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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/10/2026 > product-showcase-gitguardian-honeytoken-decoy-service

Product showcase: GitGuardian Honeytoken catches credential theft as it happens

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (730+ words) Credential harvesting on developer machines has widened. Earlier infostealers worked from a short list of known targets, mostly browser stores and a few cloud credential paths. The families active now cast a much wider net. Shai-Hulud, for instance, ran a…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/01/2026 > crowdsec-1-8-0-bot-detection

Bot detection arrives in CrowdSec 1.8.0, along with two DoS fixes

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (487+ words) Failed SSH logins pile up in an auth log, and a scanner walks a website looking for exposed admin paths. CrowdSec reads log sources and HTTP requests, works out which addresses are misbehaving, and hands the block to a separate…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 08/26/2026 > the-linux-foundation-trace-ai-agent-security

Linux Foundation takes on TRACE, a hardware-backed runtime evidence specification for AI agents

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (220+ words) The Linux Foundation announced the contribution of TRACE (Trust, Runtime Attestation and Compliance Evidence), from OPAQUE. Collaboratively developed by AMD, Intel, Microsoft, OPAQUE and the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), TRACE creates a standard, open evidence layer that enables reliable governance…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 08/18/2026 > google-zero-trust-ai-agents

Google???s $10,000 refund test shows why AI agents need zero trust

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (712+ words) Google’s open-source autonomous Customer Support & Returns Agent, built using the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Gemini, demonstrates how developers can apply zero-trust security principles to AI agents that interact with sensitive systems and take real-world actions. The project tests an…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 08/17/2026 > hazmat-open-source-ai-coding-agent-containment

Hazmat: Open-source containment for AI agents

4+ week, 14+ hour ago   (299+ words) Hazmat is an open-source tool that runs AI coding agents inside a separate account on your own machine. It wraps the harnesses people use: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, and several more, plus any script you write yourself. An…...