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Paidwork breach exposes sensitive data of 23 million user

Paidwork breach exposes sensitive data of 23 million user 2026-07-20 at 17:52 By Sinisa Markovic Data belonging to more than 23 million users has been exposed following a breach at Paidwork, a platform that pays people for completing online microtasks. Paidwork markets itself as a way to earn money through simple tasks like watching ads, […]

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ServiceNow pre-auth RCE exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-6875)

ServiceNow pre-auth RCE exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-6875) 2026-07-20 at 17:32 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers have begun exploiting CVE-2026-6875, a critical pre-authentication vulnerability in the ServiceNow AI Platform, according to threat intelligence firm Defused. About the vulnerability ServiceNow AI is a Platform-as-a-Service that lets organizations build and automate digital workflows. CVE-2026-6875 is a code injection […]

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Italy fines WINDTRE €1.7 million over security flaws behind two data breaches

Italy fines WINDTRE €1.7 million over security flaws behind two data breaches 2026-07-20 at 16:19 By Sinisa Markovic Italy’s data protection authority, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, fined WINDTRE €1.7 million over “serious data security shortcomings” that let hackers breach its systems twice and exfiltrate personal data belonging to more than 365,000 […]

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Hugging Face breached by autonomous AI agent

Hugging Face breached by autonomous AI agent 2026-07-20 at 13:52 By Zeljka Zorz Hugging Face, the widely used platform for sharing open-source machine learning models and datasets, has disclosed a security breach it says was carried out by an autonomous AI agent system. How the attack unfolded In a blog post published Thursday (July 16), […]

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The Windows 10 hangover is becoming a security problem

The Windows 10 hangover is becoming a security problem 2026-07-20 at 11:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec Windows 11 now runs on 78.8% of Windows devices after Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025, according to Lansweeper. Windows 10 still accounts for 16.9% of devices and no longer receives security updates, leaving newly discovered […]

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Meet Dusseldorf, Microsoft’s open-source out-of-band security platform

Meet Dusseldorf, Microsoft’s open-source out-of-band security platform 2026-07-20 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Out-of-band vulnerabilities surface when an application quietly reaches out to an external system during an attack, and capturing that traffic calls for infrastructure that many researchers assemble on their own. A new open-source project from Microsoft supplies that infrastructure in a package […]

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More alerts are making your team slower, and an outcome-based SOC fixes that

More alerts are making your team slower, and an outcome-based SOC fixes that 2026-07-20 at 08:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Thom Langford, EMEA CTO, Rapid7, explains why piling on more security alerts makes a SOC slower to respond. Attackers log in with stolen credentials and use trusted tools like […]

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A forensic tool for backdoored code completions in AI assistants

A forensic tool for backdoored code completions in AI assistants 2026-07-20 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Developers lean on AI coding assistants for a growing share of their daily work, letting the tools predict the next few lines and accepting many suggestions with a quick glance. Those tools learn from large collections of code, and […]

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Product showcase: ZoneAlarm Mobile Security adds customizable content filtering to mobile security

Product showcase: ZoneAlarm Mobile Security adds customizable content filtering to mobile security 2026-07-20 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec ZoneAlarm Mobile Security is a security app from Check Point designed to protect mobile devices against phishing, malicious websites, unsafe networks, and fraudulent links. It is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and can run on Apple silicon […]

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Nearly half of open-source AI projects never reach production

Nearly half of open-source AI projects never reach production 2026-07-20 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Open models are moving into production across more organizations, and the work of securing those deployments increasingly extends beyond the model weights. Mozilla’s The State of Open Source AI 2026 identifies deployment, governance and operational tooling as persistent obstacles as […]

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Week in review: High severity WordPress vulnerabilities, fake OAuth IDs bypass sign-in logs

Week in review: High severity WordPress vulnerabilities, fake OAuth IDs bypass sign-in logs 2026-07-19 at 10:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Two new high severity WordPress vulnerabilities, patch immediately! The 7.0.2 WordPress security release addresses one critical and one high severity security […]

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Two new high severity WordPress vulnerabilities, patch immediately!

Two new high severity WordPress vulnerabilities, patch immediately! 2026-07-18 at 17:57 By Help Net Security The 7.0.2 WordPress security release addresses one critical and one high severity security issue. The vulnerabilities reported to the WordPress security team include: CVE-2026-60137 – A facilitated SQL injection issue reported as a team by TF1T, dtro, and haongo CVE-2026-60137 […]

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Spirals ransomware locks down victim systems in under 24 hours

Spirals ransomware locks down victim systems in under 24 hours 2026-07-17 at 15:25 By Sinisa Markovic A previously unknown ransomware strain called Spirals was used last month in an attack against an IT services company in South Asia, where attackers went from initial access to data theft and encrypting the network in less than 24 […]

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Scammers weaponize FaceTime to drain bank accounts

Scammers weaponize FaceTime to drain bank accounts 2026-07-17 at 13:02 By Sinisa Markovic Apple is warning iPhone and iPad users that scammers are using FaceTime calls to trick them into handing over money and account details. The company says scammers use social engineering, posing as representatives of a trusted company or entity, and contacting people […]

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Claude can now sign into websites with 1Password without exposing your credentials

Claude can now sign into websites with 1Password without exposing your credentials 2026-07-17 at 12:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec 1Password has introduced 1Password for Claude, a beta integration that lets Anthropic’s AI assistant complete browser tasks requiring authentication without accessing users’ passwords or other secrets. The integration is available to paid Claude subscribers (Pro, Max, Team, […]

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Ransomware attack halts Coca-Cola’s Fairlife US milk production

Ransomware attack halts Coca-Cola’s Fairlife US milk production 2026-07-17 at 11:04 By Sinisa Markovic A ransomware attack has stopped milk production at Fairlife, the Coca-Cola dairy brand known for its high-protein milk, protein shakes, and nutrition drinks. Coca-Cola disclosed the incident on July 16, 2026, in a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and […]

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The script, not the voice, is what makes AI voice phishing work

The script, not the voice, is what makes AI voice phishing work 2026-07-17 at 10:31 By Sinisa Markovic The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. The voice belongs to a senior manager, or sounds close enough, and she needs a password reset before a flight. She is polite, she is in a hurry, […]

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Prompt injection is becoming the XSS of the web agent era

Prompt injection is becoming the XSS of the web agent era 2026-07-17 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Autonomous web agents read whatever a page displays, and much of that content comes from strangers. Product reviews, seller listings, and advertisements sit beside trusted site menus on a single page. An agent that reads all of that […]

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The five step plan that cuts security budget waste

The five step plan that cuts security budget waste 2026-07-17 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Viktor Bulanek, CTO of Penetrify, explains where security budget waste comes from. Budgets get built around vendor categories, compliance checkboxes, and last year’s headlines. Attackers work along attack paths, and that mismatch is […]

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A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB

A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB 2026-07-17 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Large cloud storage operators track their hard drives every day, recording which units keep running and which ones drop off the racks. Backblaze does this at scale, and its Q1 2026 report covers a fleet built […]

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