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DataBahn brings AI-driven intelligence into the security pipeline

DataBahn.ai has announced Autonomous In-Stream Data Intelligence (AIDI), a new operating model for security data pipelines in which data is continuously interpreted, validated, and acted on in real time as it flows. Building on its AI-native foundation, DataBahn advances the pipeline from intelligent data preparation to an active system of in-stream decision-making, enabling organizations to…

Spur Intelligence delivers deeper visibility into anonymized infrastructure

Spur Intelligence has announced new enhancements to its IP intelligence platform, designed to give security and fraud teams deeper visibility into anonymized infrastructure and enable informed, real-time decisions on risky user sessions. New capabilities include AI service identification, a policy API for real-time session decisions, and enhanced geographic infrastructure insights. AI service tagging in the…

Context, not correlation, is the key to a successful AI strategy

GUEST OPINION:  As we all know, organisations across the world are adopting artificial intelligence (AI). Automating menial tasks, operating chatbots and personalising customer experiences have become run-of-the-mill AI use cases. However, many leaders are failing to see the return on their investment and are anxiously looking towards AI’s next iteration – agentic AI. AI that is…

FBI Warns Russian Hackers Target Signal, WhatsApp in Mass Phishing Attacks

Threat actors affiliated with Russian Intelligence Services are conducting phishing campaigns to compromise commercial messaging applications (CMAs) like WhatsApp and Signal to seize control of accounts belonging to individuals with high intelligence value, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday. “The campaign

The Importance of Behavioral Analytics in AI-Enabled Cyber Attacks

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how individuals and organizations conduct many activities, including how cybercriminals carry out phishing attacks and iterate on malware. Now, cybercriminals are using AI to generate personalized phishing emails, deepfakes and malware that evade traditional detection by impersonating normal user activity and bypassing legacy security models. As a result,

Interlock Ransomware Exploits Cisco FMC Zero-Day CVE-2026-20131 for Root Access

Amazon Threat Intelligence is warning of an active Interlock ransomware campaign that’s exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20131 (CVSS score: 10.0), a case of insecure deserialization of user-supplied Java byte stream, which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to

Amazon threat intelligence teams identify Interlock ransomware campaign targeting enterprise firewalls

Amazon threat intelligence has identified an active Interlock ransomware campaign exploiting CVE-2026-20131, a critical vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary Java code as root on an affected device, which was disclosed by Cisco on March 4, 2026. After Cisco’s disclosure, Amazon threat…

AI Email Summaries Create a New Phishing Attack Surface

Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants are rapidly becoming a core part of workplace productivity, but new research suggests they may also introduce a previously overlooked phishing vector.  Permiso researchers found that attacker-controlled text embedded in emails can manipulate Microsoft Copilot summaries through cross prompt injection attacks (XPIA), potentially inserting deceptive security alerts or malicious prompts into…

Attackers are exploiting AI faster than defenders can keep up, new report warns

Cybersecurity is entering “a new phase” as artificial intelligence tools have matured and given IT defenders significantly less time to respond to cyberattacks and other threats, according to a new report released Monday. The report, authored by federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, concludes that threat actors have adopted AI more quickly than governments and private…

BioCatch DeviceIQ helps banks spot risky devices before login

BioCatch has announced the launch of DeviceIQ, a comprehensive new device identification and intelligence product that transforms how financial institutions evaluate the trustworthiness of devices used for digital banking. Traditional device identification has grown increasingly unreliable. Criminals utilize sophisticated evasion techniques (emulators, device spoofing, cloaked browsers, jailbroken devices, and data-wiping) to commit fraud repeatedly from…

Hive0163 Uses AI-Assisted Slopoly Malware for Persistent Access in Ransomware Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-generated malware codenamed Slopoly put to use by a financially motivated threat actor named Hive0163. “Although still relatively unspectacular, AI-generated malware such as Slopoly shows how easily threat actors can weaponize AI to develop new malware frameworks in a fraction of the time it used…

Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker

A hacktivist group with links to Iran’s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker’s largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers there today. Meanwhile, a voicemail message at…

Vicarius vIntelligence brings continuous risk validation and AI-driven security automation

Vicarius has announced the launch of vIntelligence, a new product that introduces agentic intelligence and continuous validation to the company’s security portfolio. With this release, Vicarius becomes a two-product company. Its flagship platform, vRx, moves beyond detection to provide advanced, native remediation at scale. vIntelligence addresses a different but closely related challenge. While security teams…

FBI says even in an AI-powered world, security basics still matter

Artificial intelligence may be enhancing cyber threats, but the defensive approach to those AI-amplified attacks remains the same, a top FBI official said Tuesday. “We have seen actors both criminal and nation-state, they’re absolutely using AI to their advantage,” said Jason Bilnoski, deputy assistant director at the FBI’s cyber division. “But the way attacks unfold…

From Big Data to Smart Data: Why Australian CIOs Must Rethink AI Efficiency and Accuracy

COMPANY OPINION: Artificial intelligence has quickly moved from experimentation to executive priority across Australian organisations. Boards are asking how AI can reduce cost, improve productivity, and deliver better citizen and customer outcomes. Yet many CIOs are discovering an uncomfortable truth: AI initiatives are not failing because of weak algorithms. They are failing because of poor…

AI Is Moving Faster Than Security Controls

AI is entering organisations faster than the security controls designed to govern it. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming embedded across organisations. AI assistants are now writing code, summarising documents, analysing data, and supporting operational decisions. What began as experimentation is quickly becoming operational dependency. For security teams, the challenge is not simply adopting AI. The…

OpenAI Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Issues

OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security agent that’s designed to find, validate, and propose fixes for vulnerabilities. The feature is available in a research preview to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers via the Codex web with free usage for the next month. “It builds deep context…

Microsoft warns North Korean threat groups are scaling up fake worker schemes with generative AI

North Korean threat groups are using artificial intelligence tools to accelerate and expand the country’s long-running scheme to get remote technical workers hired at global companies for longer durations, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said in a report Friday.  AI services are empowering North Korean operatives across the attack lifecycle. Attackers have turned AI into a “force…

AI Won’t Fix Cybersecurity Burnout

Artificial intelligence was supposed to relieve security teams drowning in alerts, threats, and operational complexity.  New research from Seemplicity suggests the opposite may be happening.  The study found that cybersecurity leaders remain committed to the field but are increasingly working longer hours, managing new governance responsibilities, and developing non-technical skills to operate in AI-driven environments.…

Fideo Intelligence enhances dark web monitoring capabilities to reduce payment fraud

Fideo Intelligence announced an expansion of its dark web monitoring and threat intelligence capabilities to help financial institutions, fintech companies, payment service providers (PSPs), and merchants detect fraud earlier and reduce payment risk. As payment credentials, identity data, and fraud tactics spread across hidden forums and encrypted channels, organizations face rising pressure to detect compromise…

Coruna iOS exploit kit moved from spy tool to mass criminal campaign in under a year

Google’s threat intelligence researchers have identified a sophisticated exploit kit targeting iPhones that was first used by a commercial surveillance vendor’s customer before being repurposed by a suspected Russian espionage group and then by Chinese cybercriminals, highlighting what researchers describe as an active secondary market for high-end zero-day exploits. “How this proliferation occurred is unclear,…

VulnCheck Raises $25M to Expand Channel Threat Intelligence

VulnCheck has raised $25 million in Series B funding as demand grows for exploit intelligence platforms that help enterprises and government agencies respond to vulnerabilities in real time. The cybersecurity company plans to use the capital to expand its threat intelligence capabilities and scale its global channel partner program. We spoke with Mike Deskewies, head…

Threat Coverage Digest: New Malware Reports and 2,400+ Detection Rules  

February brought another round of major detection improvements across ANY.RUN’s threat intelligence and sandbox coverage. Alongside new Threat Intelligence reports, our analysts expanded behavioral visibility across dozens of malware families, strengthened detection logic for modern phishing and data-stealing campaigns, and added thousands of new network detection rules.  Let’s take a closer look at the updates delivered this month.  Threat Intelligence Reports …

Attackers are using your network against you, according to Cloudflare

Cloudflare’s inaugural threat intelligence report identifies a series of weaknesses in technology that attackers have abused and industrialized into professional “attack factories,” leaving most organizations unprepared to respond.  Attackers are turning the very services victims deploy and pay for into tools for launching large-scale attacks. Researchers say the barrier to entry has vanished, as identities…

ImmuniWeb launches a Cyber Threat Intelligence service

ImmuniWeb Discovery has been enhanced with a dedicated Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) offering. In addition to detecting customer-specific incidents on the dark web and other locations across the internet, the new CTI capability enables customers to stay continuously informed about emerging trends in cybercrime, the regulatory landscape, and supply chain risks. In addition to strategic…

Open-Source CyberStrikeAI Deployed in AI-Driven FortiGate Attacks Across 55 Countries

The threat actor behind the recently disclosed artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate appliances leveraged an open-source, AI-native security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI to execute the attacks. The new findings come from Team Cymru, which detected its use following an analysis of the IP address (“212.11.64[.]250”) that was used by the suspected

AI Now Top Risk as 47% of Cloud Data Unencrypted: Thales

A new report warns that artificial intelligence is quickly becoming what it calls the “new insider threat,” and many companies are not ready.  According to the 2026 Thales Data Threat Report, nearly half of sensitive cloud data, 47%, remains unencrypted, even as AI systems gain broader access to corporate information. AI ranked as top data…

NetQuest launches NetworkLens for hyperscale AI threat detection

NetQuest has announced NetQuest NetworkLens, a new portfolio of hyperscale real-time network intelligence datasets engineered to power AI-driven cyber threat detection and advanced security analytics. As cyber defense increasingly relies on machine learning, behavioral detection, and data pipelines, the network metadata required to uncover advanced threats has evolved. NetworkLens captures precise contextual intelligence modern AI…

How Australian insurers are turning automation into competitive advantage

GUEST OPINION:  Australia’s insurance industry has crossed a decisive threshold. For the past decade, artificial intelligence has lived at the edges of the business, mainly in pilots and innovation labs that didn’t fundamentally change workflows. However, by the end of 2025, most insurers had embraced generative AI and began actively seeking to shift early wins in key areas such as claims processing and underwriting into repeatable operational advantage. 

Trump administration bans Anthropic, escalating clash over military use of AI

The Trump administration on Friday moved to ban the use of products from artificial intelligence company Anthropic by federal businesses, escalating a high-stakes clash over whether private AI makers can limit how the US military uses their systems. Calling Anthropic “Leftwing nut jobs,” President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was…

Exabeam Report: AI Key Driver in Cybersecurity Spend

Intelligence and automation enterprise, Exabeam, recently unveiled new findings from its multinational report, From Adoption to Accountability: The New Economics of AI in Cybersecurity. The survey obtained responses from 750 IT decision-makers responsible for security in organizations with 500+ employees across 12 countries. Cybersecurity budgets on the rise as AI alignment struggles to keep up…

Anthropic Says Chinese AI Firms Used 16 Million Claude Queries to Copy Model

Anthropic on Monday said it identified “industrial-scale campaigns” mounted by three artificial intelligence (AI) companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, to illegally extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models. The distillation attacks generated over 16 million exchanges with its large language model (LLM) through about 24,000 fraudulent accounts in violation of its terms

Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of trying to illicitly take Claude’s capabilities

Anthropic on Monday accused three Chinese artificial intelligence laboratories of stealthily trying to siphon Claude’s capabilities for their own models, potentially in a way that could fuel offensive cyber operations. The U.S. AI startup said the three labs, DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax, ran “industrial-scale campaigns” with a tactic known as “distillation.” It involves sending bulk…

GTDC Summit 2026: AI Reshapes the IT Channel

At GTDC Summit 2026, distribution executives made one thing clear: artificial intelligence is not just another technology cycle; it is reshaping the foundation of the IT channel. Data, global scale, and platform economics are becoming the competitive edge, and traditional MSPs may soon face pressure from AI-native entrants built for model-driven systems and agentic workflows.…

Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security for AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has begun to roll out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user’s software codebase for vulnerabilities and suggest patches. The capability, called Claude Code Security, is currently available in a limited research preview to Enterprise and Team customers. “It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and…

AI in the SOC: Why Complete Autonomy Is the Wrong Goal

Dan Petrillo, VP of Product at BlueVoyant    As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in security operations, a divide has emerged in how its role is defined. Some argue the security operations centre (SOC) should be fully autonomous, with AI replacing human analysts. Others believe that augmentation is the right path, using AI to support and extend existing teams.    Augmentation probably reflects…

ONCD official says Trump administration aims to bolster AI use for defense without increasing risk

The Trump administration wants to boost the use of artificial intelligence for security in a way that doesn’t increase the number of targets for adversaries to attack, a top official with the Office of the National Cyber Director said Thursday. The administration will “promote the rapid implementation of AI enabled cyber defensive tools to detect,…

European Parliament Blocks AI on Lawmakers’ Devices Over Security Fears

The European Parliament has disabled built-in artificial intelligence features on work devices used by lawmakers and their staff, following internal cybersecurity and privacy concerns.  The decision was communicated in an internal email seen by Politico, which reported the move on Monday. According to the message from the Parliament’s IT support team, the institution could not…

Researchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that artificial intelligence (AI) assistants that support web browsing or URL fetching capabilities can be turned into stealthy command-and-control (C2) relays, a technique that could allow attackers to blend into legitimate enterprise communications and evade detection. The attack method, which has been demonstrated against Microsoft Copilot and xAI Grok

ManageEngine adds causal and autonomous AI to Site24x7 to cut MTTR

ManageEngine has added new causal intelligence and autonomous AI capabilities in Site24x7, its full-stack observability platform. These enhancements transform how enterprises handle outages, shifting from firefighting to autonomous resilience. By reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR) and ensuring service-level agreement (SLA) compliance, Site24x7 helps IT teams safeguard the customer experience and retain trust. IT environments…

Microsoft Finds “Summarize with AI” Prompts Manipulating Chatbot Recommendations

New research from Microsoft has revealed that legitimate businesses are gaming artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots via the “Summarize with AI” button that’s being increasingly placed on websites in ways that mirror classic search engine poisoning (AI). The new AI hijacking technique has been codenamed AI Recommendation Poisoning by the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. The…

The CTEM Divide: Why 84% of Security Programs Are Falling Behind

A new 2026 market intelligence study of 128 enterprise security decision-makers (available here) reveals a stark divide forming between organizations – one that has nothing to do with budget size or industry and everything to do with a single framework decision. Organizations implementing Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) demonstrate 50% better attack surface visibility, 23-point

How to govern agentic AI so as not to lose control

This year will mark the turning point where artificial intelligence will stop assisting and start acting. We will witness a qualitative leap towards agent-based or agentive AI, capable of making autonomous decisions, managing complex workflows, and executing end-to-end tasks without constant intervention. However, this autonomy carries with it a serious warning for businesses: the ability…

Critics warn America’s ‘move fast’ AI strategy could cost it the global market

The Trump administration has made U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence a national priority, but some critics say a light-touch approach to regulating security and safety in U.S. models is making it harder to promote adoption in other countries. White House officials have said since taking office that Trump intended to move away from predecessor Joe…

Claude Opus 4.6 Exposes Hundreds of Open-Source Vulnerabilities

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic says its newest large language model, Claude Opus 4.6, has identified more than 500 previously unknown high-severity vulnerabilities across widely used open-source libraries.  It “… reads and reasons about code the way a human researcher would — looking at past fixes to find similar bugs that weren’t addressed, spotting patterns that…

Claude Opus 4.6 Exposes Hundreds of Open-Source Vulnerabilities

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic says its newest large language model, Claude Opus 4.6, has identified more than 500 previously unknown high-severity vulnerabilities across widely used open-source libraries.  It “… reads and reasons about code the way a human researcher would — looking at past fixes to find similar bugs that weren’t addressed, spotting patterns that…

Claude Opus 4.6 Exposes Hundreds of Open-Source Vulnerabilities

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic says its newest large language model, Claude Opus 4.6, has identified more than 500 previously unknown high-severity vulnerabilities across widely used open-source libraries.  It “… reads and reasons about code the way a human researcher would — looking at past fixes to find similar bugs that weren’t addressed, spotting patterns that…

Claude Opus 4.6 Exposes Hundreds of Open-Source Vulnerabilities

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic says its newest large language model, Claude Opus 4.6, has identified more than 500 previously unknown high-severity vulnerabilities across widely used open-source libraries.  It “… reads and reasons about code the way a human researcher would — looking at past fixes to find similar bugs that weren’t addressed, spotting patterns that…

Claude Opus 4.6 Exposes Hundreds of Open-Source Vulnerabilities

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic says its newest large language model, Claude Opus 4.6, has identified more than 500 previously unknown high-severity vulnerabilities across widely used open-source libraries.  It “… reads and reasons about code the way a human researcher would — looking at past fixes to find similar bugs that weren’t addressed, spotting patterns that…

Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries, including Ghostscript, OpenSC, and CGIF. Claude Opus 4.6, which was launched on Thursday, comes with improved coding skills, including code review and debugging capabilities, along

Flashpoint Launches Free Threat Intel Capability Assessment

Flashpoint on Wednesday announced the launch of its Threat Intelligence Capability Assessment, a free, interactive tool designed to help organizations evaluate how effectively their threat intelligence programs support operational and strategic decision-making. The company said the assessment is intended to give security leaders and intelligence teams a clearer understanding of how intelligence flows across their…

DH2I’s Don Boxley on AI, Security, and 2026 Channel Bets

As artificial intelligence investments push enterprises to rethink their infrastructure stacks, channel partners are increasingly being pulled into complex refresh, migration, and security conversations.  To understand how those shifts are unfolding, Channel Insider spoke with Don Boxley, CEO and co-founder of DH2I, about the technology and market forces shaping channel opportunity in 2026. AI infrastructure…

AI-Driven Attack Gains AWS Admin Privileges in Under 10 Minutes

Threat actors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate cloud intrusions.  In a recent incident observed by Sysdig researchers, attackers escalated from stolen credentials to full administrative access in an AWS environment in under 10 minutes, illustrating how AI can shorten cloud attack timelines. “The threat actor achieved administrative privileges in under 10 minutes, compromised…

Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure

As we conclude 2025, Amazon Threat Intelligence is sharing insights about a years-long Russian state-sponsored campaign that represents a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting: a tactical pivot where what appear to be misconfigured customer network edge devices became the primary initial access vector, while vulnerability exploitation activity declined. This tactical adaptation enables the same…

What the Metaverse Means for Your Business

The metaverse can be described as an interconnection of virtual worlds that employs artificial intelligence (AR), virtual reality (VR), and other immersive technologies and provides users with a digital second life. Many experts expect the metaverse will become an extension of the business world in the near future—in fact, Bill Gates has predicted that most […]

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