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Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI

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Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI 2026-05-11 at 16:48 By Mirko Zorz Google’s threat intelligence researchers have linked a zero-day exploit to AI-assisted development by a criminal group. The exploit targeted a popular open-source web-based system administration tool. It allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication once they had valid user credentials. […]

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Rustinel: Open-source endpoint detection for Windows and Linux

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Rustinel: Open-source endpoint detection for Windows and Linux 2026-05-11 at 08:51 By Mirko Zorz Open-source endpoint detection has long been split between Windows-focused tools built around Sysmon and Linux tools built around eBPF or auditd. Defenders running mixed environments have had to stitch together separate pipelines, separate rule sets, and separate maintenance burdens. Rustinel, a […]

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Review: Foundations of Cybersecurity, 2nd edition

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Review: Foundations of Cybersecurity, 2nd edition 2026-05-11 at 08:18 By Mirko Zorz Jason Andress has refreshed his introductory security text for No Starch Press. He writes in the introduction that the term security now extends past data center servers to cloud resources, mobile devices, the Internet of Things, and AI. About the author Jason Andress […]

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Dirty Frag: Unpatched Linux vulnerability delivers root access

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Dirty Frag: Unpatched Linux vulnerability delivers root access 2026-05-08 at 18:03 By Zeljka Zorz A week after Copy Fail, another Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Dirty Frag” has been revealed, along with a PoC exploit. What is Dirty Frag In effect, Dirty Frag refers to two flaws: A xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write vulnerability (CVE-2026-43284, aka […]

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Ivanti EPMM vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-6973)

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Ivanti EPMM vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-6973) 2026-05-08 at 13:30 By Zeljka Zorz Ivanti has released fixes for 5 high-severity vulnerabilities in its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) solution, one of which (CVE-2026-6973) has being exploited as a zero-day by attackers. “We are aware of a very limited number of customers exploited with CVE-2026-6973,” the […]

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Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android

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Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android 2026-05-08 at 08:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec NetGuard is a free, open-source firewall for Android phones and tablets that provides users with a simple way to block internet access. Android does not allow VPN services to be chained, so the app uses the Android VPN service to route all […]

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What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox

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What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox 2026-05-08 at 01:14 By Mirko Zorz Over the past several months, Mozilla ran an agentic harness powered by Claude Mythos Preview across Firefox’s source code, identifying 271 security bugs that were fixed in Firefox 150, with additional fixes shipped in versions 149.0.2 and […]

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One keypress is all it takes to compromise four AI coding tools

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One keypress is all it takes to compromise four AI coding tools 2026-05-08 at 01:14 By Mirko Zorz Developers clone unfamiliar repositories all the time. Open-source projects, work from teammates, sample code from a tutorial, a library someone recommended on a forum. The convention is old and reasonable: you look at what’s inside before you […]

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State-sponsored hackers likely behind zero-day attacks on Palo Alto firewalls

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State-sponsored hackers likely behind zero-day attacks on Palo Alto firewalls 2026-05-08 at 01:14 By Zeljka Zorz Palo Alto Networks believes the in-the-wild exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-0300) in its firewalls is likely the work of state-sponsored threat actors. A flaw with no patch (yet) CVE-2026-0300 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication […]

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Can your coding style predict whether your code is vulnerable?

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Can your coding style predict whether your code is vulnerable? 2026-05-05 at 13:21 By Sinisa Markovic Developers leave fingerprints in the code they write. Naming choices, indentation patterns, preferred APIs, and the way someone structures a loop or handles a pointer all carry traces of individual habit. Researchers have used these stylistic signals for years […]

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Critical MOVEit Automation auth bypass vulnerability fixed (CVE-2026-4670)

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Critical MOVEit Automation auth bypass vulnerability fixed (CVE-2026-4670) 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Zeljka Zorz Progress Software has fixed a critical authentication bypass (CVE-2026-4670) and a privilege escalation (CVE-2026-5174) vulnerability in MOVEit Automation, exploitation of which “may lead to unauthorized access, administrative control, and data exposure.” The vulnerabilities were reported privately by Airbus researchers and there’s […]

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Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall

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Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing API keys, and unrestricted internet connectivity, creating a single point of failure where one compromised tool call can leak credentials to an attacker-controlled domain. Pipelock, an open-source security harness developed by Joshua Waldrep under […]

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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do

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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Strategist at Black Kite, discusses how organizations can identify and manage third-party cyber exposures before attackers exploit them. He argues that businesses should move beyond a data-loss mindset toward one […]

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Download: Automating Pentest Delivery Guide

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Download: Automating Pentest Delivery Guide 2026-05-01 at 18:21 By Help Net Security Pentesting remains one of the most effective ways to identify real-world weaknesses, but the method for delivering results hasn’t evolved. Manual workflows involving static documents and email threads introduce delays, create inefficiencies, and diminish the value of the work. This guide on Automating […]

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Open-source privacy proxy masks PII before prompts reach external AI services

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Open-source privacy proxy masks PII before prompts reach external AI services 2026-05-01 at 11:49 By Sinisa Markovic Enterprise developers routinely send prompts to external large language models that contain customer emails, support transcripts, and other identifying information, often without a sanitization layer between the application and the API. Dataiku has released Kiji Privacy Proxy, an […]

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cPanel zero-day exploited for months before patch release (CVE-2026-41940)

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cPanel zero-day exploited for months before patch release (CVE-2026-41940) 2026-04-30 at 16:45 By Zeljka Zorz A critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940) in cPanel, a popular web-based control panel for managing web hosting accounts, is being exploited by attackers in the wild. What’s more, attackers didn’t have to wait for watchTowr security researchers to release technical […]

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Cisco releases open-source toolkit for verifying AI model lineage

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Cisco releases open-source toolkit for verifying AI model lineage 2026-04-30 at 16:02 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises pulling models from Hugging Face and other open repositories rarely keep records of how those models are altered after download, leaving organizations with little ability to confirm what they are running in production. The State of AI Security 2026 […]

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Nine-year-old Linux kernel flaw enables reliable local privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431)

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Nine-year-old Linux kernel flaw enables reliable local privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431) 2026-04-30 at 15:31 By Zeljka Zorz Security researchers at Theori have disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) in the Linux kernel. The flaw, nicknamed “Copy Fail”, has affected virtually every major Linux distribution shipped since 2017, and a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit […]

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The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms

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The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms 2026-04-27 at 10:30 By Mirko Zorz Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card post a task and pay a stranger to complete it. The RentAHuman platform extends that model to AI agents through a Model Context Protocol server, allowing an agent to post gigs […]

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Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild

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Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild 2026-04-24 at 23:26 By Zeljka Zorz The open web is slowly but surely filling up with “traps” designed for LLM-powered AI agents. The technique, known as indirect prompt injection (IPI), involves hiding (more or less) covert instructions inside ordinary web pages, waiting for an AI agent […]

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