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DOD wants to integrate cyber in all operations, and integrate security into AI

The Pentagon is focusing on integrating cyber into all its operations, and wants to make sure it integrates security into artificial intelligence usage from the outset, the Defense Department’s top cyber policy official said Tuesday. Recent conflicts have made clear how important cyber is, said Katherine Sutton, assistant secretary for cyber policy and principal cyber…

Fake Claude Code Installers Deliver Credential-Stealing Malware 

Developers searching for Claude Code installation instructions could be walking into a sophisticated malware campaign that disguises itself as legitimate AI tooling documentation.  Researchers found dozens of fake Claude Code and developer platform sites designed to steal credentials, API keys, and cryptocurrency.  “The attack chain runs on the same unchecked trust that makes AI developer…

CIFSwitch, a Linux Root Bug Hidden in Plain Sight for 19 Years

CIFSwitch is a 19-year-old Linux logic bug turning forged CIFS auth keys into root. Affects Mint, CentOS, Rocky, Kali, SLES. CIFSwitch stands apart from typical privilege escalation vulnerabilities because of how it was discovered. Asim Manizada, a security engineer at SpaceX, didn’t find it by auditing source code the old-fashioned way. He built an AI-powered…

1,000 Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever

Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA in…

Microsoft and security researcher’s dueling posts about cybersecurity disclosures get nasty

Microsoft and a prominent cybersecurity researcher have gotten into a very public and rather personal exchange of unpleasantries about what responsible cybersecurity disclosures should mean in 2026.  A cybersecurity researcher going by the name Nightmare Eclipse, who has disclosed several cybersecurity holes before patches were available, posted that he had tried to contact Microsoft officials…

HPE Heads to Discover with Wider Networking, Cloud Portfolio

HPE is heading into its annual Discover conference with a broader portfolio than in recent years and a clear push to become a go-to enterprise provider for networking and private cloud operations. The focus will inevitably be on artificial intelligence and the new ways HPE can meet customer demand across the entire networking stack. Its…

The AI governance imperative you can’t afford to ignore

CIOs rushing to roll out AI agents without real visibility into their decision-making processes are flirting with disaster. According to AI experts, deploying agents without observability processes and tools creates a ticking time bomb with the potential for huge negative consequences. Many companies are deploying AI agents and expecting them to increase productivity with little…

Employees are unknowingly inviting tech support impersonators into firms, says FBI

Online or telephone IT support scams have been tricking employees into downloading or clicking on malware for years. But according to the FBI, one group that targets US-based law firms has recently found success in person, by convincing firms to allow a supposed IT support person into the building, where they insert a storage device…

Franklin Access adds three-layer security system to Wi-Fi routers

Franklin Access has launched a three-layer security system integrated into its Wi-Fi routers, delivering enterprise-grade protection for consumers and small businesses. The system runs automatically in the background, blocking millions of malicious websites in real time to protect families, children, seniors, and businesses from online threats. Franklin’s Wi-Fi routers include advanced security protocols and privacy…

Services Revenue Becomes the Channel’s Growth Engine

Halfway into 2026, managed services continue to emerge as one of the industry’s strongest growth engines. Gone are the days when infrastructure deals and one-time product sales dominated partner revenue. Increasingly, the real opportunity lies in the services surrounding technology, from AI advisory and deployment to cybersecurity management and implementation. In this article, we examine…

Major Cyber Attacks in May 2026: Fake Invitations, Agent Tesla, BlobPhish, and More

May 2026 showed how fast routine business activity can turn into real security exposure. ANY.RUN observed phishing campaigns, fileless malware delivery, credential theft, OTP interception, and remote access abuse targeting organizations across industries.  From fake invitations and banking portals to compromised B2B websites and Word Online lures, the month’s attacks had one thing in common: they were built…

Tamnoon introduces skill-based AI orchestration for autonomous cloud defense

Tamnoon has expanded its AI engine, Tami, into a skill-based orchestrator that generates customer-specific remediation skills tailored to each enterprise environment. Trained on more than 6 million real cloud fixes across 800+ accounts, Tami coordinates specialized AI skills to safely and autonomously address every class of cloud risk. Two new skills are available, Remediation Confidence…

Stop treating AI governance as a review layer. Make it release infrastructure

I’ve spent years building compliance into security products. FedRAMP and Department of War Impact Level authorizations, vulnerability management pipelines: They all follow the same pattern. Build the product, then prove it meets requirements. The compliance layer sits outside the engineering workflow. It reviews what already exists. That model worked when the product stayed static between…

7 Best Attack Surface Management Software in 2026

This guide is for IT leaders and security teams looking to improve visibility into organizational risks and reduce their attack surface in 2026. It covers the best attack surface management (ASM) software and the key features businesses should evaluate when selecting the right solution for proactive threat detection and risk mitigation. Key Points on Attack…

Cato Networks Adds Cyera DSPM Integration to XOps

Cato Networks has integrated Cyera’s Data Security Posture Management capabilities into Cato XOps, giving enterprise security teams more context around sensitive data when detecting, investigating, and responding to threats. The integration, announced May 19, embeds Cyera’s data intelligence into Cato XOps, Cato’s combined XDR and AIOps solution. The companies said the goal is to help…

AI infrastructure is cracking under sovereignty demands

AI deployments are moving into environments with tighter controls around data, infrastructure, and system operations. Organizations are building AI systems across multiple providers, platforms, and computing environments while managing governance, security, and compliance obligations within defined boundaries. NTT DATA’s 2026 Global AI Report A Playbook for Private and Sovereign AI examined these conditions in more…

MY TAKE: AI agents force a rethink of enterprise service lines as vendors move up the tech tack

ORLANDO — Companies are pulling AI agents into their daily operations through a dozen side doors. Related: SaaS and AI agents converge One of them was in focus at KB4-CON, KnowBe4’s annual customer conference at the Marriott World Center here last week. The Clearwater, Fla.-based cybersecurity training vendor used the conference to lay out a…

Russian APT Turla builds long-term access tool with Kazuar Botnet evolution

Russia-linked APT group Turla turned its Kazuar malware into a stealthy P2P botnet for long-term access to compromised systems. Russia-linked APT group Turla upgraded its Kazuar backdoor into a modular peer-to-peer botnet designed for stealth and persistent access to infected systems. Microsoft researchers say the malware allows attackers to maintain long-term control while making detection…

Microsoft business software faces UK antitrust probe over bundling, AI lock-in

The UK’s competition regulator has launched a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, opening a new front in growing regulatory scrutiny of how cloud platforms, productivity software, and embedded AI capabilities may affect competition in enterprise technology markets. UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said in a statement that it had opened a…

Akamai to acquire LayerX for $205 million

Akamai has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LayerX, a provider of browser-based AI usage control and secure enterprise browser (SEB) technology. LayerX’s solutions will extend Akamai’s protection into the browser, where the majority of enterprise tasks now occur and where today’s workforce engages with generative AI applications, SaaS AI solutions, and AI agents.…

White House cyber official: identity security matters more than ever in the age of AI

As AI becomes more integrated into federal IT (and attacker toolsets) government agencies will need to focus their resources on regulating and monitoring the identities that access their network, a top White House cybersecurity official said Thursday. Nick Polk, branch director for federal cybersecurity in the Executive Office of the President, said that while AI…

How AI Hallucinations Are Creating Real Security Risks

AI hallucinations are introducing serious security risks into critical infrastructure decision-making by exploiting human trust through highly confident yet incorrect outputs. When an AI model lacks certainty, it doesn’t have a mechanism to recognize that. Instead, it generates the most probable response based on patterns in its training data, even if that response is inaccurate.…

Vector embedding security gap exposes enterprise AI pipelines

Enterprise adoption of retrieval-augmented generation has moved sensitive corporate content into a new storage format that existing security tools cannot inspect. Companies deploying internal AI assistants convert documents into high-dimensional numerical vectors and ship them to embedding services and vector databases over ordinary HTTPS connections. Data loss prevention products scan documents and network traffic, and…

Nearly every enterprise is investing in AI, but only 5% say their data is ready

Nearly halfway into 2026, enterprises are beginning to see tangible returns on their AI investments. Yet many are discovering that scaling requires something far less glamorous than flashy frontier models and state-of-the-art benchmarking: Clean, interoperable, governed data. According to a new AI Momentum Survey from Dun & Bradstreet, 97% of organizations report active AI initiatives,…

Closed briefing sets stage for House hearing on Anthropic’s Mythos and cyber risks

The House Homeland Security Committee is digging into Anthropic’s AI model Mythos in a series of briefings and hearings, as questions proliferate on whether and how the federal government will make use of the technology touted for its ability to autonomously uncover cyber vulnerabilities. Wednesday brought a closed-door briefing for the House Homeland Security Committee…

ClickFix finds a backup plan in PySoxy proxy chains

ClickFix, a one-shot social engineering technique that tricks victims into executing malicious workflows disguised as fixes to technical issues in their systems, has got a persistence upgrade. In a one-off instance, ReliaQuest researchers have spotted an intrusion chain using scheduled tasks, PowerShell-based command-and-control (C2), and a unique abuse of the decade-old open-source proxy tool PySoxy.…

AI, Cyberwarfare, and Autonomous Weapons: Inside America’s New Military Strategy

The Pentagon is integrating AI into military operations, transforming cybersecurity, targeting, and command systems into a unified warfare architecture. May 2026 marks a turning point in the evolution of modern warfare: the convergence of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and conventional military power is no longer theoretical. It is becoming an operational reality. The Pentagon has signed…

Multi-model AI is creating a routing headache for enterprises

Application teams are moving AI inference into production systems that support business operations. Enterprises are expanding traffic management, identity controls, observability, and routing systems for multiple AI models and environments. F5’s 2026 State of Application Strategy Report found that 78% of organizations operate their own inference services and 77% identify inference as their primary AI…

Cisco Introduces Model Provenance Kit to Strengthen AI Supply Chain Security

Organizations are rapidly adopting AI models, but many still lack visibility into where those models come from or how they’ve been modified along the way.  Cisco is aiming to close that gap with the release of its open-source Model Provenance Kit, a tool designed to verify the origins of AI models and improve trust across…

Hackers arrested for stealing and reselling 600,000 Roblox accounts

Ukrainian police detained three suspects accused of hacking into Roblox accounts and reselling the data on Russian websites, with payments made in cryptocurrency. Police raid (Source: The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine) “Prosecutors of the Lviv region, together with the cyber police and the Security Service of Ukraine, have stopped the activities of a group…

Australia is edging back into a familiar fight – The Albanese government’s draft legislation for a 2.25% levy on large digital platforms

Australia is edging back into a familiar fight and this time, Canberra is making it clear it has learned from the last round. The Albanese government’s draft legislation for a 2.25% levy on large digital platforms is being framed as an “incentive”, but let’s not kid ourselves: this is a sharpened version of the News…

Microsoft taps Anthropic’s Mythos to strengthen secure software development

Microsoft plans to integrate Anthropic’s Mythos AI model into its Security Development Lifecycle, a move that suggests advanced generative AI is beginning to play a direct role in how major software vendors identify vulnerabilities and harden code against attack. The company said it will use Mythos Preview, along with other advanced models, as part of…

Prove Identity Platform connects verification, authentication, and fraud prevention

Prove has launched the Prove Identity Platform, turning identity verification into an ongoing, real-time process for users, businesses, and AI agents. AI agents are already initiating real transactions on behalf of real people. OpenAI and Stripe launched the Agentic Commerce Protocol in September. Visa named Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity as agentic commerce partners. As that…

Phishing reclaims the top initial access spot, attackers experiment with AI tools

Phishing returned as the leading method attackers used to break into organizations in the first quarter of 2026, accounting for over a third of engagements where initial access could be determined, according to Cisco Talos. It is the first quarter phishing has led the category since Q2 2025, when exploitation of public-facing applications took over…

Procure IT & NetWolves Target Enterprise IT Expense Visibility

NetWolves has partnered with Procure IT to integrate its Managed Intelligence Platform into the provider’s Site Connectivity as a Service (SCaaS) offering, aiming to give large enterprises greater visibility into IT spending across vendors, contracts, and services. Why Procure IT and NetWolves formed the partnership The goal is to give Fortune 1000 companies and large…

Why the Axios attack proves AI is mandatory for supply chain security

Two weeks ago, a suspected North Korean threat actor slipped malicious code into a package within Axios, a widely used JavaScript library. The immediate concern was the blast radius: roughly 100 million weekly downloads spanning enterprises, startups, and government systems. But beyond the sheer scale, the attack’s speed was just as worrisome – a stark…

Smashing Security podcast #463: This AI company leaked its own code. It’s also built something terrifying

A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice’s Piazza San Marco – and is offering to sell access to whoever wants it. The asking price? A frankly insulting $600. Meanwhile, Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code via a basic packaging mistake. Oh, and by the way,…

Mirax malware campaign hits 220K accounts, enables full remote control

Mirax, a new Android RAT, spread via Meta ads, infected 220,000 users and turns devices into SOCKS5 proxies, giving attackers full remote control. Mirax is a new Android remote access trojan spreading through ads on Meta platforms, targeting mainly Spanish-speaking users and reaching over 220,000 accounts. The malicious code lets attackers fully control infected devices…

Little Snitch for Linux shows what your apps are connecting to

Network monitoring on Linux has long been a gap for users who want per-process visibility into outbound connections. Existing tools either operate at the command line or were designed for server security rather than desktop privacy. Objective Development, the Austrian company behind the macOS firewall utility Little Snitch, released a Linux version of the tool.…