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One Man, One AI, One Fake Persona: Inside the 5-Year Influence and Fraud ‘Patriot Bait’ Campaign

One Man, One AI, One Fake Persona: Inside the 5-Year Influence and Fraud ‘Patriot Bait’ Campaign 2026-05-21 at 13:14 By A solo Russian-speaking threat actor ran a 5-year Telegram channel and, starting September 2025, used AI to automate its content, credential theft, and a cryptocurrency fraud scheme targeting American audiences. This article is an excerpt

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Microsoft Patches Exploited UnDefend and RedSun Defender Zero-Days

Microsoft Patches Exploited UnDefend and RedSun Defender Zero-Days 2026-05-21 at 13:14 By Ionut Arghire The bugs could be exploited to elevate privileges to System or create a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The post Microsoft Patches Exploited UnDefend and RedSun Defender Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Google’s Surge in Chrome Vulnerability Discoveries Likely Driven by AI

Google’s Surge in Chrome Vulnerability Discoveries Likely Driven by AI 2026-05-21 at 13:14 By Eduard Kovacs More than 200 vulnerabilities patched in recent Chrome releases are marked as ‘reported by Google’. The post Google’s Surge in Chrome Vulnerability Discoveries Likely Driven by AI appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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Virtru centers file collaboration around data-level protection

Virtru centers file collaboration around data-level protection 2026-05-21 at 11:40 By Industry News Virtru unveiled Virtru Collaborate, a new offering that eliminates that tradeoff, a FedRAMP authorized space where sensitive files are encrypted and protected by the Trusted Data Format (TDF), and where that protection travels seamlessly with the data as teams work together across

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ASAPP expands adversarial testing for enterprise AI systems

ASAPP expands adversarial testing for enterprise AI systems 2026-05-21 at 11:40 By Industry News ASAPP has launches Continuous Red Teaming, a new capability that integrates adversarial AI testing directly into ASAPP’s model evaluation framework. The new capability is built on Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises detect and address vulnerabilities in AI systems

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Riverbed introduces new Aternity tools for autonomous IT operations

Riverbed introduces new Aternity tools for autonomous IT operations 2026-05-21 at 11:40 By Industry News Riverbed has announced new capabilities for Aternity designed to support autonomous IT operations for digital experience management. The updates help digital workplace teams move toward prevention-focused operations through broader visibility, context-aware intelligence, and governance controls that support automated workflows. Organizations

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Tenable Hexa AI automates remediation across attack surfaces

Tenable Hexa AI automates remediation across attack surfaces 2026-05-21 at 11:40 By Industry News Tenable has announced the general availability of Tenable Hexa AI, the agentic AI engine of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. Tenable Hexa AI is an advanced agentic AI for cybersecurity solution, equipped with advanced multi-step reasoning and Model Context Protocol

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Forward launches Predict to test network changes before deployment

Forward launches Predict to test network changes before deployment 2026-05-21 at 11:40 By Industry News Forward has unveiled Forward Predict, a new capability that allows organizations to evaluate the impact of network changes before deployment. By testing proposed changes against a digital twin of the production network, Forward Predict helps identify potential issues before they

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Supply Chain Security Crisis: Too Many Vulnerabilities, Too Little Visibility

Supply Chain Security Crisis: Too Many Vulnerabilities, Too Little Visibility 2026-05-21 at 11:40 By Kevin Townsend New vulnerabilities are being discovered too fast, the time-to-exploitation is too short, and our visibility into them is largely lacking. The post Supply Chain Security Crisis: Too Many Vulnerabilities, Too Little Visibility appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros

9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros 2026-05-21 at 11:40 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user

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CTERA brings AI insights and automation for unstructured data

CTERA brings AI insights and automation for unstructured data 2026-05-21 at 10:31 By Industry News CTERA has announced the launch of CTERA InsightAI, an agentic AI intelligence layer for the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform. The new capability is designed to help enterprises understand, manage, secure, and optimize unstructured data environments. CTERA InsightAI adds AI-driven insights

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Terra adds continuous network exploitation validation to its platform

Terra adds continuous network exploitation validation to its platform 2026-05-21 at 10:31 By Industry News Terra Security has announced the public preview of continuous exploitation validation for network infrastructure, now available to all customers through the Terra Platform. The launch expands Terra’s offensive security capabilities from web applications to network infrastructure and extends coverage across

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Why AI changed the threat model for travel technology

Why AI changed the threat model for travel technology 2026-05-21 at 09:16 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Devon Bryan, SVP, Global CSO at Booking Holdings, reflects on his path from Air Force network security engineer to global CSO across financial services, hospitality, and travel technology. He discusses why the travel industry’s

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Most dark web activity revolves around a handful of topics

Most dark web activity revolves around a handful of topics 2026-05-21 at 08:31 By Sinisa Markovic Dark web activity often becomes visible during marketplace seizures, major data leaks, or sudden spikes in criminal activity. Those events can create an impression of an ecosystem where attention shifts quickly and new trends regularly replace old ones. A

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AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested

AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested 2026-05-21 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Adversarial probing of LLMs has piled up a sprawling toolkit over the past three years. Attack techniques with names like Tree of Attacks with Pruning, Crescendo, and Skeleton Key sit alongside hundreds of prompt transforms and scoring methods across open-source

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Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks

Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks 2026-05-21 at 08:00 By Drupal has released security updates for a “highly critical” security vulnerability in Drupal Core that could be exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-9082, carries a CVSS score

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GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension

GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension 2026-05-21 at 08:00 By GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension.  The development comes

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Product showcase: Bitdefender Mobile Security for iOS protects privacy where scams begin

Product showcase: Bitdefender Mobile Security for iOS protects privacy where scams begin 2026-05-21 at 07:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec Bitdefender Mobile Security for iOS is a security and privacy application for iPhone and iPad that helps protect against phishing attempts, online scams, unsafe websites, and account exposure. I have used Bitdefender Mobile Security for iOS for

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Cyber threats push SMBs to spend more on security

Cyber threats push SMBs to spend more on security 2026-05-21 at 07:16 By Anamarija Pogorelec Cybersecurity has become a key priority for small and medium-sized businesses due to growing threats and wider AI adoption. An IDC survey of 2,200 SMBs in eight markets examined how organizations manage cyber risks, prepare for AI-related threats, and handle

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