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Claude Opus 4.6 improves agentic performance and model safety

Claude Opus 4.6 improves agentic performance and model safety 2026-02-06 at 12:13 By Sinisa Markovic Claude Opus 4.6 builds on earlier releases with improved coding performance and more consistent behavior in complex tasks. Opus 4.6 finds real vulnerabilities in codebases better than any other model (Source: Anthropic) According to Anthropic, the model applies more deliberate […]

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February 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Lots of OOB love this month

February 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Lots of OOB love this month 2026-02-06 at 09:54 By Help Net Security Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Microsoft has been giving us a lot of love with a non-stop supply of patches starting with January 2026 Patch Tuesday. The January releases addressed 92 vulnerabilities in Windows

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Mobile privacy audits are getting harder

Mobile privacy audits are getting harder 2026-02-06 at 09:28 By Anamarija Pogorelec Mobile apps routinely collect and transmit personal data in ways that are difficult for users, developers, and regulators to verify. Permissions can reveal what an app can access, and privacy policies can claim what an app should do, yet neither reliably shows what

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The hidden cost of putting off security decisions

The hidden cost of putting off security decisions 2026-02-06 at 08:01 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Hanah Darley, Chief AI Officer, Geordie AI, talks about how putting off security risk decisions creates long-term costs that often stay hidden. Drawing on her work with CISOs and security leaders, she shows how

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New infosec products of the week: February 6, 2026

New infosec products of the week: February 6, 2026 2026-02-06 at 08:01 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Avast, Fingerprint, Gremlin, and Socure. Gremlin launches Disaster Recovery Testing for zone, region, and datacenter failovers Gremlin, the proactive reliability platform, launched Disaster Recovery Testing:

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CISA confirms exploitation of VMware ESXi flaw by ransomware attackers

CISA confirms exploitation of VMware ESXi flaw by ransomware attackers 2026-02-05 at 18:17 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2025-22225, a VMware ESXi arbitrary write vulnerability, is being used in ransomware campaigns, CISA confirmed on Wednesday by updating the vulnerability’s entry in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Researchers linked VMware ESXi zero-day trio to single exploit toolkit

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OpenAI Frontier organizes AI agents under one system

OpenAI Frontier organizes AI agents under one system 2026-02-05 at 17:20 By Sinisa Markovic OpenAI introduced Frontier, a platform designed to organize AI agents that perform business tasks within internal systems and workflows. The platform connects data from multiple internal systems including customer relationship management tools, ticketing platforms, and data warehouses. This integration creates a

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Why a decade-old EnCase driver still works as an EDR killer

Why a decade-old EnCase driver still works as an EDR killer 2026-02-05 at 14:02 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are leaning on a new EDR killer malware that can shut down 59 widely used endpoint security products by misusing a kernel driver that once shipped with Guidance Software’s EnCase digital forensics tool, Huntress researchers warn. This

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International sting dismantles illegal streaming empire serving millions

International sting dismantles illegal streaming empire serving millions 2026-02-05 at 14:02 By Sinisa Markovic Actions by authorities from Italy, Romania, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, Kosovo and South Korea, supported by Eurojust and Europol, led to the seizure of multiple illegal streaming services. A total of 31 suspected members have been linked to the operation.

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GitHub enables multi-agent AI coding inside repository workflows

GitHub enables multi-agent AI coding inside repository workflows 2026-02-05 at 13:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitHub has expanded Agents HQ, enabling AI coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, and OpenAI Codex to execute development tasks directly within GitHub and developer editors while preserving repository context, session history, and review workflows. Copilot Pro+ and

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Police shut down global DDoS operation, arrest 20-year-old

Police shut down global DDoS operation, arrest 20-year-old 2026-02-05 at 12:45 By Sinisa Markovic Police officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out global DDoS attacks targeting high-profile and strategically important websites. Arrest (Source: Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime) The suspect faces six criminal

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Microsoft launches LiteBox, a security-focused open-source library OS

Microsoft launches LiteBox, a security-focused open-source library OS 2026-02-05 at 11:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft has released LiteBox, a project intended to function as a security-focused library OS that can serve as a secure kernel for protecting a guest kernel using virtualization hardware. LiteBox was developed in collaboration with the Linux Virtualization Based Security (LVBS)

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Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive

Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive 2026-02-05 at 11:29 By Sinisa Markovic Teams often rely on shared document collections to track project history, decisions, and operational knowledge. To support this workflow, Microsoft introduced Agents in OneDrive, allowing users to create AI assistants built from selected files and folders. The feature allows users to group

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Smart glasses are back, privacy issues included

Smart glasses are back, privacy issues included 2026-02-05 at 09:11 By Sinisa Markovic AI smart glasses are the latest addition to fashion, and they include a camera, a microphone, AI, and privacy risks. After Google Glass failed to gain traction more than a decade ago, the category is seeing renewed interest as companies redesign the

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Measuring AI use becomes a business requirement

Measuring AI use becomes a business requirement 2026-02-05 at 09:11 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprise teams already run dozens of AI tools across daily work. Usage stretches from code generation and analytics to customer support drafting and internal research. Oversight remains uneven across roles, functions, and industries. A new Larridin survey of enterprise leaders places measurement

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Cybersecurity planning keeps moving toward whole-of-society models

Cybersecurity planning keeps moving toward whole-of-society models 2026-02-05 at 09:11 By Sinisa Markovic National governments already run cybersecurity through a mix of ministries, regulators, law enforcement, and private operators that own most critical systems. In that environment, guidance circulating among policymakers outlines how national cybersecurity strategies increasingly tie together risk management, workforce planning, technology standards,

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AI is driving a new kind of phishing at scale

AI is driving a new kind of phishing at scale 2026-02-05 at 09:11 By Sinisa Markovic Email remains a primary entry point for attackers, and security teams continue to manage high volumes of malicious messages that change form across campaigns. Attackers generate large numbers of messages with small variations in wording, structure, and delivery paths.

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Incognito dark web drug market operator gets 30 years in prison

Incognito dark web drug market operator gets 30 years in prison 2026-02-04 at 18:17 By Sinisa Markovic Rui-Siang Lin, a Taiwanese national, was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison for operating Incognito Market, one of the world’s largest illicit online narcotics marketplaces. Incognito Market splash page and graphical interface Incognito Market operated on

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Major vulnerabilities found in Google Looker, putting self-hosted deployments at risk

Major vulnerabilities found in Google Looker, putting self-hosted deployments at risk 2026-02-04 at 13:25 By Help Net Security Researchers at Tenable have disclosed two vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as “LookOut,” affecting Google Looker. Because the business intelligence platform is deployed by more than 60,000 organizations in 195 countries, the flaws could give attackers a path

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Apple Xcode 26.3 adds coding agent support from OpenAI and Anthropic

Apple Xcode 26.3 adds coding agent support from OpenAI and Anthropic 2026-02-04 at 11:56 By Sinisa Markovic Apple released Xcode 26.3 with new agentic coding capabilities designed to let AI systems carry out development tasks inside the IDE. The release supports agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex. Coding agents can break down

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