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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/11/2026 > automox-mitigation-worklet-pipeline

Automox Mitigation Worklets cut endpoint exposure to unpatchable flaws

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (207+ words) Automox has announced its AI-speed Mitigation Worklet Pipeline, which automates mitigation to reduce risk from the increased volume and velocity of frontier-model AI vulnerabilities. Now the time from vulnerability disclosure to exposure mitigation is shortened from days or weeks to…...

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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/10/2026 > wordpress-automated-plugin-security-review

WordPress adds automated security checks to block risky plugin releases

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (460+ words) WordPress’ automated security review will now assess every plugin release before it is distributed through the WordPress.org update API. Releases considered a potential security risk will be blocked automatically. “A plugin can be secure today and introduce a vulnerability,…...

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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/10/2026 > product-showcase-gitguardian-honeytoken-decoy-service

Product showcase: GitGuardian Honeytoken catches credential theft as it happens

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (730+ words) Credential harvesting on developer machines has widened. Earlier infostealers worked from a short list of known targets, mostly browser stores and a few cloud credential paths. The families active now cast a much wider net. Shai-Hulud, for instance, ran a…...

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LogicON 2026

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (169+ words) Help Net Security The event brings together professionals responsible for managing, securing, and overseeing their organizations’ technology environments. Attendees include practitioners and decision-makers across IT, cybersecurity, and executive leadership, such as CIOs, CISOs, IT and security leaders, CEOs, COOs, and…...

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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/09/2026 > f5-big-ip-apm-rootkit-hides-web-shell-in-memory

Hackers deploy Linux rootkit on F5 BIG-IP APM devices, hiding web shell in memory

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (508+ words) A rootkit found on hacked F5 BIG-IP APM devices skips the usual step of writing a web shell to disk, hiding it in memory instead, according to Sophos. F5 BIG-IP APM provides access policy enforcement to secure access to apps, APIs, and…...

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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/09/2026 > securin-exposure-management-platform

Securin Platform helps security teams prove when attack paths are closed

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (292+ words) Securin has announced the general availability of the Securin Platform, an AI-native Preemptive Exposure Management platform designed to answer three questions security teams struggle with every day: What can attackers actually exploit? What should we fix first? And did the…...

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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/09/2026 > google-chrome-cve-2026-87491-zero-day-flaw

Google fixes yet another actively exploited Chrome zero-day (CVE-2026-87491)

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (226+ words) Google has fixed 230 vulnerabilities in Chrome, including a zero-day flaw, CVE-2026-87491, with an in-the-wild exploit. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-87491 exists in the wild,” the company said in a Tuesday security advisory. The fix has been shipped…...

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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/08/2026 > jellyfin-12-0-security-fixes

Jellyfin 12.0 security fixes arrive alongside the removal of legacy client logins

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (335+ words) Jellyfin shipped version 12.0 of its media server. Several of the security fixes in it block requests built to reach files outside the folders the server is supposed to hand out. The rest of the security work touches first-run setup, plugin…...

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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/07/2026 > connectwise-screenconnect-file-transfer-flaw

Attackers spread malware through ScreenConnect file transfers

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (324+ words) A file transfer flaw in ScreenConnect Remote Access Support and Access sessions affects both Cloud and On-Premise deployments, ConnectWise confirmed. “A CVE identifier and an official fix will be issued within the week,” the company wrote in its September 3 advisory....

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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/06/2026 > week-in-review-claude-accounts-compromised-through-infostealer-patch-tuesday-forecast

Week in review: Claude accounts compromised through infostealer, Patch Tuesday forecast

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1297+ words) Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Anthropic locks out Claude users after infostealers hijack login sessions Anthropic has started locking users out of their Claude accounts due to their login sessions…...