The Dutch National Police arrested a man suspected of hacking into the computer systems of AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam. “On the morning of Tuesday, May 26, detectives arrested a 35-year-old man from the municipality of Buren for…
XM Cyber enhances identity risk visibility with continuous exposure management capabilities
XM Cyber has announced platform enhancements aimed at helping organizations reduce identity risk, compounded by AI-enabled attackers. According to Gartner, “By 2028, 70% of CISOs will use identity visibility and intelligence capabilities to shrink the IAM attack surface, reducing the…
Checksum introduces Continuous Quality Agent for automated test generation and healing
Checksum has launched its Continuous Quality Agent, an autonomous system that runs nightly against deployed applications and automatically heals broken tests without waiting for an engineer to open a dashboard or write a prompt. AI coding has changed the constraint…
Glassworm botnet shattered, China overhauls surveillance, Charter confirms ShinyHunters breach
Glassworm botnet gets shattered China overhauls world’s biggest surveillance network Charter confirms ShinyHunters data breach Check out your show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-glassworm-botnet-shattered-china-overhauls-surveillance-charter-confirms-shinyhunters-breach/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, Guardsquare AI is speeding up development, but at what cost? While ninety-six percent…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-05-28 09h : 8 posts
8 posts were published in the last hour 7:4 : Derby Council Says AI Call Centre Feedback ‘Positive’ 7:4 : Threat Actors Launch FIFA Website Spoofing Campaign to Steal User Details 7:4 : Hackers Host JS Malware on GHOSTYNETWORKS and…
Derby Council Says AI Call Centre Feedback ‘Positive’
Derby City Council says ‘pioneering’ AI tools able to resolve about half of inquiries from public without human intervention This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Derby Council Says AI Call Centre Feedback ‘Positive’
Threat Actors Launch FIFA Website Spoofing Campaign to Steal User Details
Threat actors are actively launching spoofing campaigns targeting FIFA-themed websites ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to a Public Service Announcement (Alert I-052726-PSA) issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 27, 2026. The campaign is…
Hackers Host JS Malware on GHOSTYNETWORKS and OMEGATECH
Hackers are abusing two bulletproof hosting providers, GHOSTYNETWORKS and OMEGATECH, to run a global JavaScript (JS) malware infrastructure that powers large‑scale malspam and business email compromise activity. In March 2026, multiple malspam waves delivered a JavaScript backdoor via ZIP or…
Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it
Also, missing school iPad resurfaced after coach’s kids uploaded video to YouTube This article has been indexed from www.theregister.com – Articles Read the original article: Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it
FortiClient Code Execution Flaw Exploited to Deploy EKZ Malware
Fortinet customers are facing a new wave of attacks after a critical flaw in FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS) was exploited to push a fake Fortinet patch that secretly installs credential‑stealing malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2026‑35616, allows unauthenticated attackers…
New PureLogs Variant Abuses MSBuild to Evade Detection
A new phishing-driven malware campaign distributing a stealthy PureLogs variant that leverages advanced evasion techniques, including process hollowing via MsBuild.exe. The campaign is designed to steal sensitive data from infected systems while avoiding traditional detection mechanisms through layered obfuscation and…
What to consider before asking an AI chatbot for health advice
Using chatbots for medical advice could elicit hallucinations and even expose you to security and privacy risks. Here’s what’s at stake and how to stay safe. This article has been indexed from WeLiveSecurity Read the original article: What to consider…
The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines
Engineering teams across enterprise IT are writing their own software with AI coding assistants, spinning up agents that act on their behalf, and assigning those agents the same access privileges their human creators hold. The shift has pulled the role…
Silent Ransom Impersonates IT Support to Target Law Firms
The Silent Ransom Group (SRG) is running a new wave of hands‑on social engineering attacks against law firms, posing as internal IT support to steal sensitive data and extort victims without deploying traditional ransomware. In its latest campaigns, SRG contacts…
Frontier AI models collapse under multi-turn AI attacks, Cisco finds
Attackers who probe large language models rarely give up after one refusal. They reframe, build context across turns, adopt personas, and escalate gradually. New research from Cisco’s AI threat intelligence team finds that the safety benchmarks used across the industry…
Nudge Security adds browser-based discovery for shadow AI agents
Nudge Security announced that its AI security platform offers discovery of shadow AI agents via the browser, extending its agent discovery capabilities to cover platforms that do not provide a public API for agent identity and inventory. The new browser-based…
West Pharmaceutical Services Reports Data Breach and Encrypted Systems
West Pharmaceutical Services has confirmed that it suffered a cybersecurity incident that resulted in both data theft and the encryption of parts of its internal network, making it the latest major manufacturing and healthcare-related company to face operational disruption…
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: May 2026
Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing…
SBI Warns Fake YONO Deactivation Message Scam
India’s largest public sector bank, State Bank of India (SBI), has issued a fresh cybersecurity alert warning customers about an ongoing phishing campaign targeting users of its YONO digital banking platform. The alert highlights a surge in fraudulent messages falsely…
Companies built AI into core systems before figuring out how to govern it
70% of organizations use GenAI in live environments, and 64% have AI agents in pilot or production deployments. Some of those agents have privileged access to core systems, according to Check Point’s 2026 Cloud Security Report. Confirmed and suspected AI…
Canonical releases Workshop for one-command sandboxed dev environments on Ubuntu
Canonical released Workshop, a tool that launches sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command. Environments are configured once and reproduced on different machines, giving teams consistent setups across development workstations and deployment pipelines. A terminal showing the output…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-05-28 06h : 2 posts
2 posts were published in the last hour 4:4 : Anthropic Updates Claude Code With Security Plugin and Faster Performance 4:4 : FortiClient Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited to Deploy EKZ Malware
OT attacks shift from recon to physical control, raising stakes
<p>In the Netflix thriller <i>Leave the World Behind, </i>a massive cyberattack plunges the U.S. into a complete electrical and technological blackout. While the scope and scale of the fictional attack are improbable, research suggests real-world malicious hackers are increasingly interested…
Anthropic Updates Claude Code With Security Plugin and Faster Performance
Anthropic has rolled out a significant update to Claude Code, its AI-powered terminal coding tool, introducing a real-time security-guidance plugin alongside performance improvements that promise a smoother developer experience across the board. Security Plugin Catches Vulnerabilities in Real Time The…