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...
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Companies built AI into core systems before figuring out how to govern it
70% of organizations use GenAI in live environments, and 64% have AI agents in pilot or production deployments. Some of those agents have privileged access t...
Canonical releases Workshop for one-command sandboxed dev environments on Ubuntu
Canonical released Workshop, a tool that launches sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command. Environments are configured once and re...
AI chatbot recommendations lure users to cryptojacking malware sites
Cybercriminals are using AI chatbot interactions alongside poisoned search results to direct users to malicious download sites in an active cryptojacking cam...
Hackers are knocking on office doors pretending to be IT staff
The Silent Ransom Group (SRG) is targeting law firms using social engineering techniques and an unusual tactic for cybercriminals: showing up at victims’ off...
Google AI Threat Defense targets attackers using AI to find flaws faster
Google Cloud introduced AI Threat Defense, an automated cybersecurity platform that combines several of the company’s security assets to find, prioritize, an...
Claude now reviews and fixes vulnerabilities as you write code
Anthropic introduced a security-guidance plugin for Claude Code that reviews code changes for common vulnerabilities and helps Claude identify and fix issues...
Cogent targets exploit-to-remediation gap with new AI-powered security capabilities
Cogent has launched two new platform capabilities designed to reduce the time between vulnerability disclosure and confirmed remediation. Zero Day Response i...
Ping Identity advances agentic security with AI governance and trusted access
Ping Identity announced new capabilities that extend the Ping Identity Platform for the agentic enterprise, where AI agents, automation, and developers incre...
eSentire launches new Atlas AI Operatives for autonomous threat detection and response
eSentire has unveiled new preempt, detect, and respond capabilities within the Atlas Platform, a unified agentic AI platform with purpose-built AI Operatives...
Fake ChatGPT and Claude installers on GitHub are dropping Deno RAT malware
Attackers are hosting counterfeit installers and plugins on GitHub and SourceForge that pose as widely used software, including ChatGPT, Claude, AutoTune, Ko...
Apple makes its quantum-resistant encryption open source
Apple has published its post-quantum cryptography implementations in corecrypto, together with mathematical proofs and verification tools for independent exp...
Franklin Access adds three-layer security system to Wi-Fi routers
Franklin Access has launched a three-layer security system integrated into its Wi-Fi routers, delivering enterprise-grade protection for consumers and small ...
Jetico expands BestCrypt Data Shelter with zero-trust file access controls
Jetico has announced the extension of BestCrypt Data Shelter to include centrally managed enterprise data access control for sensitive files. The solution al...
AppOmni’s Marlin AI automates SaaS threat analysis, triage, and remediation at scale
AppOmni has launched Marlin AI to transform how enterprise organizations defend complex SaaS applications. Marlin AI delivers autonomous AI-powered SaaS secu...
Novee’s Agentic Fix turns validated exploits into fixes through AI coding agents
Novee has announced Agentic Fix, an enhancement to its AI penetration testing platform that helps teams move from validating security findings to deploying f...
Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure
Crypto payment firms sit near the top of the target list for advanced persistent threat groups, and the workload on their security leaders keeps growing. Mal...
Vigolium: Open-source vulnerability scanner
Vigolium, an open-source vulnerability scanner that combines deterministic scanning with AI-driven auditing, launched its initial open-source release this mo...
The alert economy is driving security analyst burnout
In this Help Net Security video, Ido Livneh, CEO of Jazz, explains why security analysts burn out and what leaders can do about it. The cause, he argues, is ...
European AI adoption hits 99% with regulated data driving most policy violations
Generative AI tools operate inside nearly every European workplace, embedded in meeting transcription services, writing assistants, coding copilots, and sear...