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Zapier exploit chain shows how known anti-patterns compose into critical risk

Zapier exploit chain shows how known anti-patterns compose into critical risk 2026-05-28 at 16:00 By Mirko Zorz A five-stage exploit chain disclosed by Token Security researchers turned a free Zapier account into write access on Zapier’s public developer SDK packages and on internal packages that load in every authenticated zapier.com session. Each link in the […]

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The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines

The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines 2026-05-28 at 10:16 By Mirko Zorz Engineering teams across enterprise IT are writing their own software with AI coding assistants, spinning up agents that act on their behalf, and assigning those agents the same access privileges their human creators hold. The shift has pulled

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Frontier AI models collapse under multi-turn AI attacks, Cisco finds

Frontier AI models collapse under multi-turn AI attacks, Cisco finds 2026-05-28 at 10:16 By Mirko Zorz Attackers who probe large language models rarely give up after one refusal. They reframe, build context across turns, adopt personas, and escalate gradually. New research from Cisco’s AI threat intelligence team finds that the safety benchmarks used across the

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Claude now reviews and fixes vulnerabilities as you write code

Claude now reviews and fixes vulnerabilities as you write code 2026-05-27 at 16:37 By Sinisa Markovic Anthropic introduced a security-guidance plugin for Claude Code that reviews code changes for common vulnerabilities and helps Claude identify and fix issues during the same development session. The company says the plugin is designed to catch issues such as

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Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure

Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure 2026-05-27 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz Crypto payment firms sit near the top of the target list for advanced persistent threat groups, and the workload on their security leaders keeps growing. Malcolm Portelli, CISO at Coinflow, runs the company’s security program from Malta. Coinflow is headquartered

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The alert economy is driving security analyst burnout

The alert economy is driving security analyst burnout 2026-05-27 at 09:24 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Ido Livneh, CEO of Jazz, explains why security analysts burn out and what leaders can do about it. The cause, he argues, is not long hours but meaningless work. Analysts spend their days closing

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European AI adoption hits 99% with regulated data driving most policy violations

European AI adoption hits 99% with regulated data driving most policy violations 2026-05-27 at 09:24 By Sinisa Markovic Generative AI tools operate inside nearly every European workplace, embedded in meeting transcription services, writing assistants, coding copilots, and search features. Workers in the region pull these tools into daily routines that involve customer records, financial information,

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What happens when security teams inherit identity

What happens when security teams inherit identity 2026-05-26 at 13:38 By Sinisa Markovic At the Span Cyber Security Arena conference, I sat down with Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, to talk about how organizations perceive identity and the challenges those perceptions create for security. He shared his perspective on where organizations struggle with

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Product showcase: F-Secure Internet Security blocks phishing sites, fake stores, and SMS scams

Product showcase: F-Secure Internet Security blocks phishing sites, fake stores, and SMS scams 2026-05-26 at 08:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec F-Secure Internet Security protects against viruses, ransomware, spyware, infected email attachments, and other cyber threats. It focuses on securing devices and online activity through malware protection, scam prevention, safe browsing, and banking safeguards. The platform supports

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Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era

Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era 2026-05-25 at 21:27 By Sinisa Markovic Security teams already struggle with long lists of vulnerabilities and limited time to patch them. Cisco believes AI could increase that pressure by accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing the number of findings security teams need to review. The company

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Anthropic adds 28 security and compliance integrations for Claude

Anthropic adds 28 security and compliance integrations for Claude 2026-05-25 at 21:27 By Sinisa Markovic AI tools are becoming part of everyday work in organizations, creating new security and oversight requirements as usage grows. To address that, Anthropic introduced 28 integrations with security and compliance tools that allow IT and security teams to manage Claude

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US states step up cyber defenses to protect local communities

US states step up cyber defenses to protect local communities 2026-05-25 at 14:35 By Anamarija Pogorelec U.S. state governments are taking on a larger role in cybersecurity to help protect local communities and essential services. Many states are building state-led cyber defense programs, including cybersecurity clinics, regional security operations centers (RSOCs), and state cyber corps

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Lessons for organizations from the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

Lessons for organizations from the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report 2026-05-25 at 08:59 By Help Net Security This is my favourite time of the year, not just because spring is here and the promise of summer is on the way. But also, because one of my must reads each year gets published. There are

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OpenHack: Open-source AI-powered vulnerability research

OpenHack: Open-source AI-powered vulnerability research 2026-05-25 at 08:11 By Sinisa Markovic Source-guided vulnerability research increasingly leans on coding harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to drive agent-based reviews of application code. A new MIT-licensed project from the Dutch security firm Hadrian, called OpenHack, packages that approach into a file-based workspace that any of

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$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality

$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality 2026-05-22 at 17:05 By Mirko Zorz Vulnerability researchers have spent the past year arguing about whether AI agents can find real bugs at scale or whether they mostly generate noise. A pipeline built in three days by researchers from TrendAI and CHT Security supplies an answer,

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The new economics of fraud: Cheaper, faster, more convincing

The new economics of fraud: Cheaper, faster, more convincing 2026-05-22 at 08:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Scams have become one of the fastest-growing consumer risks, driven by AI-enabled impersonation, social engineering, and sophisticated attack methods, according to Visa’s Spring 2026 Biannual Threats Report. Criminals redirect efforts toward trust and third parties Fraud involves behavioral manipulation, fragmented

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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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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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Communicating cyber risk in dollars boards understand

Communicating cyber risk in dollars boards understand 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Nick Nieuwenhuis, Cybersecurity Architect at Nedscaper, explains why cybersecurity has not delivered the resilience that decades of investment have promised. He argues that spending has leaned too heavily on technical controls while neglecting people, processes, and

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