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OpenAI and Anthropic are pulling in different directions

OpenAI and Anthropic are pulling in different directions 2026-07-08 at 07:00 By Mirko Zorz Companies are handing routine operational decisions to AI agents that plan, remember, and act on their behalf. These agents run on statistical models, and their behavior can drift across weeks and months. That drift opens a security gap outside the reach […]

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Attackers exploit critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282)

Attackers exploit critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282) 2026-07-07 at 15:03 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2026-48282, one of the maximum severity vulnerabilities patched in Adobe ColdFusion on June 30, 2026, has been targeted by attackers in the wild. Exploitation attempts were detected on July 2, through the honeypot sensors of cybersecurity threat-intelligence service KEVIntel, mere minutes after

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How to prioritize AI agent security by business impact

How to prioritize AI agent security by business impact 2026-07-06 at 09:30 By Help Net Security Your CEO calls about an AI agent security incident in finance. He wants to know whether money moved, whether financial data was exposed, who owned the agent and why it had this level of access. The agent was connected

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Securing the inbox: Where identity, brand and security meet

Securing the inbox: Where identity, brand and security meet 2026-07-06 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Getting a verified logo to appear next to your email has traditionally meant having to work with two separate entities. You have to work with a DMARC partner for setting up DMARC and BIMI, then use a trusted Certificate Authority

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Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness

Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness 2026-07-06 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Plenty of developers now keep several coding agents close at hand, reaching for Claude Code on one task and Codex or Cursor on the next. Each tool arrives with its own command line, its own handling of credentials, and its own way

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Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login

Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login 2026-07-03 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Anyone who runs a server with SSH exposed to the internet sees the same pattern in the logs. A steady stream of automated scanners tries to log in, hour after hour, from addresses all over the world. The common picture of what comes

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What a financial planner taught me about cybersecurity

What a financial planner taught me about cybersecurity 2026-07-01 at 09:30 By Help Net Security When I spoke at a recent cybersecurity awareness event for financial planners and tax advisors, the audience really engaged with the subject. As happens at conferences the world over, people often come up to speakers to ask follow-up questions, or

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Oracle E-Business Suite Payments flaw under attack (CVE-2026-46817)

Oracle E-Business Suite Payments flaw under attack (CVE-2026-46817) 2026-06-30 at 16:58 By Zeljka Zorz Exploitation attempts targeting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-46817) in Oracle Payments, the payment-processing module within Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS), have been spotted over the weekend, threat intelligence company Defused warned on Monday. The detected exploitation attempts (Source: Defused) “On 27 June 2026

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SimpleHelp vulnerability exploited to deliver mighty Djinn Stealer (CVE-2026-48558)

SimpleHelp vulnerability exploited to deliver mighty Djinn Stealer (CVE-2026-48558) 2026-06-30 at 13:25 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-48558, a recently patched authentication bypass vulnerability in SimpleHelp RMM, to drop the novel Djinn Stealer malware on victim computers. The malware is capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and “collects credentials associated with cloud

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AirDrop and Quick Share vulnerabilities affect protocols on five billion devices as fixes begin

AirDrop and Quick Share vulnerabilities affect protocols on five billion devices as fixes begin 2026-06-30 at 09:15 By Mirko Zorz Phones and laptops ship with a feature that sends files to nearby devices over the air, with no cables, accounts, or prior pairing. Apple calls its version AirDrop. Google and Samsung call theirs Quick Share.

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JSP webshells being dropped on unpatched PTC Windchill instances

JSP webshells being dropped on unpatched PTC Windchill instances 2026-06-29 at 19:18 By Zeljka Zorz The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a vulnerability (CVE-2026-12569) in Windchill and FlexPLM, two product lifecycle management software platforms developed by PTC, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Entries in the KEV catalog don’t contain links

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Mozilla warns of indirect prompt injection risk in AI coding agents

Mozilla warns of indirect prompt injection risk in AI coding agents 2026-06-29 at 13:48 By Zeljka Zorz A malicious GitHub repository can silently compromise a developer’s machine without containing a single line of malicious code, security researchers at Mozilla’s Zero Day Investigative Network (0DIN) warned. The attack The proof-of-concept attack targets AI-powered coding agents such

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DarkMoon: Open-source AI pentesting platform

DarkMoon: Open-source AI pentesting platform 2026-06-29 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Penetration testing has long run on expert time, with specialists spending days probing a network or web application by hand. Manual engagements stretch across weeks, expert consultants run into thousands of dollars a day, and results vary with the tester. Automation promises to narrow

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Synology issues critical fix for MailPlus Server vulnerabilities

Synology issues critical fix for MailPlus Server vulnerabilities 2026-06-26 at 13:57 By Zeljka Zorz Synology has has fixed critical vulnerabilities in MailPlus Server, a software package used to run private email infrastructure on Synology NAS devices. The security update fixes three flaws: CVE-2026-13136, stemming from faulty authorization checks, may allow remote attackers to read or

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Mystery hackers use novel SharkLoader dropper against governments, software devs

Mystery hackers use novel SharkLoader dropper against governments, software devs 2026-06-26 at 12:13 By Zeljka Zorz Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a previously unknown cyberattack campaign that has compromised government organizations and software development companies in multiple countries. They first stumbled onto the campaign while investigating an attack on a diplomatic organization in Indonesia. What initially

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Two CEOs on why security and AI readiness belong together

Two CEOs on why security and AI readiness belong together 2026-06-26 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz SuperOps and Guardz are bundling PSA, RMM, MDM, and agentic SecOps into one offering for MSPs. In this Help Net Security Q&A, SuperOps CEO Arvind Parthiban and Guardz CEO Dor Eisner explain how a connected stack cuts the time

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The uptime questions every engineering leader should ask this week

The uptime questions every engineering leader should ask this week 2026-06-25 at 09:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Mattias Geniar, CTO at Oh Dear, explains why most outages start quietly, as creeping latency or a slow rise in errors. He argues teams alert on the wrong things: absolute numbers instead

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Law enforcement hits StealC and Amadey malware networks

Law enforcement hits StealC and Amadey malware networks 2026-06-24 at 18:05 By Zeljka Zorz Operation Endgame, the largest international law enforcement operation aimed at disrupting ransomware and cybercrime infrastructure across the world, has claimed its latest targets: StealC and Amadey. The notice on disrupted websites (Source: Microsoft) While developed by separate criminal groups, those two

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Cisco Unified CM flaw actively exploited to drop webshells (CVE-2026-20230)

Cisco Unified CM flaw actively exploited to drop webshells (CVE-2026-20230) 2026-06-24 at 14:36 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2026-20230, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), is being exploited to drop webshells and achieve remote code execution capability on the underlying server. “Our honeypots are seeing automated sweeps dropping webshells, all

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What the Fortibleed campaign means for organizations running FortiGate firewalls

What the Fortibleed campaign means for organizations running FortiGate firewalls 2026-06-23 at 17:46 By Zeljka Zorz A massive credential-harvesting campaign targeting FortiGate firewalls has exposed thousands of organizations to potential network compromise, and a trove of attacker tools, scripts, and credentials left inadvertently exposed on a server has given researchers an unusually detailed look at

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