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Fake IT help desk callers got by on little more than names and email addresses
Attackers posing as IT help desk staff contacted employees by phone, email and Microsoft Teams in the third quarter of 2026 and talked them into opening remote access …
Researchers broke the browsers built into VS Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex and Claude Desktop
Forever Security found ways out of the built-in browsers in five AI coding assistants: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s Codex, Microsoft’s VS Code and …
Qualys CISO on what security teams can do as exploit campaigns grow
In this Help Net Security interview, Nathan Smolenski, CISO at Qualys, talks about how security teams can handle the growing volume of AI-discovered vulnerabilities. He …
IT bosses are confident they’ve found the certificates they don’t know about
Forty percent of 500 senior IT and security leaders surveyed for certificate authority Sectigo said they are very prepared for monthly TLS certificate renewals because …
Stolen staff logins are spreading attacks between K-12 school districts
Last school year, 808 K-12 school organizations got some unwelcome news. The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) told them their staff accounts or …
GitHub’s npm package firewall can block brand-new versions before they install
GitHub announced a package firewall that checks npm packages against an enterprise’s policy before they install. It blocks known malware, critical vulnerabilities, and …
CISA updates ScubaGear and ScubaGoggles, and says Microsoft 365 checks get faster
CISA released ScubaGear v2.0 and ScubaGoggles v1.1.0, new versions of the open-source tools it publishes to check Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace settings against its …
Bellini Capital CISO on AI security governance and the limits of patching faster
In this Help Net Security interview, Brian Blakley, CISO at Bellini Capital and ConnectSecure, explains why AI makes finding vulnerabilities faster while fixing them still …
Private repos still leak secrets to Gheist, a stolen GitHub token campaign
Wiz Research has recovered more than 13,500 planted branches from 850+ compromised GitHub accounts, the work of a campaign it calls Gheist, after the user agent the tool sends …
Several AI security market categories are headed for bigger platforms
In this interview with Help Net Security, Jonathan Care, Lead Analyst and Practice Lead AI at KuppingerCole Analysts, compares AI security startups to the early fraud market …
Microsoft Authenticator vulnerability let rogue Android apps steal work account access
If you use Microsoft Authenticator on Android, update it. Researchers at Enclave found a flaw that let any app on your phone quietly take over your work account. The app …
AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects
The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running …
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