Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks Find Many Vulnerabilities by Using AI on Their Own Code

Microsoft’s MDASH discovered 16 of the Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities, and Palo Alto used Mythos to find dozens of flaws.  The post Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks Find Many Vulnerabilities by Using AI on Their Own Code appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Sweet Security Launches Agentic AI Red Teaming to Counter ‘Mythos Moment’

New “Sweet Attack” platform uses runtime intelligence and continuous agentic red teaming to identify exploitable attack chains human teams may miss. The post Sweet Security Launches Agentic AI Red Teaming to Counter ‘Mythos Moment’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft's MDASH AI System Finds 16 Windows Flaws Fixed in Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has unveiled a new multi-model artificial intelligence (AI)-driven system called MDASH to facilitate vulnerability discovery and remediation at scale, adding that it's being tested by some customers as part of a limited private preview. MDASH, short for multi-model agentic scanning harness, is designed as a model-agnostic system that uses bespoke AI agents for different vulnerability

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Webinar Today: ROI for Cyber-Physical Security Programs

This webinar will help OT security teams and asset owners stop being cost centers and start being resilience drivers. The post Webinar Today: ROI for Cyber-Physical Security Programs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Azerbaijani Energy Firm Hit by Repeated Microsoft Exchange Exploitation

A threat actor with affiliations to China has been linked to a "multi-wave intrusion" targeting an unnamed Azerbaijani oil and gas company between late December 2025 and late February 2026, marking an expansion of its targeting. The activity has been attributed by Bitdefender with moderate-to-high confidence to a hacking group known as FamousSparrow (aka UAT-9244), which shares some level of

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Legion Security: Grow Your Own AI SOC

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – May. 13, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video The challenge Legion Security addresses is well-known: for more than two decades, SOC teams have struggled with overwhelming alert volumes and persistent staffing shortages, typically lacking between 26 The post Legion Security: Grow Your Own AI SOC appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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Government to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas Disruption, Data Breach

The Committee on Homeland Security has requested to be briefed on the incident and Instructure’s remediation steps. The post Government to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas Disruption, Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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[Webinar] Why Your AppSec Tools Miss the "Lethal Path" (and How to Fix It)

TL;DR: Stop chasing thousands of "toast" alerts. Join experts from Wiz and Okta/GitLab to learn how hackers connect tiny flaws to build a "Lethal Chain" to your data—and how to break it. Register for the Strategic Briefing Here. Most security tools work like a smoke alarm that goes off every time you burn a piece of toast. You get so many alerts that you eventually start to ignore them. The real

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Most Remediation Programs Never Confirm the Fix Actually Worked

Security teams have never had better visibility into their environments and never been worse at confirming what they fix stays fixed. Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 report puts the mean time to exploit at an estimated negative seven days. The Verizon 2025 DBIR puts median time to remediate edge device vulnerabilities at 32 days. These numbers have understandably driven the industry toward a clear

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716,000 Impacted by OpenLoop Health Data Breach

The telehealth platform was hacked in January, and users’ personal information was exfiltrated from its systems. The post 716,000 Impacted by OpenLoop Health Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft Patches 138 Vulnerabilities, Including DNS and Netlogon RCE Flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for 138 security vulnerabilities spanning its product portfolio, although none of them have been listed as publicly known or under active attack. Of the 138 flaws, 30 are rated Critical, 104 are rated Important, three are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. As many as 61 vulnerabilities are classified as privilege escalation bugs, followed by

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Microsoft Patches Critical Zero-Click Outlook Vulnerability Threatening Enterprises

CVE-2026-40361 is similar to a vulnerability found a decade ago, BadWinmail, which at the time was dubbed an “enterprise killer”. The post Microsoft Patches Critical Zero-Click Outlook Vulnerability Threatening Enterprises appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Fortinet, Ivanti Patch Critical Vulnerabilities

Successful exploitation of these flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. The post Fortinet, Ivanti Patch Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel and AMD Patch 70 Vulnerabilities

The two chip giants have published over two dozen advisories describing recently identified security defects. The post Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel and AMD Patch 70 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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GemStuffer Abuses 150+ RubyGems to Exfiltrate Scraped U.K. Council Portal Data

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign dubbed GemStuffer that has targeted the RubyGems repository with more than 150 gems that use the registry as a data exfiltration channel rather than for malware distribution. "The packages do not appear designed for mass developer compromise," Socket said. "Many have little or no download activity, and the payloads are repetitive,

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Hundreds of Malicious Packages Force RubyGems to Suspend Registrations

More than 500 packages were pushed during the attack, but the target appears to have been RubyGems itself rather than users. The post Hundreds of Malicious Packages Force RubyGems to Suspend Registrations appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Android Adds Intrusion Logging for Sophisticated Spyware Forensics

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new opt-in Android feature called Intrusion Logging for storing forensic logs to better analyze sophisticated spyware attacks. Intrusion Logging, available as part of Advanced Protection Mode, enables "persistent and privacy-preserving forensics logging to allow for investigation of devices in the event of a suspected compromise," the company said. The feature, it

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ICS Patch Tuesday: New Security Advisories From Siemens, Schneider, CISA

Many ICS vendors have not released new advisories for the May 2026 Patch Tuesday. The post ICS Patch Tuesday: New Security Advisories From Siemens, Schneider, CISA appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition

Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers -- including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Oracle -- fixing near record volumes of security bugs, and/or quickening the tempo of their patch releases.

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Microsoft Patches 137 Vulnerabilities

Fresh security updates resolve critical flaws in Azure, Windows, Dynamics 365, and the SSO Plugin for Jira & Confluence. The post Microsoft Patches 137 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.