People across the European Union already use their phones for banking, travel, and government services. The European Digital Identity Wallet will bring those activities into one application, and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has released the first standards that…
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CISA orders federal agencies to “patch smarter”
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a Binding Operational Directive that will change how the US federal government approaches vulnerability management. The directive arrives as the patching problem has become nearly unmanageable, driven by a surge…
Proxmox releases Mail Gateway 9.1 with quarantine and backup encryption changes
Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 adds updated system components, changes to the spam quarantine interface, and encryption for backups. It works as a mail proxy positioned between the firewall and internal mail servers, screening incoming and outgoing traffic for spam, viruses,…
Fake Spotify Premium tutorials on TikTok and Instagram Reels spread malware
Cybercriminals are using TikTok and Instagram Reels videos to spread Vidar, an infostealer malware, through fake downloads for popular paid software, according to ReversingLabs. The researchers uncovered two campaigns behind the activity, each using a different approach to draw in…
Oracle PeopleSoft servers under attack, Oracle pushes out-of-band security alert
A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-35273) in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools is being exploited in the wild, Charles Carmakal, CTO at cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, warned today. The warning comes a day after Oracle published an out-of-band security alert about…
FBI seizes 13 websites linked to alleged Chinese intelligence-gathering effort
Federal authorities have seized 13 internet domains allegedly used to target current and former U.S. government employees and military personnel with access to classified and sensitive information. The post FBI seizes 13 websites linked to alleged Chinese intelligence-gathering effort appeared…
9 out of 10 people can no longer distinguish real from AI-generated content
Online fraud is becoming harder to distinguish from legitimate activity as AI-generated messages, voices, photos, reviews, and identities become more convincing. Nearly nine in ten adults say they can no longer tell what is real from AI-generated content, according to…
Check Point expands MSP platform with with AI governance and unified security bundles
Check Point has announced a major expansion of its Managed Service Provider (MSP) platform, designed to help MSPs secure AI adoption, streamline operations and simplify managed security delivery. The announcement brings together three strategic innovations under a single MSP vision:…
IDnow launches Trust Platform to help regulated firms move from KYC to continuous trust
IDnow has announced the launch of the IDnow Trust Platform, designed to help regulated organisations orchestrate identity verification, fraud prevention, biometric authentication, and qualified digital trust services throughout the customer lifecycle. “The identity industry is entering its biggest transformation since…
Threat actors are recruiting the people who hold cloud logins
Companies keep most of their data and applications in cloud platforms that anyone can reach with the right login. That setup turns each employee holding those credentials into a security variable, and members of the cybercrime underground have built methods…
Making the cloud prove it followed your privacy wishes
Making companies that store personal data in cloud key-value databases handle deletion requests by running the operation and confirming the job is complete. The people making those requests and the regulators overseeing them have had limited means to confirm the…
Prompt injection still drives most agentic AI security failures in production
A backdoor sat on PyPI for three hours in March 2026. Nearly 47,000 downloads occurred during the window. The compromised package, LiteLLM, serves as the language-model gateway for CrewAI, DSPy, Microsoft GraphRAG, and dozens of other AI agent frameworks. Anyone…
X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework
Companies building robots for physical work spend large amounts of time and money operating machines by hand to gather training examples. Each session with a physical robot produces a small number of demonstrations per day, which slows the growth of…
Organizations can’t see much of their mobile AI activity
Organizations have limited visibility into AI activity on mobile devices despite security leaders expressing confidence in their AI governance, according to Lookout’s “Solving for the Mobile AI Blind Spot: Executive Confidence Meets Technical Reality” report. Mobile AI visibility gaps Enterprises…
Identity theft is turning into a chain reaction for victims
For a growing number of victims, identity theft no longer ends with a fraudulent charge or a compromised account. More than one in four people who contacted the Identity Theft Resource Center during the reporting period were dealing with multiple…
Drata brings visibility, control and auditability to enterprise AI agents
Drata has introduced AI Agent Governance, a new security category focused on managing the risks and oversight requirements of AI agents, while extending its trust platform to support enterprise adoption of autonomous AI systems. While McKinsey finds 57% of business…
AISLE Snapshot keeps source code under enterprise control during vulnerability scanning
AISLE has introduced AISLE Snapshot, a new offering that gives regulated and security-sensitive enterprises access to frontier-class vulnerability detection inside their own environments, at a fraction of the cost, with source code and security data that never leave their control.…
Critical Ivanti Sentry flaw allows root-level remote code execution (CVE-2026-10520)
Ivanti has patched two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-10520 and CVE-2026-10523) in Ivanti Sentry and has urged customers to implement the fix right away. Though the vulnerabilities are not known to be actively exploited, security researchers have already released technical details about…
New Intel 471 assessment helps organizations measure CTI program maturity
Intel 471 has announced its new Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Maturity Pulse Check, a free, lightweight self-assessment for practitioners based on the Cyber Threat Intelligence Capability Maturity Model (CTI-CMM v1.3). The CTI Maturity Pulse Check offers a quick, structured way…
New Browser-in-the-Browser phishing uses fake login popups to steal Microsoft 365 credentials
A new Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) phishing campaign is targeting Microsoft 365 users with fake login popups designed to closely mimic legitimate browser authentication windows, according to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The attack relies on a fake browser window embedded within…