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erase
OWASP’s subtractive security project measures the attack paths you erased

An attacker who talks a user into opening an attachment gets whatever that machine still permits: a service account with rights across the domain, an outbound route to …

Stellar Cyber
Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials

An analyst opening a queue on Monday morning will spend most of it on tickets that amount to nothing. Stellar Cyber’s Agentic Auto Triage closed 8,047 of those tickets …

crypto scams
Fake IRS letters direct crypto holders to bogus compliance portal

Scammers are sending physical letters to cryptocurrency holders that copy the look of official IRS notices. The letters tell recipients they must enroll in something called a …

cybersecurity jobs
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: August 4, 2026

Application Security Engineer Arcadia | USA | Remote – View job details As an Application Security Engineer, you will lead the application vulnerability management …

N-able N-central
Attackers exploit N-able N-central flaw to reach managed endpoints (CVE-2026-18577)

Attackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) in N-able N-central, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution widely used by managed …

AI
Mimecast introduces AI agent governance and managed threat response

Mimecast has unveiled Agent Risk Center, a beta capability for discovering, monitoring, and governing AI agents, alongside Managed Threat Response, a redesigned 24/7 service …

AI
Chinese hacker used DeepSeek to launch autonomous cyberattacks on vulnerable servers

A Chinese threat actor operating under the aliases “knaithe” and “KnYuan” used multiple LLMs to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems …

red team
SentinelOne expands security operations automation with governed AI

SentinelOne has today announced governed, closed-loop response across the Singularity Platform, delivering trustworthy automation for security operations. Purple AI and …

Help Net Security
Horizon3.ai hits $2 billion valuation in $250 million funding round

Horizon3.ai has announced a $250 million Series E at a valuation of more than $2 billion, tripling its valuation from $650 million at Series D in just over a year. The …

CISA
CISA lays out new guidance for using open-source software

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guide, which provides federal agencies …

Rails
KindaRails2Shell threatens Ruby on Rails apps (CVE-2026-66066)

A critical security vulnerability (CVE-2026-66066) in Ruby on Rails (aka Rails), one of the most widely used frameworks for building websites and web apps, may allow attackers …

Qodana
Qodana 2026.2 adds post-quantum crypto checks for JVM code

Qodana 2026.2 shipped with new security inspections, published benchmark results, post-quantum cryptography checks, and coverage reporting that no longer has to be pointed at …

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