Help Net Security newsletters: Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here!

Please turn on your JavaScript for this page to function normally.
lock
A $1,400 experiment in AI security auditing outperformed OpenAI’s Codex Security

A research team has built a system that teaches AI agents to hunt for software bugs by writing the audit method down as plain text. The system, called EVOHUNT, keeps the …

clawhub
23 ClawHub plugins squatting official scopes expose AI registry security gaps

Plugin registries for AI agents use npm-style scopes like @openclaw/ and @clawhub/ to signal who published a package. But on ClawHub, a registry whose plugins run with Claude, …

Jaya Baloo
Who pays when you gate cyber-capable AI models?

In this interview with Help Net Security, Jaya Baloo, COO & CISO at Aisle, examines the debate over restricting access to cyber-capable AI models. She lays out the …

Agent Beacon
Agent Beacon: Open-source telemetry layer for AI agents

AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and Claude Cowork run on developer laptops, CI jobs, cloud environments, where they edit files, run commands, and call …

AI
Hundreds of AI-powered iOS apps found exposing credentials

Mobile app developers are packing AI features into everything from writing assistants to productivity tools and lifestyle apps. New research shows that securing access to …

attack
Asia-Pacific scam networks generate nearly $40 billion a year

Cybercrime is taking a larger share of criminal activity in Asia and the Pacific. More than half of surveyed jurisdictions reported that cybercrime accounts for over 30% of …

magnify
Google’s open standard for AI agents to discover and verify tools

AI agents depend on tools, skills, and other agents spread across many teams, organizations, and platforms. These capabilities live in separate systems with their own …

AI
What happens to oversight when AI agents write a lab’s own code

Inside the labs building frontier AI, a growing share of the coding gets done by the AI itself. These agents write, edit, and run software with light human oversight between …

AWS
AWS Continuum brings AI models to code vulnerability management

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities, a system built to handle a vulnerability across its lifecycle, from discovery through to a fix, is now available in gated preview. It …

signal
Most agentic AI projects in production have stalled over data problems

Enterprises are connecting AI agents to live data feeds and putting them to work on tasks that once required human review, from IT operations to software development. The …

lock
The SOC’s visibility gap comes down to staffing

AI has settled into security operations centers faster than any earlier wave of technology. Around four in five practitioners report reaching for AI or machine learning tools …

Delinea securing machine identities
The rise of machine identities and agentic AI: Securing trust in the next era of digital autonomy

In the latest episode of Identity Insider, I sat down with Chris Hughes, a cybersecurity expert who’s involved in OWASP’s work on non-human and machine identity …

Don't miss

Cybersecurity news
Daily newsletter sent Monday-Friday
Weekly newsletter sent on Mondays
Editor's choice newsletter sent twice a month
Periodical newsletter released for important security events and breaking news
Weekly newsletter listing new cybersecurity job positions
Monthly newsletter focusing on open source cybersecurity tools