AI platform ATHR makes voice phishing a one-person job 2026-04-20 at 14:37 By Zeljka Zorz For $4,000 and a cut of the take, a lone criminal can now run a fully automated voice-phishing operation via ATHR, a plaform that spoofs emails alerts from Google, Microsoft, and Coinbase, buries a phone number in each message, and […]
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Researcher drops two more Microsoft Defender zero-days, all three now exploited in the wild 2026-04-17 at 14:32 By Zeljka Zorz The security researcher who earlier this month published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Defender is back with two more. The first, dubbed “RedSun,” is another privilege escalation flaw
NIST admits defeat on NVD backlog, will enrich only highest-risk CVEs going forward 2026-04-16 at 19:48 By Zeljka Zorz NIST is overhauling how it manages the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and switching to a risk-based model that prioritizes “enrichment” of only the most critical CVE-numbered security vulnerabilities. “This change is driven by a surge in
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Fortinet fixes critical FortiSandbox vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808) 2026-04-16 at 18:37 By Zeljka Zorz Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808) in FortiSandbox could be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized code or commands on vulnerable systems. Both vulnerabilities can be triggered with a specially crafted HTTP request, putting unpatched FortiSandbox deployments at risk. About
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Tails 7.6.2 patches vulnerability that could expose saved files 2026-04-16 at 13:34 By Anamarija Pogorelec The Tails Project released Tails v7.6.2, an emergency release of the popular open source secure portable operating system. What is Tails? Tails, which is based on Debian GNU/Linux, is aimed at users who want to preserve their online privacy and
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What the EU AI Act requires for AI agent logging 2026-04-16 at 09:02 By Help Net Security The EU AI Act is 144 pages long. The logging requirements that matter for AI agent developers sit across four articles that keep referencing each other. Here’s what they say, when the deadlines hit, and where the gaps
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Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is now an EU obligation, but cultural change takes time 2026-04-15 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho, Head of Sector for Incident and Vulnerability Services at ENISA, discusses the recent CVE funding scare and what it exposed about the fragility of global vulnerability disclosure
The exploit gap is closing, and your patch cycle wasn’t built for this 2026-04-15 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz The Cloud Security Alliance has published a briefing on what it calls a turning point in the threat landscape: the time between a vulnerability being discovered and a working exploit is shrinking fast. The briefing centers
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Testing reveals Claude Mythos’s offensive capabilities and limits 2026-04-14 at 18:15 By Zeljka Zorz Could Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s latest large language model, be leveraged for fully automated cyber attacks? The UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI) tested its capability to successfully engage in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and multi-step attack scenarios, and found that that
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Booking.com data breach: Customer reservation data exposed 2026-04-14 at 16:21 By Zeljka Zorz “Unauthorized third parties may have been able to access certain booking information associated with your reservation,” email alerts sent out by Booking.com over the weekend warn. The online travel agency did not say which system(s) were accessed by the unauthorized third parties
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AI adoption is outpacing the safeguards around it 2026-04-14 at 12:59 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is becoming part of professional and private life, reaching mainstream adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet. These systems are tested in reasoning, safety, and real-world tasks, but the reliability of those measurements remains uncertain. The 2026 AI
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Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready 2026-04-14 at 09:15 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Idan Habler, AI Security Researcher at Cisco, breaks down a threat most security teams haven’t named yet: agentic memory as an attack surface. Habler walks through MemoryTrap, a disclosed
29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control 2026-04-14 at 08:11 By Help Net Security AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of external services. Every integration point requires an identity. Most
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Hackers hijacked CPUID downloads, served STX RAT to victims 2026-04-13 at 16:08 By Zeljka Zorz If you tried to download software from CPUID’s website late last week, you might have downloaded malware instead. “Investigations are still ongoing, but it appears that a secondary feature (basically a side API) was compromised for approximately six hours between
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Adobe issues emergency fix for Acrobat Reader flaw exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-34621) 2026-04-13 at 13:22 By Zeljka Zorz Adobe has pushed out an emergency security update for Adobe Acrobat Reader, patching a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-34621) exploited in the wild since November 2025. About CVE-2026-34621 CVE-2026-34621 is a critical prototype pollution vulnerability – a type
ZeroID: Open-source identity platform for autonomous AI agents 2026-04-13 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz ZeroID is an open-source identity platform that implements an identity and credentialing layer specifically for autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The attribution problem The core issue ZeroID targets is attribution in agentic workflows. When an orchestrator agent spawns sub-agents to carry
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Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first 2026-04-13 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Art Manion, Deputy Director at Tharros, examines why vulnerability data across repositories stays inconsistent and hard to trust. The problem starts with systems not designed to collect or manage that data well. They introduce
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Bringing governance and visibility to machine and AI identities 2026-04-13 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Archit Lohokare, CEO of AppViewX, explains how the rise of AI marked a turning point where machine and AI agent identities began converging into a single problem. Drawing on his experience across IBM and
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ClickFix campaign delivers Mac malware via fake Apple page 2026-04-10 at 17:22 By Zeljka Zorz Security researchers at Jamf have uncovered a new ClickFix-style attack targeting Mac users via a fake Apple-themed webpage offering instructions on how to “reclaim disk space on your Mac”. The malicious page (Source: Jamf) ClickFix for everybody ClickFix is a
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Poisoned “Office 365” search results lead to stolen paychecks 2026-04-10 at 14:45 By Zeljka Zorz A financially motivated hacking group is targeting Canadian employees with a sophisticated campaign designed to covertly redirect their salary payments into attacker-controlled bank accounts, Microsoft researchers discovered. SEO poisoning and malvertising + phishing + AiTM The group, which Microsoft tracks
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