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Patch Tuesday
April 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Spring-cleaning of a preview

I just blinked and the first quarter of the year is GONE. Where does the time go? I looked back at my article from last month where I touched on the use of AI and some of the …

Aqsa Taylor
What vibe hunting gets right about AI threat hunting, and where it breaks down

In this Help Net Security interview, Aqsa Taylor, Chief Security Evangelist, Exaforce, explains vibe hunting, an AI-driven approach to threat detection that inverts …

spam
Health insurance lead sites sell personal data within seconds of form submission

Lead generation websites that offer health insurance quotes collect sensitive personal data and sell it to multiple buyers within seconds of a user clicking submit. A study by …

Session
Product showcase: Session, a messenger without phone numbers or metadata

Instant messaging has been around for decades, but it became widely adopted with the emergence of smartphones. Earlier, communication was limited to basic text messages. …

Infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: April 10, 2026

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Advenica, Intruder, Mallory, and Secureframe. Mallory brings contextual threat …

Claude Managed Agents
Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, …

MyLovely.ai
113,000 explicit prompts from AI girlfriend platform exposed, many linked to user IDs

MyLovely.AI, an AI girlfriend platform, suffered a data breach that exposed over 100,000 users. MyLovely.AI allows people to create personalized not safe for work (NSFW) …

Apache ActiveMQ
Claude helps researcher dig up decade-old Apache ActiveMQ RCE vulnerability (CVE-2026-34197)

In the latest demonstration of how AI assistants can help with bug hunting, Horizon3.ai researcher Naveen Sunkavally used Claude to unearth CVE-2026-34197, a remote code …

Help Net Security
Mallory brings contextual threat intelligence to security operations

Mallory is launching an AI-native threat intelligence platform, purpose-built to answer the questions CISOs and their teams are asking every day: What are the real threat …

Help Net Security
OPSWAT adds predictive AI engine to MetaDefender for pre-execution threat detection

OPSWAT has announced OPSWAT Predictive Alin AI, its first proprietary AI-based threat detection engine for the MetaDefender Platform. This AI-based innovation introduces a new …

PDF
Acrobat Reader zero-day exploited in the wild for many months (CVE-2026-34621)

Unknown attackers have exploited a zero-day Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerability since November 2025 and possibly even earlier, security researcher Haifei Li has discovered. PDF …

Help Net Security
Intruder expands cloud security with agentless container image scanning

Intruder has announced the release of Container Image Scanning, a new upgrade to its cloud security capabilities that automatically scans container images for vulnerabilities, …

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