May’s Patch Tuesday hauls out 132 CVEs
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What happened
Sophos blog feed (May 2026) highlights a busy Patch Tuesday with 132 CVEs (advisories bringing the month’s total near 300), threat research on a DLL-sideloading backdoor impersonating Anthropic’s Claude, and practical guidance for reducing blast radius in AI agent deployments. Other items include Sophos’ State of Identity Security 2026, coverage of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its defensive use, an endpoint case study blocking a supply-chain attack, analysis of AI’s impact on ransomware, AI-accelerated threat discovery for network security, and recognition of Sophos as a Leader in MDR.
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