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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 …

DockSec
DockSec: Open-source AI-powered Docker security scanner

DockSec is an OWASP Incubator Project that combines three container security scanners with a language-model layer for explanation and remediation. Created by Advait Patel, the …

Agent Memory Guard
OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory

AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that store becomes a …

CVE Lite CLI
CVE Lite CLI: Open-source dependency vulnerability scanner

Dependency vulnerability scanning in JavaScript and TypeScript projects has long sat at the end of the development pipeline. Pull requests get opened, continuous integration …

Progress
Progress Software fixes sneaky WAF bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-21876)

Progress Software has fixed a slew of high-severity vulnerabilities in MOVEit WAF and LoadMaster, including a flaw (CVE-2026-21876) that may allow attackers to bypass firewall …

OWASP GenAI Security Project
Picking an AI red teaming vendor is getting harder

Vendor noise is already a problem in traditional security testing. AI red teaming has added another layer of confusion, with providers offering everything from consulting …

large language models
LLMs are everywhere in your stack and every layer brings new risk

LLMs are moving deeper into enterprise products and workflows, and that shift is creating new pressure on security leaders. A new guide from DryRun Security outlines how these …

mapping attacker behavior
KillChainGraph: Researchers test machine learning framework for mapping attacker behavior

A team of researchers from Frondeur Labs, DistributedApps.ai, and OWASP has developed a new machine learning framework designed to help defenders anticipate attacker behavior …

Cervantes
Cervantes: Open-source, collaborative platform for pentesters and red teams

Cervantes is an open-source collaborative platform built for pentesters and red teams. It offers a centralized workspace to manage projects, clients, vulnerabilities, and …

AI
Who’s guarding the AI? Even security teams are bypassing oversight

Even security teams, the ones responsible for protecting the business, are adding to AI-related risk. A new survey by AI security company Mindgard, based on responses from …

Paolo del Mundo
Before scaling GenAI, map your LLM usage and risk zones

In this Help Net Security interview, Paolo del Mundo, Director of Application and Cloud Security at The Motley Fool, discusses how organizations can scale their AI usage by …

Nettacker
OWASP Nettacker: Open-source scanner for recon and vulnerability assessment

OWASP Nettacker is a free, open-source tool designed for network scanning, information gathering, and basic vulnerability assessment. Built and maintained by the OWASP …

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