WhatsApp is rolling out a warning screen on Android and iOS that appears before users open chats with unfamiliar phone numbers. Meta hopes that this new feature will help users avoid scammers. WhatsApp chats warning screen (Source: WABetaInfo) “WhatsApp now…
Tag: Help Net Security
The uptime questions every engineering leader should ask this week
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mattias Geniar, CTO at Oh Dear, explains why most outages start quietly, as creeping latency or a slow rise in errors. He argues teams alert on the wrong things: absolute numbers instead of…
LLM security advice looks solid until you check the hard cases
Plenty of people now type their security worries straight into a chatbot. A hacked account, a suspicious email, a stalker who might be tracking a phone, all of it lands in the same window someone would use to ask about…
Scoring AI hackers when there is no answer key
AI models are solving more and more of the offensive-cyber tests built to measure them. Once a model solves most of a benchmark, that benchmark runs out of room and says little about the best systems anymore. Many of those…
Best practices for AI in open-source work
Free and open source software developers us AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Antigravity, and OpenCode in their daily work. The Software Freedom Conservancy responded to that trend with a set of recommendations for contributors who use…
Most teams will ship AI-written infrastructure code with little review
AI-assisted development has settled into everyday practice across software organizations, and developers using it move from idea to working code in hours. That code does not stay with the developers who prompt it. It flows downstream to the DevOps and…
What your next cyber insurance renewal will demand
In this Help Net Security video, Michael Loewy, co-founder, Tide Foundation, explains how cyber insurance is rewriting security programs at renewal time. Insurers want more questionnaires, more evidence, and more attestations, because the market is moving from trusting your answers…
Law enforcement hits StealC and Amadey malware networks
Operation Endgame, the largest international law enforcement operation aimed at disrupting ransomware and cybercrime infrastructure across the world, has claimed its latest targets: StealC and Amadey. The notice on disrupted websites (Source: Microsoft) While developed by separate criminal groups, those…
Algerian national accused of running cybercrime marketplaces extradited to US
An Algerian national accused of running online marketplaces that sold phishing kits and fraud tools has been extradited from Spain to the United States to face bank fraud conspiracy charges. The post Algerian national accused of running cybercrime marketplaces extradited…
Anthropic’s Claude Tag gives AI agents independent identities
Anthropic introduced an agent identity model for Claude Tag, its AI assistant designed for team collaboration in shared workspaces. The model gives Claude its own identity, permissions, and tool access, configured by administrators and tied to a workspace or channel.…
SuperOps and Guardz bundle IT operations and security into one product for MSPs
SuperOps and Guardz announced a strategic partnership, combining their platforms into a single bundled offering for managed service providers (MSPs). The package brings professional services automation (PSA), remote monitoring and management (RMM), mobile device management (MDM), and agentic security operations…
Phishing attack on healthcare firm Xsolis impacts 1.4 million people
Healthcare technology company Xsolis confirmed that a phishing attack resulted in unauthorized access to its network. The company develops AI-powered software for hospitals, health systems, and health plans and serves more than 600 hospitals and health insurers. “On January 22,…
Cisco Unified CM flaw actively exploited to drop webshells (CVE-2026-20230)
CVE-2026-20230, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), is being exploited to drop webshells and achieve remote code execution capability on the underlying server. “Our honeypots are seeing automated sweeps dropping webshells, all via…
LastPass customer data exposed through Klue supply chain attack
LastPass disclosed that attackers used OAuth tokens compromised in a supply chain attack on Klue, a market intelligence platform that integrates with CRM and sales tools across organizations, to access customer data stored in its Salesforce environment. “On June 12th…
Google Workspace expands password reset alerts to all admins
Google’s Alert Center, a dashboard in the Google Admin console that displays security and administrative alerts and helps administrators identify, investigate, and respond to issues affecting their organization, is expanding the “Super Admin password reset” alert into the “Admin password…
DigiCert brings independent trust validation to confidential computing environments
DigiCert has announced it is bringing independent trust validation to confidential computing environments, in collaboration with Google Cloud. By applying the proven principles of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to cloud infrastructure, DigiCert will provide cryptographic verification that cloud-hosted systems and…
New Secure Code Warrior framework helps CISOs govern AI-driven software development
Secure Code Warrior has introduced its new SCW AI Adoption Model, a practical framework that maps the progression of AI use in software development, from minimal AI assistance to fully autonomous agentic orchestration. The framework helps CISOs assess their organization’s…
Cequence introduces behavioral bot detection and biometric verification without CAPTCHAs
Cequence Security has announced the launch of Intent Graph and Biometric Check, two new capabilities that extend the behavioral architecture Cequence has built since its inception. They provide enterprises with bot defense that works across web, mobile, API, and agentic…
Brinqa BYOAI lets organizations use any AI platform with trusted risk data
Brinqa BYOAI (Bring Your Own AI), a capability that enables organizations to connect any AI agent, large language model (LLM), or automation platform to Brinqa’s exposure intelligence layer. As enterprises adopt AI, they need to ensure that AI systems use…
Qodo expands platform to help teams govern AI-generated code and engineering standards
Qodo has announced three new platform capabilities: Cross-Repo Code Review, Custom Rules Miner, and Skill Review Standards. These new capabilities address a set of governance gaps that have emerged as AI-generated code reaches enterprise scale. AI agents have fundamentally changed…