Eighteen months ago, the AI SOC was a marketing line. Today it’s a budget item. The category has crossed over from interesting to inevitable, with billions of dollars now flowing into AI-powered security operations platforms, agentic SOC tools, and AI co-pilots built into every layer of the security stack. The data shows SOCs are buying, deploying, and standing up AI capabilities at the fastest
Chrome 149 Patches 429 Vulnerabilities
Over 100 bugs are critical or high-severity, mainly use-after-free and insufficient validation of untrusted input flaws.
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Industry Reactions to New Trump AI Cybersecurity Executive Order: Feedback Friday
Experts commented on the EO’s voluntary nature, the balance between innovation and security, and potential implementation gaps.
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Five Eyes: Chinese Spies Target Government, Military Staff With Fake Job Opportunities
Posing as recruiters on online platforms, Chinese intelligence officers target personnel with access to classified or privileged information.
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Hackers Exploit Critical Everest Forms Pro WordPress Plugin Flaw to Take Over Sites
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in Everest Forms Pro, a WordPress plugin with about 4,000 active installations, to execute arbitrary code, leading to a complete site compromise.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3300 (CVSS score: 9.8), a remote code execution bug impacting all versions of the plugin up to, and including, 1.9.12. A patch for the flaw was
Nightclub Giant RCI Says Data Breach Affects 40,000 Individuals
The company detected a network intrusion in March and an investigation showed that some files were stolen during the attack.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 Scams Are Already Live: Fake Sites, Banking Malware, and Stolen Logins
Security researchers and the FBI are warning that a wave of FIFA-themed fraud is already hitting World Cup 2026 fans, days before the June 11 kickoff.
Recent reports describe thousands of lookalike FIFA domains, banking malware hidden inside pirate streaming apps, and at least one operation that copies FIFA’s login page well enough to take over real accounts.
It is an obvious target. More than
Cisco warns of unpatched SD-WAN zero-day exploited in attacks
On Thursday, Cisco warned of a high-severity, unpatched zero-day in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (tracked as CVE-2026-20245) actively exploited in attacks enabling root privilege escalation. […]
Cisco Warns of 7th SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited in 2026
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-20245 and it can allow arbitrary command execution as root, but no patch yet.
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PCPJack Hijacks 230 AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Servers for Covert SMTP Relay Network
The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network.
“Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into SMTP proxies, verified for mail relay capability, and synced to a downstream consumer every five minutes,” Hunt.io said in