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Snowpick
Snowpick: Open-source ServiceNow exposure scanner

An employee opens a company service portal, searches the knowledge base, and drops a file onto a ticket. Someone who never signed in can send a request to that same portal and …

vulnerability
Security teams keep finding critical flaws after scheduled testing ends

Enterprise environments change between scheduled security assessments, leaving organizations with periods where new vulnerabilities can go undetected. Synack’s State of …

deepfake
AI can’t fix cybersecurity’s hiring problem

Organizations are redefining cybersecurity roles through workforce frameworks and placing greater emphasis on verified skills as AI and new regulatory requirements change …

AI
Cloud operations become the next big role for agentic AI

Companies are using agentic AI to manage growing application environments, automate routine tasks, and support decisions. Business and IT leaders increasingly see the …

GitHub
AI agents tricked into recommending malicious GitHub repositories

Roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories were uncovered, more than 800 of them posing as AI Skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in a wave that peaked in April …

Agentic AI
JadePuffer returns with ransomware built to target AI models and infrastructure

JadePuffer, the threat actor behind the recently documented extortion operation executed end-to-end by an AI agent, is now attempting to leverage ENCFORGE, novel ransomware …

Cisco
Cisco’s open-weight Antares models make vulnerability localization cheaper

A security analyst opens an unfamiliar repository, pulls up a vulnerability advisory, and starts hunting for the file where the weakness lives. The naming conventions belong …

SonicWall SMA 1000
SonicWall SMA zero-days were exploited weeks before disclosure

Two recently disclosed SonicWall SMA 1000 vulnerabilities – CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 – were exploited in zero-day attacks for weeks, allowing threat …

fraud
Fake FBI agents target people who already got scammed

Scammers are impersonating FBI personnel who supposedly handle Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) complaints, using that disguise to deceive and revictimize people who …

AWS
AWS wants GuardDuty to automate the first steps of threat investigations

Amazon GuardDuty investigation agent is now in public preview. The feature provides AI-powered investigations of GuardDuty findings, AWS accounts and AWS organizations, …

Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder discloses data breach tied to Oracle EBS vulnerability

Cosmetics company Estée Lauder disclosed a data breach tied to a vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) used for the company’s human resources operations. Estée …

open source
Open-source maintainers still work underfunded as sponsorship crosses $100 million

A maintainer patches a library late at night that ships inside thousands of products, and no invoice follows. Sebastián Ramírez and Caleb Porzio spent years in that position. …

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