AI got it wrong with high confidence. Now what? 2026-03-19 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Christian Debes, Head of Data Analytics & AI at SPRYFOX, talks about the growing gap between what AI models do and what their operators can explain. He argues this gap is already a liability, […]
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Betterleaks: Open-source secrets scanner 2026-03-19 at 09:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Secrets scanning has become standard practice across engineering organizations, and Gitleaks has been one of the most widely used tools in that space. The author of that project has now released a new tool called Betterleaks, which is designed to scan git repositories, directories, and […]
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Stop building security goals around controls 2026-03-18 at 09:27 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Devin Rudnicki, CISO at Fitch Group, argues that security strategy fails when it loses its connection to business outcomes. Rudnicki walks through how to align security goals with corporate priorities, why CISOs must present risk in terms […]
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Certificate lifespans are shrinking and most organizations aren’t ready 2026-03-16 at 08:32 By Mirko Zorz The push for shorter TLS certificate lifespans has been building for years. It started with Google’s internal push toward 90-day certificates, which gained traction inside the industry before resistance from enterprise customers slowed things down. Then Apple proposed 47-day certificates, […]
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What smart factories keep getting wrong about cybersecurity 2026-03-16 at 08:24 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Packsize CSO Troy Rydman breaks down the biggest vulnerabilities in smart factory environments today, from IoT devices and legacy systems to human error. He explains how unmanaged devices, from sensors to robotic components, often go […]
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VulHunt: Open-source vulnerability detection framework 2026-03-16 at 07:40 By Anamarija Pogorelec Binarly has published VulHunt Community Edition, making the core scanning engine from Binarly’s commercial Transparency Platform available to independent researchers and practitioners. What VulHunt does VulHunt Community Edition is a framework for detecting vulnerabilities in compiled software. It operates against multiple binary representations simultaneously, […]
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AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes 2026-03-13 at 08:01 By Anamarija Pogorelec Coding agents are now writing production features on real development teams, and a new report from DryRun Security shows that those agents introduce security vulnerabilities at a high rate across nearly every type of application they build. “AI coding agents can […]
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Stop fixing OT security with IT thinking 2026-03-12 at 08:35 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Ejona Preçi, Group CISO at Lindal Group, discusses the specific cybersecurity challenges in manufacturing environments. The conversation covers why standard IT security practices break down on shop floors, where PLCs and decade-old firmware were never designed […]
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Does Anthropic deserve the trust of the cybersecurity community? 2026-03-12 at 08:35 By Help Net Security The cybersecurity industry runs on trust. The belief that when a vendor says they will behave a certain way, they will, that critical CVEs are in fact critical, or when companies say they’re GDPR compliant, they really are. But […]
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ShinyHunters claims new campaign targeting Salesforce Experience Cloud sites 2026-03-11 at 20:28 By Zeljka Zorz Salesforce customers have, once again, been targeted by the ShinyHunters group – or, at least, it’s what the group claims. Attackers modified and abused benign tool On Saturday, Saleforce confirmed that its security team has identified an attack campaign by […]
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Researchers uncover AI-powered vishing platform 2026-03-11 at 20:28 By Zeljka Zorz A vishing-as-a-service platform that helps scammers carry out so-called “press 1” scams is misusing text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities provided by AI voice technology company ElevenLabs, Mirage Security researchers claim. How “press 1” vishing scams work For “press 1” scams, fraudsters spoof phone numbers of trusted […]
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Microsoft patches 80+ vulnerabilities, six flagged as “more likely” to be exploited 2026-03-11 at 12:31 By Zeljka Zorz On March 2026 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft addressed 80+ vulnerabilities affecting its software and cloud services. Of these, two were publicly disclosed, but not actively exploited. Privilege escalation vulnerabilities abound The two publicly disclosed flaws are CVE-2026-21262, a […]
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Cloud-audit: Fast, open-source AWS security scanner 2026-03-11 at 09:21 By Mirko Zorz Running AWS security audits without a dedicated security team typically means choosing between enterprise platforms with per-check billing and generic open-source scanners that produce findings with no remediation guidance. Cloud-audit, a Python CLI tool published on GitHub by Mariusz Gebala, takes a narrower […]
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HR, recruiters targeted in year-long malware campaign 2026-03-10 at 15:39 By Zeljka Zorz An attack campaign targeting HR departments and job recruiters has been stealthily compromising systems, Aryaka researchers have discovered. By avoiding analysis environments and leveraging a specialized module designed to kill antivirus and endpoint detection software, the Russian-speaking attacker(s) behind this campaign have […]
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Attackers use AiTM phishing kit, typosquatted domains to hijack AWS accounts 2026-03-10 at 15:22 By Zeljka Zorz Phishers are targeting AWS accounts holders with fake email security alerts and redirecting them to a high-fidelity clone of the AWS Management Console sign-in page, Datadog researchers have warned. The cloned AWS phishing page (Source: Datadog Security Labs) […]
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Airbus CSO on supply chain blind spots, space threats, and the limits of AI red-teaming 2026-03-10 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Pascal Andrei, CSO at Airbus, knows that the aerospace and defense sector is facing a threat environment that is evolving faster than most organizations can track. From sub-tier suppliers quietly becoming entry points for […]
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Fake Claude Code install pages highlight rise of “InstallFix” attacks 2026-03-09 at 12:58 By Zeljka Zorz Users looking for Anthropic’s Claude Code agentic AI coding tool are being tricked via fake Claude Code install pages into running malware, Push Security researchers have warned. The attackers behind this scheme are faithfully cloning Anthropic’s installation page, hosting […]
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Decoding silence: How deaf and hard-of-hearing pros are breaking into cybersecurity 2026-03-09 at 09:01 By Mirko Zorz Stu Hirst was already a CISO when he started to go deaf. It was 2023, and the hearing loss crept in over months, enough for him to adapt, to lean on hearing aids and captions, to quietly reorganize […]
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Turning expertise into opportunity for women in cybersecurity 2026-03-09 at 08:32 By Mirko Zorz Speaker diversity in cybersecurity has been a talking point for over a decade, with panels, pledges, and dedicated conference tracks failing to produce change. Stages still skew heavily male, even as women represent millions of qualified professionals in the field. SheSpeaksCyber, […]
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Open-source tool Sage puts a security layer between AI agents and the OS 2026-03-09 at 08:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec Autonomous AI agents running on developer workstations execute shell commands, fetch URLs, and write files with little or no inspection of what they are doing. Open-source project Sage inserts an interception layer between an AI agent […]
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