SocGholish, an operation that’s been delivering malware to users via fake software updates, has suffered a major blow: the international law enforcement coalition behind Operation Endgame has taken down 106 of its servers and domains, and cleaned up nearly 15,000…
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eSentire links AI-led penetration testing with MDR through Atlas Preempt
eSentire has announced the launch of Atlas Preempt, a component of the company’s Atlas Platform. Atlas Preempt performs continuous, AI-driven offensive testing against customer environments to identify which exposures attackers can reach and feeds that data into eSentire’s 24/7 Managed…
Malware attacks strip Roblox developers of entire games
Hackers who once focused on stealing valuable Roblox items are now taking over entire games. Although Roblox operates the service, users can create and publish their own games on it. Successful games can generate substantial revenue through in-game purchases. Some…
74,000 Fortinet firewall credentials exposed in FortiBleed data leak
A Russian-speaking cybercriminal group has stolen credentials contained in the configuration files of nearly 74,000 Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways around the world. The data was accidentally exposed by the group on a server, along with other artifacts and tools,…
GentleKiller targets more than 400 security processes across 48 products
Most ransomware operations leave the work of disabling endpoint security software to their affiliates. The ransomware-as-a-service gang Gentlemen runs a different model. Its operators develop and maintain a set of tools for shutting down endpoint detection and response (EDR) products,…
Blue Planet helps service providers reduce risk with unified network change governance
Blue Planet is closing the governance gap in network operations by unveiling Blue Planet Configuration and Change Management (CCM), unifying device configuration, change, and lifecycle management across multi-vendor networks. Backed by Blue Planet’s deep Operations Support System (OSS) expertise, CCM…
New 42Crunch plugin helps developers find and fix API vulnerabilities in GitHub Copilot
42Crunch has announced the availability of the 42Crunch API Security Testing Plugin for GitHub Copilot. This latest advance enables developers to continuously audit, test, remediate and validate API security vulnerabilities directly within AI-assisted development workflows. Organizations are struggling to secure…
Barracuda introduces AI-powered email security with automated threat response
Barracuda Networks has unveiled Barracuda Integrated Email Protection, an Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) solution delivering protection against evolving AI-driven threats. Powered by AI, the solution continuously and autonomously detects and remediates threats across the attack lifecycle, explains Microsoft 365…
Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car
In this interview with Help Net Security, Alysia Johnson, President of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), explains how the CCC Digital Key has grown from a single-brand feature into a standard meant to work across phones, automakers, and suppliers. She…
How security teams are getting credential visibility into developer endpoints
As we noted in our earlier analysis, attackers already know secrets are on your developers’ machines, the only question is whether security teams do. The supply chain attack calendar of 2026 has been relentless. Megalodon backdoored 5,500 GitHub repositories in…
Google’s open standard for AI agents to discover and verify tools
AI agents depend on tools, skills, and other agents spread across many teams, organizations, and platforms. These capabilities live in separate systems with their own registries, and an agent working in one environment has limited means to locate and connect…
What happens to oversight when AI agents write a lab’s own code
Inside the labs building frontier AI, a growing share of the coding gets done by the AI itself. These agents write, edit, and run software with light human oversight between steps, and they reach into production infrastructure, research pipelines, and…
Homebrew tightens tap security, begins work on its interface
Anyone who installs software through a third-party Homebrew tap runs Ruby code written by people outside the project, and that code runs without a sandbox. That risk sits at the center of Homebrew 6.0.0. Tap trust Homebrew now requires a…
AWS Continuum brings AI models to code vulnerability management
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities, a system built to handle a vulnerability across its lifecycle, from discovery through to a fix, is now available in gated preview. It reasons over a customer’s environment, confirms which findings are real, and works…
Most agentic AI projects in production have stalled over data problems
Enterprises are connecting AI agents to live data feeds and putting them to work on tasks that once required human review, from IT operations to software development. The number doing this in production reached 32 percent in 2026, up from…
Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies
Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report by OALABS (Open Analysis) researchers bears that out. After recovering and analyzing over 1,000 agent sessions from a compromised server…
Another healthcare firm attacked days after Novo Nordisk breach
Medical technology company iRhythm Holdings disclosed a cyberattack involving certain third-party-hosted business applications that resulted in the theft of patient protected health information, proprietary data, and other personal data. The company discovered unauthorized activity on June 8, 2026, and launched…
WitnessAI Agentic Control secures AI agents, tools, and MCP server access
WitnessAI has announced extended agentic security capabilities that govern how AI agents interact with enterprise systems, tools, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. With the launch of Agentic Control, enterprises have greater visibility and control over their AI agents with…
Tigera introduces unified control plane for Kubernetes-based AI agent security
Tigera has announced the general availability of Tigera Lynx, a unified control plane for Kubernetes-native AI agents. Lynx gives enterprises a single place to find every agent in their Kubernetes estate, tighten security posture, assign sandboxes, provide each agent with…
Rokarolla Android trojan targets banking and crypto users, enables device takeover
A newly discovered Android banking trojan, dubbed Rokarolla, targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications and can execute 137 commands on infected devices, according to researchers at Zimperium. Named after its command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, Rokarolla is primarily distributed through malicious websites…