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Aurimas Bakas
The Cyber Resilience Act clock doesn’t stop for weekends

In this Help Net Security interview, Aurimas Bakas, CEO of Copla, talks about what the EU Cyber Resilience Act‘s reporting duties mean for manufacturers. He explains why …

EU
EU cyber scores look healthy, but 45% of surveyed IT providers take months to patch

Forty-five percent of surveyed IT service management providers in the EU took more than three months to apply critical patches to critical systems, according to ENISA’s 2026 …

broken
Nearly half of big firms shelve or close vulnerability findings they haven’t confirmed

Nearly half of security teams at organizations with 5,000 or more employees close or deprioritize vulnerability findings without fully verifying them, ProjectDiscovery found, …

code
AI reverse engineering let researchers add a new feature to Slack

Intezer researchers used AI agents to rebuild source code for Slack, Apple’s Finder and a TinyTurla-NG sample, from a backdoor family Cisco Talos attributes to the Turla …

Microsoft Exchange
Turla’s Cereal malware turns victims’ Exchange servers into spy hubs

Russia-aligned group Turla planted a modular .NET toolset on Microsoft Exchange servers at two government organizations, one in Kazakhstan and one in Romania, and used it to …

Eric Fourrier
What a security leader should tell the CEO about leaked credentials

In this Help Net Security interview, Eric Fourrier, CEO of GitGuardian, talks about leaked credentials and personal liability for security leaders and boards. He explains how …

Mariia Bakhtina
Security certification is a snapshot, and buyers read too much into it

In this Help Net Security video, Mariia Bakhtina, a research specialist at Masaryk University, explains what a Common Criteria or FIPS-140 certificate does and does not …

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 …

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 …

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