May 2026

Security Isn’t a Commodity. Neither Is Off-Duty Law Enforcement 2026-05-18 at 16:25 By During periods of economic pressure, leadership teams inevitably begin asking the same question: “Where can we cut security spend without increasing risk?” This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Product Spotlight on Risk Assessment Monitoring 2026-05-18 at 16:25 By Security magazine highlights a few risk monitoring solutions for 2026. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Developer Workstations Are Now Part of the Software Supply Chain 2026-05-18 at 15:10 By Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in a 48-hour window, and

Ivanti, Fortinet, SAP, VMware, n8n Patch RCE, SQL Injection, Privilege Escalation Flaws 2026-05-18 at 15:10 By Ivanti, Fortinet, n8n, SAP, and VMware have released security fixes for various vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code. Topping the list is a critical flaw impacting Ivanti Xtraction (CVE-2026-8043, CVSS

TikTok was set to pay $1B in 2024 over kids privacy breaches – years before DOJ’s sweetheart $400M deal: sources 2026-05-18 at 13:34 By Thomas Barrabi TikTok is nearing a $400 million truce with President Trump’s Justice Department over child data privacy breaches – a sweetheart deal as the social-media app was willing to pay

The Future of the Partnership: AI, Automation, and Ecosystems 2026-05-18 at 13:34 By Alan Maxwell Part 6 of 6: Where the channel goes from here This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems 2026-05-18 at 13:34 By Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher behind the recently disclosed Windows flaws, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day flaw that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Codenamed MiniPlasma, the vulnerability

Four Malicious npm Packages Deliver Infostealers and Phantom Bot DDoS Malware 2026-05-18 at 13:34 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four new npm packages containing information-stealing malware, one of which is a clone of the Shai-Hulud worm open-sourced by TeamPCP. The list of identified packages is below – chalk-tempalte (825 Downloads) @deadcode09284814/axios-util (284 Downloads) axois-utils (963

Pre-Stuxnet Fast16 Malware Tampered with Nuclear Weapons Simulations 2026-05-18 at 12:08 By A new analysis of the Lua-based fast16 malware has confirmed that it was a cyber sabotage tool designed to tamper with nuclear weapons testing simulations. According to Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black teams, the pre-Stuxnet tool was engineered to corrupt uranium-compression simulations that

MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems 2026-05-18 at 12:08 By Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher behind the recently disclosed Windows flaws, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day flaw that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Codenamed MiniPlasma, the vulnerability