Google has expanded Gmail client-side encryption to Android and iOS devices, allowing users to engage with their organization’s most sensitive data on mobile devices while ensuring data remains compliant with sovereignty and compliance requirements. This feature is available for Enterprise…
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To counter cookie theft, Chrome ships device-bound session credentials
Cookie theft follows a well-established pattern. Infostealer malware infiltrates a device, extracts authentication cookies, and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server. Because cookies often have extended lifetimes, attackers can access accounts without passwords, then bundle and sell the stolen credentials.…
Apiiro CLI turns AI coding assistants into full-stack security engineers
The Apiiro CLI brings the Apiiro platform to your terminal and to your AI coding assistants, giving them six native security capabilities: scanning, risk management, remediation, an AI security analyst (via Apiiro Guardian Agent), AI Threat Modeling, and prompt enrichment.…
Little Snitch for Linux shows what your apps are connecting to
Network monitoring on Linux has long been a gap for users who want per-process visibility into outbound connections. Existing tools either operate at the command line or were designed for server security rather than desktop privacy. Objective Development, the Austrian…
April 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Spring-cleaning of a preview
I just blinked and the first quarter of the year is GONE. Where does the time go? I looked back at my article from last month where I touched on the use of AI and some of the vulnerabilities associated…
What vibe hunting gets right about AI threat hunting, and where it breaks down
In this Help Net Security interview, Aqsa Taylor, Chief Security Evangelist, Exaforce, explains vibe hunting, an AI-driven approach to threat detection that inverts traditional hypothesis-driven methods. Instead of analysts defining attack vectors upfront, the AI scans datasets for anomalous patterns…
Health insurance lead sites sell personal data within seconds of form submission
Lead generation websites that offer health insurance quotes collect sensitive personal data and sell it to multiple buyers within seconds of a user clicking submit. A study by researchers at UC Davis, Stanford University, and Maastricht University mapped this process…
Product showcase: Session, a messenger without phone numbers or metadata
Instant messaging has been around for decades, but it became widely adopted with the emergence of smartphones. Earlier, communication was limited to basic text messages. Messaging expanded to include photos, videos, and video calls without relying on telecom networks, as…
New infosec products of the week: April 10, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Advenica, Intruder, Mallory, and Secureframe. Mallory brings contextual threat intelligence to security operations Mallory is launching an AI-native threat intelligence platform that monitors thousands of…
Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows
Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions, and end-to-end tracing for you. Developers can define tasks, tools, and permissions within…
113,000 explicit prompts from AI girlfriend platform exposed, many linked to user IDs
MyLovely.AI, an AI girlfriend platform, suffered a data breach that exposed over 100,000 users. MyLovely.AI allows people to create personalized not safe for work (NSFW) content and engage in real-time conversations with AI-generated companions, often involving highly personal prompts and…
Claude helps researcher dig up decade-old Apache ActiveMQ RCE vulnerability (CVE-2026-34197)
In the latest demonstration of how AI assistants can help with bug hunting, Horizon3.ai researcher Naveen Sunkavally used Claude to unearth CVE-2026-34197, a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ that’s been introduced in the codebase 13 years ago. The…
Mallory brings contextual threat intelligence to security operations
Mallory is launching an AI-native threat intelligence platform, purpose-built to answer the questions CISOs and their teams are asking every day: What are the real threat vectors for our organization? What’s actually exploitable in our environment right now? What should…
Acrobat Reader zero-day exploited in the wild for many months
Unknown attackers have exploited a zero-day Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerability since November 2025 and possibly even earlier, security researcher Haifei Li has discovered. PDF files carry the exploit Haifei Li is one of the creators of EXPMON, a sandbox-based cybersecurity…
OPSWAT adds predictive AI engine to MetaDefender for pre-execution threat detection
OPSWAT has announced OPSWAT Predictive Alin AI, its first proprietary AI-based threat detection engine for the MetaDefender Platform. This AI-based innovation introduces a new category of capability within the MetaDefender Platform, a high-confidence predictive layer that works alongside existing detection…
Intruder expands cloud security with agentless container image scanning
Intruder has announced the release of Container Image Scanning, a new upgrade to its cloud security capabilities that automatically scans container images for vulnerabilities, granting customers actionable insight into container risk without deploying and maintaining scanning agents across their estates.…
Advenica’s File Scanner Kiosk scans USB media for malware
Advenica announced the File Scanner Kiosk, a system that scans USB media for malware and helps businesses reduce infection risk. With the reliance on external media for file transfers, organisations face increased vulnerability to malware. The File Scanner Kiosk addresses…
WhatsApp brings long-awaited privacy feature to filter who can reach you
After years of waiting, WhatsApp is set to roll out a username feature that will allow people to connect and communicate without sharing their phone numbers. This means more privacy and better control over phone number visibility by choosing a…
Meta’s Muse Spark takes AI a step closer to personal superintelligence
Meta Superintelligence Labs has introduced Muse Spark, a natively multimodal reasoning model with support for tool use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration. The release includes a Contemplating mode, which is rolling out gradually and orchestrates multiple agents that…
AI agent intent is a starting point, not a security strategy
In this Help Net Security video, Itamar Apelblat, CEO of Token Security, walks through findings from the company’s research, which shows that 65% of agentic chatbots have never been used yet still hold live access credentials. He explains why organizations…