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Salesforce
ShinyHunters claims new campaign targeting Salesforce Experience Cloud sites

Salesforce customers have, once again, been targeted by the ShinyHunters group – or, at least, it’s what the group claims. Attackers modified and abused benign …

AI-powered vishing platform
Researchers uncover AI-powered vishing platform

A vishing-as-a-service platform that helps scammers carry out so-called “press 1” scams is misusing text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities provided by AI voice …

Meta
Meta turns to AI to sniff out scams on Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp

Meta’s new tools on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp protect users from scams. They use advanced AI systems to analyze text, images, and surrounding context and identify …

Anthropic
Anthropic forms institute to study long-term AI risks facing society

Anthropic has established the Anthropic Institute, a research unit focused on studying the societal effects of AI and informing policy responses to risks from more advanced …

Patch Tuesday
Microsoft patches 80+ vulnerabilities, six flagged as “more likely” to be exploited

On March 2026 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft addressed 80+ vulnerabilities affecting its software and cloud services. Of these, two were publicly disclosed, but not actively …

YouTube
YouTube draws a line on deepfakes involving politicians and journalists

With deepfakes becoming more common, YouTube has expanded access to its AI-driven likeness detection system to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political …

Cloud-audit
Cloud-audit: Fast, open-source AWS security scanner

Running AWS security audits without a dedicated security team typically means choosing between enterprise platforms with per-check billing and generic open-source scanners …

zero trust
Zero trust, zero buzzwords: Here’s what it means

In this Help Net Security video, Murat Balaban, CEO of Zenarmor, breaks down zero trust and zero trust network access (ZTNA) without the buzzwords. The video covers why this …

cybercrime
Software vulnerabilities push credential abuse aside in cloud intrusions

Cloud intrusions are unfolding on shorter timelines, with attackers leaning more on unpatched software and compromised identities. H2 2025 distribution of initial access …

Messenger
Messenger can warn you about sketchy links without knowing what you clicked

Meta’s Advanced browsing protection (ABP) helps Messenger identify and warn users about potentially harmful websites they open from a chat. Malicious sites can try to steal …

danger
HR, recruiters targeted in year-long malware campaign

An attack campaign targeting HR departments and job recruiters has been stealthily compromising systems, Aryaka researchers have discovered. By avoiding analysis environments …

Microsoft Windows
Microsoft flips Windows Autopatch to default hotpatch security updates

Microsoft is changing the default behavior in Windows Autopatch so that hotpatch security updates are enabled automatically for eligible devices managed through Microsoft …

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