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New “HashJack” attack can hijack AI browsers and assistants

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New “HashJack” attack can hijack AI browsers and assistants 2025-11-26 at 14:18 By Zeljka Zorz Security researchers at Cato Networks have uncovered a new indirect prompt injection technique that can force popular AI browsers and assistants to deliver phishing links or disinformation (e.g., incorrect medicine dosage guidance or investment advice), send sensitive data to the […]

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Heineken CISO champions a new risk mindset to unlock innovation

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Heineken CISO champions a new risk mindset to unlock innovation 2025-11-26 at 09:16 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Marina Marceta, CISO at Heineken, discusses what it takes for CISOs to be seen as business-aligned leaders rather than technical overseers. She shares how connecting security to business impact can shift perceptions and […]

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Small language models step into the fight against phishing sites

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Small language models step into the fight against phishing sites 2025-11-26 at 08:31 By Sinisa Markovic Phishing sites keep rising, and security teams are searching for ways to sort suspicious pages at speed. A recent study explores whether small language models (SLMs) can scan raw HTML to catch these threats. The work reviews a range […]

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Black Friday 2025 for InfoSec: How to spot real value and avoid the noise

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Black Friday 2025 for InfoSec: How to spot real value and avoid the noise 2025-11-26 at 08:09 By Help Net Security Your inbox is probably drowning in Black Friday emails right now. Another “limited time offer” that’ll reappear next month, countdown timer creating artificial urgency. You’re right to be skeptical — most of it is […]

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DeepTeam: Open-source LLM red teaming framework

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DeepTeam: Open-source LLM red teaming framework 2025-11-26 at 07:37 By Sinisa Markovic Security teams are pushing large language models into products faster than they can test them, which makes any new red teaming method worth paying attention to. DeepTeam is an open-source framework built to probe these systems before they reach users, and it takes […]

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How board members think about cyber risk and what CISOs should tell them

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How board members think about cyber risk and what CISOs should tell them 2025-11-26 at 07:11 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jonathan Trull, EVP & CISO at Qualys, discusses which cybersecurity metrics matter most to a board of directors. Drawing on more than two decades in the field, he explains […]

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Popular code formatting sites are exposing credentials and other secrets

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Popular code formatting sites are exposing credentials and other secrets 2025-11-25 at 19:02 By Zeljka Zorz Widely used code formatting sites JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify are exposing sensitive credentials, API keys, private keys, configuration files and other secrets, watchTowr researchers discovered. The findings JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify are free, web-based tools/services used by developers to make messy […]

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Fake “Windows Update” screens fuels new wave of ClickFix attacks

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Fake “Windows Update” screens fuels new wave of ClickFix attacks 2025-11-25 at 15:02 By Zeljka Zorz A convincing (but fake) “Windows Update” screen can be the perfect lure for tricking users into infecting their computers with malware. Add a multi-stage delivery chain with some offbeat techniques, and infostealer operators have everything they need to slip […]

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How an AI meltdown could reset enterprise expectations

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How an AI meltdown could reset enterprise expectations 2025-11-25 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Graham McMillan, CTO at Redgate Software, discusses AI, security, and the future of enterprise oversight. He explains why past incidents haven’t pushed the industry to mature. McMillan also outlines the structural shifts he expects once […]

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The breaches everyone gets hit by (and how to stop them)

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The breaches everyone gets hit by (and how to stop them) 2025-11-25 at 08:11 By Help Net Security Headlines scream about zero-days and nation-state attacks, but the reality is far less glamorous. Ross Haleliuk, from Venture in Security talks about the concept of humans being wired to overweight rare, dramatic events and underweight the everyday […]

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Black Friday 2025 cybersecurity deals to explore

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Black Friday 2025 cybersecurity deals to explore 2025-11-24 at 15:30 By Help Net Security Black Friday 2025 is shaping up to be a good moment for anyone thinking about tightening their cybersecurity. A few solid deals are popping up that make it easier to improve protection for systems and data without stretching your budget. If […]

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Quantum encryption is pushing satellite hardware to its limits

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Quantum encryption is pushing satellite hardware to its limits 2025-11-24 at 09:11 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Colonel Ludovic Monnerat, Commander Space Command, Swiss Armed Forces, discusses how securing space assets is advancing in response to emerging quantum threats. He explains why satellite systems must move beyond traditional cryptography to remain […]

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cnspec: Open-source, cloud-native security and policy project

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cnspec: Open-source, cloud-native security and policy project 2025-11-24 at 08:32 By Sinisa Markovic cnspec is an open source tool that helps when you are trying to keep a sprawling setup of clouds, containers, APIs and endpoints under control. It checks security and compliance across all of it, which makes it easier to see what needs […]

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The privacy tension driving the medical data shift nobody wants to talk about

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The privacy tension driving the medical data shift nobody wants to talk about 2025-11-24 at 08:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most people assume their medical data sits in quiet storage, protected by familiar rules. That belief gives a sense of safety, but new research argues that the world around healthcare data has changed faster than the […]

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Salesforce Gainsight compromise: Early findings and customer guidance

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Salesforce Gainsight compromise: Early findings and customer guidance 2025-11-21 at 14:16 By Zeljka Zorz In the wake of Salesforce’s announcement about “unusual activity involving Gainsight-published applications” and the company’s revocation of access and refresh tokens associated with them, Gainsight has been doing a good job keeping customers updated on current investigation findings. On the status […]

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Research shows identity document checks are missing key signals

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Research shows identity document checks are missing key signals 2025-11-21 at 10:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most CISOs spend their time thinking about account takeover and phishing, but identity document fraud is becoming a tougher challenge. A new systematic review shows how attackers are pushing past old defenses and how detection models are struggling to keep […]

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How one quick AI check can leak your company’s secrets

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How one quick AI check can leak your company’s secrets 2025-11-21 at 08:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Dinesh Nagarajan, Global Partner, Cyber Security Services at IBM Consulting, walks through a situation in which an employee shared production source code with a public AI tool. The tool learned from the […]

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Salesforce investigates new incident echoing Salesloft Drift compromise

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Salesforce investigates new incident echoing Salesloft Drift compromise 2025-11-20 at 23:14 By Zeljka Zorz In what may be a repeat of the Salesloft Drift supply chain compromise, Salesforce confirmed that they’ve identified unusual activity involving Gainsight-published apps connected to Salesforce. “Our investigation indicates this activity may have enabled unauthorized access to certain customers’ Salesforce data […]

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Security gap in Perplexity’s Comet browser exposed users to system-level attacks

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Security gap in Perplexity’s Comet browser exposed users to system-level attacks 2025-11-20 at 17:56 By Zeljka Zorz There is a serious security problem inside Comet, the AI-powered agentic browser made by Perplexity, SquareX researchers say: Comet’s MCP API allows the browser’s built-in (but hidden from the user) extensions to issue commands directly to a user’s […]

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