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Microsoft 365 phishing
Extortion crew hijacks Microsoft 365 accounts via fake passkey setup

The Pink cyber extortion crew is tricking employees into giving them access to their Microsoft 365 accounts by faking Entra passkey enrollment requests. The attack The attack …

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Citrix launches MCP Gateway to secure enterprise AI agents

Citrix has announced updates to its high-performance application delivery and security platform NetScaler, introducing MCP Gateway functionality to allow enterprises to …

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Vectogate debuts platform to secure and govern autonomous AI agents

Vectogate has launched an AI governance platform designed to give organizations centralized control over AI agents as they increasingly take on autonomous tasks with access to …

Microsoft Windows Defender
Microsoft releases fix for RoguePlanet Defender flaw (CVE-2026-50656)

Microsoft has finally released a security update for its Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, which fixes CVE-2026-50656, the Windows Defender local privilege escalation …

arrest
5,811 arrests, $293 million seized over social engineering scams

Criminals who pose as police officers, romantic partners, and business suppliers have built fraud operations that reach across continents. A four-month enforcement campaign …

yes no
Your coding agent says no in chat and yes in the code

Millions of developers share their keyboard with GitHub Copilot. Inside Visual Studio Code, it opens their files, writes and edits code, runs scripts, and reworks its own …

Claude AWS
AWS centralizes access, spending, and governance for Claude

Claude apps gateway for AWS is a self-hosted control plane that gives organizations a single point of control over access, costs, and policies for Claude Code and Claude …

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NetSPI pairs AI pentesting with expert-validated security findings

NetSPI has announced the expansion of its AI-powered continuous pentesting platform, broadening the suite of services that organizations can use to ensure critical assets are …

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Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them

Developers who build with AI coding agents grab capabilities off public marketplaces the same way they grab packages from npm or PyPI. The add-ons are called agent skills. …

reddit
The fake report message that ends with a stolen Reddit account

A direct message arrives on Reddit from a stranger, and it invites a reply. That reply is the point. This scheme runs on social engineering, with no malware and no malicious …

GitHub
Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers

Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests …

McAfee Mobile Security
Product showcase: Protect your iPhone with McAfee Mobile Security

McAfee Mobile Security for iOS combines scam protection, web protection, VPN, Wi-Fi security, and device security checks in a single app. It is also available for Android. …

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