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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 …
Product showcase: Dashlane Password Manager is more security toolkit than password vault
Dashlane is a password manager for individuals and families that stores passwords, passkeys, payment cards, personal information and secure notes in an encrypted vault. It …
Exposed credentials are giving attackers a head start many organizations don’t see
Compromised credentials can remain active long after passwords are created, leaving organizations trying to identify exposed accounts before attackers can use them. The 2026 …
ShutterGap: Aryon Security finds 3.7M AWS cloud resources exposed beyond CSPM/CNAPP visibility
Research from Aryon reveals that each year, 3,731,699 short-lived cloud resources containing highly sensitive information are publicly exposed. This impacts any organization …
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 …
Specter: Open-source NFC reader bug sweep for Flipper Zero
Specter is a Flipper Zero app that finds powered NFC readers by listening for the radio field they give off. The readers it hunts work at 13.56 MHz. The Flipper’s own …
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 …
VERITAS project could change the way scientists secure AI
The AI models, datasets, and automated systems researchers depend on can be compromised in ways conventional cybersecurity tools aren’t designed to detect. A new project …
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 …
Microsoft unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, promises cybersecurity AI at half the cost
Microsoft has introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a security-focused AI model built into MDASH, the company’s multi-agent vulnerability identification and remediation system. …
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