AWS DevOps Agent helps administrators inspect logs, review firewall rules and network paths, identify configuration changes that caused AWS Network Firewall to block traffic, and restore connectivity. The service is an AI-powered operations assistant for DevOps and SRE teams that…
Category: Help Net Security
Marathon Petroleum’s CISO on OT security automation, supply chain risk
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mary Rose Martinez, CISO at Marathon Petroleum, talks about what happens to security when automation reaches deep into refineries, pipelines, and terminals. She explains why the old idea of air-gapped operational technology has…
Nono: Open-source sandbox for AI agents
An AI coding agent opens a terminal, reads a config file, and finds a live cloud key sitting in plaintext. It runs with the permissions of the person who launched it. Every file that person can read, the agent reads.…
What the identity attack surface looks like when trust becomes the target
In this Help Net Security video, Joel Moses, VP, Strategic Engineering at F5, explains how attackers use identity instead of breaking through it. He walks through MFA fatigue, session token theft, and consent given to malicious applications, using the 2022…
Product showcase: LastPass Authenticator brings Face ID, Apple Watch, and cloud backup to 2FA
LastPass Authenticator is a free app that provides two-factor authentication (2FA) for accounts and any service that supports time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). It supports push notifications for one-tap approvals and generates six-digit verification codes for online accounts. The app is…
GitHub delays version updates so malware gets caught first
An automated update tool watches a package registry, catches a new release the moment it publishes, and opens a pull request for your team. That is the job it was built to do. In September 2025, that speed cut the…
Claude Opus 5 sharpens coding and cybersecurity work on AWS
Claude Opus 5 went live on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Anthropic says the model improves on Claude Opus 4.8’s cyber capabilities, coding through cybersecurity. Anyone with an AWS account in a supported region can call it. On…
Week in review: ServiceNow pre-auth RCE exploited in the wild, Hugging Face breached
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: AI agents are still logging in as humans Most large companies run more than one AI platform at the same time. Developers pull up coding…
Meta tackles AI-generated accounts with a free Facebook verification badge
Meta has introduced Facebook Verified, a free badge meant to show that a person behind a profile has completed identity verification through a selfie check. (Source: Meta) The company says the goal is to give users a signal that they…
Russian hackers exploit unpatched Zimbra servers to steal emails
Russian state-backed hacker group Laundry Bear has been breaking into government and commercial networks for at least a year by exploiting a vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) webmail platform. Laundry Bear (also known as Void Blizzard, CL-STA-1114, and…
Microsoft tightens Windows enterprise activation security
Microsoft is making Trusted Platform Module (TPM)-backed attestation a requirement for Windows Key Management Service (KMS), the on-premises service used for Windows volume activation, replacing the software-only trust model with hardware-backed verification to strengthen enterprise activation security. Attestation will become…
Google’s newest sign-in method asks you to look at the camera
Google’s selfie video sign-in option verifies that an account owner is a real person and that the account wasn’t created or used by computer programs or bots for the purpose of abuse, such as spamming. It is not available for…
Google gives developers an AI bug hunter that also writes patches
Google has launched a preview of CodeMender, an AI agent built to scan code for security flaws, confirm they are exploitable, and generate fixes for developers to review. (Source: Google) The company describes it as a response to attackers who…
The automotive software vulnerabilities hiding in your dashboard
Pop the hood on a new car and you won’t find much you can fix with a wrench. What you’ll find is software, and a lot of it. The screen in the dash probably runs Android or a flavor of…
Governing Al agents at scale: Lessons from the leaders who’ve done it
Enterprise AI leaders from ZoomInfo, Docusign and AppViewX share what it took to build AI Centers of Excellence and govern agent identities inside two companies operating at scale. What you’ll take away: What an AI Center of Excellence looks like…
Ransomware gangs go after EMEA healthcare’s supply chain
A ransomware attack against a hospital makes headlines, while attacks on the rest of the ecosystem around it tend to stay quiet despite doing damage that can be just as bad. Flare researcher Assaf Morag analyzed ransomware leak-site activity tied…
The best-funded companies open the most phishing attachments
An employee gets an email dressed as a password reset. She clicks the link, types her credentials into a page built to copy her company’s login screen, and moves on with her morning. She tells no one. That silence is…
Ransomware in 2026: More groups, more victims, no slowdown
Ransomware activity followed a recognizable pattern during the previous four years. Each year was defined by a dominant actor, its collapse, or a major supply chain incident. Black Kite’s 2026 Ransomware Report documents a more fragmented market, with multiple ransomware…
New infosec products of the week: July 24, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Astelia, Druva, Swimlane, and ThreatDown. Druva brings backup, recovery and governance to AI workloads Druva has announced Druva AI Resilience, a new approach that helps…
How attackers hosted a fake Claude download page on the claude.ai domain
A threat actor abused Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts feature to funnel users toward malware, Huntress researchers have disclosed. Employees at at least 29 organizations were compromised over two days in July, after searching for the Claude desktop app and clicking a…