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North Korean
How to spot a North Korean fake in a job interview

North Korean operatives are getting hired at companies by passing job interviews using fake identities and AI tools. In this Help Net Security video, Adrian Cheek, a senior …

Kumar Ravi
What managing partners should ask AI vendors before signing any contract

In this Help Net Security interview, Kumar Ravi, Chief Security & Resilience Officer at TMF Group, argues that over-privileged access and weak workflow controls pose more …

AI
AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet

Vendors selling AI-powered security operations platforms have built their pitches around a consistent set of promises: autonomous threat investigation, dramatic reductions in …

target
Agentic attack chains advance as infostealers flood criminal markets

Cybercriminals spent much of 2025 automating their operations, shifting from one-off attacks to systems that can run entire intrusion cycles with minimal human input. Data …

airplane
Airline brands become launchpads for phishing, crypto fraud

Airline brands sit at the center of peak travel booking cycles, loyalty programs, and high value transactions. Criminal groups continue to register thousands of lookalike …

botnet
Edge systems take the brunt of internet-wide exploitation attempts

Internet-facing VPNs, routers, and remote access services absorbed sustained exploitation attempts throughout the second half of 2025, with nearly 3 billion malicious sessions …

Andrew Northern
What happens when cybersecurity knowledge walks out the door

In this Help Net Security interview, Andrew Northern, Principal Security Researcher at Censys, explains why mentorship matters and what organizations risk losing when senior …

OPNsense
OPNsense 26.1 brings updates to open-source firewall management

OPNsense, the open-source firewall and network security platform, reached version 26.1, adding a range of updates affecting management, traffic visibility, automation …

world
Enterprise security faces a three-front war: cybercrime, AI misuse, and supply chains

Security teams are dealing with pressures tied to AI use, geopolitical instability, and expanding cybercrime that reach beyond technical controls, according to findings from …

lock
What security teams can learn from torrent metadata

Security teams often spend time sorting through logs and alerts that point to activity happening outside corporate networks. Torrent traffic shows up in investigations tied to …

UTMStack
UTMStack: Open-source unified threat management platform

UTMStack is an open-source unified threat management platform that brings SIEM and XDR features into one system. The project focuses on real time correlation of log data, …

data analytics
The simple shift that turns threat intel from noise into real insight

In this Help Net Security video, Alankrit Chona, CTO at Simbian, explains how security teams can put threat intelligence to work in a way that supports detection, response, …

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