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Migrant smuggling network using rental cars dismantled across the Balkans
Led by the Greek authorities and supported by Europol, the investigation targeted a criminal network composed mainly of Syrian and Egyptian nationals…
OpenAI Expands GPT-5.6 Access to Free & Go Users With Unlimited Text Chats
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Threats Making WAVs – Incident Response to a Cryptomining Attack
Guardicore security researchers describe and uncover a full analysis of a cryptomining attack, which hid a cryptominer inside WAV files. The report…
What is SOAR? Security Orchestration, Automation and Response Explained (2026)
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Hackers Can Abuse Microsoft WSUS Servers to Deploy Malicious Updates via NTLM Relay
Security researchers have shown how attackers could exploit Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) infrastructure to distribute malicious…
US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months
Every month for the better part of a year, about 4,800 US internet addresses answered a query in the protocol that fuel tank gauges speak. In June the…
Five arrests for smuggling migrants across the Bulgarian-Serbian green border
The action day led to:5 arrests (1 High Value Target, 2 police officers and 2 associates)5 locations searched;Seizures include: 3 vehicles used for…
Keep Your Tech Flame Alive: Trailblazer Rachel Bayley
In this Akamai FLAME Trailblazer blog post, Rachel Bayley encourages women to step into the unknown and to be their authentic selves.
Hackers Target Internet-Exposed Rockwell PLCs in U.S. Water Systems
A coordinated cyber campaign targeting internet-facing programmable logic controllers (PLCs) has disrupted water and wastewater operations across the…
What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like
In this Help Net Security interview, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, answers questions on Article 50 of the EU AI Act and what the first year of…
Europol-led action against nihilistic violent extremist network “The Com”
An estimated 4 340 URLs related to nihilistic violent extremism were referred during the initiative organised by Europol’s EU Internet Referral Unit – EU…
Critical Flaws in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and OpenAI Codex Enable RCE and Supply Chain Attacks
Security researchers have disclosed a vulnerability affecting AI coding-agent workflows from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. Their research highlights how…
Europol supports operation against amphetamine producers
As part of an extensive investigation led by the German Krefeld Public Prosecutor’s Office and Mönchengladbach Police, officers from the North…
1000 Best Google Dorks List (Google Hacking Guide) – 2026
A Google dork is an advanced search query that combines Google’s search operators (such as site:, intitle:, inurl:, and filetype:) to surface information…
Top 10 Best DNS Security Solutions in 2026
Nearly every attack touches DNS the phishing click, the malware callback, the exfiltration tunnel which makes the DNS layer the cheapest place to break…
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks’ products
Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron
Anthropic Updates Claude Fable 5’s Biology Safeguards to Reduce False Positives
Anthropic has rolled out a major update to Claude Fable 5’s biology safety classifiers, cutting biology-related “fallbacks” by roughly 85% across its…
Threat Hunting Tutorial: How to Proactively Hunt Threats in Your Network (2026)
By HOC Team | Last updated: July 2026 | Read time: ~22 min In August 2022, Mandiant’s incident…
Top 10 Best Network Detection & Response (NDR) Tools in 2026
Attackers who slip past the endpoint still have to cross the network NDR is how you catch them there. Darktrace is our top pick for 2026 on the strength…
Gut feeling does nothing against AI spear phishing texts
A banker at a credit union sat down at a table with a dozen printed text messages, all of them written for that banker personally, and put them in order…
Top 10 Best Protective DNS (PDNS) Services in 2026
Protective DNS went from best practice to expectation: NSA and CISA jointly recommend it, national programs run it at population scale, and it remains the…
ShieldFont fights AI scraping by handing crawlers the wrong words
Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio built a web font that draws one set of words on screen and leaves a different set in the page’s source code. A person…
Top 10 Best Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) Tools in 2026
“What’s on the network, who’s talking to whom, and is that normal?” network traffic analysis answers the questions every security and network team keeps…