Tag: cybersecurity
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WannaCry, the ransomware attack that changed the history of cybersecurity
WannaCry showed how unpatched flaws and leaked cyber tools can cripple global systems, reshaping cybersecurity defenses worldwide. In memory of the day the digital world was shaken, but learned to fight back. The WannaCry ransomware attack represents one of the most significant events in recent cybersecurity history, not only for its global scale but also…
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OpenAI’s Daybreak uses Codex Security to identify risky attack paths
OpenAI Daybreak is the company’s cybersecurity initiative focused on building AI-assisted software defense into the development process from the start. It combines OpenAI … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/12/openai-daybreak-openai-daybreak-vulnerability-validation-initiative/
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OpenAI Launches Daybreak for AI-Powered Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation
OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative that brings together frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model capabilities and Codex Security to help organizations identify and patch vulnerabilities before attackers find a way in using the same issues.”Daybreak combines the intelligence of OpenAI models, the extensibility of Codex as an agentic harness, and our partners across…
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Linux kernel maintainers suggest a ‘kill switch’ to protect systems until a zero-day vulnerability is patched
Tags: access, attack, business, control, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, group, incident response, infosec, linux, LLM, mitigation, risk, service, strategy, switch, technology, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-day), a logic bug which lets users easily obtain root access, and Dirty Frag, which abuses weaknesses in how the Linux kernel handles fragmented memory pages. The Dirty Frag attack combines two separate vulnerabilities affecting the Linux IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) subsystem (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC networking protocol (CVE-2026-43500). The proposal has set off a furious…
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Hackers Hid Inside Major UK Water Utility for Nearly 2 Years
ICO Warns Key Security Gaps Led to Exposed Data of Over 630,000 People. A British regulator said a major water sector organization failed to use establish cybersecurity safeguards to secure sensitive data, allowing hackers to use a phishing campaign to gain persistence, steal records and expose more than 630,000 sensitive records. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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TeamPCP Compromises Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Weeks After KICS Supply Chain Attack
Checkmarx has confirmed that a modified version of the Jenkins AST plugin was published to the Jenkins Marketplace.”If you are using Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin, you need to ensure that you are using the version 2.0.13-829.vc72453fa_1c16 that was published on December 17, 2025 or previously,” the cybersecurity company said in a statement over the weekend.As…
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Identity security firm SailPoint discloses GitHub repository breach
SailPoint disclosed a GitHub repository breach on April 20. The company contained the incident and said no customer data was affected. SailPoint is a cybersecurity company that provides identity security and identity governance solutions for enterprises. Its products help organizations manage and control user access to systems, applications, and sensitive data. SailPoint revealed a cybersecurity…
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Securing AI Agent Orchestration In The Enterprise: Best Practices For 2026
Global businesses are racing to deploy artificial intelligence, sometimes at the expense of their cybersecurity postures. The rise of “agentic AI” is especially notable, due to its potential to automate business workflows, cloud operations, engineering tasks and cybersecurity. Not only are AI agents getting more capable, but they can also work much faster than humans,…
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New cybersecurity industry coalition aims to lead US critical infrastructure protection
The new Alliance for Critical Infrastructure’s biggest goal: changing how the nation plans for a major cybersecurity crisis. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity-coalition-aci-government/818662/
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Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program
Dubai, UAE, May 11th, 2026, CyberNewswire Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC also unveils the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), the first open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, and action verification, slated for IETF submission. OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced two milestones that together position the company as foundational infrastructure for […]…
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Security teams are turning to AI to survive alert overload
The World Economic Forum white paper “Empowering Defenders: AI for Cybersecurity” identified AI as the biggest driver of change in cybersecurity for 94% of survey respondents. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/11/world-economic-forum-cybersecurity-ai-adoption-report/
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PHP SOAP Extension Flaw Could Let Attackers Execute Code Remotely
Recently disclosed vulnerabilities in PHP, particularly within its widely used SOAP extension, have raised significant alarms across the cybersecurity community. Among the newly identified flaws is a high-severity vulnerability that could permit attackers to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) on affected servers. Several other moderate-severity flaws, including Use-After-Free (UAF) bugs, NULL pointer dereferences, and out-of-bounds…
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Ollama OutBounds Read Vulnerability Allows Remote Process Memory Leak
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory.The out-of-bounds read flaw, which likely impacts over 300,000 servers globally, is tracked as CVE-2026-7482 (CVSS score: 9.1). It has been codenamed Bleeding Llama by Cyera.Ollama is a First seen…
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New cybersecurity industry alliance aims to lead US critical infrastructure protection
The new Alliance for Critical Infrastructure’s biggest goal: changing how the U.S. plans for a major cybersecurity crisis. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity-coalition-aci-government/818662/
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Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program
Tags: ai, attack, ceo, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, framework, github, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, penetration-testing, RedTeam, risk, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-dayIdentity, who the AI agent is.Scope, what it is authorized to do.Attestation, whether it or its instructions have been tampered with.Delegation, who delegated authority.Revocation, whether that authority has been revoked.”Every AI agent on the internet today is a stranger. You don’t know who it is, what it’s authorized to do, or whether it’s been tampered…
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Malicious Hugging Face model masquerading as OpenAI release hits 244K downloads
Part of a broader AI supply chain targeting: HiddenLayer, in its advisory, said that it identified six additional Hugging Face repositories uploaded under a separate account that used nearly identical loader logic and shared infrastructure with the campaign.The researchers also linked elements of the operation to earlier software supply-chain attacks involving npm typosquatting campaigns and…
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8 guiding principles for reskilling the SOC for agentic AI
Tags: ai, automation, business, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, data, governance, incident response, jobs, penetration-testing, sans, skills, soc, technology, tool, training, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementSet the tone from the top: The second principle for reskilling security teams for agentic AI is all about leadership.As Baker says, CISOs must set the tone. That means building a culture of rapid experimentation, iteration, and innovation. “Fail fast and move forward,” he says.A key aspect of CISO leadership is understanding the needs of…
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The missing cybersecurity leader in small business
As AI and quantum threats target the backbone of the American economy, Washington must provide the guidance and incentives necessary for SMBs to access executive-level cyber expertise. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/the-missing-cyber-leader-virtual-fractional-ciso-smb-op-ed/
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in BerriAI LiteLLM, tracked as CVE-2026-42208 (CVSS score of 9.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. At the end of April, attackers rapidly exploited the critical…
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Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program
OTT Cybersecurity LLC has unveiled the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), the first open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, and action verification. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/press-release/lyrieai-joins-anthropics-cyber-verification-program/
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Review: Foundations of Cybersecurity, 2nd edition
Jason Andress has refreshed his introductory security text for No Starch Press. He writes in the introduction that the term security now extends past data center servers to … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/11/review-foundations-of-cybersecurity-2nd-edition/
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Trump officials are steering a cybersecurity scholarship program toward AI
The latest development has thrown scholars for a curveball, and has some worried about being “left out to dry” when it comes to job positions. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/sfs-scholarship-program-trump-administration-ai-shift/
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Unplug your way to better code
Cybersecurity concepts, logs, packets, DNS exfiltration, and more, are usually intangible, and its practitioners are prone to mental fatigue, Amy takes a second to yell at you to go touch grass. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/unplug-your-way-to-better-code/
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, endpoint, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, ivanti, kev, mobile, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in the Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), tracked as CVE-2026-6973 (CVSS score of 7.1), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Ivanti warns customers…
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PCPJack Credential Stealer Exploits 5 CVEs to Spread Worm-Like Across Cloud Systems
Tags: cloud, container, credentials, cve, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, finance, framework, infrastructure, service, theft, wormCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new credential theft framework dubbed PCPJack that targets exposed cloud infrastructure and ousts any artifacts linked to TeamPCP from the environments.”The toolset harvests credentials from cloud, container, developer, productivity, and financial services, then exfiltrates the data through attacker-controlled infrastructure while attempting First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article:…
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How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic’s Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/how-anthropics-mythos-has-rewritten-firefoxs-approach-to-cybersecurity/
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Researcher Shows Edge Browser Stores Saved Passwords in Plaintext
Cybersecurity expert Tom Rønning finds Microsoft Edge loads all saved passwords into computer memory as cleartext, making them easy for hackers to steal. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/edge-browser-stores-saved-plaintext-passwords/
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One Click, Total Shutdown: The “Patient Zero” Webinar on Killing Stealth Breaches
The hardest part of cybersecurity isn’t the technology, it’s the people.Every major breach you’ve read about lately usually starts the same way: one employee, one clever email, and one “Patient Zero” infection.In 2026, hackers are using AI to make these “first clicks” nearly impossible to spot. If a single laptop gets compromised on your watch,…