New infosec products of the month: May 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from Alation, AppOmni, Apricorn, ASAPP, Babel Street, Checksum, Cogent...
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IBM and Red Hat are betting $5 billion that open source needs a security guard
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers ...
Cybercriminals sail away with data from 6 million Carnival customers
Carnival Corporation, one of the world’s largest cruise operators, confirmed a data breach weeks after the ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it had stolen m...
Microsoft’s Copilot trust test: zero findings, more models, wider oversight
Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat (Copilot) have been recertified under ISO/IEC 42001:2023 by an independent auditor for the second consecutive year. Co...
Zapier exploit chain shows how known anti-patterns compose into critical risk
A five-stage exploit chain disclosed by Token Security researchers turned a free Zapier account into write access on Zapier’s public developer SDK packages a...
OpenAI prepares ChatGPT for the election misinformation wave
AI-generated election misinformation could shape public opinion and influence the lives of millions of people. To address those risks, OpenAI outlined a seri...
Qumulo NeuralProtect uses AI to detect and stop ransomware before encryption
Qumulo has unveiled Qumulo NeuralProtect, a ransomware resilience solution built to protect data at the storage layer by detecting and stopping threats befor...
Digimarc adds provenance, audit, and verification controls for AI agent workflows
Digimarc has announced new provenance and verification infrastructure designed to secure autonomous and AI-enabled workflows. As enterprises increasingly ado...
Qevlar’s new AI agents correlate CVEs, incident data, and active exploitation signals
Qevlar has announced a new set of AI agents designed to bridge the disconnect between Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and vulnerability management teams. ...
Microsoft’s new cloud PCs place AI agents under enterprise controls
Microsoft’s Windows 365 for Agents, a cloud PC platform for agentic workloads, runs AI agents in secure environments. Organizations can direct agents with na...
A single typo could derail your World Cup plans
Cybercriminals are spoofing Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) websites ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the FBI warns. The attackers ...
Oil shipments, drone makers, and a poisoned code library targeted in recent APT campaigns
Geopolitical pressure drove much of the state-sponsored cyber activity recorded between October 2025 and March 2026, according to ESET’s latest APT Activity ...
Ketch brings multi-agent AI orchestration to enterprise privacy programs
Ketch has unveiled its vision for agentic privacy with the Ketch Agent Network, a multi-agent orchestration layer for enterprise privacy programs. The platfo...
Checksum introduces Continuous Quality Agent for automated test generation and healing
Checksum has launched its Continuous Quality Agent, an autonomous system that runs nightly against deployed applications and automatically heals broken tests...
XM Cyber enhances identity risk visibility with continuous exposure management capabilities
XM Cyber has announced platform enhancements aimed at helping organizations reduce identity risk, compounded by AI-enabled attackers. According to Gartner, “...
Police arrest suspect in Ajax football club hack that exposed 300,000 fan records
The Dutch National Police arrested a man suspected of hacking into the computer systems of AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam. “On the morning of Tuesd...
The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines
Engineering teams across enterprise IT are writing their own software with AI coding assistants, spinning up agents that act on their behalf, and assigning t...
Nudge Security adds browser-based discovery for shadow AI agents
Nudge Security announced that its AI security platform offers discovery of shadow AI agents via the browser, extending its agent discovery capabilities to co...
Frontier AI models collapse under multi-turn AI attacks, Cisco finds
Attackers who probe large language models rarely give up after one refusal. They reframe, build context across turns, adopt personas, and escalate gradually.
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: May 2026
Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security pos...