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EU Cybersecurity Act 2.0: When good regulation goes bad

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EU Cybersecurity Act 2.0: When good regulation goes bad 2026-06-16 at 08:30 By Help Net Security Over recent years we’ve witnessed the EU becoming increasingly serious about cybersecurity. After years of watching high profile breaches, many resulting from supply chain attacks targeting our critical infrastructure, that seriousness is welcome. But good intentions and good policy […]

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China-linked spies backdoored authentication stack to stay hidden for years

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China-linked spies backdoored authentication stack to stay hidden for years 2026-06-15 at 18:27 By Zeljka Zorz A China-linked cyber espionage group known as Velvet Ant spent nearly a decade inside the internal network of an unnamed organization without being detected, according to the results of a forensic investigation published by cybersecurity firm Sygnia. The group’s […]

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Onspring CISO on where automated GRC systems fall short

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Onspring CISO on where automated GRC systems fall short 2026-06-15 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Nichole Windholz, CISO at Onspring, talks about the limits of automated GRC systems and continuous control monitoring. She explains why color-coded dashboards can hide nuance, how teams can check the data feeding their […]

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Open-source CI/CD abuse detector guards against stolen credential attacks

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Open-source CI/CD abuse detector guards against stolen credential attacks 2026-06-15 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic CI/CD Abuse Detector is an open-source project that uses a large language model to flag suspicious changes to continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, workflows, and automation configurations. The repository contains drop-in templates for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure […]

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A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight

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A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight 2026-06-15 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Deep learning systems on phones, cars, and other edge devices increasingly run on custom silicon. Specialized chips such as FPGAs and ASICs give these systems the speed and low power consumption that edge applications need. Many of these chips […]

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Proving what a military AI model will do is the real problem

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Proving what a military AI model will do is the real problem 2026-06-15 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Defense contractors build AI systems that task drones automatically and propose kill-chains to support soldiers. Several of these contractors have partnered with frontier AI companies to put advanced models into military tools. Anduril works with OpenAI, Palantir […]

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Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code

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Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code 2026-06-15 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec At most U.S. technology companies, machines now write the bulk of the code that ships each week. The engineer’s job has shifted toward reviewing what the AI produces, and that review gives the code high marks. Leaders rate AI-generated […]

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Researchers release details, PoC for exploited Check Point VPN flaw (CVE-2026-50751)

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Researchers release details, PoC for exploited Check Point VPN flaw (CVE-2026-50751) 2026-06-12 at 15:14 By Zeljka Zorz WatchTowr researchers have disclosed a technical analysis and a “Detection Artefact Generator” for CVE-2026-50751, an authentication bypass flaw in Check Point’s Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access, which the vendor confirmed to be actively exploited. The attacks were […]

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How to use NIST and ISO frameworks to govern AI agents

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How to use NIST and ISO frameworks to govern AI agents 2026-06-12 at 11:07 By Help Net Security Security leaders no longer need convincing that AI agents introduce risk. What’s missing is how to govern them once they move into production and begin operating autonomously across enterprise environments. AI agents already read sensitive documents, invoke […]

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The assembly line behind 1.5 million malicious domains

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The assembly line behind 1.5 million malicious domains 2026-06-12 at 11:07 By Anamarija Pogorelec Attackers registered roughly 1.5 million malicious domains during the first five months of 2026. The registration patterns resemble industrial output. Most of the domains were created by attackers, put to use within weeks, and concentrated among a small set of registrars, […]

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CISA orders federal agencies to “patch smarter”

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CISA orders federal agencies to “patch smarter” 2026-06-11 at 20:18 By Zeljka Zorz The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a Binding Operational Directive that will change how the US federal government approaches vulnerability management. The directive arrives as the patching problem has become nearly unmanageable, driven by a surge in newly […]

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Oracle PeopleSoft servers under attack, Oracle pushes out-of-band security alert

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Oracle PeopleSoft servers under attack, Oracle pushes out-of-band security alert 2026-06-11 at 15:41 By Zeljka Zorz A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-35273) in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools is being exploited in the wild, Charles Carmakal, CTO at cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, warned today. The warning comes a day after Oracle published an out-of-band security alert […]

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Threat actors are recruiting the people who hold cloud logins

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Threat actors are recruiting the people who hold cloud logins 2026-06-11 at 11:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec Companies keep most of their data and applications in cloud platforms that anyone can reach with the right login. That setup turns each employee holding those credentials into a security variable, and members of the cybercrime underground have built […]

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Making the cloud prove it followed your privacy wishes

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Making the cloud prove it followed your privacy wishes 2026-06-11 at 08:43 By Sinisa Markovic Making companies that store personal data in cloud key-value databases handle deletion requests by running the operation and confirming the job is complete. The people making those requests and the regulators overseeing them have had limited means to confirm the […]

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Prompt injection still drives most agentic AI security failures in production

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Prompt injection still drives most agentic AI security failures in production 2026-06-11 at 08:43 By Anamarija Pogorelec A backdoor sat on PyPI for three hours in March 2026. Nearly 47,000 downloads occurred during the window. The compromised package, LiteLLM, serves as the language-model gateway for CrewAI, DSPy, Microsoft GraphRAG, and dozens of other AI agent […]

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Critical Ivanti Sentry flaw allows root-level remote code execution (CVE-2026-10520)

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Critical Ivanti Sentry flaw allows root-level remote code execution (CVE-2026-10520) 2026-06-10 at 17:24 By Zeljka Zorz Ivanti has patched two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-10520 and CVE-2026-10523) in Ivanti Sentry and has urged customers to implement the fix right away. Though the vulnerabilities are not known to be actively exploited, security researchers have already released technical details […]

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Record Microsoft Patch Tuesday, fresh zero-day

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Record Microsoft Patch Tuesday, fresh zero-day 2026-06-10 at 14:23 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft marked its largest-ever Patch Tuesday this month, by shipping fixes for nearly 200 vulnerabilities. Within hours, “Nightmare Eclipse”, the researcher behind weeks of escalating Windows exploit releases, dropped a proof-of-concept exploit for a new zero-day: “RoguePlanet”, which abuses a race condition in […]

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Every set of AI guardrails can be broken by the right prompt

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Every set of AI guardrails can be broken by the right prompt 2026-06-10 at 11:31 By Mirko Zorz Companies that build AI systems wrap them in guardrails meant to block harmful output, including deepfakes, malware, and instructions for making biological weapons or illicit drugs. When a user prompts the system for such content, the guardrails […]

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The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills

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The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills 2026-06-10 at 09:55 By Mirko Zorz Billions of working smartphones reach the end of their service lives each year and move into drawers, recycling streams, and waste piles. The WEEE Forum estimated that 5.3 billion mobile phones became electronic waste in 2022. Many of these […]

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Product showcase: Staying ahead of the threat horizon with Aunoo

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Product showcase: Staying ahead of the threat horizon with Aunoo 2026-06-10 at 09:55 By Help Net Security Aunoo is an open strategic intelligence platform that uses AI agents to monitor intelligence sources, including for cybersecurity, to compile a daily briefing and alert on defined criteria. Each source is checked for credibility and quality before it […]

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