Pre-auth RCE in enterprise Java hits Bonita and OFBiz servers 2026-08-05 at 21:45 By Mirko Zorz An attacker sends a single web request to a Bonita server and lands inside an internal API that assumed nobody could reach it. The request arrives unauthenticated. From there the attacker runs code on the host. Bonita BPM handles […]
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AI agent deception moves from theory to reality in UK cyber tests 2026-08-05 at 15:05 By Zeljka Zorz “During a routine cyber evaluation, AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations,” UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed on Tuesday. The agents’ actions included an attempted supply-chain attack that saw them create
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Bank of America impersonators weaponize ScreenConnect, then make it hard to remove 2026-08-05 at 11:43 By Zeljka Zorz A phishing campaign impersonating Bank of America (BoA) is underway, trying to trick Windows users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software and then making it difficult to uninstall it. Different traps for Mac and Windows users By
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Future AGI: Open-source platform for shipping self-improving AI agents 2026-08-05 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Future AGI is an open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, simulating, and guardrailing LLM agents, licensed Apache 2.0 and self-hostable. Self-hosted instances register with Future AGI on first boot and send an instance ID, a version string, a deployment type, and
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What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how 2026-08-05 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned them open. Liquid CO2 flooded the compressors and destroyed them. The
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Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs 2026-08-04 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Hill, Field CISO, Client Advisory for BlackCloak, explains how attackers reach companies through the personal lives of executives. He describes a case where a draft report sat in an executive’s personal email
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OWASP’s subtractive security project measures the attack paths you erased 2026-08-04 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz An attacker who talks a user into opening an attachment gets whatever that machine still permits: a service account with rights across the domain, an outbound route to anywhere, a scripting engine sitting there for the taking. Christopher Frenz
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Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials 2026-08-04 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz An analyst opening a queue on Monday morning will spend most of it on tickets that amount to nothing. Stellar Cyber’s Agentic Auto Triage closed 8,047 of those tickets on its own during customer trials,
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Attackers exploit N-able N-central flaw to reach managed endpoints (CVE-2026-18577) 2026-08-03 at 17:33 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) in N-able N-central, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution widely used by managed service providers, to gain access to managed endpoints. How the flaw was discovered “On July 31, 2026,
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KindaRails2Shell threatens Ruby on Rails apps (CVE-2026-66066) 2026-08-03 at 14:42 By Zeljka Zorz A critical security vulnerability (CVE-2026-66066) in Ruby on Rails (aka Rails), one of the most widely used frameworks for building websites and web apps, may allow attackers to read sensitive files off a server and, in some cases, take full control of
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Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you 2026-08-03 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent that takes a single alert and works outward to map how far a malware campaign spread. He walks through
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SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills 2026-08-03 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from NVIDIA that reads an agent skill and tells you whether to install it. Point it at a directory, a zip file, a single SKILL.md, or a Git URL, and it returns a list of
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Aviation cyber risk sits on the ground, the blindness sits in the air 2026-07-31 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Eliran Almong, CEO of Cyviation, explains why airline cyber losses happen on the ground while the aircraft stays unmonitored. He walks through GNSS jamming that leaves no trace in
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Laundry Bear’s new Microsoft Exchange attack triggers on email open (CVE-2026-42897) 2026-07-30 at 17:23 By Zeljka Zorz Russia-affiliated cyber espionage group Laundry Bear (aka Void Blizzard, aka TA488) is exploiting CVE-2026-42897, a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, to target US and European government entities and a variety of private sector organizations via email. The
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Cisco FMC static credentials exploited by attackers (CVE-2026-20316) 2026-07-30 at 13:44 By Zeljka Zorz A static credentials vulnerability (CVE-2026-20316) in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), a platform for centrally managing multiple Cisco Secure Firewall devices across a network, is being leveraged by attackers, CISA warned. Two FMC flaws, one indicator of compromise CVE-2026-20316, reported
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Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher 2026-07-30 at 09:15 By Mirko Zorz More than one in four organizations hit by a malicious attack over the past year say AI drove it. Those breaches averaged about $1 million above the malicious attacks that ran without AI. Defenders bought similar technology and
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200 new CVEs a day and no realistic way to patch them all 2026-07-30 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Ryan Dewhurst, CEO at KEVIntel, explains how his team confirms exploitation that CISA’s catalog has not listed yet. He describes a global honeypot sensor network, AI triage, and human verification in a lab before a vulnerability
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ShutterGap: Aryon Security finds 3.7M AWS cloud resources exposed beyond CSPM/CNAPP visibility 2026-07-29 at 16:00 By Help Net Security Research from Aryon reveals that each year, 3,731,699 short-lived cloud resources containing highly sensitive information are publicly exposed. This impacts any organization using AWS services that support public sharing. These exposures often last only minutes or hours,
The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced 2026-07-29 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to bring them online meets
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Hugging Face breach reignites open-weights debate, raises liability questions 2026-07-28 at 18:55 By Zeljka Zorz The first publicly documented cyberattack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI was an OpenAI benchmark test that escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. In an incident post-mortem compiled with the input from Hugging Face and several hundred members of
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