Tag: software
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WireGuard VPN developer can’t ship software updates after Microsoft locks account
The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and are blocking their ability to send software updates to users. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/wireguard-vpn-developer-cant-ship-software-updates-after-microsoft-locks-account/
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What Mythos Reveals About Zero Trust’s Scope Problem
<div cla The coverage of Anthropic’s Mythos Red Team report has followed a predictable arc: a sensational headline, reactions ranging from alarm to dismissal, and little engagement with what the research actually demonstrates. That is worth correcting, because what Mythos reveals is not primarily a story about AI finding vulnerabilities. It is a story about…
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Developer of VeraCrypt encryption software says Windows users may face boot-up issues after Microsoft locked his account
The maker of the popular open-source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device owners from booting up their computers. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/veracrypt-encryption-software-windows-microsoft-lock-boot-issues/
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Check Point Software Celebrates Partner Success at Annual UK Partner Awards
Check Point has announced the winners of its 2026 UK Partner Awards, recognising the achievements of its UK partner ecosystem and their role in helping organisations strengthen cyber resilience. The awards ceremony took place on 19 March 2026 at One Moorgate Place in London, bringing together partners from across the UK to celebrate innovation, collaboration…
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AI Security Risks: How Enterprises Manage LLM, Shadow AI and Agentic Threats FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, conference, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, governance, guide, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, microsoft, monitoring, network, nvidia, office, regulation, risk, saas, software, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityApr 08, 2026 – – Quick Facts: Enterprise AI Security Most enterprises are running AI at scale before their security teams have visibility into it. Shadow AI (unsanctioned AI tools spreading department by department) is now the most common entry point for data leakage. Agentic AI introduces a new category of risk: autonomous systems that…
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Cyberkriminelle haben ihre Angriffe Monate im Voraus auf die Steuersaison 2026 vorbereitet
Check Point Software Technologies warnt vor einer deutlichen Zunahme von auf die Steuererklärungszeit ausgerichteten Cyberangriffen. Neue Erkenntnisse von Check Point Research zeigen, dass diese Kampagnen nicht opportunistisch entstehen. Die Angreifer bauen ihre Infrastruktur Monate im Voraus auf, indem sie betrügerische Domains, Phishing-Websites und schädliche E-Mail-Kampagnen nutzen. Hierzulande wird vor allem mit angeblichen E-Mails von Elster und…
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Anthropic Launches Claude Mythos Preview Focused on Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovery
Anthropic recently unveiled Claude Mythos Preview, a groundbreaking general-purpose language model demonstrating an unprecedented, emergent ability to autonomously discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities. In response to these powerful capabilities, the company introduced Project Glasswing, a coordinated defensive initiative aimed at securing critical software infrastructure before cyberattackers can leverage similar tools. This release marks a watershed…
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Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing to Use AI to Find and Fix Critical Software Vulnerabilities
Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, using its Claude Mythos Preview AI to autonomously identify and fix undiscovered vulnerabilities in critical software First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/anthropic-launch-project-glasswing/
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Project Glasswing powered by Claude Mythos: defending software before hackers do
Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos, a powerful AI for cybersecurity that could also be misused to enhance cyberattacks. Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a new AI model designed to strengthen cybersecurity through Project Glasswing, aiming to secure critical software before it can be abused. Interest in Mythos grew after a leak of nearly 3,000 internal files…
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Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack
ChipSoft’s website remains down but emails are functioning First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/chipsoft_ransomware/
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What Anthropic Glasswing reveals about the future of vulnerability discovery
From backlog management to exposure-window risk: The issue, as Williams frames it, is not simply how many vulnerabilities exist, but how they are managed. “Mythos makes one thing painfully clear,” he says. “This is not a prioritization problem. It’s an exposure-window problem.”Traditional vulnerability management has been built around prioritization, ranking issues by severity, exploitability, and…
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5 Things To Know On Anthropic’s Claude Mythos And ‘Project Glasswing’
Tags: softwareAnthropic announced Tuesday it has launched a new initiative, “Project Glasswing,” focused on boosting software security with involvement from a number of major industry players. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/5-things-to-know-on-anthropic-s-claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing
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Cybersecurity in the Age of Instant Software
AI is rapidly changing how software is written, deployed, and used. Trends point to a future where AIs can write custom software quickly and easily: “instant software.” Taken to an extreme, it might become easier for a user to have an AI write an application on demand”, a spreadsheet, for example”, and delete it when…
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Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code. First…
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5 steps to strengthen supply chain security and improve cyber resilience
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, backup, breach, business, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, data, defense, detection, dns, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, framework, governance, identity, infrastructure, mfa, monitoring, msp, network, radius, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-trustAll software vendors and SaaS platformsOpen”‘source components embedded in your applicationsMSP or IT service providersCloud infrastructure and authentication servicesAPI integrations and automation workflowsOnce documented, classify each supplier by the impact they would have if compromised. A remote monitoring tool or authentication platform represents far greater risk than a basic productivity app. This prioritization helps you…
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5 steps to strengthen supply chain security and improve cyber resilience
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, backup, breach, business, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, data, defense, detection, dns, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, framework, governance, identity, infrastructure, mfa, monitoring, msp, network, radius, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-trustAll software vendors and SaaS platformsOpen”‘source components embedded in your applicationsMSP or IT service providersCloud infrastructure and authentication servicesAPI integrations and automation workflowsOnce documented, classify each supplier by the impact they would have if compromised. A remote monitoring tool or authentication platform represents far greater risk than a basic productivity app. This prioritization helps you…
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Tech giants launch AI-powered ‘Project Glasswing’ to identify critical software vulnerabilities
The program comes as the tech industry races to secure software before similar AI-powered offensive capabilities become too much for defenders to handle. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/project-glasswing-anthropic-ai-open-source-software-vulnerabilities/
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AI, DevSecOps, and the Future of Application Security: The Gartner® Report
<div cla Even as organizations recognize the importance of application security, most still struggle to operationalize it at scale. That gap becomes harder to ignore as development accelerates, AI becomes embedded in workflows, and software supply chains grow more complex. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/ai-devsecops-and-the-future-of-application-security-the-gartner-report/
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prompted 2026 Developing Deploying AI Fingerprints For Advanced Threat Detection
Author, Creator & Presenter: Natalie Isak, Software Engineer, Microsoft & Waris Gill, Applied Scientist, Microsoft Our thanks to [un]prompted for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s outstanding [un]prompted 2026 AI Security Practitioner content on the Organizations’) YouTube Channel. Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/unprompted-2026-developing-deploying-ai-fingerprints-for-advanced-threat-detection/
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What we learned about TEE security from auditing WhatsApp’s Private Inference
WhatsApp’s new “Private Inference” feature represents one of the most ambitious attempts to combine end-to-end encryption with AI-powered capabilities, such as message summarization. To make this possible, Meta built a system that processes encrypted user messages inside trusted execution environments (TEEs), secure hardware enclaves designed so that not even Meta can access the plaintext. Our…
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The noisy tenants: Engineering fairness in multi-tenant SIEM solutions
Tags: ai, apache, api, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, data, defense, detection, edr, endpoint, fedramp, finance, framework, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, login, microsoft, monitoring, risk, saas, security-incident, service, siem, soc, software, strategy, threat, tool, update, vulnerability24/7/365 SOC monitoring: Round-the-clock coverage backed by global experts to validate and prioritize alerts.Proactive threat hunting: Active searches for hidden threats rather than just waiting for automated triggers.AI and machine learning integration: Leveraging everything from basic anomaly detection to “Agentic AI” to reduce noise and accelerate investigations.Active incident response and containment: Capabilities to isolate endpoints…
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Supply chain security is now a board-level issue: Here’s what CSOs need to know
Tags: access, android, attack, automation, best-practice, compliance, cybersecurity, edr, encryption, firewall, firmware, flaw, infrastructure, linux, mitigation, regulation, risk, sbom, software, supply-chain, switch, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayThe hidden complexity that drowns security teams: SBOMs are no longer used solely to track software licensing; they are key to managing supply chain security as they enable the identification and tracking of vulnerabilities across ecosystems.Finding a problem is just the start, you need to determine if the vulnerability affects your implementation. For example, if…
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Fake Installers Spread RATs, Monero Miners in Ongoing Malware Campaign
Fake software installers are being used in a long-running malware operation to drop remote access trojans (RATs), Monero cryptominers, and a new .NET implant across multiple campaigns dating back to late 2023. REF1695 relies on ISO-based fake installers that mimic legitimate software setup packages but never deliver real applications. Instead, users are guided via a…
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Attackers Target Zero-Day Flaw in Fortinet Security Software
Vendor Issues Hotfix for Critical Flaw in FortiClient Endpoint Management Server. Fortinet’s endpoint management security server software is under fire from attackers, who are actively targeting two critical flaws, including a fresh zero-day that facilitates unauthenticated remote code or command execution. The vendor has issued a hotfix and promised a full patch. First seen on…
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prompted 2026 Code Is Free: Securing Software In The Agentic Future
Author, Creator & Presenter: Paul McMillan, Security Engineer, OpenAI & Ryan Lopopolo, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI Our thanks to [un]prompted for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s outstanding [un]prompted 2026 AI Security Practitioner content on the Organizations’) YouTube Channel. Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/unprompted-2026-code-is-free-securing-software-in-the-agentic-future/
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Axios Hack, Chrome 0-Day, Fortinet Exploits, Paragon Spyware and More
This week had real hits. The key software got tampered with. Active bugs showed up in the tools people use every day. Some attacks didn’t even need much effort because the path was already there.One weak spot now spreads wider than before. What starts small can reach a lot of systems fast. New bugs, faster…