A relatively new backdoor called Mistic has been deployed in multiple attacks since April 2026 targeting organizations in the insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors, according to Symantec. The malware appears to be associated with Woodgnat, also known as…
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Mitiga unveils Agentic Runtime Security for cloud, SaaS, identity, and AI protection
Mitiga has announced Agentic Runtime Security, a new approach to runtime detection and response across cloud, SaaS, identity, AI, and third-party services that anticipates, detects, interrupts, and stops active attacks before they impact the business. For two decades, security operations…
Reco Agent Security helps organizations govern AI agents and reduce exposure
Reco announced Reco Agent Security, which expands the Reco Platform with advanced capabilities that prevent data exposure, unintended use and process disruption caused by AI agents operating across connected applications and workflows. Agents function inside interconnected enterprise ecosystems where they…
Checksum API Agent generates and maintains stateful API tests
Checksum has launched the API Agent, a continuous testing agent that generates and maintains journey-based tests for backend APIs. The agent builds multi-step tests that mirror how a product actually uses its API, keeps them current as the API changes,…
ControlMonkey connects backup visibility with cloud recovery readiness
ControlMonkey announced its Data Backup Correlation, a new capability that extends its Cyber Resilience Platform by connecting data backup posture with cloud configuration recovery. The first release supports AWS Backup and Azure Backup. CISOs and cloud teams often lack full…
Veritone introduces Assess to streamline evidence analysis and compliance reviews
Veritone has announced the launch of Veritone Assess, an AI-powered data analysis solution designed to help public sector agencies identify inconsistencies, missing information, and critical intelligence gaps hidden within complex datasets. By automatically evaluating reports, witness statements, financial records, and…
BlackLine enhances Agentic Financial Operations Platform with CFO-focused AI oversight tools
BlackLine has announced new governance and observability capabilities within its Agentic Financial Operations Platform, further advancing the trust infrastructure finance organizations need to deploy, govern, and scale AI across the Office of the CFO. As finance teams transition from deploying…
runZero 5.0 unifies exposure management to accelerate risk reduction
runZero has announced runZero 5.0, a major platform evolution designed to help organizations defend their expanding attack surfaces against high-velocity, AI-fueled threats. The new release unifies the exposure management lifecycle into an automated workflow that enables security teams to seamlessly…
Hacker gets 18 months for attack that compromised 60,000 betting accounts
A 21-year-old man known online as “Snoopy” was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme that hacked user accounts on a fantasy sports and betting website and sold access to them, causing hundreds of thousands…
Flare unveils new CTI capabilities and Okta support
Flare has announced the expanded capabilities for Flare CTI, and an Okta integration within its Identity Exposure Management (IEM) offering. These updates extend Flare’s identity expertise into tactical threat intelligence use cases and agentic workflows to reshape security operations. As…
SpyCloud automates threat investigations with new Research Agent
SpyCloud has announced the launch of SpyCloud Research Agent, a conversational AI investigation agent now available in its Cybercrime Investigations console. Cybercrime investigations have a tax: hours of manual pivot work that experienced analysts run by instinct and junior analysts…
Forescout brings PQC visibility to IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments
Forescout has announced the launch of its Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Readiness and Encryption Hygiene Dashboards. The new dashboards are designed to help organizations identify, prioritize, and manage quantum risk across information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT),…
YesWeHack automates penetration testing with AI-powered agents
YesWeHack announces Agentic Pentest, an on-demand solution using autonomous AI agents to test organisations’ assets and deliver same-day findings. Shaped by YesWeHack’s extensive offensive security experience, Agentic Pentest helps organisations identify vulnerabilities, test their real-world exploitability and uncover attack paths…
Entrust uses biometrics to verify users during high-risk transactions
Entrust has introduced a new approach to preventing account takeover. As attackers increasingly target high-risk moments like account recovery, device changes, and large transactions, organizations need to modernize authentication from verifying access to verifying the real human behind the transaction.…
Seemplicity AI Analysts focus remediation on exploitable risks
Seemplicity has launched AI Analysts for exposure management and response. The autonomous agents replace manual vulnerability triage by working directly within remediation workflows to conduct structured, evidence-based exploitability investigations. The old playbook is broken. AI-generated exploits have collapsed the window…
Google Wallet adds TSA Touchless ID for faster airport screening
Google Wallet has joined the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) PreCheck Touchless ID program, allowing travelers to pass through security checkpoints using the TSA’s facial comparison technology. The system verifies identity by matching a live photo taken at a checkpoint with…
Bitdefender RealCheck analyzes videos for deepfakes and fraud
Bitdefender has announced the launch of Bitdefender RealCheck, a standalone solution that helps consumers evaluate the authenticity of video content circulating across digital platforms and whether it carries malicious intent, such as financial fraud, credential theft, or defamation. As deepfakes…
Stellar Cyber improves threat detection and data onboarding in new updates
Stellar Cyber has announced continued momentum across Stellar Cyber 6.5 and 6.6. The releases advance the company’s AI-driven, human-augmented SOC vision with governed AI workflows, improved Auto Triage visibility, sharper detections, stronger platform health monitoring, expanded integrations, and faster self-service…
WhatsApp will warn users before they message a potential scammer
WhatsApp is rolling out a warning screen on Android and iOS that appears before users open chats with unfamiliar phone numbers. Meta hopes that this new feature will help users avoid scammers. WhatsApp chats warning screen (Source: WABetaInfo) “WhatsApp now…
The uptime questions every engineering leader should ask this week
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mattias Geniar, CTO at Oh Dear, explains why most outages start quietly, as creeping latency or a slow rise in errors. He argues teams alert on the wrong things: absolute numbers instead of…