Siemens has confirmed the active exploitation of CVE-2026-110936, a DLL side-loading vulnerability in Siemens Software Center, the company’s tool for…
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Quarantined, but still on your calendar: The explosion of invite-based attacks
There has been a sharp escalation in attacks that use malicious calendar invites to reach targets, email security providers Check Point and Sublime…
US Army is developing AI agents that could strike enemy networks and vanish without a trace
The US Army is looking for AI agents that can slip into an adversary’s network, find their target, copy themselves onto nearby tablets and computers, and…
Extend Verify helps AI agents flag suspicious documents before acting
Extend has announced Extend Verify, a document fraud detection API that helps developers and AI agents assess the integrity of documents before using them…
Teradata expands AI data security with post-quantum protection and immutable backups
Teradata has announced new privacy, security, and resiliency capabilities designed to address one of the defining challenges of enterprise AI: how…
Microsoft wants to limit AI agents’ permissions when they stray from the job
Microsoft’s Guardian Agents in Project Perception adapt as agent activity, risk, security context and organizational policy change. They help security…
Mastercard helps banks assess stablecoin risks before funds move
Mastercard has announced Stablecoin Security, a new risk intelligence solution, with Borderless.xyz and Keyrails as initial partners. As stablecoins play…
EasyDMARC and GMO GlobalSign connect email authentication with verified branding
EasyDMARC has partnered with GMO GlobalSign to help organizations establish trusted email identities through DNS security, sender authentication, and…
Your frontline workers have a workaround for that MFA prompt
Frontline workers in healthcare and manufacturing are getting around slow, unreliable logins by staying signed in, sharing credentials and trying to…
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Cloudflare bets you’re overpaying an LLM to read your invoices
Cloudflare released a preview of Clairic, an extraction model that pulls typed values out of messy text and images in one pass without generating tokens.…
ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup service after attackers abuse its Microsoft 365 access
American software company ConnectWise is contending with a security incident that has allowed unknown attackers to use its application identities to break…
Sweet Security adds one-click protection for vulnerable cloud workloads
Sweet Security has announced the release of Virtual Patching, a new capability that protects running cloud and AI applications from specific…
Axonius AI Workforce pairs asset intelligence with automated action
Axonius has announced Axonius AI Workforce, the latest expansion of Axonius AI. It enables organizations to deploy teams of Virtual Workers that monitor…
With open-weight AI, more of the security burden falls on enterprises
Organizations that run open-weight AI models on their own infrastructure may have to supply safety and security controls that an AI provider would…
Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks
Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous…
Bearer CLI: Free, source-available code security scanning tool (SAST)
Bearer CLI is a free static application security testing (SAST) tool that scans source code for vulnerabilities and prioritizes them by the sensitive data…
RPO and RTO explained with a real disaster recovery example
In this Help Net Security video, Matthew Burden, CEO of BlackBox Hosting, explains RPO and RTO and how they differ in practice. RPO, the recovery point…
Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta
AI agent traffic across DataDome’s network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company’s AI Traffic…
Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families
Ransomware attackers threatened employees’ family members or friends at 37% of organizations surveyed for Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report. The…