Forget Data Leakage: Shadow AI’s Real Threat Is Access Control
The first wave of enterprise AI concern was straightforward. It was simply employees pasting sensitive data into public AI tools. Security teams responded with usage…
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From Assistive to Agentic: The AI Shift That’s Redefining Threat Management
Introduction The average enterprise security team has 40 or more security tools, giving a lot of visibility into internal telemetry and asset data. But often,…
Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys
Ravie LakshmananJun 20, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that’s installed on…
Operation Endgame Disrupts SocGholish Servers, Cleans 14,971 WordPress Sites
Dutch law enforcement authorities, along with counterparts from Canada , Germany, and the U.S., have disrupted malicious infrastructure associated with SocGholish and cleaned up nearly…
AutoJack Attack Lets One Web Page Hijack AI Agent for Host Code Execution
Microsoft researchers have detailed an exploit chain, named AutoJack, that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution. Steer the agent…
The Gentlemen RaaS Uses GentleKiller EDR Framework Targeting 400 Security Processes
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers that it hands out to affiliates…
Unpatchable ‘usbliter8’ Exploit Breaks Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM Boot Chain
Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple’s A12 and A13 chips. That code…
CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices
Ravie LakshmananJun 19, 2026Threat Intelligence / Firewall Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to…
Salesforce Disables Klue App Integration After OAuth Token Abuse Exposes Customer Data
Salesforce has revealed that it disabled the Klue Battlecards app integration within its platform in response to a security incident impacting the competitive intelligence company…
INC Ransomware Emerges as Major RaaS Threat in 2026 with 830+ Victims Since 2023
Ravie LakshmananJun 18, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of INC from an nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation to one of the…
Orphaned AI Agents: How to Find Hidden Access Risks Inside Your Network
The Hacker NewsJun 18, 2026AI Security / Data Security If an autonomous AI agent interacts with your company’s core intellectual property today, can your security…
F5 Patches Two Critical NGINX Open Source Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution
Ravie LakshmananJun 18, 2026Vulnerability / Cloud Security F5 has released security updates to address two critical security flaws in NGINX Open Source that could be…