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🔍 Alcidion migrated its Miya Precision platform from Microsoft SQL Server to Google Cloud's AlloyDB for PostgreSQL to improve stability, performance, and operational overhead. The move used Database Migration Service and custom synchronization tools to achieve a rapid cutover, reducing transition time to about 15 minutes. The new architecture enabled dramatic speedups in JSON processing and reduced administrative burden for SREs.

🔒 Researchers found that three fixed flaws in UniFi OS Server (CVE-2026-34908, CVE-2026-34909, CVE-2026-34910) can be chained to achieve remote code execution with root privileges on versions 5.0.6 and earlier. Bishop Fox validated the full attack path on a live instance, showing an authentication bypass via URI normalization differences and a subsequent command injection that escalates to root due to passwordless sudo. A detection script and guidance are available; upgrade to 5.0.8 or later.

📈 Fortinet reported a strong Q1 2026 driven by broad-based demand across Secure Networking, Unified SASE, and AI-Driven Security Operations. Leadership highlighted 31% billings growth, 20% total revenue growth, record non-GAAP operating margin, and $1.01B free cash flow, attributing performance to platform integration, FortiASIC technology, and FortiOS innovation. Executives noted large AI, OT, and distributed infrastructure wins and raised full-year guidance.

🔒 Check Point has reported active exploitation of a critical logic flaw in certificate validation affecting Remote Access and Mobile Access VPNs configured to use deprecated IKEv1. The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-50751 (CVSS 9.3), lets unauthenticated attackers bypass user authentication and establish VPN sessions without valid passwords. Exploitation requires IKEv1 enabled, legacy clients accepted, and no machine certificate requirement; activity was first observed in early May 2026 and has targeted a few dozen organizations globally.

🛡️ Google outlines recent global scam trends and mitigation efforts, highlighting sophisticated Adversary-in-the-Middle (AITM) phishing, QR-code and calendar-based scams, AI-driven cryptocurrency fraud, mobile extortion apps, and government impersonation campaigns. The advisory describes technical responses, policy enforcement, and legal actions to disrupt abuse, plus practical safety tips for users.

🔒 OpenAI has rolled out two new security controls for ChatGPT: Lockdown Mode and Active Sessions. Lockdown Mode restricts outbound network access to prevent data exfiltration via prompt injection, at the cost of disabling live connectors and certain features. Active Sessions gives users visibility into and control over signed-in devices, with the ability to end single or all sessions. Both controls target account security and sensitive-data use cases, though SSO accounts and some logins remain unsupported.

⚠️ Last week saw a range of high-impact incidents, from the Miasma worm compromising 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories to targeted mailbox espionage and an Instagram account compromise via an AI support tool. Vendors patched active Android flaws, researchers flagged malicious npm packages and a compromised Hola Browser installer, and U.S. agencies disrupted transnational investment fraud. Multiple threat clusters, including China-linked espionage groups and financially motivated actors, broadened their geographic scope and tactics, while many critical CVEs remain urgent for defenders to patch.

🔒 Check Point released security updates to address CVE-2026-50751, a critical authentication-bypass flaw impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments that use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange. The vulnerability allowed unauthenticated, remote attackers to establish VPN connections and was actively exploited beginning in May, with a surge in early June affecting a few dozen organizations worldwide and one confirmed case tied to the Qilin ransomware affiliate. Check Point also identified a second related issue, CVE-2026-50752, affecting certificate validation in IKEv1 and recommended immediate updates and mitigations for customers unable to patch.

🛡️ Researchers at Cyera disclosed six vulnerabilities in protobuf.js, a JavaScript implementation of Google’s Protocol Buffers, that allow untrusted schema data to influence application behavior. The most severe issues enable code generation and injection via manipulated schema metadata, potentially leading to remote code execution when crafted inputs are accepted. The flaws affect protobuf.js versions up to 7.5.5 and 8.0.1 and also impact protobuf.js-cli; patches are available in updated releases.

🔐 Mythos and emergent AI capabilities are creating a new class of supply-chain threats that chain many low-level findings into high-impact exploits. Washington is watching, but open source is globally distributed and not directly governable, so policy focus must be on consumption and mitigation. The author—an industry veteran who helped create Sigstore and other initiatives—argues for a dual plan: scale coordinated disclosure and provide a neutral, funded maintainer of last resort to manage trusted forks.

🔒 Oxford University disclosed a data breach after its third-party provider, Group GTI, reported that the CareerConnect platform was compromised on May 28. The attackers accessed users' first and last names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords for accounts not using Single Sign-On; GTI has invalidated those passwords and will require resets. The university said no course materials, uploaded files, appointments, or financial data appear affected, but warned users to watch for phishing attempts.

📰 Anthropic launched Project Glasswing in April to let companies use its Mythos model to discover and remediate software vulnerabilities. The project produced a status report claiming many findings, including some dangerous issues, yet most reported vulnerabilities appear unpatched. Anthropic’s reluctance to release detailed data and methodology — instead asking the public to "trust us" — raises questions about the accuracy and interpretation of the results.

🔒 Check Point Research disclosed active exploitation of CVE-2026-50751, a critical authentication bypass affecting Remote Access and Mobile Access VPNs using the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange. Exploitation allows establishment of VPN sessions without valid passwords; observed attacks have targeted a few dozen organizations and included Qilin ransomware activity. Customers using IKEv1 are urged to apply the hotfix immediately and follow remediation guidance.

🛡️ Ariel Fogel warned at Infosecurity Europe 2026 that prompt injection is an unresolved architectural issue threatening AI development. He explained that LLMs treat inputs as a single token stream, preventing reliable privilege separation between system prompts, user inputs and agent-retrieved content. With agents gaining tool access, successful injections can escalate from bad outputs to real-world actions, outpacing traditional governance and controls.

🛡️ Military cyber teams rehearse constantly using realistic, dynamic simulations while many enterprises treat security as a compliance exercise. The article contrasts rigorous military practices — continuous exercises, defined roles, and realistic cyber ranges — with corporate annual tabletop drills that fail to reflect daily adversary innovation. It urges businesses to adopt regular live simulations, AI Proving Grounds, clear decision-making hierarchies, and cross-industry intelligence sharing to build operational cyber resilience.

🔍 Security leaders outline 15 critical questions CISOs should ask to ensure security programs adapt to evolving threats and business needs. These prompts focus on demonstrating ROI, aligning defenses with critical business processes, measuring detection and response speed, and addressing AI-driven risks like nonhuman identities and automated attacks. The guidance also stresses vendor risk, shadow AI, application security for widespread coding, and preparing security for future business growth.

🔒 The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) warns of broad unfamiliarity and structural unreadiness for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), with 66% of surveyed manufacturers and developers reporting limited awareness. The report highlights confusion over applicability, deadlines, penalties and roles like manufacturers versus stewards, and notes low adoption of full Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). OpenSSF also flags risky reliance on private forks and passive upstream dependence as potential compliance failures.

🔍 The UK's DSIT manages security for over half a million government domains and is streamlining how vulnerabilities are communicated and fixed. Nick Woodcraft explained at Infosecurity Europe 2026 that DSIT focuses on clear, outcome-oriented guidance so non-experts can prioritise remediations. The department uses SIEM integration and NCSC channels to distribute trusted data and avoids overwhelming organisations by staging issue disclosures. Emphasis remains on basics like patching to mitigate faster-emerging threats.