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Lindsay Kaye
What AI-generated malware looks like under the microscope

In this Help Net Security interview, Lindsay Kaye, VP of Threat Intelligence at HUMAN Security, talks about what AI-generated malware looks like on the bench. She points to …

Ghostunnel
Ghostunnel: Open-source TLS proxy with mutual authentication

Ghostunnel is an open-source proxy that handles TLS for programs that cannot handle it themselves. It works in two directions. In server mode it sits in front of a backend, …

containers
Secure your containers without breaking what works

Container security has a familiar problem. Teams identify vulnerabilities, but turning those findings into lower risk is much harder. A standard container image may include …

AI
Companies going all in on AI could see their strategy backfire

Four of the five highest-ranked enterprise risks in Gartner’s Quarterly Emerging Risk Report were AI-related. AI strategy miscalculation and AI-driven competitive displacement …

shield
NIST publishes cybersecurity guide for businesses too small to have IT staff

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released cybersecurity guidance for small businesses with no paid employees other than their owners. These businesses …

Anthropic
Anthropic open-sources FlashProve, its provable inference prototype for MoE models

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, with collaborators at EPFL, MIT and StarkWare, built FlashProve, a prototype that produces a cryptographic proof that one specific language …

servers
Police seize over 100 servers linked to investment fraud with more than €4 million in losses

Seven people have been arrested and more than 100 servers seized in a coordinated law enforcement action against an investment fraud network that started unravelling after a …

Novee Eternal Surface Testing
Novee puts forgotten internet-facing assets through penetration testing

Novee’s External Surface Testing is a new capability in its AI penetration testing platform that helps security teams discover internet-facing assets and validate exploitable …

Help Net Security
Assured helps recovery teams find clean backups after ransomware attacks

Assured Data Protection has announced CleanRoom SCAN, a new managed service designed to strengthen cyber recovery by independently scanning isolated backup data using multiple …

NODE-Red
Attackers exploit critical Node-RED flaw to deploy Linux bot and backdoors (CVE-2026-58115)

Attackers are exploiting an authentication flaw (CVE-2026-58115) in Node-RED, a programming tool built into some industrial control products, to install a Linux bot and …

Agentic AI
AI agents scale and speed up Chinese-linked attacks

A China-nexus espionage group used AI agents to attack more than 200 organizations in 11 days, CrowdStrike said last week. On Monday, Kaspersky published details of a separate …

danger
Gorbag APT group hits Ukrainian courts and city councils with self-deleting malware

ESET has been tracking a Russia-aligned group it calls Gorbag, which has been breaking into Ukrainian organizations since at least February 2025 using spearphishing …

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