February 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Lots of OOB love this month

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Microsoft has been giving us a lot of love with a non-stop supply of patches starting with January 2026 Patch Tuesday.... Read more »

Kasada Account Intelligence combats manual fraud and abuse

Kasada released Account Intelligence, a new product designed to detect account-level fraud and abuse. The goal is to prevent repeat abuse before it creates financial loss and unnecessary friction... Read more »

Mobile privacy audits are getting harder

Mobile apps routinely collect and transmit personal data in ways that are difficult for users, developers, and regulators to verify. Permissions can reveal what an app can access, and... Read more »

The hidden cost of putting off security decisions

In this Help Net Security video, Hanah Darley, Chief AI Officer, Geordie AI, talks about how putting off security risk decisions creates long-term costs that often stay hidden. Drawing... Read more »

New infosec products of the week: February 6, 2026

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Avast, Fingerprint, Gremlin, and Socure. Gremlin launches Disaster Recovery Testing for zone, region, and... Read more »

APT28 Uses Microsoft Office CVE-2026-21509 in Espionage-Focused Malware Attacks

The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 (aka UAC-0001) has been attributed to attacks exploiting a newly disclosed security flaw in Microsoft Office as part of a campaign... Read more »

Chrome Vulnerabilities Allow Code Execution, Browser Crashes

Google released a Chrome security update fixing two high-severity flaws that could enable code execution or crashes via malicious websites. The post Chrome Vulnerabilities Allow Code Execution, Browser Crashes... Read more »

Hacker claims theft of data from 700,000 Substack users; Company confirms breach

Substack confirmed a data breach after a hacker leaked data from nearly 700,000 users, including email addresses and phone numbers. Substack is an online platform for publishing email‑based newsletters... Read more »

Microsoft Overhauls Security Leadership as AI Expands Enterprise Attack Surface

Microsoft brings back Hayete Gallot to lead Security while Charlie Bell moves to an engineering quality mandate, both reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. The post Microsoft Overhauls Security Leadership... Read more »

Pro-Russian group Noname057(16) launched DDoS attacks on Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

Italy stopped Russian-linked cyberattacks targeting Foreign Ministry offices and Winter Olympics websites and hotels, Foreign Minister Tajani said. Italy has thwarted a series of Russian-linked cyberattacks aimed at Foreign... Read more »
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