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Java
Java library vulnerabilities: IBM and Red Hat fix 400+ previously unknown flaws

IBM and Red Hat have found and fixed more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries through Lightwell, their program for patching open source …

Fortibleed
FortiBleed is still active, with attackers locking admins out of Fortinet firewalls

Some organizations hit by the FortiBleed campaign have been locked out of their own Fortinet firewalls, according to a joint FBI and U.S. Secret Service advisory. FortiBleed …

SonicWall
SonicWall fixes pre-auth SSRF flaw in SMA 1000 appliances (CVE-2026-102255)

SonicWall has patched four vulnerabilities in its popular Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series of appliances, including one (CVE-2026-102255) that could allow remote …

leader
In this new SME cybersecurity service, the AI assists and the consultants decide

BH Consulting, the Irish cybersecurity and data protection consultancy, has launched BH Haven, an ongoing service that gives Irish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) …

Chris Latimer
If you do one security check this quarter, make it agent memory

In this interview with Help Net Security, Chris Latimer, CEO of Vectorize, talks about the security risks hiding in AI agent memory. He found coding agents storing API keys, …

email
DarkMe RAT trades zero-days for plain phishing emails

DarkMe, a remote access trojan and info-stealer that has previously been associated with a threat group that targeted financial market traders and cryptocurrency users, has …

North Korea
North Korea’s job interview scam runs both ways

Attackers are targeting members of the Rust Project and maintainers of widely used crates (Rust code libraries), dangling attractive opportunities to compromise their devices …

Cisco
Unauthenticated attackers are bypassing Cisco ISE’s management interface (CVE-2026-76460)

Two days after it warned customers about an actively exploited email gateway zero-day, Cisco confirmed one more flaw is being targeted: CVE-2026-76460, an authentication …

Gourab Basu
What happens when AI agent governance is missing at scale

In this interview with Help Net Security, Gourab Basu, Global Head of Engineering at meshIQ, discusses governance in AI agent systems. He argues that instructions written into …

Cisco
Cisco patches actively exploited email gateway zero-day (CVE-2026-76461)

Attackers have leveraged a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-76461) to compromise Cisco Secure Email Gateway appliances, Cisco confirmed on Monday. The …

Hands
A new open standard locks AI weights to approved hardware

OPAQUE, a confidential computing company that runs AI workloads inside hardware-isolated environments so operators cannot inspect them, released an open standard that lets AI …

SonicWall
SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances under attack via zero-day flaws

Attackers are exploiting two previously undisclosed vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-83548, CVE-2026-83549) in SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances, the vendor confirmed on Tuesday. The …

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