Many expect AI in the SOC to make entry jobs harder to get
A junior analyst in a security operations center, or SOC, has usually learned the job the slow way. You work the same phishing lure dozens…
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Signal brings encrypted local backups to iOS and desktop, adds cross-platform restore
Signal users who switch from an Android phone to an iPhone, or the other way around, can take their message history with them, and backups…
AI coding agents leaked 13,000 internal company screenshots to public GitHub repos
When developers ask AI coding agents to prove that a user interface fix works, some agents have been posting the evidence where anyone can find…
Suspected state-sponsored hackers exploited NetScaler zero-day since early September (CVE-2026-88772)
“Advanced and suspected state-sponsored threat actors” are likely to be behind the initial targeted intrusions that leveraged CVE-2026-88772, one of the two recently disclosed NetScaler…
OpenInfra Europe’s JFrog Artifactory instance breached, packages potentially compromised
Attackers have compromised a self-hosted JFrog Artifactory instance operated by OpenInfra Europe, the regional hub of the OpenInfra Foundation warned in a security notice prominently…
Security tools can now scan Claude Enterprise chats and uploads for sensitive data
More than 100 security and compliance vendors have integrations with the Claude Compliance API, which lets a company send Claude activity into the monitoring tools…
Deepfakes become a board priority once an executive falls for one
Nearly three-quarters of security leaders have encountered or suspect a deepfake attack in the past year, while just 10% say their organizations have purpose-built defenses,…
Meta gives small businesses an AI agent that knows their work
Meta has introduced Muse for Small Business, adding skills and connectors to its personal AI agent to help business owners get work done using the…
NetScaler zero-day exploitation escalates into mass attacks (CVE-2026-88771)
The hacking of internet-exposed, vulnerable Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway deployments has escalated. What started as stealthy targeting via zero-day exploits has now become widespread…
Malicious Custom GPT on chatgpt.com lures users into installing a RAT
Malware peddlers are using sponsored Google results to push a malicious ChatGPT Custom GPT named “Plus 5.6,” created to lead users to a fake Cloudflare…
GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities
GitHub Security Lab researcher Kevin Stubbings built custom AI-driven audit workflows, called taskflows, on top of the lab’s open source Taskflow Agent, and used them…
Other users can watch your browsing and time your keystrokes through OS file notifications
Researchers at Graz University of Technology have used the file-notification systems in Windows, Linux, and macOS to spy on activity in other accounts. On Windows,…