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…
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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…
Asqav: Open-source SDK for AI agent governance
AI agents are executing consequential tasks autonomously, often across multiple systems and with little record of what they did or why. Asqav, a Python SDK released under the MIT license, addresses that gap by attaching a cryptographic signature to each…
Phishers sneak through using GitHub and Jira’s own mail delivery infrastructure
Attackers are abusing the notification systems of SaaS platforms like GitHub and Jira to send phishing and spam emails, Cisco Talos researchers are warning. “Because the emails are dispatched from the platform’s own infrastructure, they satisfy all standard authentication requirements…
Prompt injection tags along as GenAI enters daily government use
Routine use of GenAI has moved into daily operations in state and territorial government environments, placing new security risks within common workflows. A Center for Internet Security (CIS) report, Prompt Injections: The Inherent Threat to Generative AI, identifies prompt injection…
BlueHammer: Windows zero-day exploit leaked
A buggy but functional proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for an unpatched Windows local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed BlueHammer has been published on GitHub by someone who goes by the handle Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare Eclipse. Several security researchers have fixed the…
Trellix strengthens data security for the GenAI era
Trellix announced enhanced data security capabilities and a strategic framework designed to help organizations confidently adopt generative AI while protecting sensitive data from exposure and loss. “The rapid adoption of AI tools across the enterprise is creating new and often…
Social engineering attacks on open source developers are escalating
North Korean hackers spent weeks socially engineering an Axios maintainer through a fake Slack workspace, a cloned company identity, and a fabricated Microsoft Teams call that tricked him into installing a RAT posings as a software update. They used the…
Iranian cyber activity hits US energy, water, and government networks
U.S. government agencies on Tuesday warned American organizations about ongoing cyber activity targeting OT and PLC devices, including those manufactured by Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley, across multiple critical infrastructure sectors. The activity has been attributed to Iranian-affiliated APT actors seeking…
Chaos malware expands from routers to Linux cloud servers
Chaos, Go-based malware first documented by Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, has historically targeted routers and edge devices. A new variant observed in March 2026 shows the malware operating against misconfigured Linux cloud servers, a category of infrastructure the botnet had…