Mirko Zorz
Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher
More than one in four organizations hit by a malicious attack over the past year say AI drove it. Those breaches averaged about $1 million above the malicious attacks that ran …
200 new CVEs a day and no realistic way to patch them all
Ryan Dewhurst, CEO at KEVIntel, explains how his team confirms exploitation that CISA’s catalog has not listed yet. He describes a global honeypot sensor network, AI …
Top companies to visit at Black Hat USA 2026
Black Hat USA 2026 returns to Mandalay Bay with a re-engineered six-day program designed to spark innovation, challenge assumptions, and unite the global security community. …
An AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets
A pull request lands with a tidy bug report in the description. A bot reads it before any person does, pulls a few shell commands out of it, gets them approved, and posts the …
The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced
A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to …
Your AI agents can reach data no one approved
A credential expired. An AI agent kept using it anyway, and a mid-sized company’s systems went down for a quarter’s worth of trouble before anyone traced the …
Shadow AI incident response begins with logs that may already be gone
In this Help Net Security interview, Brandy Wityak, VP of Complex Matters at LevelBlue, explains what happens in the hours after a shadow AI incident. She describes how …
Marathon Petroleum’s CISO on OT security automation, supply chain risk
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mary Rose Martinez, CISO at Marathon Petroleum, talks about what happens to security when automation reaches deep into refineries, …
Nono: Open-source sandbox for AI agents
An AI coding agent opens a terminal, reads a config file, and finds a live cloud key sitting in plaintext. It runs with the permissions of the person who launched it. Every …
The best-funded companies open the most phishing attachments
An employee gets an email dressed as a password reset. She clicks the link, types her credentials into a page built to copy her company’s login screen, and moves on with …
Chaos ransomware msaRAT hides its C2 channel inside a legitimate browser process
Cisco Talos has identified a Rust-based remote access trojan it attributes to the Chaos ransomware group, named msaRAT after four of the binding names left in the binary. The …
Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed
Vulnerability management runs on a shorthand. A CVE shows a linked patch, someone applies it, and the ticket moves to closed. That shorthand covers most open source fixes. A …
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