In this Help Net Security video, Ido Livneh, CEO of Jazz, explains why security analysts burn out and what leaders can do about it. The cause, he argues, is not long hours but meaningless work. Analysts spend their days closing…
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European AI adoption hits 99% with regulated data driving most policy violations
Generative AI tools operate inside nearly every European workplace, embedded in meeting transcription services, writing assistants, coding copilots, and search features. Workers in the region pull these tools into daily routines that involve customer records, financial information, and proprietary code,…
Chinese phishing gangs grow into a force to be reckoned with
Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) communities are expanding in an area historically dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminal groups. The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) analyzed a dozen active PhaaS offerings operating in Chinese-language underground communities and found mature services, with several likely linked…
Anthropic: Claude Mythos identified 10,000+ software flaws
Anthropic and its Project Glasswing partners have identified more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in critical software systems, the company announced in an update on the project’s progress. Mythos identifies thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities In April 2026, Anthropic introduced…
Conifers rolls out AI-powered SOC for unified security operations and automated response
Conifers has announced the launch of its agentic SOC, a unified AI platform designed to help security operations centers defend against cyber adversaries operating at machine speed. Built on the company’s CognitiveSOC platform, the new system connects threat intelligence, threat…
Actively exploited Trend Micro Apex One flaw gets CISA warning (CVE-2026-34926)
A relative directory path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-34926) in Trend Micro’s Apex One platform has been exploited in zero-day attacks, the company confirmed. “TrendAI has observed at least one attempt to exploit this vulnerability in the wild,” Trend Micro noted, and…
Detectify brings AppSec automation to AI agents with MCP Server and continuous testing
Detectify has unveiled the Detectify MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, a new integration layer that brings Detectify’s security testing engines directly into AI-driven development workflows, helping coding agents find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities and interpret attack surface data with greater…
Personal information of 185,000 people exposed after cyberattack on 7-Eleven
Data belonging to about 185,000 people was exposed following a cyberattack on convenience store chain 7-Eleven that was later claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang, according to Have I Been Pwned. The exposed information includes email addresses, names, physical addresses,…
Tamnoon introduces skill-based AI orchestration for autonomous cloud defense
Tamnoon has expanded its AI engine, Tami, into a skill-based orchestrator that generates customer-specific remediation skills tailored to each enterprise environment. Trained on more than 6 million real cloud fixes across 800+ accounts, Tami coordinates specialized AI skills to safely…
High-severity SharePoint RCE bug patched by Microsoft (CVE-2026-45659)
Microsoft has released patches for a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-45659) in SharePoint that may be exploited in low-complexity attacks. It affects the SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016. About CVE-2026-45659 CVE-2026-45659 stems…
What happens when security teams inherit identity
At the Span Cyber Security Arena conference, I sat down with Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, to talk about how organizations perceive identity and the challenges those perceptions create for security. He shared his perspective on where organizations…
Product showcase: F-Secure Internet Security blocks phishing sites, fake stores, and SMS scams
F-Secure Internet Security protects against viruses, ransomware, spyware, infected email attachments, and other cyber threats. It focuses on securing devices and online activity through malware protection, scam prevention, safe browsing, and banking safeguards. The platform supports Windows, macOS, Android, and…
Manage machine identities: The hidden privileged access layer you need to manage
Why are machine identities becoming the majority of “things with access”? Every automation, integration, and workload needs a way to authenticate and the right permissions to act. That quiet requirement has created a massive population of machine identities, also called…
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: May 26, 2026
Application Security Engineer IG Group | India | Hybrid – View job details As an Application Security Engineer, you will assess the security of web, mobile, and cloud applications through penetration testing, secure code reviews, threat modeling, and architecture reviews.…
Anthropic adds 28 security and compliance integrations for Claude
AI tools are becoming part of everyday work in organizations, creating new security and oversight requirements as usage grows. To address that, Anthropic introduced 28 integrations with security and compliance tools that allow IT and security teams to manage Claude…
Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era
Security teams already struggle with long lists of vulnerabilities and limited time to patch them. Cisco believes AI could increase that pressure by accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing the number of findings security teams need to review. The company said…
Authorities seize 800 servers used for cyberattacks and disinformation
Dutch authorities arrested two men and seized 800 servers linked to a hosting provider that investigators say supported Russian activities aimed at undermining democracy and security through cyberattacks, disinformation, and disruption of public and economic systems. Servers seized by Dutch…
US states step up cyber defenses to protect local communities
U.S. state governments are taking on a larger role in cybersecurity to help protect local communities and essential services. Many states are building state-led cyber defense programs, including cybersecurity clinics, regional security operations centers (RSOCs), and state cyber corps programs…
Lessons for organizations from the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report
This is my favourite time of the year, not just because spring is here and the promise of summer is on the way. But also, because one of my must reads each year gets published. There are a few must…
OpenHack: Open-source AI-powered vulnerability research
Source-guided vulnerability research increasingly leans on coding harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to drive agent-based reviews of application code. A new MIT-licensed project from the Dutch security firm Hadrian, called OpenHack, packages that approach into a file-based…