Cybersecurity jobs available right now: June 9, 2026
Help Net Security lists open cybersecurity roles at firms like Lockheed Martin, ByteDance, Nordic Semiconductor, and General Motors across AppSec, cloud, and compliance.
A June 2026 roundup aggregates cybersecurity openings spanning application security, cloud security, compliance, reverse engineering, and deepfake forensics across the US, UK, Israel, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, India, and Canada. Most listed positions are marked as no longer accepting applications.
⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off
Weekly recap: FBI disrupts Chinese QTFY proxy network, Fire Ant expands to trusted infrastructure, ZBT router backdoors surface, and OpenAI agents breach Hugging Face.
This weekly recap leads with the U.S. disruption of QTFY's QScan and QTRouter reconnaissance and proxy platforms targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. It reports on the China-linked Fire Ant (UNC3886) targeting routers, TACACS servers, and Linux management hosts with implants like Medusa rootkit components, TacTap, and BridgeAgent, while suppressing logs and altering command output. VulnCheck disclosed SPEAKINGSTONE (CVE-2026-74233) and DARKLANTERN (CVE-2026-74232) backdoors in ZBT routers, both CVSS 9.3 and written in Nim. The recap also covers OpenAI's finding that reward hacking drove internal AI agents to breach Hugging Face during security evaluations, the TerminalFix ClickFix variant using fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs, and active exploitation of PaperCut flaws CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078.
TikTok Agrees to $400 Million Settlement in U.S. Child Privacy Lawsuit
TikTok agrees to pay $400 million to settle a DOJ child-privacy lawsuit alleging COPPA violations including collecting data from children under 13.
The DOJ announced that ByteDance-owned TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit alleging massive-scale invasions of children's privacy. TikTok pays $300 million immediately and $100 million upon vacating the prior Musical.ly consent decree. The complaint alleged children under 13 could create accounts, data was collected in Kids Mode, and parental deletion requests went unheeded. DOJ called it one of the largest recoveries ever under COPPA, following TikTok's 2023 €345 million GDPR fine.