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Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials

Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials 2026-08-04 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz An analyst opening a queue on Monday morning will spend most of it on tickets that amount to nothing. Stellar Cyber’s Agentic Auto Triage closed 8,047 of those tickets on its own during customer trials, […]

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Attackers exploit N-able N-central flaw to reach managed endpoints (CVE-2026-18577)

Attackers exploit N-able N-central flaw to reach managed endpoints (CVE-2026-18577) 2026-08-03 at 17:33 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) in N-able N-central, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution widely used by managed service providers, to gain access to managed endpoints. How the flaw was discovered “On July 31, 2026,

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KindaRails2Shell threatens Ruby on Rails apps (CVE-2026-66066)

KindaRails2Shell threatens Ruby on Rails apps (CVE-2026-66066) 2026-08-03 at 14:42 By Zeljka Zorz A critical security vulnerability (CVE-2026-66066) in Ruby on Rails (aka Rails), one of the most widely used frameworks for building websites and web apps, may allow attackers to read sensitive files off a server and, in some cases, take full control of

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OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams

OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams 2026-08-03 at 11:40 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to online scam compounds and human trafficking operations. The network used the company’s models to create and manage fake

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Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you

Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you 2026-08-03 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent that takes a single alert and works outward to map how far a malware campaign spread. He walks through

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SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills

SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills 2026-08-03 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from NVIDIA that reads an agent skill and tells you whether to install it. Point it at a directory, a zip file, a single SKILL.md, or a Git URL, and it returns a list of

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AI cut phishing from hours to seconds, which is where DMARC and BIMI come in

AI cut phishing from hours to seconds, which is where DMARC and BIMI come in 2026-08-03 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Mike Boyle, VP of Business Units at GMO GlobalSign, and Rahul Powar, CEO and founder of Red Sift, unpack the evolution of email security and why it

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Aviation cyber risk sits on the ground, the blindness sits in the air

Aviation cyber risk sits on the ground, the blindness sits in the air 2026-07-31 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Eliran Almong, CEO of Cyviation, explains why airline cyber losses happen on the ground while the aircraft stays unmonitored. He walks through GNSS jamming that leaves no trace in

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Laundry Bear’s new Microsoft Exchange attack triggers on email open (CVE-2026-42897)

Laundry Bear’s new Microsoft Exchange attack triggers on email open (CVE-2026-42897) 2026-07-30 at 17:23 By Zeljka Zorz Russia-affiliated cyber espionage group Laundry Bear (aka Void Blizzard, aka TA488) is exploiting CVE-2026-42897, a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, to target US and European government entities and a variety of private sector organizations via email. The

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Cisco FMC static credentials exploited by attackers (CVE-2026-20316)

Cisco FMC static credentials exploited by attackers (CVE-2026-20316) 2026-07-30 at 13:44 By Zeljka Zorz A static credentials vulnerability (CVE-2026-20316) in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), a platform for centrally managing multiple Cisco Secure Firewall devices across a network, is being leveraged by attackers, CISA warned. Two FMC flaws, one indicator of compromise CVE-2026-20316, reported

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Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher

Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher 2026-07-30 at 09:15 By Mirko Zorz More than one in four organizations hit by a malicious attack over the past year say AI drove it. Those breaches averaged about $1 million above the malicious attacks that ran without AI. Defenders bought similar technology and

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200 new CVEs a day and no realistic way to patch them all

200 new CVEs a day and no realistic way to patch them all 2026-07-30 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Ryan Dewhurst, CEO at KEVIntel, explains how his team confirms exploitation that CISA’s catalog has not listed yet. He describes a global honeypot sensor network, AI triage, and human verification in a lab before a vulnerability

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Top companies to visit at Black Hat USA 2026

Top companies to visit at Black Hat USA 2026 2026-07-30 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Black Hat USA 2026 returns to Mandalay Bay with a re-engineered six-day program designed to spark innovation, challenge assumptions, and unite the global security community. The event opens with four days of immersive, expert-led Trainings (August 1-4), continues with Summit

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ShutterGap: Aryon Security finds 3.7M AWS cloud resources exposed beyond CSPM/CNAPP visibility

ShutterGap: Aryon Security finds 3.7M AWS cloud resources exposed beyond CSPM/CNAPP visibility 2026-07-29 at 16:00 By Help Net Security Research from Aryon reveals that each year, 3,731,699 short-lived cloud resources containing highly sensitive information are publicly exposed. This impacts any organization using AWS services that support public sharing. These exposures often last only minutes or hours,

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The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced

The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced 2026-07-29 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to bring them online meets

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Your AI agents can reach data no one approved

Your AI agents can reach data no one approved 2026-07-29 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz A credential expired. An AI agent kept using it anyway, and a mid-sized company’s systems went down for a quarter’s worth of trouble before anyone traced the failure back to a non-human account no one had been logging. That agent

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Hugging Face breach reignites open-weights debate, raises liability questions

Hugging Face breach reignites open-weights debate, raises liability questions 2026-07-28 at 18:55 By Zeljka Zorz The first publicly documented cyberattack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI was an OpenAI benchmark test that escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. In an incident post-mortem compiled with the input from Hugging Face and several hundred members of

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Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login

Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login 2026-07-28 at 15:00 By Sinisa Markovic An attacker who reaches UDP port 623 on a server’s baseboard management controller can ask it for a password hash and receive one before logging in. The exchange is part of the IPMI 2.0 handshake, built on an authentication protocol introduced

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JetBrains fixes critical unauthenticated RCE in TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2026-63077)

JetBrains fixes critical unauthenticated RCE in TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2026-63077) 2026-07-28 at 14:04 By Zeljka Zorz JetBrains has fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-63077) affecting TeamCity On-Premises and is urging admins to upgrade self-hosted servers as soon as possible. “For those who are unable to do so, we have released a security patch plugin,” noted Daniel Gallo,

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Shadow AI incident response begins with logs that may already be gone

Shadow AI incident response begins with logs that may already be gone 2026-07-28 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Brandy Wityak, VP of Complex Matters at LevelBlue, explains what happens in the hours after a shadow AI incident. She describes how quickly logs roll over, why firewall records of outbound

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