Capital One releases VulnHunter, an open-source AI tool that finds software flaws before hackers do

Capital One has open-sourced VulnHunter, an AI security tool that finds exploitable code flaws, maps attack paths and helps ...
Martin Cid Magazine

Microsoft fixed 570 Windows security flaws in one month. AI found most of them

Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday set a new record: 570 security vulnerabilities patched in a single release, with two ...

CISA urges immediate SharePoint hardening as exploits mount

Three actively exploited SharePoint vulnerabilities have landed in the KEV catalog, with security experts warning that ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Trust in Automated AI Vulnerability Scanning Collapses to 9%, New Study Finds

A large number of false negatives has significantly eroded confidence in automated AI testing for vulnerabilities, a new study from Cobalt has found. The Cobalt State of Pentesting Report 2026 is ...
Searchenginejournal.com

UpdraftPlus WordPress Vulnerability Puts 3 Million Sites At Risk

A vulnerability in the UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin affects more than 3 million WordPress websites and enables unauthenticated attackers to execute commands as an administrator. The flaw ...
The Next Web

Avast’s former CEO built an AI that found every OpenSSL zero-day this year. Now it runs inside air-gapped networks.

AISLE launched Snapshot, an on-premises AI vulnerability scanner for regulated enterprises. The company has found 225+ CVEs including every OpenSSL zero-day in January 2026, and claims 10x cost ...
Ars Technica

High-severity vulnerability in Linux caused by a single faulty character

Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don’t often see: a single errant character inside the kernel.
Harvard Business Review

How People Are Really Using AI in 2026

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...
Reuters

AI-related data breaches surging, Verizon report says

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - Hackers are increasingly using AI to detect software vulnerabilities, which has ‌shortened the time that targets have to respond to threats, Verizon said in an annual ...
GeekWire

Microsoft’s multi-agent AI system tops Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark

CyberGym benchmark scores over time, showing the rapid improvement in AI vulnerability discovery capabilities. Microsoft’s multi-model MDASH system (top right) tops the leaderboard at 88.4%. (CyberGym ...
Gizmodo

Google Says It Found Evidence of Hackers Using AI to Discover a Zero-Day Vulnerability

As AI models continue to get more powerful, it’s not too surprising that some people are trying to use them for crime. The Google Threat Intelligence Group said on Monday that it has identified, for ...
CNBC

Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for 'mass exploitation event'

Google's Threat Intelligence Group said hackers are using AI models such as OpenClaw to uncover and exploit zero-day software vulnerabilities. The group said in a report that it had uncovered and ...