LogicGate is elevating its Risk Cloud platform with a new Operational Risk Management (ORM) Solution designed to allow organizations to prioritize risks based on process criticality and financial impact. By helping minimize operational disruptions, such as failed internal processes, inadequate…
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Why data provenance must anchor every CISO’s AI governance strategy
Across the enterprise, artificial intelligence has crept into core functions – not through massive digital transformation programs, but through quiet, incremental adoption. Legal departments are summarizing contracts. HR is rewording sensitive employee communications. Compliance teams are experimenting with due diligence…
GitHub becomes go-to platform for malware delivery across Europe
Phishing has become the go-to method for attackers looking to get past security controls and access sensitive environments in Europe, according to Netskope. Users are now constantly dealing with phishing attempts, which have become so common and credible that even…
Woodpecker: Open-source red teaming for AI, Kubernetes, APIs
Woodpecker is an open-source tool that automates red teaming, making advanced security testing easier and more accessible. It helps teams find and fix security weaknesses in AI systems, Kubernetes environments, and APIs before attackers can exploit them. Key features of…
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: May 2025
This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. Vuls: Open-source agentless vulnerability scanner Vuls is an open-source tool that helps users find and manage security vulnerabilities. It was created to…
Microsoft, Dutch security agencies lift veil on Laundry Bear cyber espionage group
The Dutch intelligence and security services have identified a new Russia-affiliated threat group that has been breaching government organizations and commercial entities in Europe and North America, and they dubbed it Laundry Bear. “Compared to some other Russian threat actors…
New MCP server from groundcover redefines LLM observability
A new MCP server, faster than any other on the market, is launching today from groundcover, the eBPF-driven observability platform. Developers can now enhance their AI-driven workflows with deep system context, powered by groundcover’s granular access to logs, metrics, and…
Vulnerabilities found in NASA’s open source software
Vulnerabilities in open source software developed and used in-house by NASA could be exploited to breach their systems, claims Leon Juranić, security researcher and founder of cybersecurity startup ThreatLeap. The vulnerabilities Juranić, whose AppSec credentials include founding and leading DefenseCode,…
How AI agents reshape industrial automation and risk management
In this Help Net Security interview, Michael Metzler, Vice President Horizontal Management Cybersecurity for Digital Industries at Siemens, discusses the cybersecurity implications of deploying AI agents in industrial environments. He talks about the risks that come with AI agents making…
Why app modernization can leave you less secure
Enterprises typically “modernize” access patterns for an application by enabling industry standard protocols like OIDC or SAML to provide single sign-on (SSO) for legacy apps via a cloud identity provider (IDP). That’s a major step towards better user experience, improved…
4.5% of breaches now extend to fourth parties
Security teams can no longer afford to treat third-party security as a compliance checkbox, according to SecurityScorecard. Traditional vendor risk assessments, conducted annually or quarterly, are too slow to detect active threats. 35.5% of all breaches in 2024 were third-party…
How well do you know your remote IT worker?
Is the remote IT worker you recently hired really who he says he is? Fake IT workers are slipping into companies around the world, gaining access to sensitive data. Recently, more of these schemes have been linked to North Korea.…
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: May 27, 2025
Application Security Engineer, SDO AppSec Amazon | EMEA | Hybrid – View job details As an Application Security Engineer, SDO AppSec, you will be responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining threat models across a diverse range of software projects. Part…
Why layoffs increase cybersecurity risks
A wave of layoffs has swept through the tech industry, leaving IT teams in a rush to revoke all access those employees may have had. Additionally, 54% of tech hiring managers say their companies are likely to conduct layoffs within…
LlamaFirewall: Open-source framework to detect and mitigate AI centric security risks
LlamaFirewall is a system-level security framework for LLM-powered applications, built with a modular design to support layered, adaptive defense. It is designed to mitigate a wide spectrum of AI agent security risks including jailbreaking and indirect prompt injection, goal hijacking,…
NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities
NIST has introduced a new way to estimate which software vulnerabilities have likely been exploited, and it’s calling on the cybersecurity community to help improve and validate the method. The new metric, “Likely Exploited Vulnerabilities” (LEV), aims to close a…
Cyber threats are changing and here’s what you should watch for
In this Help Net Security video, Stefan Tanase, Cyber Intelligence Expert at CSIS, gives an overview of how cybercriminals are changing their tactics, including using legitimate tools to avoid detection and developing more advanced info-stealing malware. Tanase also talks about…
AI forces security leaders to rethink hybrid cloud strategies
Hybrid cloud infrastructure is under mounting strain from the growing influence of AI, according to Gigamon. Cyberthreats grow in scale and sophistication As cyberthreats increase in both scale and sophistication, breach rates have surged to 55% during the past year,…
Week in review: Trojanized KeePass allows ransomware attacks, cyber risks of AI hallucinations
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Trojanized KeePass opens doors for ransomware attackers A suspected initial access broker has been leveraging trojanized versions of the open-source KeePass password manager to set…
Chinese cyber spies are using Ivanti EPMM flaws to breach EU, US organizations
CVE-2025-4427 and CVE-2025-4428 – the two Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild as zero-days and patched by Ivanti last week – are being leveraged by a Chinese cyber espionage group that has been…