Researchers release tool to detect stealthy BPFDoor implants in critical infrastructure networks 2026-03-26 at 15:52 By Zeljka Zorz Telecommunications providers around the world have been dealing with the burrowing efforts of the China-linked APTs for many years now. To help them identify hard-to-detect implants used by the China-based group dubbed Red Menshen, Rapid7 researchers have […]
AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet 2026-03-26 at 12:32 By Mirko Zorz Vendors selling AI-powered security operations platforms have built their pitches around a consistent set of promises: autonomous threat investigation, dramatic reductions in analyst workload, and an accelerating path toward humanless operations. Practitioners buying and deploying those
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Your facilities run on fragile supply chains and nobody wants to admit it 2026-03-26 at 12:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Christa Dodoo, Global Chair at IFMA, discusses how facility managers are managing supply chain risk in critical building systems. She explains how sourcing, localized redundancy, and flexible infrastructure design are
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A nearly undetectable LLM attack needs only a handful of poisoned samples 2026-03-26 at 12:32 By Mirko Zorz Prompt engineering has become a standard part of how large language models are deployed in production, and it introduces an attack surface most organizations have not yet addressed. Researchers have developed and tested a prompt-based backdoor attack
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LiteLLM PyPI packages compromised in expanding TeamPCP supply chain attacks 2026-03-25 at 14:01 By Zeljka Zorz A slew of supply chain attacks against popular open source tools and packages appears to have been orchestrated by TeamPCP, a cybercriminal group that rose to prominence in late 2025. The latest victim of the group is BerryAI’s popular
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You don’t have to choose between BAS or automated pentesting, you shouldn’t 2026-03-25 at 08:07 By Help Net Security There’s a debate making the rounds in security circles that sounds reasonable on the surface but falls apart under operational scrutiny: Which is better, breach and attack simulation (BAS) or automated penetration testing (APT)? Security vendors
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Why your phishing simulations aren’t building a security culture 2026-03-25 at 08:07 By Help Net Security Security culture isn’t built by phishing simulations. In this Help Net Security video, Dan Potter, VP of Cyber Resilience at Immersive, argues that annual training videos and quarterly phishing tests happen in calm, controlled settings that tell us nothing
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Your security stack looks fine from the dashboard and that’s the problem 2026-03-25 at 08:07 By Anamarija Pogorelec One in five enterprise endpoints is operating outside a protected and enforceable state on any given day, according to device telemetry collected across tens of millions of corporate PCs. That figure, drawn from Absolute Security’s 2026 Resilience
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Kali Linux 2026.1 ships BackTrack mode, eight new tools, and a kernel upgrade to 6.18 2026-03-25 at 08:07 By Anamarija Pogorelec Penetration testers running Kali Linux have a new release to work with. Version 2026.1 delivers the annual theme refresh, a new BackTrack-inspired mode in kali-undercover, eight tools added to the network repositories, a kernel
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The AI safety conversation is focused on the wrong layer 2026-03-24 at 16:30 By Mirko Zorz Organizations have spent years accumulating fragmented identity systems: too many roles, too many credentials, too many disconnected tools. For a workforce of humans, that fragmentation was manageable. Humans log in, log out, and make decisions slowly enough that gaps
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Critical NetScaler ADC, Gateway flaw may soon be exploited (CVE-2026-3055) 2026-03-24 at 16:13 By Zeljka Zorz Citrix has fixed two vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, with the more serious flaw (CVE-2026-3055) potentially allowing attackers to extract active session tokens from the memory of affected devices. Anil Shetty, senior VP of Engineering with Cloud
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GitHub-hosted malware campaign uses split payload to evade detection 2026-03-24 at 13:12 By Zeljka Zorz A large-scale malware delivery campaign has been targeting developers, gamers, and general users through fake tools hosted on GitHub, Netskope researchers have warned. These “lures” are highly polished and appear legitimate, occasionally mimicking real projects, thus making them difficult to
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Quantum threats are already active and the defense response remains fragmented 2026-03-23 at 17:17 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises are moving toward post-quantum security at uneven speeds, and the gap between organizations that have built crypto-agility into their infrastructure and those that have adopted the label without the underlying capability is widening. Dr. Tan Teik Guan,
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Top must-visit companies at RSAC 2026 2026-03-23 at 17:17 By Mirko Zorz RSAC 2026 Conference is taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco March 23 – 26. With hundreds of booths, countless product demos, and nonstop buzz, navigating RSAC can be overwhelming. That’s why we’ve done the legwork to highlight the standout companies
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Oracle issues emergency fix for pre-auth RCE in Identity Manager (CVE-2026-21992) 2026-03-23 at 13:50 By Zeljka Zorz Oracle has released an out-of-band patch for a critical and easily exploitable vulnerability (CVE-2026-21992) in Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Web Services Manager. The company did not say whether the vulnerability has been exploited as a zero-day, but
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Plumber: Open-source scanner of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for compliance gaps 2026-03-23 at 09:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitLab CI/CD pipelines often accumulate configuration decisions that drift from security baselines over time. Container images get pinned to mutable tags, branches lose protection settings, and required templates go missing. An open-source tool called Plumber automates the detection of
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Your AI agents are moving sensitive data. Do you know where? 2026-03-23 at 09:18 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Gidi Cohen, CEO at Bonfy.AI, addresses what he sees as the most pressing gap in AI agent security: data-layer risk. While the industry focuses on prompt injection and model behavior, Cohen argues
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NIST updates its DNS security guidance for the first time in over a decade 2026-03-23 at 09:18 By Mirko Zorz DNS infrastructure underpins nearly every network connection an organization makes, yet security configurations for it have gone largely unrevised at the federal guidance level for more than twelve years. NIST published SP 800-81r3, the Secure
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Cisco FMC flaw was exploited by Interlock weeks before patch (CVE-2026-20131) 2026-03-20 at 15:21 By Zeljka Zorz A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-20131) in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) that Cisco disclosed and patched in early March 2026 has been exploited as a zero-day by the Interlock ransomware gang, Amazon CISO and VP of Security Engineering
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Unpatched ScreenConnect servers open to attack (CVE-2026-3564) 2026-03-20 at 11:44 By Zeljka Zorz ConnectWise has patched a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-3564) that could enable attackers to hijack ScreenConnect sessions by abusing ASP.NET machine keys to forge trusted authentication. About CVE-2026-3564 The ScreenConnect remote access platform is popular with managed service providers, IT departments, and technology solution
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