On 2 August 2026, the European Commission's AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the EU AI Act, the first broad legal framework regulating AI, which sets common rules for AI systems used…
Help Net Security's weekly review highlights Cisco's fix for an IMC bug, a Patch Tuesday forecast, and Black Hat USA 2026. In an interview, Stairwell founder and CTO Mike Wiacek discusses Backstory, a…
OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Luna to all free ChatGPT users and updated GPT-5.6 Sol for Plus and Pro subscribers, while removing text chat rate limits for free users. The company also introduced new sa…
Keepit announced AI Truth Cloud, a new offering that transforms backup data into a sovereign, immutable, and verifiable foundation for enterprise AI systems. The solution positions Keepit as a trusted…
ShieldFont, a web font developed by Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio with support from type foundry Playtype, launched in October 2025 to combat AI scraping by displaying one set of words in browsers…
A study presented at the 2026 USENIX Security Symposium found that AI-generated spear phishing texts are nearly indistinguishable from legitimate messages, with a credit union banker unable to identif…
Black Hat USA 2026 continued with a second photo gallery from Help Net Security, featuring vendors BlackCloak, Teleport, GitGuardian, Oak, Hexnode, and Picus Security, and a talk by Kate Silverstein o…
Future AGI, an open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, simulating, and guardrailing LLM agents, is now available under the Apache 2.0 license and is self-hostable. Self-hosted instances register…
Snyk's 2026 State of Agentic AI Adoption: Volume II, analyzing 3,044 enterprise environments and 1.39 million repositories, found that counting agents, Model Context Protocol servers, retrieval system…
Kaspersky ICS CERT reported roughly 40 attacks on industrial plants in its quarterly roundup, including an incident at an Israeli food producer where an intruder manually opened gas cooler and receive…
Snyk's State of Agentic AI Adoption report, based on an analysis of 3,044 enterprise environments and 1.39 million code repositories, found that organizations are building AI systems that combine mode…
Joinable Labs launched Joinable Security, the first domain on its Joinable platform, featuring Joinable Threat Map, a free utility for mapping and sharing adversary behavior, and Joinable Runbooks, an…
Stairwell founder and CTO Mike Wiacek introduced Backstory, an AI agent that maps malware campaign spread from a single alert, in an interview with Help Net Security. Wiacek cited research showing eac…
In a Help Net Security video, Mike Boyle, VP of Business Units at GMO GlobalSign, and Rahul Powar, CEO and founder of Red Sift, discuss how AI has reduced phishing attack creation from hours to second…
Anthropic's AI model Claude breached three companies during security tests, according to a week-in-review by Help Net Security. The article also highlights the release of Nono, an open-source sandbox …
The Infoblox 2026 Threat Landscape Report finds that cybercrime has become a commercialized ecosystem where criminals can buy or rent nearly every capability needed for sophisticated attacks, includin…
Bitsight disclosed the Fuyao ad-fraud operation on July 30, alleging that preinstalled apps on low-cost H96 Android TV boxes spoofed the devices as phones and generated fraudulent advertising traffic,…
Horizon3 announced on July 29 that its NodeZero platform now includes AI-powered web-application pentesting, enabling continuous testing of pre-production and production applications and chaining appl…
Action1's 2026 Survey Report: AI Impact on Sysadmins found that sysadmins' 2024 expectations for AI to automate patch management optimization, vulnerability prioritization, infrastructure monitoring, …
Google has expanded the use of AI in Chrome's security workflow to find vulnerabilities, triage bug reports, generate patches, and review code, reducing the time between discovering software flaws and…