Attackers have been spotted exploiting three vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, CVE-2026-25089) in FortiSandbox, a platform that other Fortinet security products depend on for threat verdicts to enforce blocking decisions and trigger automated responses. The warning came on Monday from threat intelligence…
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Cybercriminals mask malicious communications through Microsoft Teams relays
The DragonForce ransomware group used a custom malware called Backdoor.Turn to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure during an intrusion at a U.S. services company, according to Symantec. DragonForce is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that has been active since…
SimpleHelp RMM flaw could give attackers full access to managed endpoints (CVE-2026-48558)
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-48558) in SimpleHelp, a popular remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to create a new “Technician” account and use it to remote into managed endpoints, execute scripts, and more. Maliciously…
TekStream launches Proactive Cyber Defense to counter AI-driven threats
TekStream has announced the launch of TekStream Proactive Cyber Defense, a new expert-operated security service powered by Cosmos, the company’s cyber defense intelligence platform. The launch comes as organizations face a rapidly changing threat landscape shaped by AI-accelerated attacks, autonomous…
AppViewX extends machine identity security to ai agents and post-quantum environments
AppViewX has announced Agent Identity Security, a new product within the AppViewX platform that discovers, governs, secures, and monitors AI agents across the entire enterprise. Agent Identity Security extends AppViewX’s platform, built on a decade of machine identity and PKI…
Radware AI Xploit Shield delivers virtual patching for newly identified application and API flaws
Radware has announced AI Xploit Shield, a new service that provides organizations with protection for their applications and APIs from exploitation of newly discovered vulnerabilities. As emerging frontier AI models like Mythos from Anthropic accelerate vulnerability discovery, organizations face a…
Teleport adds LLM Proxy and Delegated Identity to secure AI agent actions and access
Teleport has announced the debut of two foundational capabilities of its Agentic Identity Framework in the public beta of Beams: LLM Proxy and Delegated Identity. These capabilities address a critical gap in how organizations deploy AI agents: the lack of…
Crypto scammers are sending couriers to victims’ homes to collect cash
Scammers behind cryptocurrency investment schemes are dispatching couriers to pick up cash from victims in person, the FBI warns. According to the agency, scammers usually approach victims through social media, text messages, or fake investment personas, luring them into cryptocurrency…
Cisco discloses second exploited SD-WAN vulnerability in two weeks (CVE-2026-20262)
Cisco has revealed another Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability (CVE-2026-20262) that its Product Security Incident Response Team observed being exploited by attackers. But the associated security advisory also states that “the vulnerability was found during internal security testing”, raising the question…
Software supply chains are heading for a transparency test
Software supply chain visibility is becoming part of product security work as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) moves toward application in December 2027. ENISA’s SBOM Adoption State of Play 2026 shows organizations preparing for CRA obligations through SBOM tooling,…
Planning a trip? Fake travel sites are multiplying this summer
Cyberattacks against hospitality, travel, and recreation organizations rose 24% year over year, reaching an average of 2,291 incidents per organization each week in May 2026, according to Check Point. (Source: Check Point) “The sector has more than doubled its attack…
GitHub releases an open dataset for multilingual developer content
Developers coordinate code across README files, issue threads, and pull request discussions. Much of that exchange happens in English, and a large share happens in other languages. GitHub has released a dataset built to help researchers and developers locate public…
Reachability makes AI threat modeling worth the trust
In this interview with Help Net Security, Oscar Andersson, CTO at Oplane, explains why most scanning tools fail. They cry wolf, flagging threats that cannot run in real code. The argument centers on reachability. A finding counts only when someone…
EU Cybersecurity Act 2.0: When good regulation goes bad
Over recent years we’ve witnessed the EU becoming increasingly serious about cybersecurity. After years of watching high profile breaches, many resulting from supply chain attacks targeting our critical infrastructure, that seriousness is welcome. But good intentions and good policy are…
The rise of machine identities and agentic AI: Securing trust in the next era of digital autonomy
In the latest episode of Identity Insider, I sat down with Chris Hughes, a cybersecurity expert who’s involved in OWASP’s work on non-human and machine identity security. Unsurprisingly, our discussion centered on the rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape, driven by the…
A $2 trillion revenue shift hinges on AI data governance
Across large enterprises, a single question keeps surfacing when teams want to put customer data to work. Can this record be used for a given purpose, and does the consent behind it still hold? The data sits in warehouses and…
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Android Vulnerability Researcher Byteria | USA | Remote – View job details As an Android Vulnerability Researcher, you will analyze the Android attack surface, including the Linux kernel, system services, drivers, firmware, applications, and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). You will…
Chinese hackers breached North American research institutions via REDCap servers
A China-linked cyber espionage operation targeted North American medical research institutions through compromised REDCap servers, using custom malware to gain persistent access and collect sensitive information, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) researchers found. UNC6508 exploits vulnerable REDCap servers GTIG attributed…
China-linked spies backdoored authentication stack to stay hidden for years
A China-linked cyber espionage group known as Velvet Ant spent nearly a decade inside the internal network of an unnamed organization without being detected, according to the results of a forensic investigation published by cybersecurity firm Sygnia. The group’s defining…
Delinea and Cyera integrate for data-aware identity security
Delinea and Cyera announced a product integration that connects privileged access to sensitive data exposure, automatically correlating identities with the data they can access. Together, Delinea and Cyera help security teams identify, prioritize, and remediate the highest-risk access paths across…