As Israeli and US forces launched joint preemptive airstrikes on Tehran, a sophisticated cyber-psychological operation unfolded simultaneously. According to a report by Wired Middle East, millions of Iranian citizens and military personnel were jolted awake not only by explosions but…
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Claude Code Security: The AI Shockwave Hitting Cybersecurity
Anthropic’s Claude Code Security research preview promises AI-powered code analysis and vulnerability detection at scale. The announcement triggered strong reactions across the cybersecurity community and sent several vendor stocks lower. In this episode, we break down what the tool actually…
Security debt is becoming a governance issue for CISOs
Application security backlogs keep expanding across large development portfolios. Veracode’s 2026 State of Software Security Report puts numbers behind a familiar operational pattern, fixes lag discovery, and older weaknesses stay open across release cycles. 2026 findings against the 2025 baseline…
Your dependencies are 278 days out of date and your pipelines aren’t protected
Applications continue to ship with known weaknesses even as development workflows speed up. A new Datadog State of DevSecOps 2026 report examines how dependency management and pipeline practices are influencing exposure across cloud native environments. Across the environments studied, 87%…
Pixel Perfect Browser Extension Exploited for Stealth Script Injection and Security Header Stripping
A popular Chrome add-on, “QuickLens – Search Screen with Google Lens,” has quietly morphed from a legitimate productivity tool into a full‑fledged remote code-execution platform that abuses browser trust, security headers, and silent auto‑updates. What began as a simple Google…
Prayer App Used by Millions Hacked to Broadcast Defection Messages Amid U.S.-Israel Strikes on Iran
A popular Iranian prayer timing application, BadeSaba Calendar, was hacked to deliver anti-government push notifications to millions of users. This cyber incident occurred early Saturday morning, coinciding with joint U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran. While the kinetic strikes…
Quitbro – 22,874 breached accounts
In February 2026, the porn addiction app Quitbro allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed 23k unique email addresses. The data also included users’ years of birth, responses to questions within the app and their last recorded relapse time. The…
BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework
BlacksmithAI is an open-source penetration testing framework that uses multiple AI agents to execute different stages of a security assessment lifecycle. A multi-agent structure for offensive workflows BlacksmithAI runs as a hierarchical system in which an orchestrator coordinates task execution…
When cyber threats start thinking for themselves
In this Help Net Security video, Jason Rivera, Field CISO & Head of Solution Engineering at SimSpace, discusses how autonomous AI agents are changing cyber threats. Drawing on experience in the US Army, NSA, Deloitte, and CrowdStrike, he describes how…
OpenClaw 0-Click Flaw Lets Malicious Websites Hijack Developer AI Agents
OpenClaw, a highly popular open-source AI personal assistant with over 100,000 GitHub stars, recently faced a critical security flaw. This AI tool, which autonomously manages developer workflows across laptops, messaging apps, and dev tools, was found to be vulnerable to…
AI risk moves into the security budget spotlight
Enterprises are pushing AI deeper into workflows that touch sensitive data across cloud platforms and SaaS apps. The 2026 Thales Data Threat Report, based on a survey of 3,120 respondents in 20 countries, places that shift alongside growing pressure on…
AWS Power Outage in Middle East Triggers Major Disruption to EC2 and Networking Services
A major power outage in the AWS me-central-1 (Middle East) region on March 1, 2026, resulted from an unusual physical incident where external objects struck a data center, triggering sparks and a fire. The event caused significant disruptions to Amazon…
UK government’s Vulnerability Monitoring System is working – fixes flow far faster
PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collection Infosec In Brief DNS vulnerabilities are being addressed 84 percent faster in the UK public sector thanks to an automated vulnerability scanning system established as part…
UK govermnent’s Vulnerability Monitoring System is working – fixes flow far faster
PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collection Infosec In Brief DNS vulnerabilities are being addressed 84 percent faster in the UK public sector thanks to an automated vulnerability scanning system established as part…
KomikoAI – 1,060,191 breached accounts
In February, the AI-powered comic generation platform KomikoAI suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1M unique email addresses along with names, user posts and the AI prompts used to generate content. The exposed data enables the mapping of individual…
Anomalous Context Injection Detection in Post-Quantum Environments
Learn how to detect anomalous context injections in MCP deployments using post-quantum cryptography and ai-driven behavioral analysis to prevent puppet attacks. The post Anomalous Context Injection Detection in Post-Quantum Environments appeared first on Security Boulevard. This article has been indexed…
ISC Stormcast For Monday, March 2nd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9830, (Mon, Mar 2nd)
This post doesn’t have text content, please click on the link below to view the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Monday, March 2nd, 2026…
South Korea’s tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto
Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceeds South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto, which parties unknown used to make off with the…
Are current AI systems adaptable to new cyber threats
How Prepared Are AI Systems Against Emerging Cyber Threats? Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) really keep up with evolving cyber threats? With technology evolves at an unprecedented pace, so do the tactics and techniques employed by cybercriminals. This poses a critical…
How proactive is your AI in detecting cyber threats
How Do Non-Human Identities Enhance AI Threat Detection? Is your organization leveraging Non-Human Identities (NHIs) to elevate its cybersecurity strategy? Managing NHIs becomes a pivotal factor in ensuring robust cloud security and improving AI threat detection capabilities. Understanding and managing…