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LLM red teaming
Automated LLM red teaming gets a learning layer

Automated red teaming of large language models has settled into a familiar pattern over the past two years. An attacker model generates jailbreak attempts against a target …

bots
Bad bots make up 40% of internet traffic

The normalization of AI and automation within internet infrastructure is changing how organizations interpret traffic. Activity that once appeared anomalous is now treated as …

Warp
Warp open sources its AI terminal client

Warp, the AI-centric terminal used by close to a million developers, has released the source code for its client on GitHub under the AGPL license, with OpenAI signed on as the …

Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code 1.118 adds auto model selection to Copilot CLI

Microsoft’s editor releases continue on a monthly cadence, with the Insiders build of Visual Studio Code 1.118. The update concentrates on the Copilot CLI integration, …

lock
Police bust scam call centres behind €50 million in fraud losses

Authorities have dismantled a cybercrime ring running call centres in Albania and defrauding victims of more than €50 million, arresting 10 suspects and seizing nearly …

OpenAI
Time to keep up with AI-driven attacks is narrowing, OpenAI says

OpenAI is outlining a plan to expand access to advanced AI tools for cybersecurity defenders, warning that attackers are already using the technology to scale operations. In …

GitHub
88% of self-hosted GitHub servers exposed to RCE, researchers warn (CVE-2026-3854)

When researchers at Wiz reported an easily exploitable GitHub remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-3854) on March 4, the company confirmed it within 40 minutes and pushed a …

Vect
Buggy Vect ransomware is effectively a data wiper, researchers find

Due to a bug in the ransomware, affiliates of the Vect Ransomware-as-a-Service operation are irretrievably encrypting victims’ data. “Victims who pay the ransom …

Microsoft Visual Studio 2026
Visual Studio cloud agents now run inside GitHub Copilot

Microsoft’s April update to Visual Studio introduces cloud agent integration in GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to offload tasks to remote infrastructure for scalable, …

Windows
CISA, Microsoft warn of active exploitation of Windows Shell vulnerability (CVE-2026-32202)

Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-32202, a zero-click Windows Shell spoofing vulnerability that causes victims’ systems to authenticate the attacker’s server, CISA …

Fedora Linux
Fedora Linux 44 ships with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6

The Fedora Project released Fedora Linux 44, delivering updated desktop environments, revised installer behavior, and several lower-level system changes across its editions …

Scott Schnoll
The Exchange Online security controls organizations keep getting wrong

In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Schnoll, Microsoft MVP for Exchange, breaks down the Shared Responsibility Model, where Microsoft secures the cloud while …

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