Agent Beacon: Open-source telemetry layer for AI agents 2026-06-22 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and Claude Cowork run on developer laptops, CI jobs, cloud environments, where they edit files, run commands, and call outside tools. Beacon, an open-source project from Asymptote Labs, configures telemetry for […]
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Encrypted DNS still tells an eavesdropper where to look 2026-06-22 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Encrypted DNS runs across much of the Internet. DNS over TLS, HTTPS, and QUIC keep the contents of a query away from anyone watching a network link. The encryption covers the message inside each packet. The packet still carries plaintext […]
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Klue breach lead to Salesforce data theft, Huntress affected 2026-06-19 at 15:57 By Zeljka Zorz Cybersecurity vendor Huntress was among multiple companies hit by a breach originating at Klue, a market intelligence platform used to integrate CRM and sales data across various business tools. Huntress published a detailed account of the incident on June 18, […]
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Unauthenticated RCE in Splunk Enterprise under active attack (CVE-2026-20253) 2026-06-19 at 13:50 By Zeljka Zorz CISA has added CVE-2026-20253, a critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and ordered US federal civilian agencies to apply mitigations by June 21, 2026. In-the-wild exploitation has also been confirmed by the vendor […]
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Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files 2026-06-19 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Decentralized storage networks already hand pieces of people’s data to strangers’ machines. The lasting question across these networks is whether the machine holding the data can read it. A research paper by Gregory Magarshak, a professor at IENYC, […]
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Law enforcement hits SocGholish: 106 servers down, 15,000 sites cleaned 2026-06-18 at 17:21 By Zeljka Zorz SocGholish, an operation that’s been delivering malware to users via fake software updates, has suffered a major blow: the international law enforcement coalition behind Operation Endgame has taken down 106 of its servers and domains, and cleaned up nearly […]
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74,000 Fortinet firewall credentials exposed in FortiBleed data leak 2026-06-18 at 15:10 By Zeljka Zorz A Russian-speaking cybercriminal group has stolen credentials contained in the configuration files of nearly 74,000 Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways around the world. The data was accidentally exposed by the group on a server, along with other artifacts and tools, […]
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GentleKiller targets more than 400 security processes across 48 products 2026-06-18 at 12:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most ransomware operations leave the work of disabling endpoint security software to their affiliates. The ransomware-as-a-service gang Gentlemen runs a different model. Its operators develop and maintain a set of tools for shutting down endpoint detection and response (EDR) […]
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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car 2026-06-18 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Alysia Johnson, President of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), explains how the CCC Digital Key has grown from a single-brand feature into a standard meant to work across phones, automakers, and suppliers. She […]
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How security teams are getting credential visibility into developer endpoints 2026-06-18 at 08:30 By Help Net Security As we noted in our earlier analysis, attackers already know secrets are on your developers’ machines, the only question is whether security teams do. The supply chain attack calendar of 2026 has been relentless. Megalodon backdoored 5,500 GitHub […]
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What happens to oversight when AI agents write a lab’s own code 2026-06-18 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Inside the labs building frontier AI, a growing share of the coding gets done by the AI itself. These agents write, edit, and run software with light human oversight between steps, and they reach into production infrastructure, […]
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Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies 2026-06-17 at 18:43 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report by OALABS (Open Analysis) researchers bears that out. After recovering and analyzing over 1,000 agent sessions from a compromised server […]
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Microsoft working on patch for RoguePlanet Defender zero-day (CVE-2026-50656) 2026-06-17 at 14:26 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has acknowledged the local elevation of privilege issue in Microsoft Defender that can be triggered via the “RoguePlanet” exploit, and is “working to provide a high quality security update that addresses this vulnerability.” The vulnerability, which has been assigned […]
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The Chainguard Athena coalition already shipped 2,000 patches across 500 open source projects 2026-06-17 at 12:42 By Mirko Zorz Chainguard launched Athena, an industry coalition that pools open source vulnerability findings and remediates them under embargo before public disclosure. The group went live with more than two dozen member organizations. Founding members include BNY, Chainguard, […]
The SOC’s visibility gap comes down to staffing 2026-06-17 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz AI has settled into security operations centers faster than any earlier wave of technology. Around four in five practitioners report reaching for AI or machine learning tools in their daily work. The catch shows up one layer down. Roughly a third […]
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The checklist problem behind critical infrastructure cyber safety 2026-06-17 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec An asset owner can meet major federal cyber compliance standards and still run equipment that lacks the engineering to withstand an attack or a failure. New research from George Mason University examines how United States cyber policy defines reasonable care for […]
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Attackers are exploiting FortiSandbox vulnerabilities 2026-06-16 at 18:27 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers have been spotted exploiting three vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, CVE-2026-25089) in FortiSandbox, a platform that other Fortinet security products depend on for threat verdicts to enforce blocking decisions and trigger automated responses. The warning came on Monday from threat intelligence company Defused, which said […]
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SimpleHelp RMM flaw could give attackers full access to managed endpoints (CVE-2026-48558) 2026-06-16 at 16:33 By Zeljka Zorz A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-48558) in SimpleHelp, a popular remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to create a new “Technician” account and use it to remote into managed endpoints, execute scripts, […]
Cisco discloses second exploited SD-WAN vulnerability in two weeks (CVE-2026-20262) 2026-06-16 at 13:20 By Zeljka Zorz Cisco has revealed another Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability (CVE-2026-20262) that its Product Security Incident Response Team observed being exploited by attackers. But the associated security advisory also states that “the vulnerability was found during internal security testing”, raising the […]
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Reachability makes AI threat modeling worth the trust 2026-06-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Oscar Andersson, CTO at Oplane, explains why most scanning tools fail. They cry wolf, flagging threats that cannot run in real code. The argument centers on reachability. A finding counts only when someone walks […]
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