Cargo theft malware actor spent a month inside a decoy network before researchers pulled the plug

Proofpoint researchers executed a malicious payload from a threat actor known to target trucking and logistics companies in late February 2026, doing so inside a decoy environment. The environment stayed compromised for more than 30 days, long enough f… Continue reading Cargo theft malware actor spent a month inside a decoy network before researchers pulled the plug

GitHub lays out copyright liability changes and upcoming DMCA review for developers

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued in March has settled a question that has circulated among platform operators and developers for years: whether a service provider can be held liable for copyright infringement committed by its users without evidence o… Continue reading GitHub lays out copyright liability changes and upcoming DMCA review for developers

EU cybersecurity standards are at risk if supplier ban passes

Today, the European standards body ETSI sent a formal position paper to the European Commission, calling for changes to the proposed Cybersecurity Act 2 (CSA2), the EU’s planned revision to its existing cybersecurity certification framework. The … Continue reading EU cybersecurity standards are at risk if supplier ban passes

The exploit gap is closing, and your patch cycle wasn’t built for this

The Cloud Security Alliance has published a briefing on what it calls a turning point in the threat landscape: the time between a vulnerability being discovered and a working exploit is shrinking fast. The briefing centers on Anthropic’s Claude M… Continue reading The exploit gap is closing, and your patch cycle wasn’t built for this

Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is now an EU obligation, but cultural change takes time

In this Help Net Security interview, Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho, Head of Sector for Incident and Vulnerability Services at ENISA, discusses the recent CVE funding scare and what it exposed about the fragility of global vulnerability disclosure infrastruct… Continue reading Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is now an EU obligation, but cultural change takes time

Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready

In this Help Net Security interview, Idan Habler, AI Security Researcher at Cisco, breaks down a threat most security teams haven’t named yet: agentic memory as an attack surface. Habler walks through MemoryTrap, a disclosed and remediated method… Continue reading Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready

Review: The Psychology of Information Security

Security controls fail when they are designed without regard for the people who must use them. That is the central argument of Leron Zinatullin’s second edition, and it is an argument he builds methodically across 17 chapters that draw from organ… Continue reading Review: The Psychology of Information Security

Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first

In this Help Net Security interview, Art Manion, Deputy Director at Tharros, examines why vulnerability data across repositories stays inconsistent and hard to trust. The problem starts with systems not designed to collect or manage that data well. The… Continue reading Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first

ZeroID: Open-source identity platform for autonomous AI agents

ZeroID is an open-source identity platform that implements an identity and credentialing layer specifically for autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The attribution problem The core issue ZeroID targets is attribution in agentic workflows. When a… Continue reading ZeroID: Open-source identity platform for autonomous AI agents