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Security Data Isn’t the Problem. Security Context Is.

Horizon3 blog argues security context, not data volume, is the SOC bottleneck, promoting its NodeZero integration with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.

Horizon3.ai published a vendor blog explaining how its NodeZero Proactive Security Platform integration with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM brings validated exposure findings into existing security operations workflows. The post argues SOCs are now limited by confidence rather than visibility, needing context to decide which issues matter. It cites a global chemical manufacturer that validated exploitable exposures with NodeZero before completing a $2 billion merger.

Horizon3.ai · 1d agoTools

Wordfence Argus: Moving Beyond Human Research Capability

Wordfence showcases Argus, an AI agent for security research whose breakthrough findings required the AI itself to explain them.

Wordfence describes Argus, an AI research agent the company says has moved beyond human research capability, producing a breakthrough so complex that the team asked the agent to write the explanatory blog post itself. The post functions as a vendor announcement of AI-driven vulnerability research capability. No specific CVEs, victims, or exploited products are detailed in the available text.

Wordfence · 19d agoTools

WordPress adds automated security checks to block risky plugin releases

WordPress.org now automatically security-reviews every plugin release and blocks high-risk updates before distribution to millions of sites.

The WordPress Official Plugin Repository Team launched an automated security review that scores each plugin and theme release during a six-hour cooldown, combining analysis from several AI models and Jetpack Scan, and automatically blocks releases deemed high risk. The change followed a July 28 detection of a backdoor committed to a release of a plugin with roughly 20,000 active installations; the release was withheld and the plugin closed for downloads 26 minutes after Wordfence notified the team. Blocked authors must fix findings and publish a new release scoring below the blocking threshold, or appeal to the Plugins Team.

Help Net Securityupdated · 4d agofirst · 6d agoTools 7 sources

Fideo Lens reveals connections across identities, accounts and devices

Fideo Intelligence launched Fideo Lens, an investigative platform mapping relationships across identities, accounts, devices and behaviors for fraud and AML teams.

Fideo Intelligence introduced Fideo Lens, an investigative intelligence platform that helps fraud, financial crime, and AML teams discover hidden relationships among identities, accounts, devices, and behaviors. The tool draws on the company's Identity Fraud Intelligence Network (iFIN) and offers interactive relationship mapping, entity resolution, explainable reason codes, and continuously refreshed data. It is designed to complement existing fraud, AML, and case management systems rather than replace them.

Help Net Security · 22d agoTools

How a team of entity maintainers monitors, connects and scores entities in Elastic Security

Elastic Security explains how background 'maintainer' jobs build user, host and service entities from raw logs and drive identity resolution and risk scoring.

Elastic Security Labs describes the internal background jobs, called maintainers, that each own one piece of every user, host and service record in Elastic Security. The maintainers construct entities from raw logs, resolve identities across sources and compute risk scores, and the write-up explains how the team keeps this entity machinery consistent.

Elastic Security Labs · 23d agoTools

Cohesity adds recovery capabilities for AI agents and the data they manage

Cohesity launched Agent Resilience to discover, protect, and recover AI agent memory, configuration, and agent-managed data, debuting with Amazon Bedrock integration.

At Cohesity Catalyst, Cohesity introduced Agent Resilience within Cohesity Data Cloud, protecting AI agent memory and configuration with snapshot architecture, immutable backups, and clean-room recovery, plus recovery for databases and file systems that agents manage. It launches with Amazon Bedrock integration, support for Microsoft and Google platforms planned, and general availability targeted for year-end. The company cited Gartner's prediction that up to 40% of enterprise applications will include task-specific agents by 2026, and Cohesity research showing 56% of organizations are unprepared to detect or contain unintended agent actions while 58% lack confidence in verifying AI model integrity after attacks. Cohesity also outlined an Autonomous Cyber Resilience vision using agentic workflows and introduced the AI Resilience Academy.

Help Net Security · 5h agoTools

Rubrik MCP gives AI agents controlled access to security intelligence

Rubrik launched MCP support exposing Rubrik Security Cloud APIs to enterprise AI agents with RBAC, configurable permissions, and OWASP MCP Top 10 guardrails.

Rubrik announced Rubrik MCP (Model Context Protocol), giving organizations' AI agents a secure, programmable path to Rubrik's data, identity, and application intelligence via the Rubrik Security Cloud API schema. Teams can save multi-step recovery or compliance workflows as reusable, deterministic tools, with role-based access control parity and OWASP MCP Top 10 aligned guardrails. Rubrik engineered its agent architecture with Anthropic's teams for multi-step reasoning in incident response, and says Rubrik AI is now trusted by one-third of its global customers.

Help Net Security · 5h agoTools1

12 Best Kubernetes Security Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

A buying-guide comparison of twelve Kubernetes security vendors, from free OSS tools like Falco and Kubescape to paid platforms led by Sysdig and Aqua.

The article compares features and pricing mechanics for twelve Kubernetes security vendors including Sysdig, Wiz, Aqua Security, SUSE NeuVector, Snyk, Isovalent (Cisco), Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, Fairwinds, Red Hat ACS (StackRox), and Tigera. It argues CNCF-grade open source (Kubescape, Falco, Calico, NeuVector, Cilium/Tetragon) provides a free floor for posture, runtime, and network policy. Pricing hinges on node-versus-cluster-versus-developer billing units, and Cisco's Isovalent acquisition consolidates the eBPF layer inside a networking giant.

GBHackers · 6h agoTools 13 sources

Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network

Spur Intelligence launches Have I Been Proxied, a free tool that checks if your public IP appeared in residential proxy networks.

Have I Been Proxied is a free one-click web tool that checks whether a user's public IP has been observed routing traffic in residential proxy networks. Devices can be silently enrolled via apps, browser extensions, VPNs, or smart TVs, and the tool offers guidance on which apps and devices to investigate. It is powered by Spur Intelligence's network intelligence data, which serves fraud and trust teams detecting residential proxies, VPNs, and anonymization infrastructure.

Hacker News · security · 1d agoToolsHN 20↑ · 10 comments

Product showcase: mSecure makes one vault do more than remember passwords

Product showcase reviews mSecure password manager's AES-256 zero-knowledge vault with passkeys, 2FA storage, and multi-device sync options.

mSecure is a password manager and data vault for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows using AES-256 encryption and a zero-knowledge architecture, with sync via mSecure Cloud, Wi-Fi, iCloud, or Dropbox, plus local-only storage. It supports passkeys, one-time passwords, a Security Center for weak/reused passwords, and a configurable password generator. Recovery features include two-factor authentication, auto-lock, a Self-Destruct option after failed unlock attempts, and iCloud backups on iOS.

Help Net Security · 1d agoTools1

Homebrew 7.0.0 gets built-in GUI, better security controls

Homebrew 7.0.0 adds a built-in vulnerability scanner (brew vulns), a Homebrew advisory database, stronger sandboxing, and the BrewUI GUI.

Homebrew 7.0.0 ships a native BrewUI graphical interface for macOS 26 Tahoe and later, plus a new 'brew vulns' command that queries OSV.dev in batch to flag vulnerabilities in installed formulae, specific packages, or Brewfile dependencies. The release also introduces a Homebrew-specific OSV-format advisory database distinguishing outstanding vulnerabilities from backported fixes. Sandbox improvements block home directory access by default and separate network-enabled dependency downloads from offline installs.

BleepingComputer · 1d agoTools1

Cyble Introduces Major Upgrade to its Executive Monitoring Module

Cyble upgraded Executive Monitoring in Cyble Vision, unifying impersonation, exposure, and mention findings with AI scoring and multi-channel alerting.

Cyble released a major upgrade to Executive Monitoring within its Cyble Vision platform, consolidating Mentions, Impersonations, Exposures, and a new Surface Mentions source (blog and news coverage) into a single findings stream. The release adds AI-generated verdicts and recommendations, per-executive Risk and Reputation scoring for board reporting, and richer onboarding with aliases, reference images, and addresses to cut same-name false positives. Alerting now supports data residency, bulk import, delivery via email, WhatsApp, and SMS, an Access API, and branded executive PDF reports; the upgrade is live with no customer action required.

Cyble · 6d agoTools

Introducing the CyberAgents Exchange AI Inspector: Rigorous review for community-built AI

Tenable and OpenAI launch the CyberAgents Exchange AI Inspector to security-review community-submitted AI agents, MCP servers, and skills using GPT Cyber models.

Tenable and OpenAI announced the CyberAgents Exchange AI Inspector, unveiled at OpenAI's "Intelligence at Work: Cyber Summit," to vet community-submitted AI agents, skills, MCP servers, and multi-agent playbooks in the CyberAgents Exchange registry. The process combines Tenable One AI Exposure scanning, OpenAI GPT Cyber model assessment, and human review, with reviews anchored to specific Git commits. The registry launched in August and hosts over 100 AI listings; the Inspector is expected to be available in September and has already detected prompt injection implemented via invisible Unicode tag characters in a SKILL.md file.

Tenable Blog · 7d agoTools

Zscaler Agentic SOC combines AI agents with zero trust telemetry

Zscaler launched Agentic SOC, an AI-agent-driven security operations platform combining zero trust telemetry with frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI.

Zscaler announced Agentic SOC, a security operations platform built around specialized AI agents for triage, root-cause investigation, verdict assignment, and automated threat containment. The platform pairs Zscaler's zero trust telemetry, drawn from roughly 750 billion daily transactions and a large decoy mesh network, with frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI plus proprietary threat intelligence. It features closed-loop inline remediation that can isolate compromised users, block command-and-control traffic, and cut off lateral movement, alongside a context graph that correlates third-party data. Continuous threat hunting combines AI automation with human experts from Zscaler and Red Canary, and customer Maire Tecnimont is cited as an early adopter.

Help Net Security · 7d agoTools

Reflectiz Launches Agentic Pentesting for Websites: Up to 10x Coverage vs Conventional Pentests

Reflectiz launched a multi-agent AI penetration testing platform for websites, claiming up to 10x more coverage than conventional pentests.

Reflectiz, a continuous web exposure management vendor, launched a multi-agent penetration testing platform for websites under a new Offensive Hub. Four specialized agents crawl the site like a real user, fingerprint the stack, run attacks, and independently validate findings to remove false positives. The company claims up to 10x more coverage than conventional pentesting by starting from its pre-existing live model of each site. Findings integrate via REST API, CI/CD triggers and Slack, and the Atlas remediation agent guides fixes.

CSO Online · 8d agoTools

Reflectiz Launches Agentic Pentesting for Websites: Up to 10x Coverage vs Conventional Pentests

Reflectiz launched a multi-agent AI penetration testing platform for websites, claiming up to 10x more coverage than conventional pentests by leveraging existing site context.

Reflectiz, a web exposure management vendor, announced an agentic penetration testing product within a new Offensive Hub. The platform uses specialized AI agents for crawling, stack fingerprinting, attack execution, and independent validation, claiming to cover the OWASP Top 10 and reduce false positives. Findings integrate with existing workflows via REST API, CI/CD triggers, and Slack, and an AI remediation agent named Atlas guides fixes. The announcement is a vendor press release with a planned September 15 webinar demo.

GBHackers · 8d agoTools 2 sources

Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models

Cloudflare launches invitation-only Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation within Managed Defense, using OpenAI Daybreak models and WAF context to prioritize and patch vulnerabilities.

Cloudflare announced early access to Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, an invitation-only service within Cloudflare Managed Defense. The service uses OpenAI Daybreak models, including GPT-5.6 Cyber, via the Daybreak Defense Network to hunt and validate vulnerabilities in customer-authorized codebases across Workers and proxied applications. Findings are prioritized using production traffic, WAF rule, and security event context, and proposed patches and WAF mitigations are automatically checked before customer review.

Cloudflare Blog · 12d agoTools

Autonomous Threat Operations in action: Real results from Recorded Future’s own SOC team

Recorded Future reports its Autonomous Threat Operations platform enabled 15-20 weekly automated threat hunts in its own SOC.

Recorded Future deployed its Autonomous Threat Operations platform internally as Customer Zero before customer release, standardizing threat hunting across its security operations organization. The team now runs 15-20 scheduled threat hunts weekly, replacing manual hunts that previously took days or weeks of preparation. During the Salt Typhoon campaign, Recorded Future's CISO launched a network-wide threat hunt in five minutes between meetings. The platform connects to the company's Splunk environment and consolidates hunting and IOC research into a single interface.

Recorded Future · 13d agoTools

Android 17 adds new protections against sneaky Wi-Fi tracking and web snooping

Android 17 adds Encrypted Client Hello, Local Network Protection, default Certificate Transparency and operator-controlled 2G disabling to counter Wi-Fi tracking and snooping.

Google announced network security changes in Android 17, led by broad support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), which encrypts domain names visible to network operators and eavesdroppers, paired with GREASE decoys where server support is uneven. Jigsaw testing across the top 10,000 domains and 740 ISPs in 202 countries found connection success and interference levels comparable to ordinary TLS. Android 17 also adds Local Network Protection requiring app permission to scan local devices, Certificate Transparency on by default to catch forged certificates, and operator-side 2G disabling to cut exposure to SMS blaster fake base stations. Apps targeting Android 17 get ECH by default via networking libraries such as OkHttp, WebView and HttpEngine.

Help Net Security · 19d agoTools

Abnormal AI expands email security from detection to data protection and phishing-simulation training

Abnormal AI expands its email security platform with Control Center, Email DLP Rules, and AI Phishing Coach upgrades for outbound protection and training.

Abnormal AI announced three new capabilities for its email security platform: Control Center for custom detection models and rules with decision transparency, Email DLP Rules combining regex and policy controls with an AI Triage Agent for outbound mail, and upgraded AI Phishing Coach for adaptive phishing simulations. Custom AI Models and Phishing Coach upgrades reach general availability on August 31, while Custom Rules and Email DLP Rules enter early access the same day. The launch positions Abnormal across inbound attacks, outbound data loss, and employee training.

Help Net Security · 20d agoTools

Can AI make threat intelligence easier? One platform thinks so

Feedly positions its AI-driven Threat Intelligence platform to cut CTI collection time, scanning 10,000+ sources with 1,000 AI models and reporting 70% time savings.

A profile of Feedly Threat Intelligence describes how CTI teams such as RH-ISAC reduced threat data collection from 10 hours weekly to 2-3 hours after adoption. The platform scans over 10,000 open web sources using 1,000 AI models to extract TTPs, CVEs and IoCs into a real-time Threat Graph queryable via an Ask AI LLM with source citations. Customers including GreyNoise, Sopra Steria, gematik and GISA reported measurable gains such as 20 hours saved daily and earlier vulnerability flagging than CISA 65% of the time. The product integrates with Anomali ThreatStream, Cortex XSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel and OpenCTI, plus a REST API and GitHub scripts.

Help Net Security · 23d agoTools

Recorded Future Launches Impact and Metrics Dashboard

Recorded Future releases an Impact and Metrics Dashboard aggregating risk-reduction, detection, and analyst-efficiency metrics for customer leadership reporting.

The dashboard pulls data from a customer's environment, alerts, integrations, threat detections, and analyst activity into six metric areas: platform-wide security value, threat prioritization, threat detection, digital risk protection, account and credential monitoring, and Recorded Future AI and Insikt Group research usage. It is available now to all Recorded Future customers, who are advised to configure Priority Intelligence Requirements in Settings so reporting maps to their intelligence program. The vendor cites its 2025 ROI Report across nearly 300 customers reporting 351.3% annual ROI and says customers aligning alerting to PIRs identified new threats 65% faster.

Recorded Future · 23d agoTools

Signal's new security feature checks if your encrypted chats were tampered with

Signal adds automatic key verification, a key-transparency system audited by Cloudflare and Trail of Bits that detects key-directory tampering in E2EE chats.

Signal launched automatic key verification, a key-transparency system that confirms a phone number or username remains bound to a consistent encryption key across Signal's key directory. Cloudflare and Trail of Bits independently audit the system, with cryptographic protection preventing auditors from seeing users' identifiers in plaintext. The feature mitigates key substitution by a compromised directory or privileged insider, though it currently requires the contact's phone number and users can fall back to manual Safety Number verification.

Help Net Security · Aug 12, 2026Tools