Application Security News and Articles


Five Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026: Identity, AI, and the Collapse of Perimeter Thinking

Cybersecurity has always evolved in response to attacker innovation, but the pace of change over the last few years has been unprecedented—particularly with the emergence of weaponized AI to scale phishing, deepfakes, and voice cloning. As we ...

Adaptive Security Raises $81 Million in Series B Funding

Led by Bain Capital Ventures, the investment round brings the total raised by the company to $146.5 million. The post Adaptive Security Raises $81 Million in Series B Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.

GhostPoster Firefox Extensions Hide Malware in Icons

The malware hijacks purchase commissions, tracks users, removes security headers, injects hidden iframes, and bypasses CAPTCHA. The post GhostPoster Firefox Extensions Hide Malware in Icons appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security by Design: Why Multi-Factor Authentication Matters More Than Ever

In an era marked by escalating cyber threats and evolving risk landscapes, organisations face mounting pressure to strengthen their security posture whilst maintaining seamless user experiences. At Thales, we recognise that robust security must ...

SHARED INTEL Q&A: This is how ‘edge AI’ is forcing a rethink of trust, security and resilience

A seismic shift in digital systems is underway — and most people are missing it. Related: Edge AI at the chip layer While generative AI demos and LLM hype steal the spotlight, enterprise infrastructure is being quietly re-architected, not from ...

IP Blacklist Check: How to Recover and Prevent Blacklisted IP Addresses

Originally published at IP Blacklist Check: How to Recover and Prevent Blacklisted IP Addresses by EasyDMARC. When your emails suddenly stop reaching inboxes, one ... The post IP Blacklist Check: How to Recover and Prevent Blacklisted IP ...

Auto Parts Giant LKQ Confirms Oracle EBS Breach

LKQ said the personal information of thousands of individuals was compromised as a result of the hacker attack. The post Auto Parts Giant LKQ Confirms Oracle EBS Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Trellix advances NDR to close the OT-IT threat detection-to-response gap

Trellix announced Trellix NDR innovations, strengthening OT-IT security with integrated visibility across complex environments, enhanced detection capabilities, and automated investigation and response to reduce the threat detection-to-response ...

XM Cyber bridges external attack surface management with validated internal attack paths

XM Cyber announced an update to its platform that connects External Attack Surface Management with internal risk validation, closing the gap between what’s exposed outside and what exists inside. By bridging these two worlds, XM Cyber now ...

Hadrian launches offensive agentic AI to expose vulnerabilities before attackers

Hadrian launched the latest iteration of its offensive Agentic AI Platform, designed to take an offensive approach to find external exposures and test them for exploitability. Instead of waiting for attacks to happen, Hadrian’s AI agents act ...

Vectra AI redefines hybrid resilience across the attack lifecycle

Vectra AI redefines hybrid attack resilience across the full attack lifecycle by unifying controls pre-and-post compromise within the Vectra AI Platform. Vectra AI’s control philosophy empowers defenders with continuous control through ...

Securing the AI Revolution: NSFOCUS LLM Security Protection Solution

As Artificial Intelligence technology rapidly advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) are being widely adopted across countless domains. However, with this growth comes a critical challenge: LLM security issues are becoming increasingly prominent, ...

Dux Emerges From Stealth Mode With $9 Million in Funding

The startup takes an agentic approach to preventing vulnerability exploitation by uncovering exposure across assets. The post Dux Emerges From Stealth Mode With $9 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Why vulnerability reports stall inside shared hosting companies

Security teams keep sending vulnerability notifications, and the same pattern keeps repeating. Many alerts land, few lead to fixes. A new qualitative study digs into what happens after those reports arrive and explains why remediation so often ...

The Rise of Precision Botnets in DDoS

For a long time, DDoS attacks were easy to recognize. They were loud, messy, and built on raw throughput. Attackers controlled massive botnets and flooded targets until bandwidth or infrastructure collapsed. It was mostly a scale problem, not an ...

Banks built rules for yesterday’s crime and RegTech is trying to fix that

Criminals are moving money across borders faster, and financial institutions are feeling the squeeze. Compliance teams feel this strain every day as they try to keep up with schemes that shift through accounts, intermediaries, and digital ...

Zabbix: Open-source IT and OT observability solution

Zabbix is an open source monitoring platform designed to track the availability, performance, and integrity of IT environments. It monitors networks along with servers, virtual machines, applications, services, databases, websites, and cloud ...

How exposure management changes cyber defense

In this Help Net Security video, Larry Slusser, VP of Strategy at SixMap, explains why endpoint detection and response is only part of the security story. Drawing on his work as an incident responder, engagement manager, and ransomware ...

AI breaks the old security playbook

AI has moved into enterprise operations faster than many security programs expected. It is embedded in workflows, physical systems, and core infrastructure. Some AI tools reach hundreds of millions of users each week. Inference costs have fallen ...

Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Model Context Sharing

Discover how homomorphic encryption (HE) enhances privacy-preserving model context sharing in AI, ensuring secure data handling and compliance for MCP deployments. The post Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Model Context Sharing ...