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That attractive online ad might be a malware trap

Malware increasingly travels through the infrastructure that delivers online advertising. The Media Trust’s Global Report on Digital Trust, Ad Integrity, and the Protection of …

FreeScout
FreeScout vulnerability enables unauthenticated, zero-click RCE via email (CVE-2026-28289)

A newly discovered vulnerability (CVE-2026-28289) in the open-source help desk platform FreeScout could allow attackers to take over vulnerable servers by sending a specially …

Android
Google changes Play Store policies after settling Epic Games dispute

Google is making changes to the Play Store after settling its legal fight with Epic Games, focusing on three areas: more billing options, lower fees with new programs for …

Operation Leak
LeakBase cybercrime forum with 142,000 users taken down in global operation

LeakBase, an open-web cybercrime forum facilitating the trade of leaked databases and “stealer logs” containing stolen credentials, has been taken down in an international law …

cybercrime
Authorities pull plug on Tycoon 2FA phishing-as-a-service platform

Tycoon 2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform that allowed cybercriminals to bypass MFA and break into online accounts, has been disrupted by law enforcement agencies and …

Donald Kossmann
As AI agents start making purchases, security teams must rethink risk

In this Help Net Security interview, Donald Kossmann, CTO at fintech company Chargebacks911, talks about the emerging security, fraud, and governance risks of “agentic …

glasses
Workers reviewing Meta Ray-Ban footage encounter users’ intimate moments

Bank details and intimate moments captured without people realizing they are being recorded are the new privacy nightmare behind the latest tech fashion hit, Meta Ray-Ban …

AI agents
Engineering trust: A security blueprint for autonomous AI agents

AI agents have evolved from just chatbots, answering questions to executing actions using various integrated tools, often autonomously, and as such the traditional security …

Storyblok The True State of Security 2026 webinar
Webinar: The True State of Security 2026

AI has become the most popular scapegoat in security. While the risk is real, the obsession is costly. Most security failures don’t start with AI. They start with people, …

IceWarp
Over 1,200 IceWarp servers still vulnerable to unauthenticated RCE flaw (CVE-2025-14500)

A critical RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-14500) in IceWarp, an EU-made business communication and collaboration platform, may be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized …

Agentic AI
The vulnerability that turns your AI agent against you

Zenity Labs disclosed PleaseFix, a family of critical vulnerabilities affecting agentic browsers, including Perplexity Comet, that allow attackers to hijack AI agents, access …

Google Chrome
Google speeds up Chrome updates with new security-focused release cycle

The Chrome browser is moving to a two-week release cycle, a change intended to give developers and users faster access to new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. …

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