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China-linked spies backdoored authentication stack to stay hidden for years

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China-linked spies backdoored authentication stack to stay hidden for years 2026-06-15 at 18:27 By Zeljka Zorz A China-linked cyber espionage group known as Velvet Ant spent nearly a decade inside the internal network of an unnamed organization without being detected, according to the results of a forensic investigation published by cybersecurity firm Sygnia. The group’s […]

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Onspring CISO on where automated GRC systems fall short

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Onspring CISO on where automated GRC systems fall short 2026-06-15 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Nichole Windholz, CISO at Onspring, talks about the limits of automated GRC systems and continuous control monitoring. She explains why color-coded dashboards can hide nuance, how teams can check the data feeding their […]

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A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight

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A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight 2026-06-15 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Deep learning systems on phones, cars, and other edge devices increasingly run on custom silicon. Specialized chips such as FPGAs and ASICs give these systems the speed and low power consumption that edge applications need. Many of these chips […]

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Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code

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Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code 2026-06-15 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec At most U.S. technology companies, machines now write the bulk of the code that ships each week. The engineer’s job has shifted toward reviewing what the AI produces, and that review gives the code high marks. Leaders rate AI-generated […]

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Researchers release details, PoC for exploited Check Point VPN flaw (CVE-2026-50751)

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Researchers release details, PoC for exploited Check Point VPN flaw (CVE-2026-50751) 2026-06-12 at 15:14 By Zeljka Zorz WatchTowr researchers have disclosed a technical analysis and a “Detection Artefact Generator” for CVE-2026-50751, an authentication bypass flaw in Check Point’s Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access, which the vendor confirmed to be actively exploited. The attacks were […]

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How to use NIST and ISO frameworks to govern AI agents

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How to use NIST and ISO frameworks to govern AI agents 2026-06-12 at 11:07 By Help Net Security Security leaders no longer need convincing that AI agents introduce risk. What’s missing is how to govern them once they move into production and begin operating autonomously across enterprise environments. AI agents already read sensitive documents, invoke […]

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CISA orders federal agencies to “patch smarter”

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CISA orders federal agencies to “patch smarter” 2026-06-11 at 20:18 By Zeljka Zorz The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a Binding Operational Directive that will change how the US federal government approaches vulnerability management. The directive arrives as the patching problem has become nearly unmanageable, driven by a surge in newly […]

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Oracle PeopleSoft servers under attack, Oracle pushes out-of-band security alert

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Oracle PeopleSoft servers under attack, Oracle pushes out-of-band security alert 2026-06-11 at 15:41 By Zeljka Zorz A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-35273) in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools is being exploited in the wild, Charles Carmakal, CTO at cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, warned today. The warning comes a day after Oracle published an out-of-band security alert […]

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Critical Ivanti Sentry flaw allows root-level remote code execution (CVE-2026-10520)

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Critical Ivanti Sentry flaw allows root-level remote code execution (CVE-2026-10520) 2026-06-10 at 17:24 By Zeljka Zorz Ivanti has patched two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-10520 and CVE-2026-10523) in Ivanti Sentry and has urged customers to implement the fix right away. Though the vulnerabilities are not known to be actively exploited, security researchers have already released technical details […]

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Record Microsoft Patch Tuesday, fresh zero-day

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Record Microsoft Patch Tuesday, fresh zero-day 2026-06-10 at 14:23 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft marked its largest-ever Patch Tuesday this month, by shipping fixes for nearly 200 vulnerabilities. Within hours, “Nightmare Eclipse”, the researcher behind weeks of escalating Windows exploit releases, dropped a proof-of-concept exploit for a new zero-day: “RoguePlanet”, which abuses a race condition in […]

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LiteLLM vulnerability under active attack, CISA warns (CVE-2026-42271)

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LiteLLM vulnerability under active attack, CISA warns (CVE-2026-42271) 2026-06-09 at 15:21 By Zeljka Zorz A command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-42271) in BerryAI’s LiteLLM open-source AI gateway is being exploited by attackers, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed by adding the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Monday. About CVE-2026-42271 LiteLLM is […]

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The architecture of subtraction: Why it’s time to erase the roads, not just map the traffic

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The architecture of subtraction: Why it’s time to erase the roads, not just map the traffic 2026-06-09 at 09:42 By Help Net Security The advent of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and autonomous exploit development has brought about a new age in cybersecurity—one in which we can no longer rely on patching as a primary defense mechanism. […]

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Malware ships with bugs that defenders could use against it

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Malware ships with bugs that defenders could use against it 2026-06-09 at 08:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec Static analysis tools have spent years scanning legitimate software for security bugs before it goes out the door. The same scanners work on malware, and malware carries a steady supply of its own bugs. Researchers ran four of these […]

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Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited Check Point VPN zero-day (CVE-2026-50751)

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Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited Check Point VPN zero-day (CVE-2026-50751) 2026-06-08 at 16:16 By Zeljka Zorz A Qilin ransomware affiliate is believed to be exploiting CVE-2026-50751, an authentication bypass vulnerability in Check Point VPN Remote Access and Mobile Access, the company announced on Monday. About CVE-2026-50751 Check Point Remote Access VPN enables and secures connections between […]

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CISA: Patch actively exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS vulnerability (CVE-2026-28318)

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CISA: Patch actively exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS vulnerability (CVE-2026-28318) 2026-06-08 at 14:07 By Zeljka Zorz A vulnerability (CVE-2026-28318) that can be exploited to crash SolarWinds Serv-U file transfer servers is being leveraged by attackers in the wild, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed on Friday. The agency has ordered US federal civilian […]

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DockSec: Open-source AI-powered Docker security scanner

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DockSec: Open-source AI-powered Docker security scanner 2026-06-08 at 13:09 By Mirko Zorz DockSec is an OWASP Incubator Project that combines three container security scanners with a language-model layer for explanation and remediation. Created by Advait Patel, the Python tool runs Trivy, Hadolint, and Docker Scout against a developer’s Dockerfile and image, correlates the findings, returns […]

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Cisco SD-WAN 0-day exploited, no patch available (CVE-2026-20245)

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Cisco SD-WAN 0-day exploited, no patch available (CVE-2026-20245) 2026-06-05 at 15:49 By Zeljka Zorz A 0-day privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-20245) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has yet to be patched by Cisco is being leveraged by attackers. “To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must have netadmin privileges on an affected system. This would require […]

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AgentGG: Open-source agentic SAST scanner

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AgentGG: Open-source agentic SAST scanner 2026-06-05 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz Static analysis tools have spent years matching source code against known-bad patterns and handing engineers long lists of candidate issues to triage by hand. AgentGG approaches the same job with AI agents that read the code, follow imports, walk the call graph, and confirm […]

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Spotless compliance evidence can still hide a broken control

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Spotless compliance evidence can still hide a broken control 2026-06-04 at 09:26 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Marc Rubbinaccio, Head of Cybersecurity and Compliance at Secureframe, explains where security teams go wrong when preparing for CMMC and FedRAMP 20x. The conversation covers how organizations check the 110 requirements but miss […]

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Attackers already know the secrets are on your developers’ machines. Do you?

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Attackers already know the secrets are on your developers’ machines. Do you? 2026-06-04 at 09:26 By Help Net Security In a recent GitGuardian analysis, an average of 150 secrets were found on a sample of developer endpoints. Private keys accounted for 38% of unique secrets, while cloud, identity provider, and secret management credentials (AWS IAM, […]

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