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Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic

A new mobile ad fraud scheme, dubbed Papyrus, is using a cluster of novel-reading apps to generate hidden browser traffic, according to IAS Threat Lab. Sample novel-reading apps associated with Papyrus (Source: IAS Threat Lab) While a person taps through chapters of a romance or fantasy story, the app is quietly loading websites in a browser window hidden from view, clicking on them, and scrolling through them on its own. “Papyrus is built around BootNova, … More → The post Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Photos: Black Hat USA 2026

Photo gallery from the Business Hall at Black Hat USA 2026. Interesting booths, demo stages, crowded aisles, and the moments in between. Featured vendors: Stellar Cyber, Tines, Filigran, Delinea, Prophet AI, Air Security, Legion Security. Featured people: Kunal Modasiya (Qualys) on going from vulnerability disclosure to autonomous remediation at machine speed. Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen (Root Evidence) signing their book The End of Guessing. Allie Mellen (Forrester) signing her book Code War: How Nations … More → The post Photos: Black Hat USA 2026 appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken

Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch a maintainer would write. When there is a test, it often passes. Roughly one time in four, it is a fix. Researchers at 1Password graded 6,080 patches for six freshly disclosed CVEs, and the failures are rarely the obvious kind: an exploit path gated behind a check with the vulnerable … More → The post Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken appeared first on Help Net Security.
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What is a virtual storage area network (VSAN)? How it works, benefits and use cases

A virtual storage area network (VSAN) is a logical partition in a physical storage area network, or SAN.
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