GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain, giving maintainers the ability to explicitly approve a release prior to the packages becoming publicly available for installation. Called staged publishing, the feature is now generally available on npm. It mandates that a human maintainer pass a two-factor authentication (2FA) challenge to approve a package before it is pushed to the npmjs[.]com. "Instead of a direct publish that immediately makes a package version available to consumers, the prebuilt tarball is uploaded to a stage queue where a maintainer must explicitly approve it before it becomes installable," GitHub said. The Microsoft-owned subsidiary said the change ensures "proof of presence" for every publish, including those that come from non-interactive CI/CD workflows and trusted publishing with OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. Before using staged publishing, package maintainers have to meet the following criteria - - Have publish access to the package - Package already exists on the npm registry, meaning a brand new package cannot be staged - 2FA is enabled for the account Developers can use the command "npm stage publish" from the root directory of the package to submit it to a staging area. To use this command, it's essential to update to npm CLI 11.15.0 or newer. For optimal protection, GitHub is recommending that staged publishing be paired with trusted publishing using OIDC. A second update focused on npm relates to the introduction of three new install source flags alongside the existing -allow-git flag - - --allow-file: Controls installs from local file paths and local tarballs - --allow-remote: Controls installs from remote URLs, including https tarballs - --allow-directory: Controls installs from local directories The flags allow developers to "apply the same explicit-allowlist approach to every non-registry install source," GitHub said. The development comes amid
May 23, 2026 · via thehackernews.com
The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) said UH President Wendy Hensel “exceeded our expectations” in her annual performance evaluation for academic year 2026–2027, shared at the May 21 BOR meeting held at UH West Oʻahu. Regents praised Hensel, who began serving as UH president on January 1, 2025, for her leadership during her first year and expressed confidence in the university’s continued progress. “Over the past year, President Wendy F. Hensel has demonstrated proactive and highly engaged leadership during her early tenure at the University of Hawaiʻi,” said BOR Chair Gabriel Lee in a statement following the evaluation (full statement below). “She has successfully prioritized extensive internal and external stakeholder engagement, navigated significant legislative and budgetary challenges, and launched comprehensive evaluations of system-wide structures.” The board highlighted several accomplishments during Hensel’s first year, including securing UH’s state budget, leading a successful athletics director search, deploying systemwide student success technologies, increasing access to UH for Hawaiʻi public high school students through Direct2UH, and advancing an artificial intelligence integration strategy. Regents also acknowledged major operational challenges the university faced during the evaluation period, including the transition to the new Banner student information system, cybersecurity issues and rapidly shifting federal policies affecting higher education. “Moving forward, we ask that her focus shift to finalizing major reorganizational goals—such as completing the separation of the Mānoa and System leadership—implementing a new strategic budget model, standardizing student care, completing the health campus consolidations and elevating workforce development,” the statement said. It concluded with the board expressing appreciation for Hensel’s leadership and optimism for the future. “The Board of Regents is grateful for her leadership and performance. She exceeded our expectations and we look forward to continued progress together.” President’s performance evaluation statement from the Board of Regents May 21, 2026 “Over the past year,
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University of Cincinnati receives $227K to expand cybersecurity training
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WKRC) - The Ohio Controlling Board approved $227,000 for the University of Cincinnati to expand the Ohio Cyber Range, a statewide cybersecurity training and testing initiative, according to State Rep. Cecil Thomas.
The funding will allow UC to purchase equipment to enhance the cyber range’s training capabilities for students, educators, government agencies and industry partners.
“This investment will help strengthen Ohio’s cybersecurity infrastructure while also preparing students and professionals for careers in a rapidly growing field,” Thomas said in a statement.
The Ohio Cyber Range is designed to provide hands-on cybersecurity training and simulated environments aimed at improving preparedness against cyber threats.
State officials said the project supports Ohio’s broader efforts to strengthen cybersecurity workforce development and public-private sector resilience.
May 23, 2026 · via local12.com
QUICKHEAL: Losses deepened as enterprise cybersecurity surpassed 50% of revenue during ongoing transformation
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Revenue declined and losses deepened amid a strategic shift from B2C antivirus to enterprise cybersecurity, with enterprise now over 50% of revenue. Management expects the transition to last up to two more quarters, with a strong focus on AI, R&D, and international growth.
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This Week's Top Five Stories in Cyber TeamPCP’s Mini Shai-Hulud Campaign Breaches TanStack npm The new wave of Mini Shai-Hulud campaign unearthed in the wild is proof that software supply chain poisoning is quickly becoming the repeat hit of 2026. On May 11 2026, there were rumblings of a coordinated supply chain attack targeting the npm (node package manager) and PyPi (Python package index) ecosystems. The threat actor behind it was found to be TeamPCP – a financially motivated threat cluster responsible for the recent Trivy supply chain attack and Checkmarx KICS incident. The group published malicious packages on the repository that would trigger a credential stealer payload, when developers downloaded legitimate software packages, thereby casting a wider net over the internet. Akamai: Why AI-Driven Threats are Intensifying for Finance Despite the clear gains financial services continue to reap from digital transformation, one of the most pressing and complex challenges it introduces is the expanded attack surface for cybercriminals. And that surface is only widening. Akamai’s AI-Empowered Botnets and API Visibility Gaps: Attack Trends in Financial Services State of the Internet (SOTI) Security report underscores this shift, positioning the sector as a primary target for increasingly sophisticated and persistent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “Cybercriminals and hacktivists continue to escalate DDoS from nuisance attacks to a sustained siege encompassing both hacktivism and cybercrime and financial services are in the crosshairs," says Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO of Akamai. SailPoint Straps Security to AI Agents with Agentic Fabric To help support the enterprise deployment of AI, SailPoint has introduced Agentic Fabric, a platform that aims to provide enterprises with visibility and control over AI agents and other non-human identities that access systems and data. The launch responds to organisations deploying AI at scale across cloud environments without clear oversight of what these autonomous
May 23, 2026 · via cybermagazine.com
Anthropic says Mythos has already found more than 10,000 vulnerabilities The company has published an update about Project Glasswing, a month after its launch. Anthropic has published an initial report for Project Glasswing, the cybersecurity initiative it launched in April that aims to prevent AI cyberattacks with, well, AI. The initiative is powered by Claude Mythos Preview, the company's unreleased model, which Anthropic says has already helped its partners find more than ten thousand vulnerabilities overall just a month after Glasswing's launch. In addition, it says most of its partners have "each found hundreds of critical- or high-severity vulnerabilities in their software" using the model. The company said that its partners' rate of bug-finding has increased by more than a factor of ten. Cloudflare found 2,000 bugs, 400 of which are high or critical in severity. Mozilla previously reported that it found and fixed 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox, 10 times more what it found in an older version of the browser using another Claude model. Microsoft's recent announcement that its patch releases will "continue trending larger for some time" is apparently because of the bugs it found through Mythos Preview. Anthropic also used Mythos Preview to scan 1,000 open-source projects over the past few months and found 6,202 high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities out of 23,019. While the company didn't include it in the report, a security research firm recently claimed that it found a way to breach macOS, an operating system known for having tight security, with help from Mythos' bug-finding capabilities. The company explained in its report that it hasn't released Mythos Preview to the public yet, because no company (including itself) has developed safeguards strong enough to prevent models like it from being misused. It intends to release "Mythos-class models" in the future, though, when those safeguards become
May 23, 2026 · via engadget.com
Project Glasswing: An initial update Last month, we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative effort to secure the world’s most critical software before increasingly capable AI models can be turned against it. Since then, we and our approximately 50 partners have used Claude Mythos Preview to find more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across the most systemically important software in the world. Progress on software security used to be limited by how quickly we could find new vulnerabilities. Now it’s limited by how quickly we can verify, disclose, and patch the large numbers of vulnerabilities found by AI. In this post, we discuss what we’ve learned about this critical challenge for cybersecurity in the first weeks of Project Glasswing. We focus on the early public evidence of Mythos Preview’s performance, on the initial results of our effort to scan thousands of open-source software projects, and on what this progress means for cyberdefenders today. We also cover what to expect next from Project Glasswing, and how we’re thinking about releasing Mythos-class models in the future. Our early results Our approach to discussing Mythos Preview’s findings The software industry’s longstanding convention is to disclose new vulnerabilities 90 days after they’re discovered (or, if a patch is created before the 90 days is up, around 45 days after the patch becomes available). This allows time for end users to update their software before a vulnerability can be exploited by attackers. Our own Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure policy takes this approach. However, this means that disclosed vulnerabilities are a lagging indicator of the accelerating frontier of AI models’ cyber capabilities: we’re not yet at the point where we can fully detail our partners’ findings with Mythos Preview without putting end users at risk. Instead, we provide illustrative examples of the model’s performance, along with
May 23, 2026 · via anthropic.com
On Sunday, May 3, Côte d’Ivoire’s official government website published an interview with Stéphane Kounandi Coulibaly, Director of Innovation, Startups and the Private Sector at the Ministry of Digital Transition. In the interview, he outlined the country’s ambition to become a regional innovation hub. Yet significant challenges remain, particularly in cybersecurity. In that context, We Are Tech Africa spoke with Babel Balsomi (pictured), an ethical hacker, AI researcher and CEO of Hiero Digital, to examine some of the key issues. We Are Tech Africa: Ivorian authorities have stepped up their cybersecurity ambitions with the creation of the National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI) and the launch of a Security Operations Center (SOC). On the ground, do these ambitions match the scale of the vulnerabilities being observed? Babel Balsomi: The creation of ANSSI is a real structural step forward. Bringing the National Computer Security Incident Response Center (CI-CERT), the Cybercrime Fighting Platform (PLCC), and the Directorate of IT and Digital Forensics (DITT) under a single authority helps address the fragmentation that had weakened the government's ability to respond quickly to incidents. The political will is clearly there, and that matters. But there is still a major gap between these institutional ambitions and the reality experienced by businesses and ordinary users. The situation on the ground looks very different. WAT: How would you assess the cybersecurity posture of SMEs in Côte d’Ivoire today — in terms of infrastructure, practices and awareness among business leaders? BB: Starting with infrastructure, a large share of the systems supporting Côte d’Ivoire’s digital economy — corporate networks, servers and network equipment — is outdated. During audits at SMEs, including accounting firms, logistics companies and private clinics, I still regularly find servers running Windows Server 2008 or 2012, even though Microsoft stopped supporting those systems years ago.
May 23, 2026 · via wearetech.africa
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As Anthropic’s Mythos and other platforms change cyber operations and reshape enterprise security, cybersecurity pros need new skills to keep up. Industry leaders note that AI fluency, human oversight and operational expertise will become critical. In a few short weeks, Mythos upended the cybersecurity community. On April 7, artificial intelligence firm Anthropic announced its latest large language model (LLM), dubbed Mythos, which the company claims has advanced cybersecurity capabilities to detect vulnerabilities – including zero-day flaws – across a variety of applications and operating systems. In one case, the company detailed how the Mythos model found a 27-year-old flaw in the OpenBSD operating system. Anthropic also noted that this LLM can find vulnerabilities in various applications and convert them into active exploits. With this potential set of powerful capabilities, Anthropic originally planned to limit access to Mythos to a handful of large companies and organizations, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and the Linux Foundation. Almost immediately, however, the initial announcement faced a backlash from governments and cybersecurity watchers concerned about how sophisticated threat actors and nation-state groups could exploit Mythos if they gained access to the LLM. The U.K.’s AI Security Institute (AISI) noted that when its analysts tested Mythos’ capabilities, they found that “it could execute multi-stage attacks on vulnerable networks and discover and exploit vulnerabilities autonomously – tasks that would take human professionals days of work.” The concern about Mythos also reached the upper tiers of the White House, which has taken a light regulatory touch to AI technologies and safety for the last 18 months. The release of this new Anthropic LLM, however, unnerved some officials and has prompted the White House to consider an executive order that could limit access to these newer, more advanced AI models, according to The Wall Street Journal. U.S. officials have
May 23, 2026 · via dice.com
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed modern businesses by improving efficiency, automation, and decision-making. However, the rapid growth of AI technologies has also introduced new cybersecurity risks. These evolving threats are significantly influencing the cyber insurance industry, particularly in the way insurance companies calculate and price premiums. As organizations become more dependent on digital systems and AI-powered tools, insurers are reassessing risk models to address the increasing complexity of cyber threats. One of the major reasons AI threats affect cyber insurance pricing is the rise of sophisticated cyberattacks. Cybercriminals are now using AI to automate phishing campaigns, create deepfake content, crack passwords, and identify system vulnerabilities more efficiently than ever before. Traditional cybersecurity defenses often struggle to keep pace with these advanced attacks. As the likelihood of successful cyber incidents increases, insurance providers face higher claim payouts, leading them to raise premiums to balance financial risks. Another important factor is the unpredictability of AI-driven cyber risks. Unlike conventional cyber threats, AI-based attacks evolve rapidly and can adapt to security measures in real time. For example, AI malware can learn from failed attack attempts and modify its behavior to bypass detection systems. This unpredictability makes it difficult for insurers to accurately estimate potential losses. As a result, insurers often increase premium rates to compensate for the uncertainty associated with AI-related risks. The growing use of AI within organizations also creates internal vulnerabilities. Many companies rely on AI systems for customer service, data analysis, and operational management. If these systems are poorly designed or lack adequate security controls, they can become attractive targets for hackers. Data breaches involving AI systems may expose sensitive customer information, intellectual property, and financial records. Insurance companies therefore evaluate the strength of a company’s AI governance, cybersecurity policies, and employee training before determining premium costs. In addition, regulatory
May 22, 2026 · via cybersecurity-insiders.com
The Honolulu Community College student club, Hawaii Advanced Technology Society (HATS), placed fourth nationally in the 2026 National Cyber League Competition (NCL). They vied against more than 3,700 university teams from two-year and four-year institutions across the country. “Working through real-world challenges alongside teammates teaches you things you can’t fully get from a classroom alone, how to trust each other, think under pressure, and grow as a team,” HATS President Nicholas Anich said. “I’m proud of how we performed, and even prouder of the community HATS has built: a group of students who genuinely show up for one another.” The NCL Competition held in April challenged participants with cybersecurity scenarios, testing essential skills for the IT and cybersecurity workforce. The HATS team was composed of students from Honolulu CC’s Computing, Security & Networking Technologies (CSNT) program, along with CSNT alumni now attending the University of Hawaiʻi–West Oahu. “NCL was a great competition to hone and apply the skills I’ve picked up both inside and outside of the classroom,” Anich said. “HATS, the club that competes in events like this, has truly been one of the most rewarding parts of my time at Honolulu CC.” Years of work He credited mentors Gerome Catbagan, Jayson Hayworth and Bradley Ramos for their support. Former HATS president Jordan Yamaguchi said the placement was a result of years of effort. “As the former HATS president, participating in this NCL competition felt like the culmination of all of our current and former HATS members’ hard work,” Yamaguchi said. “We spent several semesters together learning about the different categories in the competition and working out different techniques we could use to help us score higher, so placing fourth in the nation feels incredibly rewarding.” In 2025, the team earned second place in the At-Large Collegiate Cyber Defense
May 22, 2026 · via hawaii.edu
Ransomware, phishing cases prompt renewed cybersecurity warning in North Dakota BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - On Thursday, May 21, thousands of North Dakotans received notification emails from ND Information Technology regarding a phishing scam. No harm was done, nor was a hack successful in this incident. As NDIT says, “This incident was not the result of a compromise within the ND.GOV environment. A non-state email account experienced a business email compromise (BEC), and a malicious message attempted to spread to additional contacts, including the external account group. The message was successfully detected and blocked by the state’s email security protections and placed into quarantine. However, due to an automated notification process, a quarantine notification was sent to the external account group. We have since implemented additional configuration changes to prevent similar notifications from being distributed in this manner going forward. The security protections functioned as intended and prevented the malicious message from reaching users’ inboxes." This latest hack attempt, plus two major cyber incidents in North Dakota this year, are renewing warnings from state technology leaders that online safety has to become a daily habit for everyone. In Minot, a ransomware attack hit a computer server at the city’s water treatment plant. The affected server was unplugged, and staff used manual procedures for about 16 hours. City officials said the water supply remained safe and the city stayed operational. In Dickinson, school officials said criminals used an email scheme to impersonate a trusted vendor and redirect payments, defrauding the district of more than $4.92 million from its Building Fund. The district said it immediately notified financial institutions and law enforcement, and the FBI was able to help recover the funds. State cybersecurity officials said the two cases highlight different threats, one targeting critical infrastructure and the other aiming for money, but
May 22, 2026 · via kfyrtv.com
Cycurion is acquiring cybersecurity services firm Secuvant in a deal designed to deepen the company’s managed detection and response capabilities while accelerating automation across its AI-driven security platform portfolio. The transaction, valued at approximately $2.875 million, combines Cycurion’s ARx cybersecurity platform with Secuvant’s managed security operations, threat response infrastructure, and automated risk management tools. The deal is expected to add roughly $3 million in annualized revenue and approximately $1.5 million in EBITDA during fiscal 2026. The acquisition reflects growing demand among mid-market and enterprise organizations for cybersecurity platforms capable of reducing manual security operations workloads while improving threat visibility and response speed. Companies operating in sectors such as utilities, manufacturing, financial services, construction, agriculture, and critical infrastructure have increasingly sought integrated monitoring and response systems that can scale without requiring large internal security teams. Secuvant brings several operational capabilities into Cycurion’s platform stack, including SOC-as-a-Service operations, cyber risk management, incident response services, and its Cyber7 framework. The company also contributes automation-focused technologies through its Panoptic platform and cyberRPM tools, which are designed to prioritize vulnerabilities and automate portions of monitoring and remediation workflows. The acquisition also expands on Cycurion’s earlier HavenX integration through Halo Privacy. While both HavenX and Secuvant provide overlapping monitoring and threat response functions, Secuvant’s infrastructure adds heavier workflow automation and lower-touch operational management, allowing more cybersecurity processes to run continuously with limited manual intervention. That operational efficiency has become increasingly important as cybersecurity teams face rising alert volumes, fragmented tool environments, and shortages of experienced security personnel. Security providers have responded by consolidating threat monitoring, vulnerability prioritization, and response orchestration into unified platforms capable of automating routine functions while escalating only higher-risk incidents to human analysts. Cycurion said the combined platform is intended to deliver end-to-end coverage spanning risk assessment, threat detection, vulnerability prioritization, response coordination,
May 22, 2026 · via citybiz.co
TechD Cybersecurity Launches TECHD ONE: AI-Native Unified Cybersecurity Platform BusinessWire India Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], May 22: TechD Cybersecurity Limited (NSE SME: TECHD), a CERT-In empaneled MSSP serving over 500 enterprise clients, today announced the launch of TECHD ONE, AI-native unified cybersecurity platform, now live at techdefence.ai. The platform converges four AI-driven security modules into a single operational fabric, eliminating the tool sprawl and integration debt that have historically fragmented enterprise cyber defence in India. TECHD ONE Phase 1 launches with four production-ready modules: * Dark Vector AI - AI-powered autonomous external attack surface management and dark-web, Deep-web threat intelligence and brand protection suite. * Provenance AI - AI Native enterprise software supply chain platform for Zero-day Discovery, Source code review, SCA, SBOM, AI-powered remediation, powered by Eagle, Lion, and Griffin models, powered by Safeguard.sh's strategic collaboration. * Human Trust AI - AI-powered behavioral risk intelligence covering phishing, vishing, smishing and insider threats. * OT Shield AI - Vulnerability Intelligence for operational-technology and ICS security for industrial and critical-infrastructure environments. 'For two decades, Indian enterprises have bought point products that don't talk to each other, running on AI models they don't control, hosted on infrastructure they cannot audit. TECHD, ONE rewrites that contract. It is a single AI-native platform, built on indigenous models, delivered with the trust profile Indian regulators and enterprise boards are now demanding. This is what sovereign cybersecurity should look like.' -- Sunny Vaghela, Founder and Managing Director, TechD Cybersecurity Limited TechD Cybersecurity serves customers that include the Adani Group, JM Financial, Zensar Technologies, and Astral Limited. The company's IPO in September 2025 was oversubscribed 718 times, among the most heavily subscribed cybersecurity listings in Indian capital-markets history. TECHD ONE will expand through Phase 1 from this quarter and Phase 2 modules -- SecOps AI, PrivacyOps AI, and
May 22, 2026 · via bignewsnetwork.com
As the Army shifts its focus toward the demands of large-scale combat operations, the industrial infrastructure that has sustained our military since World War II is undergoing a radical digital transformation. The Army Materiel Command is spearheading a monumental, 15-year, over $18 billion Modernization Implementation Plan to overhaul the 23 depots, arsenals, and ammunition plants that comprise the Army’s OIB. One way the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command supports the OIB Transformation is through the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command’s infrastructure design recommendations for the industrial control network. USAISEC’s system engineering expertise is required to move the critical infrastructure of these WWII-era factories into the digital era of Industry 4.0 facilities. Transforming the Army’s OIB The Army's OIB generates readiness and operational capability by manufacturing, resetting, and modernizing equipment at its depots, arsenals, and ammunition plants. To ensure our forces can meet today's needs and prepare for future conflicts, the Army has committed to a historic modernization of these facilities to increase production capacity. The Army’s OIB Transformation is organized across five primary lines of effort: - Facilities and infrastructure: Building and renovating the physical workspace. - Tooling and processes: Integrating advanced manufacturing, such as 3D printing and robotic welding. - Workforce: Empowering skilled personnel with human-machine partnerships. - Network and cybersecurity: Establishing secure, high-speed connectivity. - Energy and environment: Ensuring power resilience and sustainability. Network and cybersecurity: The “digital backbone” While modernized buildings and new machines are visible signs of progress, USAISEC provides its infrastructure engineering expertise for the implementation of the industrial control network. This network is the invisible, digital backbone that makes Industry 4.0 facilities possible. As these facilities adopt modern capabilities, they face new challenges. Historically, many OIB machines were safe from cybersecurity threats, because they were manual and not networked. As the Army’s OIB transforms
May 22, 2026 · via army.mil