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ShinyHunters claims it stole 284 million patient records from McKesson
Healthcare company McKesson disclosed a cybersecurity incident in which hackers got into third-party applications and stole data. McKesson is a major U.S.…
Anthropic locks out Claude users after infostealers hijack login sessions
Anthropic has started locking users out of their Claude accounts due to their login sessions having been compromised through infostealer malware. “The…
Russian hackers plant nuclear weapon prompt in malware to trip AI safety guardrails
Russian state hackers are trying to interfere with AI-assisted malware analysis in Ukraine by deliberately setting off AI safety mechanisms, ESET has…
Debian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary
A maintainer reading a merge request can’t tell whether a person or a model wrote the diff, and nobody has to say. Debian developers voted on that through…
The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite
OpenClaw is open source software that hands an AI model small standing jobs across your accounts, the kind of chore where it watches a mailbox for vendor…
What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree
In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Joye Purser, Global Field CISO at Cohesity, explains how to rank vulnerabilities when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS point…
Halo-record: Open-source audit trails for AI agents
Brian Kuan wrote halo-record, a small Python package that sits inside an AI agent and writes down the moves it makes: tool calls, model calls, data…
AI AppSec tools agree on just 5% of security findings
Software vulnerabilities are turning into exploits within hours, and application security teams carry patch backlogs that go back years. Top types of…
Free ChatGPT users get ads picked from whatever they just asked about
Say you’re on the free plan and you ask ChatGPT to help you pick a mattress. An ad may turn up next to the answer, and it got there because of what you…
Week in review: Compromised Zimbra servers, previously patched Citrix NetScaler flaw exploited
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Unpatched Zimbra servers are falling to CVE-2026-73570…
PaperCut NG/MF vulnerabilities exploited in zero-day attacks
Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-82078, CVE-2026-81578) affecting print management solutions PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF are being exploited by attackers,…
North Korean remote workers are broadening their job hunt beyond IT
North Korean (DPRK) remote workers are expanding their job searches beyond IT, according to Huntress. Recent investigations have identified suspected DPRK…
Android 17 adds new protections against sneaky Wi-Fi tracking and web snooping
Google introduced a batch of network security changes coming in Android 17, aimed at making it harder for network operators, snoops, and scammers to track…
Manchester Airports Group breached, millions of customers’ data stolen
Someone broke into the systems of Manchester Airports Group (MAG) and walked away with a “quantity” of customer data from three UK airports, the company…
What 90 days and a small budget can buy in AI agent security
In this interview with Help Net Security, Prasad Tharippala, Field CISO at Versa, explains what organizations miss when they run open-weight models in…
New infosec products of the month: August 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from A10 Networks, Abnormal AI, F5 Networks, Intezer, Netscout,…
Two alleged TeamPCP hackers arrested over global supply chain attacks
Two men from Western Australia have been charged after police allege they were part of TeamPCP, a cybercrime group that planted malicious code in…
Unpatched PaperCut NG/MF vulnerability is under active attack
A yet unspecified vulnerability affecting print management solutions PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF is being exploited by attackers, PaperCut Software warned…
Unknown PaperCut NG/MF vulnerability is under active attack
A yet unspecified vulnerability affecting print management solutions PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF is being exploited by attackers, PaperCut Software warned…