Attackers are exploiting an authentication flaw (CVE-2026-58115) in Node-RED, a programming tool built into some industrial control products, to install a…
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AI agents scale and speed up Chinese-linked attacks
A China-nexus espionage group used AI agents to attack more than 200 organizations in 11 days, CrowdStrike said last week. On Monday, Kaspersky published…
Gorbag APT group hits Ukrainian courts and city councils with self-deleting malware
ESET has been tracking a Russia-aligned group it calls Gorbag, which has been breaking into Ukrainian organizations since at least February 2025 using…
Stolen AI access leaves companies with cloud bills of up to $1 million
Criminals who break into corporate cloud accounts are using the stolen access to run AI models at the victim’s expense, in some cases racking up more than…
OpenAI raises top bug bounty payout to $172,000 with bonuses
OpenAI increased its security bug bounties to encourage independent researchers to find vulnerabilities in its software. The program now offers bonuses…
Opal’s agent.ID virtual event: Top security leaders on governing Al agents
Opal Security will host agent.ID, a free virtual event focused on adapting identity and access management (IAM) to AI agents, on November 5, 2026. The…
What human hackers still do better than AI, according to HackerOne’s CEO
AI can find vulnerabilities in minutes, but people still hold the edge in judging what a flaw means for a business. In this Help Net Security interview,…
Product showcase: Sweet Virtual Patching stops HTTP2Shell while fixes catch up
HTTP2Shell (CVE-2026-111497), the critical Brotli bug first known as Node2Shell, is a remote code execution flaw in the compression library inside…
AI coding agents are installing MCP servers that will never be patched
When a developer tells an AI coding agent to “set up a GitHub MCP,” the agent has to pick a package. New research from Glow Labs documents sessions where…
Fireperf: Open-source network testing tool for firewalls and routers
The IPFire project has released fireperf, an open-source measurement tool that opens connections at a fixed rate and reports what the device in the middle…
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Google disrupts XCPE botnet, bans the company behind it
Google shut down the servers behind XCPE, a backdoor hidden in the firmware of Android TV set-top boxes. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group attributes the…
CISA to federal agencies: Remediate exploited Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-111357, CVE-2026-118527)
CISA added two new Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-111357, CVE-2026-118527) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Friday,…
AI-powered infostealer picks out the most profitable parts of your stolen data
A new Windows infostealer sends the data it steals to an AI model and asks it to rank the victim’s assets by how much money they could bring in, Cisco…
Second wave of refrigeration cyberattacks hits European supermarkets
Three weeks after the attack that turned refrigeration units in French supermarkets into ovens overnight, similar cyberattacks have hit shops in other…
Trezor warns some of its wallets may hide a seed-stealing implant
A Trezor Safe 5 sold by CryptoBilis, the reseller linked to the recent Ledger wallet drains, may contain a hidden implant that steals the owner’s recovery…
Chainalysis breached using “offensive agentic techniques”
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has suffered a cybersecurity incident that led to a data breach. According to the company’s Friday announcement, the…
FBI pins $6.3 billion Binance crypto heist on North Korea while scammers circle anxious users
North Korea was behind the theft of more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, the FBI has confirmed. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…
DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, a coding agent that watches team chats for work
Deepseek released a research prototype of dsh-superagent, a coding agent that does work on a GitHub repository for you. Who can ask for work The agent…
The first ten lines of a command policy for AI coding agents
In this Help Net Security interview, Vinay Thakker, CTO of KloudStax, explains how to set identity, credentials, and network limits for AI agents. He…