The collapse of trust at the identity layer 2025-12-02 at 07:49 By Anamarija Pogorelec Identity verification has become the latest front in the fight against industrialized fraud, according to a new report from Regula. The shift is visible across sectors that once relied on predictable verification routines. Criminals have learned to target the identity step […]
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cnspec: Open-source, cloud-native security and policy project 2025-11-24 at 08:32 By Sinisa Markovic cnspec is an open source tool that helps when you are trying to keep a sprawling setup of clouds, containers, APIs and endpoints under control. It checks security and compliance across all of it, which makes it easier to see what needs
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Chinese cyber spies used Claude AI to automate 90% of their attack campaign, Anthropic claims 2025-11-14 at 17:03 By Zeljka Zorz Anthropic threat researchers believe that they’ve uncovered and disrupted the first documented case of a cyberattack executed with the help of its agentic AI and minimal human intervention. “The threat actor manipulated [Anthropic’s large
What happens when employees take control of AI 2025-11-14 at 07:42 By Anamarija Pogorelec Executives may debate AI strategy, but many of the advances are happening at the employee level. A recent Moveworks study shows that AI adoption is being led from the ground up, with employees, not senior leaders, driving the change. The research
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Automation can’t fix broken security basics 2025-11-13 at 07:39 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most enterprises continue to fall short on basic practices such as patching, access control, and vendor oversight, according to Swimlane’s Cracks in the Foundation: Why Basic Security Still Fails report. Leadership often focuses on broad resilience goals while the day-to-day work that supports
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Autonomous AI could challenge how we define criminal behavior 2025-11-12 at 10:44 By Sinisa Markovic Whether we ever build AI that thinks like a person is still uncertain. What seems more realistic is a future with more independent machines. These systems already work across many industries and digital environments. Alongside human-to-human and human-to-machine contact, communication
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When every day is threat assessment day 2025-11-12 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Paul J. Mocarski, VP & CISO at Sammons Financial Group, discusses how insurance carriers are adapting their cybersecurity strategies. He explains how ongoing threat assessments, AI-driven automation, and third-party risk management help maintain readiness. Mocarski also
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Metrics don’t lie, but they can be misleading when they only tell IT’s side of the story 2025-11-07 at 13:28 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Rik Mistry, Managing Partner at Interval Group, discusses how to align IT strategy with business goals. He explains how security, governance, and orchestration shape IT operations
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PortGPT: How researchers taught an AI to backport security patches automatically 2025-11-05 at 09:07 By Mirko Zorz Keeping older software versions secure often means backporting patches from newer releases. It is a routine but tedious job, especially for large open-source projects such as the Linux kernel. A new research effort has built a tool that
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Google says 2026 will be the year AI supercharges cybercrime 2025-11-05 at 07:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec Security leaders are staring down a year of major change. In its Cybersecurity Forecast 2026, Google paints a picture of a threat landscape transformed by AI, supercharged cybercrime, and increasingly aggressive nation-state operations. Attackers are moving faster, scaling their
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Attackers turn trusted OAuth apps into cloud backdoors 2025-10-22 at 15:43 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are increasingly abusing internal OAuth-based applications to gain persistent access to cloud environments, Proofpoint researchers warn. These apps often remain unnoticed for quite some time and allow attackers to maintain access to high-privileged accounts even after passwords are reset or
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GPT needs to be rewired for security 2025-10-02 at 09:18 By Help Net Security LLMs and agentic systems already shine at everyday productivity, including transcribing and summarizing meetings, extracting action items, prioritizing critical emails, and even planning travel. But in the SOC (where mistakes have real cost), today’s models stumble on work that demands high
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LLMs can boost cybersecurity decisions, but not for everyone 2025-09-19 at 09:11 By Mirko Zorz LLMs are moving fast from experimentation to daily use in cybersecurity. Teams are starting to use them to sort through threat intelligence, guide incident response, and help analysts handle repetitive work. But adding AI into the decision-making process brings new
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CISOs brace for a new kind of AI chaos 2025-09-12 at 08:47 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is being added to business processes faster than it is being secured, creating a wide gap that attackers are already exploiting, according to the SANS Institute. The scale of the problem Attackers are using AI to work at speeds
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AI Emerges as the Hope—and Risk—for Overloaded SOCs 2025-09-11 at 14:30 By Kevin Townsend With security teams drowning in alerts, many suppress detection rules and accept hidden risks. AI promises relief through automation and triage—but without human oversight, it risks becoming part of the problem. The post AI Emerges as the Hope—and Risk—for Overloaded SOCs
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Automated network pentesting uncovers what traditional tests missed 2025-09-10 at 11:45 By Zeljka Zorz Most organizations run an annual network penetration test, remediate the issues it uncovers, and move on. But attackers are probing networks every day, using publicly available tools to exploit common misconfigurations and overlooked vulnerabilities. A new report, based on over 50,000
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Identity management was hard, AI made it harder 2025-09-08 at 07:33 By Anamarija Pogorelec Identity security is becoming a core part of cybersecurity operations, but many organizations are falling behind. A new report from SailPoint shows that as AI-driven identities and machine accounts grow, most security teams are not prepared to manage them at scale.
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Cutting through CVE noise with real-world threat signals 2025-09-04 at 09:02 By Sinisa Markovic CISOs are dealing with an overload of vulnerability data. Each year brings tens of thousands of new CVEs, yet only a small fraction ever become weaponized. Teams often fall back on CVSS scores, which label thousands of flaws as “high” or
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Can AI make threat intelligence easier? One platform thinks so 2025-08-28 at 07:38 By Mirko Zorz When analysts at RH-ISAC found themselves spending 10 hours a week just collecting threat intelligence, they knew their process wasn’t sustainable. They were manually tracking blogs, RSS feeds, and social media channels, but it took too long to separate
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What CISOs can learn from Doppel’s new AI-driven social engineering simulation 2025-08-27 at 07:51 By Sinisa Markovic Doppel has introduced a new product called Doppel Simulation, which expands its platform for defending against social engineering. The tool uses autonomous AI agents to create multi-channel simulations that mirror how attackers operate across email, SMS, messaging apps,
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