Humans still need to be part of cyber defense, but refusing to deploy AI is no longer optional against AI-enhanced cyber threats, warns Dataminr’s Joe Slowik
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Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
Tuskira Quell identifies, mitigates, and validates zero-day risk before breach
Tuskira launched Quell, its exposure-led zero-day defense capability. Quell helps enterprises survive the window between a zero-day’s disclosure and a patch by determining which zero-days are reachable in their environment, whether existing controls would stop them, and which compensating control change would disrupt the exploit immediately. Organizations using Tuskira have cut breachable exposure by up…
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
Insight bundles exposure management, patch operations, and XDR into one service
Insight has launched Insight Managed Exposure Defense, a managed security service designed to help organizations identify and address vulnerabilities. The service aims to help organizations reduce exposure and implement protections without lengthy procurement processes or reliance on multiple vendors. AI-assisted exploit development has compressed the weaponization window from days to hours, and most organizations lack…
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GCHQ announces AI-powered cyber shield to protect UK infrastructure
GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler revealed plans for a new national cyber defense capability that will integrate advanced AI into machine-speed cyber defense systems.
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Cheap AI has changed the economics of hacking
AI has reduced the cost of hacking, but has the cost of mounting a defense dropped at the same rate?
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Google AI Threat Defense targets attackers using AI to find flaws faster
Google Cloud introduced AI Threat Defense, an automated cybersecurity platform that combines several of the company’s security assets to find, prioritize, and patch software vulnerabilities at machine speed. The product is aimed at enterprises contending with attackers who use AI to discover and exploit flaws in hours or days, compressing windows that once stretched into…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Ghostwriter Targets Ukraine Government Entities with Prometheus Phishing Malware
The Belarus-aligned threat actor known as Ghostwriter (aka UAC-0057 and UNC1151Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council) has been observed using lures related to Prometheus, a Ukrainian online learning platform, to target government organizations in the country. The activity, per the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), involves sending phishing emails to government
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Digesting a Dynamic Bouillabaisse of Cyber Evolution
Dark Reading editors reflect on two decades of dramatic change — from perimeter defense to assume-breach strategies — and warn that while AI, cloud, and COVID-19 have transformed the threat landscape, organizations are still failing at fundamental security hygiene that could stop sophisticated attacks in their tracks.
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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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Inside the SOC: AI-powered DNS defense against ransomware
Use AI-powered predictive DNS defense in Cisco Secure Access to disrupt ransomware and streamline your SOC investigations.
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OpenAI’s Daybreak uses Codex Security to identify risky attack paths
OpenAI Daybreak is the company’s cybersecurity initiative focused on building AI-assisted software defense into the development process from the start. It combines OpenAI models, Codex Security, and cyber-focused GPT-5.5 variants to help organizations identify, validate, and prioritize software vulnerabilities. How Daybreak identifies exploitable vulnerabilities Daybreak builds editable threat models from a company’s code repository, analyzes…
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A DOD contractor’s API flaw exposed military course data and service member records
A defense technology company with Department of Defense contracts exposed user records and military training materials through API endpoints that lacked meaningful authorization checks, according to an account published by Strix, an open-source autonomous security testing project. The issue affected Schemata, an AI-powered virtual training platform used in military and defense settings. According to Strix,…
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Army Asks Missile Makers to Hack Their Own Weapons
The U.S. Army is pushing defense contractors to open up weapons’ software to new tools, including AI.
AI, Endpoint, Global Security News
Operant AI Endpoint Protector secures AI agents and MCP tools
Operant AI has launched Operant Endpoint Protector, a new addition to its AI Defense Platform that enables enterprise IT and security teams to discover, detect, and defend against threats across every AI tool, coding agent, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-connected workflow used by employees, directly at the endpoint where most consequential AI activity takes place.…
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Owl IRD enables one-way forensic data transfer for incident response teams
Owl Cyber Defense has announced the launch of its Incident Response Diode (IRD), a pocket-sized protocol filtering diode (PFD) designed for incident response and forensics teams. The Owl IRD was developed to help users securely move evidence from compromised endpoints into trusted analysis environments without adding risk. The Owl IRD will be made available to…
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Small Defense Firms Lack Network Data to Stop Nation-State Hackers, Analyst Says
Team Cymru’s Stephen Campbell warned that small US defense contractors are not well prepared to face cyber intrusions through edge devices
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Top AI Companies Agree to Pentagon Deals for Classified Work
The contracts give the Defense Department more AI options after it declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
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Binary Defense expands NightBeacon with threat-aligned Detection Coverage Index
Binary Defense has announced the launch of NightBeacon Detect, a new module within NightBeacon, the company’s AI-driven SOC platform. The first capability released is Detection Coverage Index, a confidence-based view of how well an organization is covered against specific threat actors, their tactics, techniques, and sub-techniques, and how that coverage changes over time. NightBeacon Detect…
Global Security News
Redwire’s Advanced Imaging and Navigation Technology Will Enable NASA’s Historic Artemis II Mission
Redwire Corporation, a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, today announced that its advanced optical imaging and sun sensor technology will launch on board the Orion spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission for the Artemis program. Through contracts with Lockheed Martin, NASA’s prime contractor for Orion, Redwire…
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ANY.RUN Recognized for Innovations and Market Leadership at Global InfoSec Awards 2026
ANY.RUN has been recognized at Global InfoSec Awards 2026 by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine. We’re especially proud and grateful that our impact for the industry has been acknowledged in two categories at once: Innovative Malware Analysis for Sandbox Market Leader Threat Intelligence This dual recognition reflects the approach to cybersecurity we prioritize: supporting the full SOC…
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ANY.RUN Recognized for Innovations and Market Leadership at Global InfoSec Awards 2026
ANY.RUN has been recognized at Global InfoSec Awards 2026 by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine. The award ceremony took place during RSAC 2026 conference. We’re especially proud and grateful that our impact for the industry has been acknowledged in two categories at once: Innovative Malware Analysis for Sandbox Market Leader Threat Intelligence This dual…
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FCC targets foreign router imports amid rising cybersecurity concerns
The FCC will ban new foreign-made routers in the U.S. over security risks, unless approved by DHS or defense authorities. The U.S. FCC announced a ban on importing new foreign-made consumer routers, citing unacceptable cyber and national security risks. The decision, backed by Executive Branch assessments, means such devices can no longer be sold or…
AI, Cloud Security, Global Security News
Supercharging agentic AI defence with frontline threat intelligence
From agentic AI defense to frontline threat intelligence to cloud security fundamentals, check out the news from Google Security at RSA Conference.
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Check Point unveils AI Defense Plane to govern and secure enterprise AI systems
Check Point has announced the Check Point AI Defense Plane, a unified AI security control plane designed to help enterprises govern how AI is connected, deployed, and operated across the business. As AI systems move from assistants to autonomous actors that access data, invoke tools, and take action, the AI Defense Plane provides the intelligence…
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Relyance AI’s Lyo addresses data security gaps in autonomous systems
Relyance AI has announced the commercial availability of Lyo, an autonomous data defense engineer that monitors and secures how AI agents interact with enterprise data. Lyo emerges at an inflection point for the cybersecurity industry as autonomous AI agents spread across enterprise environments, gaining access to sensitive data, triggering workflows, provisioning infrastructure, and calling APIs…
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Dataminr Launches AI-Driven Cyber Defense Platform
Dataminr has launched a new AI-powered cyber defense platform designed to help enterprise security teams detect threats earlier and respond faster. The platform, Dataminr for Cyber Defense, combines real-time external intelligence with internal security data to identify risks, assess financial impact, and automate response workflows before incidents escalate. Dataminr integrates ThreatConnect to power real-time threat…
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Booz Allen’s Vellox brings AI vs. AI defense to protect critical infrastructure and national security
Booz Allen Hamilton’s new Vellox suite showcases how AI-native cyber defense can counter growing threats to U.S. national security and critical infrastructure. The company’s new threat report, When Cyberattacks Happen at AI Speed, shows that AI is widening the gap between the speed of cyberattacks and time to respond. In 2025, the average breakout time…
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Xona Systems brings real-time threat response to OT remote access sessions
Xona Systems has introduced Active Defense, a new capability that enables organizations to stop threats during live remote access sessions in operational technology (OT) environments automatically, without waiting for manual intervention. In many environments, the gap between detecting suspicious activity and stopping an active session can stretch from minutes to hours, leaving adversaries connected to…
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Binary Defense’s NightBeacon brings AI-driven analysis to SOCs
Binary Defense has announced the launch of NightBeacon, an AI-powered security operations platform built directly into the company’s security operations center (SOC). NightBeacon serves as the intelligence infrastructure behind Binary Defense’s MDR service, supporting every analyst shift, detection, and investigation across the SOC. Customers benefit from an approximately 30% reduction in mean time to resolution,…
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Anthropic announces think tank to examine AI’s effect on economy and society
Fresh from battling the US Department of Defense (DoD) over AI guardrails, Anthropic has returned this week with a new initiative: the company is founding a think tank, the Anthropic Institute, “to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies.” Headed by Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, who will take up…
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Secureframe automates CMMC compliance with secure infrastructure and AI SSPs
Secureframe has launched Secureframe Defense, an end-to-end solution for CMMC certification. It provides secure infrastructure deployment, AI-generated System Security Plans (SSPs), policies, and comprehensive monitoring that Defense Industrial Base (DIB) organizations need to achieve and maintain certification faster, without unnecessary cost or complexity. With CMMC enforcement underway, readiness across the DIB remains critically low. The…
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Airbus CSO on supply chain blind spots, space threats, and the limits of AI red-teaming
Pascal Andrei, CSO at Airbus, knows that the aerospace and defense sector is facing a threat environment that is evolving faster than most organizations can track. From sub-tier suppliers quietly becoming entry points for state-backed attackers, to satellites emerging as targets in an increasingly contested space domain, the risks are real and growing. In this…
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 doubles down on safety as competition heats up
In the midst of recent developments and controversies surrounding a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, OpenAI released the GPT-5.4 model. The release comes at a time when users are reportedly leaving ChatGPT for rival chatbots, particularly Anthropic’s Claude. GPT-5.4 is rolling out gradually across ChatGPT and Codex and is available through the API…
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Anthropic Says It Will Fight New Pentagon Move as CEO Apologizes for Leaked Memo
Dario Amodei had said the company’s designation as a risk to other defense contractors was punishment for failing to curry favor with President Trump.
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Anthropic seeks to renegotiate its AI deal with US DoD, says report
Anthropic is attempting to renegotiate the terms of its AI contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD). CEO Dario Amodei has been in meetings with Emil Michael, the US under-secretary of defense for research and engineering, to iron out contractual disagreements that led the DoD to mark Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, the Financial…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff, Calls Backlash ‘Really Painful’
The startup’s deal to do classified work with the Defense Department drew criticism from staff and other AI researchers.
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Thrive Capital, A16Z to Lead Anduril Investment at $60 Billion Valuation
Palmer Luckey’s defense technology company builds AI-powered autonomous weapons.
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A ‘Fight About Vibes’ Drove the Pentagon’s Breakup with Anthropic
The AI giant’s CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have contrasting personalities and worldviews.
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Pentagon Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Over AI Military Dispute
Anthropic on Friday hit back after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate the artificial intelligence (AI) upstart as a “supply chain risk.” “This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions we requested to the lawful use of our AI model, Claude: the mass domestic surveillance…
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US DoD to Anthropic: compromise AI ethics or be banished from supply chain
A growing rift between the US Department of Defense (DoD) and Anthropic over how AI can be used by the military has led to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issuing a blunt ultimatum: work with us on our terms or risk being banned from Pentagon programs. According to news site Axios, Hegseth gave Anthropic until Friday,…
Global Security News, Russia
Former Defense Contractor Boss Gets 7+ Years for Selling Zero Days
A former general manager of a US defense contractor has been sentenced after selling zero days to Russia
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Russia
Former U.S. Defense contractor executive sentenced for selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker Operation Zero
A former employee at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris got over 7 years in prison for selling eight zero-days to a Russian broker. Peter Williams, a 39-year-old Australian former L3Harris employee, received a prison sentence of just over seven years for selling eight zero-day exploits to the Russian broker Operation Zero for millions. Williams pleaded guilty…
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Defense Contractor Employee Jailed for Selling 8 Zero-Days to Russian Broker
A 39-year-old Australian national who was previously employed at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris has been sentenced to a little over seven years in prison for selling eight zero-day exploits to Russian exploit broker Operation Zero in exchange for millions of dollars. Peter Williams pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of trade secrets in October…
Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Russia
Ex-L3Harris exec jailed for selling zero-days to Russian exploit broker
The former head of Trenchant, a specialized U.S. defense contractor unit, was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in federal prison for stealing and selling zero-day exploits to a Russian exploit broker whose clients include the Russian government. […]
Global Security News, Government & Policy
Pentagon Gives Anthropic Ultimatum and Deadline in AI Use Standoff
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to use the government’s leverage in a meeting with CEO Dario Amodei at the Pentagon.
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Nowhere, man: The 2026 Active Adversary Report
AI headline hype didn’t deliver a sea change for practical defense — but one below-the-radar development should Categories: Security Operations, Threat Research Tags: Active Adversary, Active Adversary Report
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US Defense Department takes issue with Anthropic over ethical stance
The US Department of Defense is on a collision course with Anthropic, which may prove bad news for the AI company. According to political website, The Hill, the DoD is currently examining the terms of its relationship. The issue is that Anthropic is holding an ethical line on the use of its Claude model and…
AI, Apps, Global Security News, malware
Pompelmi: Open-source Secure File Upload Scanning for Node.js
Software teams building services in JavaScript are adding more layers of defense to handle untrusted file uploads. An open-source project called Pompelmi aims to insert malware scanning and policy checks directly into Node.js applications before files reach storage or business logic. The post Pompelmi: Open-source Secure File Upload Scanning for Node.js appeared first on Linux…
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The defense industrial base is a prime target for cyber disruption
Cyber threats against the defense industrial base (DIB) are intensifying, with adversaries shifting from traditional espionage toward operations designed to disrupt production capacity and compromise supply chains. In this Help Net Security interview, Luke McNamara, Deputy Chief Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group, explains how attackers target the broader defense ecosystem and why identity has become…
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Impart enables safe, in-app enforcement against AI-powered bots
Impart Security has launched Programmable Bot Protection, a runtime approach to bot defense that brings detection and enforcement together within the application. Impart makes enforcement operational by enabling teams to see what would be blocked before turning it on. Bot protection split detection and enforcement across two tools that were never designed to work together.…
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware, Russia
Suspected Russian hackers deploy CANFAIL malware against Ukraine
A new alleged Russia-linked APT group targeted Ukrainian defense, government, and energy groups, with CANFAIL malware. Google Threat Intelligence Group identified a previously undocumented threat actor behind attacks on Ukrainian organizations using CANFAIL malware. The group is possibly linked to Russian intelligence services and has targeted defense, military, government, and energy entities at both regional…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy, malware
APT36 and SideCopy Launch Cross-Platform RAT Campaigns Against Indian Entities
Indian defense sector and government-aligned organizations have been targeted by multiple campaigns that are designed to compromise Windows and Linux environments with remote access trojans capable of stealing sensitive data and ensuring continued access to infected machines.
The campaigns are characterized by the use of malware families like Geta RAT, Ares RAT, and DeskRAT, which are often
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Real-time malware defense: Leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense
Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional security defense can respond; workloads with potential security issues are discovered by threat actors within 90 seconds, with exploitation attempts beginning within 3 minutes. Threat actors are quickly evolving their attack methodologies, resulting in new malware variants, exploit techniques, and evasion tactics. They also rotate their infrastructure—IP addresses,…
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Real-time malware defense: Leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense
Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional security defense can respond; workloads with potential security issues are discovered by threat actors within 90 seconds, with exploitation attempts beginning within 3 minutes. Threat actors are quickly evolving their attack methodologies, resulting in new malware variants, exploit techniques, and evasion tactics. They also rotate their infrastructure—IP addresses,…
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Real-time malware defense: Leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense
Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional security defense can respond; workloads with potential security issues are discovered by threat actors within 90 seconds, with exploitation attempts beginning within 3 minutes. Threat actors are quickly evolving their attack methodologies, resulting in new malware variants, exploit techniques, and evasion tactics. They also rotate their infrastructure—IP addresses,…