Druva expands identity resilience with ransomware detection
Druva has announced new capabilities for Druva Identity Resilience alongside the launch of Ransomware Detection, a new feature fueled by a proprietary AI thr...
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Google’s new agent security system detects tool misuse, loops and rogue behavior
Google’s Agent Anomaly Detection is a reasoning-based oversight and audit layer for autonomous agents deployed on Agent Runtime in the Gemini Enterprise Agen...
FBI takes down one of the longest-running DDoS-for-hire services
The FBI has seized the domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service officials call one of the longest running “booter” operations in existence. ...
Unauthenticated attackers are bypassing Cisco ISE’s management interface (CVE-2026-76460)
Two days after it warned customers about an actively exploited email gateway zero-day, Cisco confirmed one more flaw is being targeted: CVE-2026-76460, an au...
Scammers leave AI fingerprints all over fake antivirus renewal page
AI appears to be helping scammers with little web development skill build convincing fake antivirus-renewal pages, Malwarebytes found. The researchers came a...
Spain reports first data breach involving autonomous AI agent
Spain’s data protection authority (AEPD) has reported its first data breach blamed on an AI agent acting on its own, after the system reportedly logged into ...
Fake AI trading agent steals crypto wallet passwords
Attackers built a website for a fake AI crypto trading agent and used it to install Needle Stealer, malware that replaces a victim’s browser wallet with a co...
Riverbed NPM 360 uses AI to predict and prevent network disruptions
Riverbed has announced new Riverbed intelligent network observability solutions that combine 360-degree network visibility with agentic AI to help network op...
Tuskira Vector brings autonomous red teaming to attack surface validation
Tuskira has announced Vector, its autonomous red teaming agentic capability, which identifies an organization’s exploitable attack surface by simulating what...
The AI security question leaders should be asking instead
In this Help Net Security interview, Frederic Bull, Security Officer at Gremlin, talks about what AI means for security teams. The conversation covers why as...
A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage
Cheri Hotman, Managing Partner of Hotman Group, works as a vCISO and vGRC leader. In this Help Net Security video, she talks about holding coverage steady wh...
AWS’s new sign-up gives accounts spend caps, email invites, and agent-set permissions
New AWS customers can now sign up with a Google, GitHub, or Apple login, start with $100 in Free Tier credits, and build inside a “project” where AWS and cod...
GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures
GNOME 51, the new version of the Linux desktop, came out on September 16 under the codename A Coruña. The release adds offline maps and live transit informat...
AI is adding to the review load on open-source projects, many of them thinly funded
AI coding tools are making open source software harder to maintain and secure, according to six authors writing for the Association for Computing Machinery’s...
The world must establish red lines for autonomous AI weapons
AI is transforming warfare and international conflict. Autonomous weapon systems pose a genuine threat to civilians.
Parallels Desktop flaw hands any local user root on a Mac (CVE-2026-90894)
A newly disclosed vulnerability in Parallels Desktop, tracked as CVE-2026-90894 and dubbed “ParaShells,” can allow any local user on a Mac to gain root privi...
Self-improving AI should slow down, von der Leyen tells EU lawmakers
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants frontier AI development slowed, and said on Wednesday that she will invite the leading AI labs to di...
Cohesity adds recovery capabilities for AI agents and the data they manage
Cohesity has introduced Cohesity Agent Resilience. This new Cohesity Data Cloud capability will discover, protect, and recover the infrastructure behind ente...
Rubrik MCP gives AI agents controlled access to security intelligence
Rubrik has announced Rubrik MCP (Model Context Protocol), giving an organization’s AI agents a secure, programmable path to Rubrik’s data, identity, and appl...
CenterPoint Energy confirms data breach following claims on hacking forum
CenterPoint Energy disclosed that an unauthorized third party got into customer data through one of its external systems, after online claims by a hacker tha...