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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Mirko Zorz Researchers built a continuous authentication system called AccLock that identifies a wearer by the tiny vibrations a heartbeat makes inside the ear canal. The signal comes from an accelerometer of the kind already sitting inside many wireless earbuds, so […]

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AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports

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AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports 2026-05-18 at 21:32 By Zeljka Zorz AI-assisted vulnerability research has exploded, unleashing a firehose of low-quality reports on overworked software maintainers who are wasting hours sifting through noise instead of fixing real problems. Linus Torvalds, the Linux kernel’s creator, says the flood has made the project’s […]

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Attackers are exploiting critical NGINX vulnerability (CVE-2026-42945)

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Attackers are exploiting critical NGINX vulnerability (CVE-2026-42945) 2026-05-18 at 16:32 By Zeljka Zorz A critical NGINX vulnerability (CVE-2026-42945) disclosed last week is being exploited by attackers, VulnCheck security researcher Patrick Garrity revealed on Saturday. The vulnerability, dubbed NGINX Rift, can be reliably exploited to trigger a denial-of-service condition and can potentially allow for unauthenticated remote […]

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Attackers accessed, downloaded code from Grafana Labs’ GitHub

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Attackers accessed, downloaded code from Grafana Labs’ GitHub 2026-05-18 at 12:57 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor has managed to access Grafana Labs’ GitHub environment and download the company’s codebase, the open-source observability and data visualization firm announced on Sunday. The breach is significant given Grafana Labs’ widespread use across enterprise engineering and DevOps teams […]

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The AI backdoor your security stack is not built to see

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The AI backdoor your security stack is not built to see 2026-05-18 at 09:42 By Sinisa Markovic Enterprises deploying LLMs have spent the past two years building defenses around a reasonable assumption: malicious behavior leaves a trace in the input. Scan for suspicious tokens, filter unusual characters, watch for prompt injection patterns. New research from […]

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Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent

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Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent 2026-05-18 at 09:42 By Sinisa Markovic Penetration testing has usually required weeks of manual work, specialized tooling, and teams with narrow skill sets. Lyrie, an open-source autonomous security agent built by OTT Cybersecurity, compresses that process into a command line tool and publishes the entire codebase. The project reached version […]

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Cisco patches another actively exploited SD-WAN zero-day (CVE-2026-20182)

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Cisco patches another actively exploited SD-WAN zero-day (CVE-2026-20182) 2026-05-15 at 16:07 By Zeljka Zorz Cisco has patched yet another Catalyst SD-WAN Controller authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-20182) that has been exploited as a zero-day by “a highly sophisticated cyber threat actor”. About CVE-2026-20182 CVE-2026-20182 – affecting both Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (the “brain” of the Cisco […]

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Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability exploited (CVE-2026-42897)

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Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability exploited (CVE-2026-42897) 2026-05-15 at 14:32 By Zeljka Zorz A critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2026-42897) in Microsoft Exchange Server is being exploited by attackers, Microsoft warned on Thursday. A permanent fix is still in the works. In the meantime, Microsoft provided temporary mitigations. About CVE-2026-42897 CVE-2026-42897 affects on-premises versions of […]

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Deepfake detection is losing ground to generative models

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Deepfake detection is losing ground to generative models 2026-05-15 at 09:04 By Sinisa Markovic Deepfake detection has been built around a single question for close to a decade. Given a video or audio clip, is it real or synthetic? Commercial detectors analyze pixels, frequencies, and biometric signals to answer that question, and the best of […]

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Fragnesia: New Linux kernel LPE bug was spawned by Dirty Frag patch (CVE-2026-46300)

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Fragnesia: New Linux kernel LPE bug was spawned by Dirty Frag patch (CVE-2026-46300) 2026-05-14 at 17:34 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have found and disclosed yet another local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Linux kernel: CVE-2026-46300, aka “Fragnesia”. The flaw is in the same class of vulnerabilities as the recently disclosed Dirty Frag bug(s). Like […]

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Vector embedding security gap exposes enterprise AI pipelines

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Vector embedding security gap exposes enterprise AI pipelines 2026-05-14 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Enterprise adoption of retrieval-augmented generation has moved sensitive corporate content into a new storage format that existing security tools cannot inspect. Companies deploying internal AI assistants convert documents into high-dimensional numerical vectors and ship them to embedding services and vector databases […]

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Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday: Many fixes, but no zero-days

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Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday: Many fixes, but no zero-days 2026-05-13 at 00:31 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has marked May 2026 Patch Tuesday by releasing fixes for 120+ CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, none of which (for a change) are actively exploited or have been publicly disclosed. Still, some deserve more consideration and should be addressed sooner than […]

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Stealthy hackers exploit cPanel flaw in active backdoor campaign (CVE-2026-41940)

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Stealthy hackers exploit cPanel flaw in active backdoor campaign (CVE-2026-41940) 2026-05-12 at 20:12 By Zeljka Zorz Security researchers at XLab have outlined an active attack campaign targeting CVE-2026-41940, the recently disclosed vulnerability in cPanel & WHM, and have linked it to a stealthy hacking group that has been operating largely undetected for years. The vulnerability […]

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Amazon Quick authorization bypass let users reach blocked AI chat agents

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Amazon Quick authorization bypass let users reach blocked AI chat agents 2026-05-12 at 20:12 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises running Amazon Quick, the AWS business intelligence and agentic AI service, rely on a feature called custom permissions to restrict who inside an account can use AI chat agents. Fog Security founder Jason Kao discovered that those […]

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Download: The IT and security field guide to AI adoption

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Download: The IT and security field guide to AI adoption 2026-05-12 at 17:35 By Help Net Security Security and IT teams are under pressure to adopt AI, but many are seeing the opposite of what was promised. Tools that demo well don’t hold up in real workflows. Complexity increases. Trust breaks down. And instead of […]

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JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability allows privilege escalation, API exposure (CVE-2026-44413)

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JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability allows privilege escalation, API exposure (CVE-2026-44413) 2026-05-12 at 17:35 By Zeljka Zorz JetBrains has patched a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-44413) in TeamCity, its popular continuous integration and continuous delivery platform, and is urging organizations with on-premises and self-managed deployments to upgrade to the fixed version or implement a security patch. About CVE-2026-44413 CVE-2026-44413 […]

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HEIDI: Free IDE security plugin for open-source vulnerability checks

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HEIDI: Free IDE security plugin for open-source vulnerability checks 2026-05-12 at 09:28 By Mirko Zorz Open-source dependencies make up a large percentage of the code in production applications, and most vulnerability checks still run late in the pipeline, inside CI/CD systems or after a release ships. Meterian is moving those checks earlier with HEIDI, a […]

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The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase

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The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase 2026-05-12 at 09:28 By Mirko Zorz Household refrigerators are built to last more than a decade. The software, cloud services, and mobile apps that control them are not. A new analysis from Erik Buchmann at Leipzig University maps what happens when those two timelines collide, […]

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Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions

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Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions 2026-05-11 at 16:48 By Zeljka Zorz Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal for an emergency risk mitigation mechanism (“Killswitch”) that would allow administrators to disable vulnerable kernel functions at runtime. The proposal, submitted by Linux kernel developer/maintainer Sasha Levin, arrives in the wake of the […]

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