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,…
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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,…
16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to 17 trillion rows of data
A flaw in Titan, an internal Microsoft analytics service, could have let an attacker read employee records and Bing search analytics, a 16-year-old security researcher…
FBI job portals remain offline after ShinyHunters claims breach via PeopleSoft zero-day
The FBI’s online portals for job applicants (at apply.fbijobs.gov) and special agent applicants (at fbijobs.gov/special-agents) are still unavailable, following what appears to be successful compromises…
NVIDIA wants AI agent safety enforced in silicon, not left to the agent
NVIDIA has introduced an open software platform and a hardware-based reference design intended to keep AI agents within the limits set by the organizations that…
If you do one security check this quarter, make it agent memory
In this interview with Help Net Security, Chris Latimer, CEO of Vectorize, talks about the security risks hiding in AI agent memory. He found coding…
Your incident count is missing a few incidents
If you run security for a brand with hundreds or thousands of locations, the tools you’ve bought may have little to do with whether an…
Half of threat hunters say bad data is their biggest problem
Half of security professionals name data quality or quantity as their biggest barrier to effective threat hunting, according to the SANS 2026 Threat Hunting Survey.…