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…
FortiClient Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited to Deploy EKZ Malware
A newly observed exploitation campaign targeting FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS) has weaponized trusted administrative infrastructure to silently deploy a previously unreported credential stealer across managed enterprise endpoints. In May 2026, Arctic Wolf researchers identified a cluster of malicious activity…
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, May 28th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9948, (Thu, May 28th)
This post doesn’t have text content, please click on the link below to view the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Thursday, May 28th, 2026…
ShinyHunters Alleges 42M Records Stolen from Charter Communications
Charter confirmed a cybersecurity incident after ShinyHunters claimed it stole customer data through a vishing attack. The post ShinyHunters Alleges 42M Records Stolen from Charter Communications appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This article has been indexed from eSecurity Planet Read…
Romanian Hacker Gets Nearly 5 Years in US Prison Over Network Intrusion
Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) got 4 years and 8 months in prison for selling access to an Oregon state network. Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) will spend 4 years and 8 months in a US prison after admitting he…
Out of the Crypt: The Evolving Cyber Extortion Economy
Unit 42 explores trends in data theft and extortion, outlining key strategies for organizations as frontier AI models advance. The post Out of the Crypt: The Evolving Cyber Extortion Economy appeared first on Unit 42. This article has been indexed…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-05-28 00h : 4 posts
4 posts were published in the last hour 21:55 : IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-05-27 21:34 : Reconstructing an Akira Ransomware Kill Chain from Perimeter and Endpoint Logs, (Wed, May 27th) 21:34 : Distributed AI Inference: Why Placement Is…
IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-05-27
164 posts were published in the last hour 21:34 : Reconstructing an Akira Ransomware Kill Chain from Perimeter and Endpoint Logs, (Wed, May 27th) 21:34 : Distributed AI Inference: Why Placement Is the New Bottleneck 21:34 : For CISOs, dawn…
Reconstructing an Akira Ransomware Kill Chain from Perimeter and Endpoint Logs, (Wed, May 27th)
Most Akira write-ups focus on the ransom note or the encryption routine. By the time those show up the interesting forensic work is over. The questions that matter to defenders sit earlier. How did they get in. When did they…
Distributed AI Inference: Why Placement Is the New Bottleneck
In real AI systems, bottlenecks don’t disappear, they move. Learn about why inference placement, not raw compute, is the decisive infrastructure question. This article has been indexed from Blog Read the original article: Distributed AI Inference: Why Placement Is the…
For CISOs, dawn of OpenAI Daybreak brings good and bad news
<p>The recent debut of OpenAI’s Daybreak means security leaders are waking up to a new reality: Artificial intelligence is no longer merely supporting cyberdefense but driving it.</p> <p>Accessible now to verified organizations and security teams, <a href=”https://openai.com/daybreak/”>Daybreak</a> combines OpenAI’s GPT-5.5…