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Ransomware attackers are exploiting critical SmarterMail vulnerability (CVE-2026-24423)

For the third time in two weeks, CISA added a vulnerability (CVE-2026-24423) affecting SmarterTools’ SmarterMail email and collaboration server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and this one is being exploited in ransomware attacks. A glut of SmarterMail vulnerabilities On January 26, the US cybersecurity agency listed CVE-2025-52691 (a unrestricted upload of file with dangerous type vulnerability) and CVE-2026-23760 (an authentication bypass flaw) affecting SmarterMail in the KEV catalog. WatchTowr researchers analyzed and shared technical … More → The post Ransomware attackers are exploiting critical SmarterMail vulnerability (CVE-2026-24423) appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Claude Opus 4.6 improves agentic performance and model safety

Claude Opus 4.6 builds on earlier releases with improved coding performance and more consistent behavior in complex tasks. Opus 4.6 finds real vulnerabilities in codebases better than any other model (Source: Anthropic) According to Anthropic, the model applies more deliberate planning during task execution, sustains agent-driven workflows over longer periods, and operates with greater consistency across large codebases. It improves code review and debugging by identifying errors in its own output and correcting them during … More → The post Claude Opus 4.6 improves agentic performance and model safety appeared first on Help Net Security.
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MintMCP’s governance platform helps organizations deploy, monitor, and secure AI agents

MintMCP launched its enterprise governance platform for AI agents and MCP servers, enabling teams to deploy, monitor, and secure agent infrastructure at scale. The platform enables organizations to deploy, monitor, and secure AI agents at scale while maintaining complete audit trails and policy enforcement. As enterprises race to deploy AI agents, security teams face a growing blind spot. These agents operate with elevated privileges: accessing databases, APIs, and internal systems. At the same time, most … More → The post MintMCP’s governance platform helps organizations deploy, monitor, and secure AI agents appeared first on Help Net Security.
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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. The January releases addressed 92 vulnerabilities in Windows 11 and Server2025, as well as 79 vulnerabilities for Windows 10 and its associated servers. We also saw updates for legacy 2016 versions of Microsoft Office and even a SQL Server update. But these patches came with some … More → The post February 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Lots of OOB love this month appeared first on Help Net Security.
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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 for customers. Enterprises are facing account and business-logic abuse that existing bot and fraud tools were never built to detect. In a single session, this human-driven activity often looks legitimate. Risk only becomes clear later, after damage has already occurred. “Teams already know what this kind … More → The post Kasada Account Intelligence combats manual fraud and abuse appeared first on Help Net Security.
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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 privacy policies can claim what an app should do, yet neither reliably shows what data is actually collected and where it is sent during real use. A new analysis framework called mopri aims to reduce that gap by combining static and dynamic analysis into a modular … More → The post Mobile privacy audits are getting harder appeared first on Help Net Security.
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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 on her work with CISOs and security leaders, she shows how delayed choices around visibility, vulnerability management, and risk assessment lead to blind spots that grow over time. Darley introduces the idea of visibility debt, where each quarter without insight allows shadow IT, legacy systems, and … More → The post The hidden cost of putting off security decisions appeared first on Help Net Security.
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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 datacenter failovers Gremlin, the proactive reliability platform, launched Disaster Recovery Testing: a new product built to safely and efficiently test zone, region, and datacenter evacuations and failovers. These large-scale tests ensure businesses maintain digital resilience and business continuity when faced with cloud migrations, compliance concerns, and … More → The post New infosec products of the week: February 6, 2026 appeared first on Help Net Security.
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