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AI vulnerability discovery is pushing 2026 CVEs toward 66,000

Vulnerability disclosures are piling up faster in 2026 than anyone expected at the start of the year. The running count for the first few months sits well above the original …

Nichole Windholz
Onspring CISO on where automated GRC systems fall short

In this interview with Help Net Security, Nichole Windholz, CISO at Onspring, talks about the limits of automated GRC systems and continuous control monitoring. She explains …

LLM
How to use NIST and ISO frameworks to govern AI agents

Security leaders no longer need convincing that AI agents introduce risk. What’s missing is how to govern them once they move into production and begin operating autonomously …

danger
The assembly line behind 1.5 million malicious domains

Attackers registered roughly 1.5 million malicious domains during the first five months of 2026. The registration patterns resemble industrial output. Most of the domains were …

Avast One
Product showcase: Avast One turns scam screenshots into actionable security advice

Avast One Free combines privacy, security, identity monitoring, and performance tools in a single platform. The app is available for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Checking …

insider threat
Threat actors are recruiting the people who hold cloud logins

Companies keep most of their data and applications in cloud platforms that anyone can reach with the right login. That setup turns each employee holding those credentials into …

brain
Prompt injection still drives most agentic AI security failures in production

A backdoor sat on PyPI for three hours in March 2026. Nearly 47,000 downloads occurred during the window. The compromised package, LiteLLM, serves as the language-model …

smartphone
Organizations can’t see much of their mobile AI activity

Organizations have limited visibility into AI activity on mobile devices despite security leaders expressing confidence in their AI governance, according to Lookout’s …

Anthropic
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is out for public use, with safeguards for high-risk requests

Days after publishing research on how advanced AI systems could amplify cyber operations in the wrong hands, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model for …

CISO
Cyber resilience metrics that drive action

In this Help Net Security video, Pete Bowers, COO at NormCyber, explains how organizations can build a cyber resilience metrics program that supports better decisions. He …

malware
Scams now operate like real businesses with budgets and targets

Social media has overtaken email as a primary attack vector, showing changes in how people consume information and interact online, according to Bitdefender’s Global …

Apple Passwords app
Apple Intelligence can now replace weak passwords without user intervention

Apple’s next generation of Apple Intelligence, the company’s personal intelligence system, expands its capabilities and introduces new security features in Passwords. …

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