Organizations are redefining cybersecurity roles through workforce frameworks and placing greater emphasis on verified skills as AI and new regulatory requirements change hiring. The SANS 2026 Cybersecurity Workforce Survey found demand for specialists in new roles more than doubled over…
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Security teams keep finding critical flaws after scheduled testing ends
Enterprise environments change between scheduled security assessments, leaving organizations with periods where new vulnerabilities can go undetected. Synack’s State of Continuous Security Validation report found that 95% of surveyed organizations identified high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities outside planned testing windows during…
Cloud operations become the next big role for agentic AI
Companies are using agentic AI to manage growing application environments, automate routine tasks, and support decisions. Business and IT leaders increasingly see the technology as part of cloud application management, according to Unisys’ AI & Cloud Insights Report. To what…
AI agents tricked into recommending malicious GitHub repositories
Roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories were uncovered, more than 800 of them posing as AI Skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in a wave that peaked in April 2026, according to Island. The scale of the FakeGit operation (Source:…
Teleport enhances Identity Security platform with new AI agent behavior controls
Teleport has expanded its Identity Security platform with three new capabilities designed to ensure that agent behavior remains within defined boundaries: Beams Session Summaries, Agentic Classifiers, and Risk Scoring. They give enterprises a foundational harness for identifying and preventing agent…
JadePuffer returns with ransomware built to target AI models and infrastructure
JadePuffer, the threat actor behind the recently documented extortion operation executed end-to-end by an AI agent, is now attempting to leverage ENCFORGE, novel ransomware created to target AI and machine learning (ML) infrastructure. The extortion contact embedded in the ransomware…
Cisco’s open-weight Antares models make vulnerability localization cheaper
A security analyst opens an unfamiliar repository, pulls up a vulnerability advisory, and starts hunting for the file where the weakness lives. The naming conventions belong to someone else. Evidence sits in scattered corners of a codebase that runs to…
Druva brings backup, recovery and governance to AI workloads
Druva has announced Druva AI Resilience, a new approach that helps organizations recover, govern, and defend the systems, activity, and context behind AI-powered work. The launch introduces new and expanded capabilities for Microsoft Copilot, Claude Code, Druva Model Context Protocol…
Shufti simplifies cross-border compliance with the Glocal Platform
Shufti has launched the Shufti Glocal Platform, a compliance lifecycle management solution designed to help organizations manage identity verification, fraud prevention, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance through a single platform across every industry, every region, and every use case. For…
SonicWall SMA zero-days were exploited weeks before disclosure
Two recently disclosed SonicWall SMA 1000 vulnerabilities – CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 – were exploited in zero-day attacks for weeks, allowing threat actors to install custom malware on vulnerable VPN appliances, Volexity researchers revealed. The intrusions began as early as June…
Fake FBI agents target people who already got scammed
Scammers are impersonating FBI personnel who supposedly handle Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) complaints, using that disguise to deceive and revictimize people who already lost money once. The IC3 published the update on July 20, 2026, building on an earlier…
Estée Lauder discloses data breach tied to Oracle EBS vulnerability
Cosmetics company Estée Lauder disclosed a data breach tied to a vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) used for the company’s human resources operations. Estée Lauder is one of the largest beauty companies in the world, known for its prestige…
AWS wants GuardDuty to automate the first steps of threat investigations
Amazon GuardDuty investigation agent is now in public preview. The feature provides AI-powered investigations of GuardDuty findings, AWS accounts and AWS organizations, helping security teams reduce investigation time. During the public preview, the investigation agent is available at no additional…
Open-source maintainers still work underfunded as sponsorship crosses $100 million
A maintainer patches a library late at night that ships inside thousands of products, and no invoice follows. Sebastián Ramírez and Caleb Porzio spent years in that position. Ramírez, known as tiangolo, builds tools that other Python projects depend on.…
The air gap is a myth and other OT security truths
Benjamin Bachmann, Director Group Information Security at Bilfinger, speaks with Help Net Security about defending industrial plants. He explains why attackers want to control operations instead of stealing data, and why the air gap is mostly a myth. Bachmann covers…
Nobody was checking the drives that encrypt your laptop
A drive ships with a label promising hardware encryption. You plug it in, set a password, and trust the chip inside to handle the rest. Millions of laptops and workstations run this way, on solid-state drives built to the TCG…
PR3TACK preemptive framework maps threats before attackers use them
Defensive frameworks in cybersecurity record what attackers have already done. Analysts study a breach, document the method, and build detections around confirmed activity. This cycle leaves a gap between the moment an attacker invents a technique and the moment defenders…
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 assistants, marketing teams lean on writing tools, and analysts query enterprise search across separate vendors. Single-provider setups keep giving way to mixed stacks…
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: July 21, 2026
Application Security Analyst Stellantis | USA | On-site – View job details As an Application Security Analyst, you will perform application security testing using SAST, DAST, IAST, and other assessment tools to identify vulnerabilities and support remediation efforts. You will…
AI-generated reports push GNOME to shorten its disclosure window
Volunteer maintainers of open source projects now receive a steady flow of security vulnerability reports produced with AI tools. Many arrive with no mention that a language model helped write them. The volume has grown enough that GNOME is revising…