February 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Lots of OOB love this month
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Microsoft has been giving us a lot of love with a non-stop supply of patches starting with January 2026 Patch Tuesday. The …
Mobile privacy audits are getting harder
Mobile apps routinely collect and transmit personal data in ways that are difficult for users, developers, and regulators to verify. Permissions can reveal what an app can …
The hidden cost of putting off security decisions
In this Help Net Security video, Hanah Darley, Chief AI Officer, Geordie AI, talks about how putting off security risk decisions creates long-term costs that often stay …
New infosec products of the week: February 6, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Avast, Fingerprint, Gremlin, and Socure. Gremlin launches Disaster Recovery Testing …
CISA confirms exploitation of VMware ESXi flaw by ransomware attackers
CVE-2025-22225, a VMware ESXi arbitrary write vulnerability, is being used in ransomware campaigns, CISA confirmed on Wednesday by updating the vulnerability’s entry in …
OpenAI Frontier organizes AI agents under one system
OpenAI introduced Frontier, a platform designed to organize AI agents that perform business tasks within internal systems and workflows. The platform connects data from …
Why a decade-old EnCase driver still works as an EDR killer
Attackers are leaning on a new EDR killer malware that can shut down 59 widely used endpoint security products by misusing a kernel driver that once shipped with Guidance …
International sting dismantles illegal streaming empire serving millions
Actions by authorities from Italy, Romania, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, Kosovo and South Korea, supported by Eurojust and Europol, led to the seizure of multiple …
GitHub enables multi-agent AI coding inside repository workflows
GitHub has expanded Agents HQ, enabling AI coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, and OpenAI Codex to execute development tasks directly within GitHub and …
Police shut down global DDoS operation, arrest 20-year-old
Police officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out global DDoS attacks targeting …
Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive
Teams often rely on shared document collections to track project history, decisions, and operational knowledge. To support this workflow, Microsoft introduced Agents in …
Microsoft launches LiteBox, a security-focused open-source library OS
Microsoft has released LiteBox, a project intended to function as a security-focused library OS that can serve as a secure kernel for protecting a guest kernel using …
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