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The CVE spike across major software companies is a remediation problem
A viral chart this month showed CVEs climbing sharply across 21 major software companies, and the industry split into two camps arguing about what it means. Both are missing the number that actually determines risk: how fast the vulnerabilities that matter get fixed.
2026 State of AI in Pentesting
Our latest report captures the perspectives of 400 CISOs, CTOs, and senior engineering leaders across Europe and the US. It explores how AI is changing penetration testing, why traditional approaches are struggling to keep pace with modern software delivery, and what security leaders want from the next generation of penetration testing.
Authentication Bypass in the default configuration phpBB
Our AI pentest agents found a critical phpBB auth bypass (CVE-2026-48611): one unauthenticated request logs you into any account. See the exploit and the fix.
And another one. GitHub ships break-glass credential revocation
GitHub Enterprise can now revoke all of an account's credentials in one action. The Trivy attack and Microsoft's own durabletask compromise demonstrate why this was a long time coming.
npm now freezes high-impact accounts after risky account changes
A look at npm's new 72-hour account freeze, what triggers it, what it blocks, and how it works alongside trusted and staged publishing.
Everybody's shipping code they can't read
With AI, everyone's a developer now, and a lot of code gets shipped without a careful review from trained eyes.
Compromised GitHub action codfish/semantic-release-action steals CI/CD secrets
codfish/semantic-release-action was compromised on June 24, 2026. Attackers repointed v2–v5 tags to a Miasma credential-stealing payload targeting CI/CD secrets. Here's what happened and how to check if you're affected.
Aikido x Drydock | A way for maintainers to catch malware before it ships
Aikido is partnering with Drydock so npm and PyPI maintainers can see exactly what's inside a release before it goes live. Catch malware before it ships, not after.
Aikido x OWASP: 200 free credits for individual members
OWASP individual members get 200 free Aikido credits to run Code Audit. Here is how to claim yours in two steps.
Over 140 popular Mastra npm Packages Hit by Supply Chain Attack
141 Mastra npm packages were compromised in a supply chain attack that injected a malicious dependency to silently download and execute a payload at install time.
Full Fathom Five: The context of Anthropic’s Mythos-class public release
You never needed Mythos to find your IDORs and business logic flaws. A look at what Anthropic shipped with Fable 5, and why infosec stays a people problem at heart.
npm v12 delivers one of the biggest security improvements in years
npm v12 makes install scripts opt-in by default, closing the install-time execution path behind a year of npm supply chain worms from Nx to Red Hat.
Finding vulnerabilities at every stage: what to run, and when
SAST, Deep PR Review, Code Security Audit and AI Pentest each catch different vulnerabilities at different stages. Here's when to use each, and why
Compromised Flutter package on pub.dev contains XCSSET malware
We detected XCSSET malware inside a compromised Flutter package on pub.dev. Here is a full breakdown of the infection chain, propagation modules, and stealer logic we found inside.
5 Socket security alternatives and why they are better
Socket built its name on malware detection. But detection speed alone is no longer the whole story. Here's how Aikido and four other alternatives compare on supply chain security, reachability analysis, licensing, and more.
AI Pentesting Buyer's Guide: How to evaluate AI pentesting vendors
Learn how to evaluate AI pentesting vendors with practical buying criteria, research from 1,000+ AI pentests, and a downloadable evaluation checklist.
A practical CTO security checklist to be Mythos-ready
A practical checklist for SaaS CTOs navigating a world with Mythos and agentic AI threats. Built around the defender's advantage: you have context attackers have to work to get. Covers the controls, practices, and operational habits that determine whether your team finds and fixes issues before someone else does.
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