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AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
On 28 May and again on 9 June, AI agents carried out several simple hacking attempts against a search tool operated by Library and Archives Canada. Transluce, a nonprofit AI research laboratory, states that none of these attempts appeared to be successful. They set out the findings in a blog post...
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Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon With Guardrail-Free Access for Vetted Defenders (opens Security Week in a new tab)
The company says its new frontier AI model found a critical vulnerability in software used by hospitals worldwide. The post Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon With Guardrail-Free Access for Vetted Defenders appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon to Trusted Cyber Defenders, Plans Guardrail-Free Version (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 4 Argon, that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. "It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering...
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Sentinel Envelope Plus adds software protection without source code changes (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Thales has announced Sentinel Envelope Plus, a new addition to its Sentinel Envelope software protection solution that significantly hardens compiled applications against AI-assisted reverse engineering, automated zero-day vulnerability discovery, and automated exploit generation. Sentinel Envelope...
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MI5 Warns Over 100 Academics Helped China's Espionage Plans (opens Infosecurity Magazine in a new tab)
MI5 has issued a rare warning to UK academics contributing to the China General Technology Research Institute
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BlackFog adds prompt protection and governance for agentic AI (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
BlackFog has announced the launch of ADX Vision 2.0, expanding its AI security capabilities to help organizations govern and control the use of generative and agentic AI across the enterprise. As employees move from simply interacting with AI tools to deploying agents capable of making decisions...
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Your customers just gave a bot access to their wallet. Are your controls ready? (opens IT Pro Security in a new tab)
Bot customers now need identity trust frameworks, not just fraud detection tools
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The perfect SOC: How to boost defences (opens IT Pro Security in a new tab)
Some security operations centers (SOCs) are more effective than others, according to a recent advisory from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). What lessons can firms learn to build the perfect SOC?
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Apple CoreGraphics PoC Emerges as WhatsApp PDF Checks Hint at Possible Delivery Path (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Security researchers have published the first public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-86950, an Apple CoreGraphics flaw Apple says may have been used in attacks against specific targeted individuals. The trigger is a malicious PDF with a crafted embedded font that crashes unpatched iPhones and Macs...
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Many expect AI in the SOC to make entry jobs harder to get (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
A junior analyst in a security operations center, or SOC, has usually learned the job the slow way. You work the same phishing lure dozens of times, chase the same familiar malware pattern and write up the same case note at the end of the shift. Eventually you know what normal looks like, which is...
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Bitget Confirms Third-Party Zero-Day Behind $387.5 Million Cryptocurrency Theft (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget on Wednesday confirmed that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week exploited a zero-day flaw in third-party security products, citing ongoing investigation findings from SlowMist. "Their investigation identified malicious activity involving third-party security...
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MetaMask Security Incident Prompts Exit of Affected Ethereum Validators (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
MetaMask on Thursday said it's responding to what it described as an "ongoing security incident" impacting part of its infrastructure. "We are actively addressing and remediating the issue internally, in coordination with external partners and security advisors," the software cryptocurrency wallet...
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The vulnerabilities AI finds are the ones attackers want (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Attackers exploited a flaw found by an AI research agent within four days of its public disclosure, and they are exploiting more vulnerabilities overall, according to new research by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The researchers examined vulnerability disclosure and exploitation data...
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eBay Coupons: 20% Off in October 2026 (opens Wired in a new tab)
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Mountain Hardwear Coupon Code 15% Off October (opens Wired in a new tab)
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Citrix NetScaler Post-Exploitation Payload Creates Superuser, Maps Web Shell to CSS-Like URLs (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway to drop web shells and attempt theft of configuration data. LevelBlue's Threat Hunt Operations & Research (THOR) team, which analyzed the...
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Employment scam victims tripled at financial firms in 21 countries (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Reported victims of employment scams more than tripled over the past 12 months at more than 370 banks and other financial institutions in 21 countries. The 258% rise outran every other scam type, while total reported scams across the same institutions grew 35%. Scams by the numbers (Source...
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Google says Gemini 4 Argon can find and patch critical software flaws (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier AI model, and is rolling it out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. Google says the model can locate critical software vulnerabilities, validate them, and patch them without human help, and it will release a version...
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Product showcase: Proton Drive end-to-end encrypted cloud storage (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service for storing, synchronizing, backing up, and sharing files. It also includes Proton Docs and Proton Sheets, allowing users to create and collaborate on documents and spreadsheets within the same encrypted environment. Proton Drive is...
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Google’s SynthID Bio can watermark AI-designed protein binders without breaking them (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Google DeepMind has built SynthID Bio, a watermark for AI-designed proteins, and shown in wet-lab tests on protein binders that it leaves their function intact. The method hides a signature in the amino acid sequence of a designed protein and in the atomic coordinates of a predicted 3D structure...
