New infosec products of the month: April 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from Advenica, Aptori, Axonius, Broadcom, GlobalSign, Intruder, IP Fabric, Mallory, Secureframe,…
Category: HelpnetSecurity
AI traffic is getting bigger, louder, and less predictable
AI workflows need storage that supports repeated movement across the model lifecycle. Large datasets are ingested, transformed, exported for training, pulled back for evaluation, and…
Open-source privacy proxy masks PII before prompts reach external AI services
Enterprise developers routinely send prompts to external large language models that contain customer emails, support transcripts, and other identifying information, often without a sanitization layer…
Shadow AI risks deepen as 31% of users get no employer training
Between one-fifth and one-third of workers use AI outside the influence and governance of the IT function, according to a global survey of 6,000 full-time…
Met Police face criticism for using AI to spy on their own officers
London police officers have been warned by the Metropolitan Police Federation to watch their backs after the force deployed controversial AI software to investigate misconduct.…
Cisco releases open-source toolkit for verifying AI model lineage
Enterprises pulling models from Hugging Face and other open repositories rarely keep records of how those models are altered after download, leaving organizations with little…
cPanel zero-day exploited for months before patch release (CVE-2026-41940)
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940) in cPanel, a popular web-based control panel for managing web hosting accounts, is being exploited by attackers in the…
CISA, Microsoft warn of active exploitation of Windows Shell vulnerability (CVE-2026-32202)
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-32202, a zero-click Windows Shell spoofing vulnerability that causes victims’ systems to authenticate the attacker’s server, CISA and Microsoft have warned. About…
The Exchange Online security controls organizations keep getting wrong
In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Schnoll, Microsoft MVP for Exchange, breaks down the Shared Responsibility Model, where Microsoft secures the cloud while organizations…
FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments
AI agents are beginning to shop, log in, and complete tasks with little direct input. That shift is pushing the security industry to rethink how…
Police arrest 10 suspected members of Black Axe cybercrime gang
A coordinated police operation in Switzerland has targeted suspected members of the Black Axe criminal network. On 28 April 2026, authorities carried out house searches…
The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms
Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card post a task and pay a stranger to complete it. The RentAHuman platform extends that model to…