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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. …

Linux
Immutable Linux distribution Nitrux 6.0.0 adds GPU passthrough, boot-level recovery, C++ update system

Nitrux 6.0.0, released March 3, 2026, packages several components that security practitioners running Linux workstations will find worth examining: a new hypervisor …

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Cybersecurity professionals are burning out on extra hours every week

Cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. are working an average of 10.8 extra hours per week beyond their contracted schedules, according to survey data collected from 300 …

mquire
mquire: Open-source Linux memory forensics tool

Linux memory forensics has long depended on debug symbols tied to specific kernel versions. These symbols are not installed on production systems by default, and sourcing them …

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