Building a stronger SOC through AI augmentation 2025-09-24 at 09:22 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Tim Bramble, Director of Threat Detection and Response at OpenText, discusses how SOC teams are gaining value from AI in detecting and prioritizing threats. By learning what “normal” looks like across users and systems, AI helps […]
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LLMs can boost cybersecurity decisions, but not for everyone 2025-09-19 at 09:11 By Mirko Zorz LLMs are moving fast from experimentation to daily use in cybersecurity. Teams are starting to use them to sort through threat intelligence, guide incident response, and help analysts handle repetitive work. But adding AI into the decision-making process brings new
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Google introduces VaultGemma, a differentially private LLM built for secure data handling 2025-09-16 at 09:31 By Sinisa Markovic Google has released VaultGemma, a large language model designed to keep sensitive data private during training. The model uses differential privacy techniques to prevent individual data points from being exposed, which makes it safer for handling confidential
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Garak: Open-source LLM vulnerability scanner 2025-09-10 at 09:00 By Help Net Security LLMs can make mistakes, leak data, or be tricked into doing things they were not meant to do. Garak is a free, open-source tool designed to test these weaknesses. It checks for problems like hallucinations, prompt injections, jailbreaks, and toxic outputs. By running
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BruteForceAI: Free AI-powered login brute force tool 2025-09-03 at 09:31 By Help Net Security BruteForceAI is a penetration testing tool that uses LLMs to improve the way brute-force attacks are carried out. Instead of relying on manual setup, the tool can analyze HTML content, detect login form selectors, and prepare the attack process automatically. It
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AI isn’t taking over the world, but here’s what you should worry about 2025-08-29 at 10:03 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Josh Meier, Senior Generative AI Author at Pluralsight, debunks the myth that AI could “escape” servers or act on its own. He explains how large language models actually work,
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Agentic AI coding assistant helped attacker breach, extort 17 distinct organizations 2025-08-28 at 15:29 By Zeljka Zorz Cybercriminals have started “vibe hacking” with AI’s help, AI startup Anthropic has shared in a report released on Wednesday. An attacker used the agentic AI coding assistant Claude Code for nearly all steps of a data extortion operation
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AI Security Map: Linking AI vulnerabilities to real-world impact 2025-08-27 at 09:40 By Mirko Zorz A single prompt injection in a customer-facing chatbot can leak sensitive data, damage trust, and draw regulatory scrutiny in hours. The technical breach is only the first step. The real risk comes from how quickly one weakness in an AI
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LLMs at the edge: Rethinking how IoT devices talk and act 2025-08-26 at 08:01 By Mirko Zorz Anyone who has set up a smart home knows the routine: one app to dim the lights, another to adjust the thermostat, and a voice assistant that only understands exact phrasing. These systems call themselves smart, but in
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Why a new AI tool could change how we test insider threat defenses 2025-08-25 at 09:04 By Mirko Zorz Insider threats are among the hardest attacks to detect because they come from people who already have legitimate access. Security teams know the risk well, but they often lack the data needed to train systems that
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Review: Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies 2025-08-25 at 07:50 By Mirko Zorz Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies shows how AI systems can be attacked and how defenders can prepare. It’s essentially a walkthrough of offensive and defensive approaches to AI security. About the author John Sotiropoulos is the Head Of AI
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Using lightweight LLMs to cut incident response times and reduce hallucinations 2025-08-21 at 09:03 By Mirko Zorz Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Imperial College London have developed a method for using LLMs to improve incident response planning with a focus on reducing the risk of hallucinations. Their approach uses a smaller, fine-tuned LLM
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How security teams are putting AI to work right now 2025-08-18 at 09:42 By Mirko Zorz AI is moving from proof-of-concept into everyday security operations. In many SOCs, it is now used to cut down alert noise, guide analysts during investigations, and speed up incident response. What was once seen as experimental technology is starting
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Employees race to build custom AI apps despite security risks 2025-08-15 at 07:37 By Help Net Security The latest Netskope findings show a 50% increase in GenAI platform usage among enterprise end-users, driven by growing employee demand for tools to develop custom AI applications and agents. Top LLM interfaces by percentage in organizations (source: Netskope)
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Free courses: Master AI tools from Microsoft, AWS, and Google 2025-08-14 at 07:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec Learn how AI technologies can be applied to enhance security, create safe and responsible applications, develop intelligent agents, and improve information discovery. You’ll gain practical skills, explore new tools, and work on projects that help you apply what you
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What GPT‑5 means for IT teams, devs, and the future of AI at work 2025-08-07 at 20:58 By Sinisa Markovic OpenAI has released GPT‑5, the newest version of its large language model. It’s now available to developers and ChatGPT users, and it brings some real changes to how AI can be used in business and
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AI can write your code, but nearly half of it may be insecure 2025-08-07 at 09:15 By Help Net Security While GenAI excels at producing functional code, it introduces security vulnerabilities in 45 percent of cases, according to Veracode’s 2025 GenAI Code Security Report, which analyzed code produced by over 100 LLMs across 80 real-world
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What attackers know about your company thanks to AI 2025-08-01 at 08:48 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Tom Cross, Head of Threat Research at GetReal Security, explores how generative AI is empowering threat actors. He breaks down three key areas: how GenAI lowers the technical barrier for attackers, enables highly
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New AI model offers faster, greener way for vulnerability detection 2025-07-31 at 08:33 By Mirko Zorz A team of researchers has developed a new AI model, called White-Basilisk, that detects software vulnerabilities more efficiently than much larger systems. The model’s release comes at a time when developers and security teams face mounting pressure to secure
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Fighting AI with AI: How Darwinium is reshaping fraud defense 2025-07-29 at 16:07 By Mirko Zorz AI agents are showing up in more parts of the customer journey, from product discovery to checkout. And fraudsters are also putting them to work, often with alarming success. In response, cyberfraud prevention leader Darwinium is launching two AI-powered
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