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Cloudflare
Cloudflare bets you’re overpaying an LLM to read your invoices

Cloudflare released a preview of Clairic, an extraction model that pulls typed values out of messy text and images in one pass without generating tokens. In Cloudflare’s test …

Help Net Security
Axonius AI Workforce pairs asset intelligence with automated action

Axonius has announced Axonius AI Workforce, the latest expansion of Axonius AI. It enables organizations to deploy teams of Virtual Workers that monitor their environments, …

ConnectWise
ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup service after attackers abuse its Microsoft 365 access

American software company ConnectWise is contending with a security incident that has allowed unknown attackers to use its application identities to break into organizations’ …

Help Net Security
Sweet Security adds one-click protection for vulnerable cloud workloads

Sweet Security has announced the release of Virtual Patching, a new capability that protects running cloud and AI applications from specific vulnerabilities the moment they …

AI
With open-weight AI, more of the security burden falls on enterprises

Organizations that run open-weight AI models on their own infrastructure may have to supply safety and security controls that an AI provider would otherwise handle for them, …

deepfake
Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks

Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four …

Bearer CLI
Bearer CLI: Free, source-available code security scanning tool (SAST)

Bearer CLI is a free static application security testing (SAST) tool that scans source code for vulnerabilities and prioritizes them by the sensitive data they touch. SAST …

broken
RPO and RTO explained with a real disaster recovery example

In this Help Net Security video, Matthew Burden, CEO of BlackBox Hosting, explains RPO and RTO and how they differ in practice. RPO, the recovery point objective, is the most …

visualization
Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta

AI agent traffic across DataDome’s network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company’s AI Traffic Report Q3 2026. …

ransomware
Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families

Ransomware attackers threatened employees’ family members or friends at 37% of organizations surveyed for Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report. The survey covered 1,200 IT …

week in review
Week in review: Hidden implant in Ledger wallets linked to $93M theft, 1,500+ npm packages exposed

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Strands Box: Open-source sandbox for AI agents AWS released Strands Box, an …

Phishing
Hackers disguise phishing as promising business opportunities

Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement …

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