The European Union has now published a set of measures aimed at boosting Europe’s tech industry to help reduce reliance on US and Chinese suppliers for AI, cloud, and semiconductors. The proposals include rules to restrict the use of US hyperscalers for certain public sector procurement purposes, but stop short of banning them outright. “Technological…
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Trump Signs Executive Order Creating Voluntary AI Security Review Framework
President Trump has introduced a new executive order aimed at strengthening oversight of advanced AI models without imposing new regulations on tech companies. The order establishes a voluntary framework that allows developers of powerful AI models to share systems with the federal government for security reviews before public release. “The United States continues to lead…
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Trump revives parts of canceled AI order with cybersecurity-focused directive
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at strengthening cybersecurity defenses and establishing a voluntary framework for cooperation between the federal government and developers of advanced artificial intelligence models, reviving portions of a broader AI initiative that he abruptly shelved less than two weeks ago. The order, “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and…
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XM Cyber enhances identity risk visibility with continuous exposure management capabilities
XM Cyber has announced platform enhancements aimed at helping organizations reduce identity risk, compounded by AI-enabled attackers. According to Gartner, “By 2028, 70% of CISOs will use identity visibility and intelligence capabilities to shrink the IAM attack surface, reducing the risks of credential compromise.” Excessive permissions are a leading technique used in breaches and a…
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Google adds open source Agent Executor to support AI agents in production
Google has introduced Agent Executor, an open source runtime aimed at helping enterprises run AI agents more reliably at scale, as attention shifts from building agent prototypes to managing the operational challenges of putting them into production. To address those production-related challenges, the runtime, according to the company, comes with capabilities that are geared towards…
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Microsoft open-sources tools for designing and testing AI agents
Microsoft has open-sourced two tools aimed at bringing security discipline to AI agent development: Clarity, a structured design review tool, and RAMPART, a continuous testing framework. The release comes from Microsoft’s AI Red Team, the company’s internal unit that stress-tests its own AI systems, and both tools have been used internally before being open-sourced. RAMPART:…
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Microsoft releases open-source tools to operationalize AI agent safety
Microsoft has open-sourced two new tools aimed at bringing AI safety checks much earlier into the agent development lifecycle. The tools, called Rampart and Clarity, were announced this week as part of Microsoft’s broader push to operationalize safety engineering for agentic AI. “We built these tools because we believe that AI safety has to become…
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‘FrostyNeighbor’ APT Carefully Targets Govt Orgs in Poland, Ukraine
Attackers uniquely fingerprint victims before delivering spear-phishing payloads aimed at espionage, in the latest campaign from the Belarussian nation-state threat group.
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Cofense adds AI-powered campaign detection to stop phishing attacks
Cofense has announced new advancements to its Phishing Defense Platform aimed at improving detection and response to AI-powered phishing attacks. The updates include AI-driven phishing detection, enhanced triage automation, and AI-assisted training campaign creation designed to strengthen protection across the phishing lifecycle. Phishing threats are no longer one-off emails. Attackers launch coordinated, polymorphic campaigns that…
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Palo Alto bets on identity security for autonomous AI with Idira launch
Palo Alto Networks has launched Idira, a new identity security platform aimed at securing human users, machine identities, and AI agents amid the rising adoption of autonomous AI systems amongst enterprises. The company is positioning Idira as a next-generation identity security platform that goes beyond traditional privileged access management (PAM) systems by applying dynamic privilege…
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Infected Cisco firewalls need cold start to clear persistent Firestarter backdoor
Security researchers have discovered a chilling backdoor aimed at Cisco System firewalls that exploits unpatched vulnerabilities to maintain persistence, even after patching. This means that attackers can continue to access compromised devices without re-exploiting the holes. At risk are devices running Cisco ASA or Firepower software, including certain Firepower and Secure Firewall devices. So far, however,…
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CrowdStrike Builds Project QuiltWorks for AI-era Bugs
CrowdStrike has launched Project QuiltWorks, a partner-led coalition aimed at helping enterprises respond faster to vulnerabilities uncovered by frontier AI models. The initiative brings together Accenture, EY, IBM Cybersecurity Services, Kroll, and OpenAI with CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform and partner network. The company said the goal is to help organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate AI-discovered vulnerabilities…
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Tencent’s QClaw AI agent app arrives on Windows and macOS
Tencent has opened an international beta of QClaw, an AI agent application aimed at consumers in Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. The first wave is capped at 20,000 users. Additional markets are scheduled to follow. QClaw runs on Windows and MacOS. Setup takes about three minutes and involves downloading the application,…
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How to think about Apple Business
Apple Business is aimed at small businesses coalesced around Macs, iPhones, and iPads. If that’s you, and all your systems are made by Apple, the service is likely to be all you need to run a small operation of up to a few dozen seats. But Apple Business isn’t really designed to handle the advanced needs of larger…
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UK Cyber Security Council Launches Associate Cyber Security Professional Title
The UK Cyber Security Council has unveiled a new Associate Cyber Security Professional title aimed at supporting early‑career cybersecurity professionals
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The fully free Linux OS Trisquel gets a major update with version 12.0 Ecne
Trisquel GNU/Linux, a free operating system aimed at home users, small enterprises, and educational centers, released version 12.0. The release, codenamed Ecne, is declared production-ready and builds on the previous version, Aramo, with changes to packaging, the kernel, security, and available software. APT 3.0 and repository format changes Ecne ships with APT 3.0, which brings…
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EvilTokens ramps up device code phishing targeting Microsoft 365 users
Security researchers report a notable increase in device code phishing activity aimed at Microsoft 365 users, and have attributed this rise to the availability of EvilTokens, a new, specialized phishing toolkit that’s being offered as-a-service via Telegram. What is device code phishing? Device code phishing is a type of attack where attackers trick users into…
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Samba 4.24.0 ships Kerberos hardening and a CVE fix for domain encryption defaults
Samba 4.24.0 arrived carrying a set of Kerberos security changes aimed at Active Directory deployments. The release fixes a vulnerability, extends audit coverage for sensitive AD attributes, and introduces configuration options to counter two related Kerberos impersonation techniques. A CVE drives the encryption default change The most directly security-relevant change in 4.24.0 is a shift…
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Corelight’s Agentic Triage turns SOC alerts into evidence-backed investigations
Corelight has introduced a new set of agentic AI capabilities aimed at helping security operations centers (SOCs) cut down on repetitive, time-consuming tasks. The updates are designed to boost analyst efficiency, speed up response times, and build trust through greater transparency. The release includes Agentic Triage to streamline SOC workflows, a new suite of machine…
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Mistral launches Forge to help enterprises build their own AI models
Mistral has introduced Forge, a new platform aimed at helping enterprises move beyond generic AI systems by enabling them to train and adapt models on proprietary data. Today’s AI systems are largely developed using open internet data and are built to handle a wide variety of general tasks. However, enterprises depend on deeply embedded internal knowledge, including…
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Okta unveils blueprint to help enterprises secure rapidly growing AI agent deployments
COMPANY NEWS: Okta has outlined a new framework aimed at helping organisations manage the growing operational and security risks associated with AI agents, as businesses increasingly move from experimentation to real-world deployment.
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Google Tracks Flash Floods With a New AI Tool
The new flood tracker is the latest big tech investment in artificial-intelligence weather monitoring, aimed at predicting volatile rainfall.
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OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo to strengthen AI agent security testing
OpenAI said it plans to acquire AI testing startup Promptfoo, a move aimed at strengthening security checks for AI agents as enterprises move toward deploying autonomous systems in business workflows. Promptfoo’s tools allow developers to test LLM applications against adversarial prompts, including prompt injection and jailbreak attempts, and to evaluate whether models follow safety and…
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Threat Actors Mass-Scan Salesforce Experience Cloud via Modified AuraInspector Tool
Salesforce has warned of an increase in threat actor activity that’s aimed at exploiting misconfigurations in publicly accessible Experience Cloud sites by making use of a customized version of an open-source tool called AuraInspector. The activity, per the company, involves the exploitation of customers’ overly permissive Experience Cloud guest user configurations to obtain access to…
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Channel M&A Roundup: February 2026 Consolidation Trends
During the month of February, the channel witnessed several key acquisitions and a couple of mergers aimed at increasing revenue and supporting partners. Among the moves are acquisitions by 11:11 Systems, Scale Computing, and Proofpoint, which continue to pursue strategic acquisitions to grow their businesses and expand their services. Proofpoint acquires Acuvity Cybersecurity and compliance…
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Commvault Expands Identity Resilience with Okta, CloudSEK
Commvault announced two new capabilities aimed at strengthening enterprise identity protection, expanding its Identity Resilience portfolio with support for Okta, and introducing a new integration with threat intelligence provider CloudSEK. The add capabilities focus on helping organizations respond to the growing wave of identity-based cyberattacks, as credential theft and exposed identity data become a primary…
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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters seeks women for vishing attacks
The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLH) hacking collective has launched a recruitment push aimed specifically at women, offering cash payments for participating in voice-phishing (vishing) attacks. A few days ago, threat intelligence firm Dataminr detected posts on a public Telegram channel advertising roles for female callers willing to conduct social-engineering phone operations. SLH’s recruitment ad (Source:…
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Zenarmor Debuts Global SASE Channel Partner Program
Zenarmor on Feb. 24 launched a global SASE Channel Partner Program aimed at MSPs, MSSPs, ISPs, and security-focused channel partners seeking to deliver distributed secure access services without relying on centralized cloud points of presence (PoPs). The Cupertino, Calif.-based vendor said its partner-first initiative formalizes a go-to-market strategy built around what it calls a single-app,…
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Malicious Next.js Repos Target Developers Via Fake Job Interviews
Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent access to infected machines.
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Palo Alto Networks’ Koi acquisition is all about keeping AI agents in check
Palo Alto Networks announced Tuesday its plans to buy security startup Koi, a deal aimed at addressing the security risks emerging as organizations rapidly adopt agentic AI. Terms were not disclosed, but Israeli business outlet Globes reported that Palo Alto will pay approximately $400 million. The deal is another among a trend of larger cybersecurity…
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Move Over, Super Bowl: AI Giants Turn China’s Lunar New Year Into a Giveaway Blitz
AI developers in are offering free tea, free use of cars and even robots in promotions aimed at locking in users.
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CISA orders US federal agencies to replace unsupported edge devices
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a new binding operational directive aimed at reducing a long-standing cyber risk across federal networks: outdated “edge devices” that are not longer supported by vendors and aren’t receiving timely security updates. By “edge devices”, CISA means load balancers, firewalls, routers, switches, wireless access points, network security…
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OpenAI Unveils Frontier, a Product for Building ‘AI Co-Workers’
The new platform, launched amid market fears over AI’s disruption to software, is aimed at helping businesses develop AI agents that work alongside humans.