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Norway
Cyberattack on Norway’s aid agency may have swept up all user data

The names and email addresses of 20,614 people registered on Norad’s Grants Portal may have ended up in the hands of attackers, Norway’s development aid agency has disclosed. …

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PortSwigger’s Burp AT lets enterprises delegate pentests with defined limits

PortSwigger has announced the availability of Burp AT for enterprises, an agentic pentesting solution that helps security teams investigate important applications more deeply …

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Sysdig AI Defense puts runtime guardrails on AI agents

Sysdig has announced the general availability of Sysdig AI Defense, giving organizations tools to monitor and control AI agent activity across endpoints and cloud …

Zyxel
Patched Zyxel GS1900 switches remained open to in-the-wild exploit (CVE-2026-107441)

Zyxel GS1900 series network switches that received a fix for a flaw that was later reported to have been exploited in the wild are still open to an exploit attackers used, …

GTA 6
Scammers capitalize on GTA 6 hype to push malware and crypto cons

Scammers are offering supposed leaked builds, early copies and phone versions of Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) weeks before the game’s November 19 launch, Netcraft warned in a …

Google AI
Google puts new limits on AI agents that hunt threats and fix vulnerabilities

Google Cloud is adding new controls to CodeMender, its AI tool for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities, allowing businesses to isolate attack simulations and target …

OpenAI
OpenAI’s upcoming AI model built 948 working Linux root exploits in a single run

An automated system running on an upcoming AI model turned hundreds of Linux kernel bugs into working exploits that give an ordinary user root access, and wrote a patch for …

Android
A banking malware sample led researchers to an Android bug that can loop-crash phones

Bitdefender Labs researchers built an Android app that contains no executable code and requests no permissions, and installing it leaves a Pixel 10 in a crash loop that can …

Apple
Apple is bringing harmful content checks to iCloud link sharing with potential account penalties

Apple will begin checking iCloud content shared using the “Anyone with the link” option for harmful material in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 27.3 or later. When sharing …

Zohaib Ahmed
AI agent detection signals that still work when agents look human

Bots follow a script. AI agents work toward a goal and choose their own steps, which makes them harder to catch. In this Help Net Security interview, Zohaib Ahmed, CEO of …

healthcare
Healthcare can’t govern the AI tools it hasn’t found yet

Nearly nine in ten healthcare leaders say security or compliance staff always or usually review AI-written code that touches patient data before it goes live, and seven in ten …

shadow AI
Companies are spending more on AI governance and getting less control

Companies are increasing their cybersecurity budgets, with AI security and governance the top priority for additional spending, followed by cloud security, according to …

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