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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 …

Lindsay Kaye
What AI-generated malware looks like under the microscope

In this Help Net Security interview, Lindsay Kaye, VP of Threat Intelligence at HUMAN Security, talks about what AI-generated malware looks like on the bench. She points to …

Kara Sprague
What human hackers still do better than AI, according to HackerOne’s CEO

AI can find vulnerabilities in minutes, but people still hold the edge in judging what a flaw means for a business. In this Help Net Security interview, Kara Sprague, CEO of …

connect
AI coding agents are installing MCP servers that will never be patched

When a developer tells an AI coding agent to “set up a GitHub MCP,” the agent has to pick a package. New research from Glow Labs documents sessions where it picked …

fireperf
Fireperf: Open-source network testing tool for firewalls and routers

The IPFire project has released fireperf, an open-source measurement tool that opens connections at a fixed rate and reports what the device in the middle did with each one. …

Android
Google disrupts XCPE botnet, bans the company behind it

Google shut down the servers behind XCPE, a backdoor hidden in the firmware of Android TV set-top boxes. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group attributes the operation with high …

Vinay Thakker
The first ten lines of a command policy for AI coding agents

In this Help Net Security interview, Vinay Thakker, CTO of KloudStax, explains how to set identity, credentials, and network limits for AI agents. He argues that agents should …

Voice
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 …

key
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 …

Nathan Smolenski
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 …

certificates
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 …

Key
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 …

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