How to prioritize AI agent security by business impact
Your CEO calls about an AI agent security incident in finance. He wants to know whether money moved, whether financial data was exposed, who owned the agent ...
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Securing the inbox: Where identity, brand and security meet
Getting a verified logo to appear next to your email has traditionally meant having to work with two separate entities. You have to work with a DMARC partner...
Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness
Plenty of developers now keep several coding agents close at hand, reaching for Claude Code on one task and Codex or Cursor on the next. Each tool arrives wi...
Product showcase: Is that text a scam? Malwarebytes Mobile Security can help you find out
Malwarebytes Mobile Security for iPhone combines scam prevention, privacy protection, and identity monitoring in a single app. It evaluates a device’s securi...
Flipper Zero firmware development gets a fresh set of community rules
Owners of the Flipper Zero, the pocket-sized wireless testing tool, spent recent weeks worried that its official firmware had gone quiet. Pavel Zhovner, CEO ...
OAuth, guest accounts, and weak MFA drive SaaS risk
Organizations often create guest accounts to give contractors, suppliers, and partners temporary access to files and SaaS applications. Many of these account...
The future of payment fraud could be automated
Payment fraud is becoming more organized as criminal groups use fake websites, large-scale operations, and, in some cases, forced labor to steal money and pe...
New ClamAV security patch closes seven scanner bugs dating back two decades
Open source antivirus scanning sits inside mail gateways, file upload checks, and endpoint tooling at organizations of every size. Much of that work runs thr...
Week in review: SimpleHelp vulnerability exploited, Oracle EBS Payments flaw under attack
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Companies keep bolting AI onto their products, and the secu...
Intezer helps SOC teams automate custom security tasks
Intezer has announced Custom Agents, a new capability that lets security teams build their own AI agents directly inside the Intezer platform. The launch bui...
Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login
Anyone who runs a server with SSH exposed to the internet sees the same pattern in the logs. A steady stream of automated scanners tries to log in, hour afte...
Geopolitical cyber threats are turning HR into a security front line
In this Help Net Security video, Roman Sannikov, Global Research Coordinator at iCOUNTER, explains why geopolitics belongs in every security team’s threat mo...
Organizations struggle to prioritize known cyber risks
Organizations collect more cyber risk data than ever, with many still struggling to build a unified view of their exposure. The latest State of Threat Manage...
New infosec products of the week: July 3, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Digi International, iboss, Jamf, and Netzilo. Digi International’s...
Scattered Spider suspect extradited over $8 million ransom scheme
A suspected Scattered Spider member has been extradited to the United States to face charges linked to cyberattacks against U.S.
New iboss platform gives organizations instant visibility into AI tools and usage
iboss has launched the AI Security Platform, a new service that gives any organization visibility into the AI tools its people are using, free of charge. Sig...
Cloudflare changes AI crawler access rules
Cloudflare introduced new controls that let website owners manage AI traffic across three categories: Search, Agent, and Training. The feature is available t...
Opera blocks ClickFix attacks with new clipboard protection feature
Opera has launched Paste Protect, a clipboard protection feature designed to prevent clipboard-based attacks such as hijacking and pastejacking. Paste Protec...
The endpoint recovery gap many teams discover during an incident
In this interview with Help Net Security, IGEL CTO Matthias Haas explains why backups alone do not equal recovery. He makes the case that endpoint recovery i...
Review: CTRL+ALT+PWN
Hacking gear that once sat in well-funded labs now ships to anyone with a credit card and a video tutorial. Frank Riccardi builds his consumer guide, CTRL+AL...