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Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE
Six months after Iranian drone strikes tore through its Middle East infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acknowledged the permanent loss of…
A fake ChatGPT billing email is after your OpenAI password
A fake ChatGPT billing email is steering users to a copy of the OpenAI login page that keeps whatever username and password they type. Josh Varden of…
CISA wants critical infrastructure orgs and smaller security teams to start using cyber decoys
Cyber deception has long been the domain of well-resourced security teams, but CISA’s latest guidance, titled “Using Cyber Decoys to Strengthen Detection…
Druva expands identity resilience with ransomware detection
Druva has announced new capabilities for Druva Identity Resilience alongside the launch of Ransomware Detection, a new feature fueled by a proprietary AI…
Google’s new agent security system detects tool misuse, loops and rogue behavior
Google’s Agent Anomaly Detection is a reasoning-based oversight and audit layer for autonomous agents deployed on Agent Runtime in the Gemini Enterprise…
FBI takes down one of the longest-running DDoS-for-hire services
The FBI has seized the domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service officials call one of the longest running “booter” operations in…
Unauthenticated attackers are bypassing Cisco ISE’s management interface (CVE-2026-76460)
Two days after it warned customers about an actively exploited email gateway zero-day, Cisco confirmed one more flaw is being targeted: CVE-2026-76460, an…
Scammers leave AI fingerprints all over fake antivirus renewal page
AI appears to be helping scammers with little web development skill build convincing fake antivirus-renewal pages, Malwarebytes found. The researchers…
Spain reports first data breach involving autonomous AI agent
Spain’s data protection authority (AEPD) has reported its first data breach blamed on an AI agent acting on its own, after the system reportedly logged…
Fake AI trading agent steals crypto wallet passwords
Attackers built a website for a fake AI crypto trading agent and used it to install Needle Stealer, malware that replaces a victim’s browser wallet with a…
Tuskira Vector brings autonomous red teaming to attack surface validation
Tuskira has announced Vector, its autonomous red teaming agentic capability, which identifies an organization’s exploitable attack surface by simulating…
Riverbed NPM 360 uses AI to predict and prevent network disruptions
Riverbed has announced new Riverbed intelligent network observability solutions that combine 360-degree network visibility with agentic AI to help network…
The AI security question leaders should be asking instead
In this Help Net Security interview, Frederic Bull, Security Officer at Gremlin, talks about what AI means for security teams. The conversation covers why…
A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage
Cheri Hotman, Managing Partner of Hotman Group, works as a vCISO and vGRC leader. In this Help Net Security video, she talks about holding coverage steady…
AI is adding to the review load on open-source projects, many of them thinly funded
AI coding tools are making open source software harder to maintain and secure, according to six authors writing for the Association for Computing…
GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures
GNOME 51, the new version of the Linux desktop, came out on September 16 under the codename A Coruña. The release adds offline maps and live transit…
AWS’s new sign-up gives accounts spend caps, email invites, and agent-set permissions
New AWS customers can now sign up with a Google, GitHub, or Apple login, start with $100 in Free Tier credits, and build inside a “project” where AWS and…
The world must establish red lines for autonomous AI weapons
AI is transforming warfare and international conflict. Autonomous weapon systems pose a genuine threat to civilians. The war in Ukraine has become a…
Parallels Desktop flaw hands any local user root on a Mac (CVE-2026-90894)
A newly disclosed vulnerability in Parallels Desktop, tracked as CVE-2026-90894 and dubbed “ParaShells,” can allow any local user on a Mac to gain root…