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Microsoft 365 phishing
IT help-desk vishing tricks executives into handing over Microsoft 365 access

IT help-desk vishing calls, stolen session tokens, and sign-ins routed through residential proxies are behind a wave of data theft and extortion against Microsoft 365 and …

data breach
Mathspace breach exposes data on over a million students and parents

Mathspace has confirmed that attackers broke into its internal reporting system through an unpatched Metabase vulnerability and stole data belonging to more than a million …

Jellyfin
Jellyfin 12.0 security fixes arrive alongside the removal of legacy client logins

Jellyfin shipped version 12.0 of its media server. Several of the security fixes in it block requests built to reach files outside the folders the server is supposed to hand …

ransomware
Ransomware negotiation tactics have turned into a business process

In this Help Net Security video, Dave Ross, Senior Director of the Intelligence Fusion Team at Intel 471, explains what happens behind the scenes during ransomware …

Doppler secrets management platform
Product showcase: Doppler secures secrets for humans, pipelines, and AI agents

Every engineering team has spent years trying to keep credentials out of source code. Then AI agents moved the problem. Coding agents review code, agents run workflows, and …

Microsoft
Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs

Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without …

cybersecurity jobs
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 8, 2026

CISO AudioCodes | Israel | Hybrid – View job details As a CISO, you will lead security strategy, governance, and risk management across SaaS, managed services, and …

Mikrotik
Hackers exploit RouterOS flaws to hijack MikroTik devices without authentication

Attackers are exploiting a chain of RouterOS vulnerabilities to hijack MikroTik devices with SSH open to the internet, CERT Polska found. CERT Polska, Poland’s national …

N-able N-central
N-able patches critical N-central zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-86218)

N-able released an emergency hotfix for CVE-2026-86218, a remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting N-central, its remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution popular …

ConnectWise
Attackers use rogue ScreenConnect clients to spread malware

A file transfer flaw in ScreenConnect Remote Access Support and Access sessions affects both Cloud and On-Premise deployments, ConnectWise confirmed. “A CVE identifier …

OpenAI
OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI

OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined …

ToolHive
ToolHive: The open-source way to run any MCP server securely

ToolHive is an open-source platform that runs Model Context Protocol servers inside containers. An MCP server is the connector that lets an AI client like Cursor or Claude …

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