May 2026

Critical Vulnerability Exposes Industrial Robot Fleets to Hacking

Critical Vulnerability Exposes Industrial Robot Fleets to Hacking 2026-05-19 at 09:34 By Eduard Kovacs The vulnerability, CVE-2026-8153, affects Universal Robots PolyScope 5 and it can be exploited for OS command injection.  The post Critical Vulnerability Exposes Industrial Robot Fleets to Hacking appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Public Instagram posts provide raw material for AI phishing campaigns

Public Instagram posts provide raw material for AI phishing campaigns 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Sinisa Markovic A handful of public Instagram posts can give attackers enough material to generate convincing phishing emails with GenAI. Research from the University of Texas at Arlington and Louisiana State University showed how public social media activity can be turned

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds

Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Mirko Zorz Researchers built a continuous authentication system called AccLock that identifies a wearer by the tiny vibrations a heartbeat makes inside the ear canal. The signal comes from an accelerometer of the kind already sitting inside many wireless earbuds, so

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AI infrastructure is cracking under sovereignty demands

AI infrastructure is cracking under sovereignty demands 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI deployments are moving into environments with tighter controls around data, infrastructure, and system operations. Organizations are building AI systems across multiple providers, platforms, and computing environments while managing governance, security, and compliance obligations within defined boundaries. NTT DATA’s 2026 Global AI

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GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Redirects Tags to Steal CI/CD Credentials

GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Redirects Tags to Steal CI/CD Credentials 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server. “Every existing tag in the repository has been

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Mini Shai-Hulud Pushes Malicious AntV npm Packages via Compromised Maintainer Account

Mini Shai-Hulud Pushes Malicious AntV npm Packages via Compromised Maintainer Account 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has compromised various npm packages associated with the @antv ecosystem as part of the ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud attack wave. “The attack affects packages tied to the npm maintainer

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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: May 19, 2026

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: May 19, 2026 2026-05-19 at 07:04 By Anamarija Pogorelec CISO DataFence | Israel | Hybrid – View job details As a CISO, you will develop security roadmaps, compliance plans, risk registers, policies, and control implementation plans while leading audit and regulatory compliance activities. You will manage client projects from planning

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Meta employees told to work remotely Wednesday as company prepares to slash 10% of workforce: report

Meta employees told to work remotely Wednesday as company prepares to slash 10% of workforce: report 2026-05-19 at 00:57 By Thomas Barrabi The companywide bloodbath will take place in three waves, with impacted workers learning their fate by email at 4 a.m. local time in their region, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters.

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Elon Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI in unanimous verdict

Elon Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI in unanimous verdict 2026-05-18 at 21:32 By Marc Vartabedian OAKLAND, Calif. — Jurors on Monday handed Elon Musk a loss in the landmark trial over the future of OpenAI — finding that the world’s richest person had brought his case too late.   The unanimous verdict, which the nine-member federal

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AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports

AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports 2026-05-18 at 21:32 By Zeljka Zorz AI-assisted vulnerability research has exploded, unleashing a firehose of low-quality reports on overworked software maintainers who are wasting hours sifting through noise instead of fixing real problems. Linus Torvalds, the Linux kernel’s creator, says the flood has made the project’s

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INTERPOL Operation Ramz Disrupts MENA Cybercrime Networks with 201 Arrests

INTERPOL Operation Ramz Disrupts MENA Cybercrime Networks with 201 Arrests 2026-05-18 at 21:32 By INTERPOL has coordinated a first-of-its-kind cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that led to 201 arrests and the identification of an additional 382 suspects. The initiative involved the efforts of 13 countries from the region between October

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Game over for 74 suspected scammers after Dutch cops plastered their faces on billboards

Game over for 74 suspected scammers after Dutch cops plastered their faces on billboards 2026-05-18 at 20:34 By Sinisa Markovic The Dutch police’s Game Over?! campaign, which publicly displays images of suspected fraudsters to encourage self-surrenders and gather public tips, is proving successful, with the identities of 74 of the 100 suspects shown already identified.

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Meta employee gets dark about horror of working there as jobs bloodbath looms: ‘I tend to cry in the shower’

Meta employee gets dark about horror of working there as jobs bloodbath looms: ‘I tend to cry in the shower’ 2026-05-18 at 19:43 By Zain Khan “I definitely spend a good amount of that time sort of despondent somewhere in my house.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post

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Agentic Governance: Why It Matters Now

Agentic Governance: Why It Matters Now 2026-05-18 at 19:42 By AI agents now act inside the trust boundary with real credentials, and agentic governance is what keeps them from quietly breaking things at machine speed. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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MENA Region Runs First-of-its-Kind Cybercrime Operation, 201 Arrested

MENA Region Runs First-of-its-Kind Cybercrime Operation, 201 Arrested 2026-05-18 at 19:42 By The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, also referred to as Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), managed a first-of-its-kind cybercrime operation between October 2025 and February 2026. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Exchange 0-Day, npm Worm, Fake AI Repo, Cisco Exploit and More

⚡ Weekly Recap: Exchange 0-Day, npm Worm, Fake AI Repo, Cisco Exploit and More 2026-05-18 at 19:42 By Monday opens with a trust problem. A mail server flaw is under active use. A network control system was targeted. Trusted packages were poisoned. A fake model page pushed a stealer. Then came the familiar ransom claim:

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How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption

How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption 2026-05-18 at 17:23 By What happens when a phishing email looks clean enough to pass through security, but dangerous enough to expose the business after one click? That is the gap many SOCs still struggle with: the attacks that leave teams unsure what was

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