package security with new upload restrictions
The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects uploads of new files to releases older than 14 days to prevent attackers from poisoning long-stable releases if a...
Swiss rail manufacturer Stadler refuses to pay $12.3 million ransom after cyberattack
Cybercriminal group Everest is demanding 10 million Swiss francs ($12.3 million) from Swiss rail vehicle manufacturer Stadler after breaching a data exchange...
GitHub revamps bug bounty program with new VIP tier, payout changes
GitHub is changing its bug bounty program to reward higher-quality vulnerability reports and reduce low-effort submissions, including AI-generated reports. T...
Axonius expands Asset Cloud with Cyber Assets and Exposures enhancements
Axonius has announced new capabilities across the Axonius Asset Cloud to better address asset intelligence and exposure management use cases. The enhancement...
Shadow AI is becoming enterprise security’s biggest blind spot
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to everyday business operations with remarkable speed. Employees are using it to summarize documents, ...