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Russia uses Cellebrite to break into human rights activist’s phone, even after cancellation of contract

Russian authorities used Cellebrite phone-cracking technology to break into a device belonging to a prominent domestic human rights activist they arrested and imprisoned, despite the company canceling its contract with the Russian government, according to a report published Thursday. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab reached its conclusions after analyzing a phone belonging to Andrey…

Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability

An analysis of a popular Google Chrome ad block extension for YouTube has uncovered the ability to execute arbitrary JavaScript code. According to Island, the extension, named Adblock for YouTube (ID: cmedhionkhpnakcndndgjdbohmhepckk), has more than 10 million installs and carries a Featured badge on the Chrome Web Store. The extension description states that it allows…

Reco Agent Security helps organizations govern AI agents and reduce exposure

Reco announced Reco Agent Security, which expands the Reco Platform with advanced capabilities that prevent data exposure, unintended use and process disruption caused by AI agents operating across connected applications and workflows. Agents function inside interconnected enterprise ecosystems where they can read sensitive data, invoke tools, trigger workflows, update records, communicate with other systems and…

Mitiga unveils Agentic Runtime Security for cloud, SaaS, identity, and AI protection

Mitiga has announced Agentic Runtime Security, a new approach to runtime detection and response across cloud, SaaS, identity, AI, and third-party services that anticipates, detects, interrupts, and stops active attacks before they impact the business. For two decades, security operations centered on the endpoint. EDR carried the load, most detections were built there, and most…

Logicalis, 11:11 Systems, Thrive Detail HPE Partner Value

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to deployment and operationalization, HPE executives and partners at HPE Discover 2026 said the company’s channel strategy is increasingly focused on helping MSPs and other channel partners capture new market opportunities while simplifying the way customers adopt emerging technologies. AI adoption opens infrastructure opportunities for partners Brandon Harris, VP…

ControlMonkey connects backup visibility with cloud recovery readiness

ControlMonkey announced its Data Backup Correlation, a new capability that extends its Cyber Resilience Platform by connecting data backup posture with cloud configuration recovery. The first release supports AWS Backup and Azure Backup. CISOs and cloud teams often lack full visibility into data backup coverage and available recovery points across critical data sources, including databases,…

Veritone introduces Assess to streamline evidence analysis and compliance reviews

Veritone has announced the launch of Veritone Assess, an AI-powered data analysis solution designed to help public sector agencies identify inconsistencies, missing information, and critical intelligence gaps hidden within complex datasets. By automatically evaluating reports, witness statements, financial records, and other evidentiary materials against policies, regulations, and investigative criteria, Assess reduces the time required for…

runZero 5.0 unifies exposure management to accelerate risk reduction

runZero has announced runZero 5.0, a major platform evolution designed to help organizations defend their expanding attack surfaces against high-velocity, AI-fueled threats. The new release unifies the exposure management lifecycle into an automated workflow that enables security teams to seamlessly discover assets and network connections, identify and prioritize critical risks, and initiate and validate remediation…

BlackLine enhances Agentic Financial Operations Platform with CFO-focused AI oversight tools

BlackLine has announced new governance and observability capabilities within its Agentic Financial Operations Platform, further advancing the trust infrastructure finance organizations need to deploy, govern, and scale AI across the Office of the CFO. As finance teams transition from deploying a handful of AI agents to managing potentially hundreds of thousands across BlackLine, partner, customer-developed,…

ANY.RUN & Torq Integration: Scale Triage & Respond with Confidence

Lack of alert context makes it difficult for Security Operations Centers (SOC) to distinguish actual threats from false positives. ANY.RUN’s integration with Torq, a no-code/AI SOC automation platform, bridges this gap by delivering conclusive malware & phishing verdicts and actionable intelligence.   The result for your team is faster incident resolution, reduced alert fatigue, and proactive threat detection.  ANY.RUN…

How France’s education ministry built an open-source file-share platform for 400K users

As France seeks to reduce its dependence on non-European technology suppliers across the public sector, open-source software is playing an increasingly prominent role. Among the projects that reflect this trend is Nuage, a file-sharing and storage platform developed by the Ministry of National Education for teachers, administrators and other staff. Aimed at its 1.2 million…

Introduction to COM usage by Windows threats

Component Object Model (COM) is a fundamental Windows technology used by legitimate applications for object activation, inter-process communication, automation and language-independent component reuse. Those same qualities make it useful to threat actors.  Malware frequently uses COM interfaces for lateral movement, execution, download and exfiltration, persistence, evasion, system discovery and automation of built-in Windows and Office functionality.  Reverse engineering COM-heavy binaries requires researchers to move from opaque GUIDs…

SpyCloud automates threat investigations with new Research Agent

SpyCloud has announced the launch of SpyCloud Research Agent, a conversational AI investigation agent now available in its Cybercrime Investigations console. Cybercrime investigations have a tax: hours of manual pivot work that experienced analysts run by instinct and junior analysts struggle to replicate. SpyCloud Research Agent eliminates it. Security practitioners, CTI analysts, SOC teams, fraud…

Flare unveils new CTI capabilities and Okta support

Flare has announced the expanded capabilities for Flare CTI, and an Okta integration within its Identity Exposure Management (IEM) offering. These updates extend Flare’s identity expertise into tactical threat intelligence use cases and agentic workflows to reshape security operations. As security teams face growing volumes of threats, many continue to rely on costly, disconnected tools…

Seemplicity AI Analysts focus remediation on exploitable risks

Seemplicity has launched AI Analysts for exposure management and response. The autonomous agents replace manual vulnerability triage by working directly within remediation workflows to conduct structured, evidence-based exploitability investigations. The old playbook is broken. AI-generated exploits have collapsed the window between disclosure and weaponization from days to hours, and the static scores and external signals…

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited Months Before Disclosure

Hackers exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw CVE-2026-20245 as a zero-day months before disclosure, enabling privileged command execution. Google-owned Mandiant reported that an unknown threat actor exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS base score of 7.8) as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed. The flaw allows an authenticated attacker with…

Entrust uses biometrics to verify users during high-risk transactions

Entrust has introduced a new approach to preventing account takeover. As attackers increasingly target high-risk moments like account recovery, device changes, and large transactions, organizations need to modernize authentication from verifying access to verifying the real human behind the transaction. The Entrust Biometric Authentication solution brings identity-centric assurance to these critical interactions, helping organizations reduce…

YesWeHack automates penetration testing with AI-powered agents

YesWeHack announces Agentic Pentest, an on-demand solution using autonomous AI agents to test organisations’ assets and deliver same-day findings. Shaped by YesWeHack’s extensive offensive security experience, Agentic Pentest helps organisations identify vulnerabilities, test their real-world exploitability and uncover attack paths across in-scope assets. The solution supports black box, grey box and white box testing of…

Why patch directives only go so far

When CISA issues an emergency directive, the message to every federal agency and every security team paying attention is to patch now. For CVE-2026-50751, a CVSS 9.3 authentication bypass in Check Point Remote Access VPN, that directive landed on June 21. despite exploitation beginning in early May. That, six-week active intrusion gap is not a…

Forescout brings PQC visibility to IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments

Forescout has announced the launch of its Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Readiness and Encryption Hygiene Dashboards. The new dashboards are designed to help organizations identify, prioritize, and manage quantum risk across information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), and medical devices (IoMT) environments. As organizations face new pressures from regulators, auditors, and boards…

Stellar Cyber improves threat detection and data onboarding in new updates

Stellar Cyber has announced continued momentum across Stellar Cyber 6.5 and 6.6. The releases advance the company’s AI-driven, human-augmented SOC vision with governed AI workflows, improved Auto Triage visibility, sharper detections, stronger platform health monitoring, expanded integrations, and faster self-service data onboarding for MSSPs and enterprise security teams. “Customers and partners do not need more…

Bitdefender RealCheck analyzes videos for deepfakes and fraud

Bitdefender has announced the launch of Bitdefender RealCheck, a standalone solution that helps consumers evaluate the authenticity of video content circulating across digital platforms and whether it carries malicious intent, such as financial fraud, credential theft, or defamation. As deepfakes proliferate across social media at an unprecedented pace, Bitdefender RealCheck gives consumers a powerful and…

Nathan Austad Pleads Guilty in DraftKings Hacking Scheme, Gets 18 Months

Third DraftKings hacker gets 18 months in prison for a 2022 credential-stuffing attack that compromised 1,600 accounts and stole $600,000. Nathan Austad, the third person sentenced over the 2022 DraftKings credential-stuffing attack, received 18 months in prison. The group used usernames and passwords stolen from other breaches to access about 1,600 accounts and steal roughly…

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited to Gain Root Access

An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8), allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges

Best practices for AI in open-source work

Free and open source software developers us AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Antigravity, and OpenCode in their daily work. The Software Freedom Conservancy responded to that trend with a set of recommendations for contributors who use these tools, which it groups under the label LLM-gen-AI, meaning generative AI systems backed by…