Accertify has announced the launch of Attack State, a new capability in its Account Protection solution designed to help organizations detect and respond to coordinated login attacks and other automated threats targeting customer accounts. Attack State analyzes login activity continuously…
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EU Parliament backs extension of CSAM detection rules until 2027
The European Parliament has voted to extend a temporary exemption to EU privacy legislation that allows online platforms to voluntarily detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The extension prolongs a derogation from the EU’s ePrivacy Directive, which was set to…
Authorities dismantle SocksEscort proxy network behind millions in fraud
SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit thousands of compromised home routers worldwide and facilitate large-scale fraud that cost victims millions of dollars, has been disrupted in an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Department of Justice.…
BioCatch DeviceIQ helps banks spot risky devices before login
BioCatch has announced the launch of DeviceIQ, a comprehensive new device identification and intelligence product that transforms how financial institutions evaluate the trustworthiness of devices used for digital banking. Traditional device identification has grown increasingly unreliable. Criminals utilize sophisticated evasion…
Red Access firewall-native SSE adds GenAI security and browser protection to existing firewalls
Red Access has announced firewall-native SSE, an agentless cloud layer that instantly upgrades any existing firewall with Security Service Edge (SSE), GenAI security, and browser-agnostic protection. Deployed directly on top of existing architecture, the firewall-native SSE eliminates the need for…
AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes
Coding agents are now writing production features on real development teams, and a new report from DryRun Security shows that those agents introduce security vulnerabilities at a high rate across nearly every type of application they build. “AI coding agents…
Passwords, MFA, and why neither is enough
Passwords weren’t enough, so we added MFA. Now MFA isn’t enough either. In this Help Net Security video, Karlo Zatylny, CTO/CISO at Portnox, walks through why each layer of identity security has failed and what comes next. SMS codes can…
New infosec products of the week: March 13, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Binary Defense, Mend.io, OPSWAT, Singulr AI, SOC Prime, Terra Security, and Vicarius. Singulr AI’s Agent Pulse delivers enforceable runtime governance and visibility for AI agents…
€1 million online fraud scheme uncovered, three suspects arrested
A criminal group suspected of running an online fraud scheme in Germany, which defrauded victims of around €1 million, has been dismantled through judicial cooperation coordinated by Eurojust. On 10 March, German and French authorities arrested three suspects in a…
Socure Launch enables startups to deploy identity verification and fraud controls
Socure has announced Socure Launch, providing every organization with immediate access to industry tested, pre-built identity and fraud solutions. This marks a new era for Socure, providing startups an enterprise level of identity verification, fraud detection, and compliance decisioning. With…
WhatsApp is giving parents peace of mind over their kids’ privacy
WhatsApp has introduced parent-managed accounts designed for pre-teens, giving parents and guardians new controls over contacts, group participation, and how the app is used. These accounts are limited to messaging and calling and do not include access to features such…
Mimecast adds AI investigation and adaptive controls to manage human risk
Mimecast has announced major platform capabilities designed for a new enterprise reality as AI agents and automated workflows scale across the business and establish the human layer as the new security control plane. According to Mimecast’s The State of Human…
ENISA advisory examines package manager security risks
Developers install external libraries with a single command, and that step can introduce more code than expected into a project environment. Dependency resolution inside package managers extends software supply chains across large collections of external components. ENISA’s Technical Advisory for…
SOC Prime’s DetectFlow Enterprise moves threat detection to the data ingestion layer
SOC Prime has announced the release of DetectFlow Enterprise, a solution that brings real-time threat detection to the ingestion layer, turning data pipelines into detection pipelines. Running tens of thousands of Sigma detections on live Kafka streams with millisecond MTTD…
Zscaler enhances data sovereignty controls with regional processing and logging
Zscaler has expanded its data sovereignty capabilities globally, powered by the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud security platform. For global enterprises, the conflict between protecting data and enabling cross-border collaboration is a major compliance and business challenge to growth. Zscaler…
Binary Defense’s NightBeacon brings AI-driven analysis to SOCs
Binary Defense has announced the launch of NightBeacon, an AI-powered security operations platform built directly into the company’s security operations center (SOC). NightBeacon serves as the intelligence infrastructure behind Binary Defense’s MDR service, supporting every analyst shift, detection, and investigation…
War spreads into cyberspace after Iran-linked hackers hit medtech giant Stryker
An Iran-linked hacking group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on U.S. medical device giant Stryker, marking a potential escalation of cyber activity tied to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Stryker confirmed in a Form 8-K filing with…
Codoxo’s Deepfake Detection identifies AI-generated medical records for health plans
Codoxo has announced the launch of Deepfake Detection, an AI-driven fraud detection tool now being deployed by health plans across the U.S. The solution helps identify AI-generated or manipulated medical documentation and diagnostic images submitted in support of claims before…
Stop fixing OT security with IT thinking
In this Help Net Security interview, Ejona Preçi, Group CISO at Lindal Group, discusses the specific cybersecurity challenges in manufacturing environments. The conversation covers why standard IT security practices break down on shop floors, where PLCs and decade-old firmware were…
Agentic attack chains advance as infostealers flood criminal markets
Cybercriminals spent much of 2025 automating their operations, shifting from one-off attacks to systems that can run entire intrusion cycles with minimal human input. Data collected from criminal forums, illicit marketplaces, and underground chat services shows a threat environment where…