Microsoft has introduced a series of security tools and capabilities focused on AI-driven vulnerability discovery, AI agents, and AI models. The updates include a multi-agent vulnerability discovery system, new controls for managing and securing AI agents, data protection capabilities, and tools designed to identify potentially vulnerable or compromised AI models before deployment. MDASH targets exploitable…
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Coralogix Lands $200M to Scale AI-Era Observability Platform
Coralogix, a data and AI observability platform provider, has raised $200 million in Series F funding. The round was led by Advent and CPPIB, with participation from Greenfield and Brighton Park Capital, bringing total funding in Coralogix to $550M. Coralogix raises new Series F funding According to the company, the Series F builds on the…
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The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security Featuring In-Solutions Global Ltd
Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.
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Workday Intros New Developer Capabilities for Enterprise AI Agents
Workday has made a series of announcements recently, including a new partnership with AWS and new capabilities designed to help developers build, run, and govern AI agents on trusted HR and finance data while using the agentic coding tools and clouds they already utilize. The new capability announcements include: New Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools…
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Coffee with the Council Podcast: Nominate Now for the Global Executive Assessor Roundtable (GEAR)
Welcome to our podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I’m Alicia Malone, Director of Communications and Public Relations for the PCI Security Standards Council. In today’s episode, I’m excited to announce that the Council will open the nomination period for the next Global Executive Assessor Roundtable on June 1st. This roundtable, or GEAR as…
Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
Focus on Cyber Insurance: How Quantifying Risk Is Reshaping Security
In this latest installment of the Reporters’ Notebook video series, we discuss how cyber insurance is forcing organizations to quantify risk, what’s covered (and what’s not), and why this could be the best thing to happen to cybersecurity.
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, malware, Risk Management
Your AI Agent Doesn’t Care About Your Controls
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on AI agents and control assurance. Read Part 2: Controlling AI Agents: Why Detection Is Too Late The cybersecurity industry has spent years investing in visibility. Dashboards have improved, detection tooling has matured, and the volume of telemetry available to security teams has increased significantly. Most organisations…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Politics, Risk Management
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…
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Dark Reading Celebrates 20 Years as a Leading Authority on Cybersecurity, Highlighting the People, Events, Ideas, and Technologies Shaping the Modern Risk Landscape
Informa TechTarget’s flagship cybersecurity media brand launches a special content series to mark two decades as a trusted source for cybersecurity professionals.
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Exaforce raises $125 million to respond to AI-powered attacks
Exaforce announced a $125 million Series B financing round, one of the largest ever in the emerging AI SOC space. The round includes participation from HarbourVest, Peak XV, Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, Seligman Ventures and AICONIC. The new capital will help Exaforce scale its AI-native security operations platform, deepen its real-time reasoning capabilities, and expand globally.…
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South Staffordshire Water Fined £1m After Data Breach
The ICO has fined South Staffordshire Water nearly £1m for a series of data protection failings
AI, Europe, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Russia
Latvian national sentenced for ransomware attacks run by former Conti leaders
A federal judge sentenced a Latvian national to 102 months in prison for his involvement in a series of ransomware attacks for more than two years prior to his arrest in 2023, the Justice Department said Monday. Deniss Zolotarjovs, a resident of Moscow at the time, helped an organization led by former leaders of the…
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Former incident responders sentenced to 4 years in prison for committing ransomware attacks
Two former cybersecurity professionals who moonlighted as cybercriminals, committing a series of ransomware attacks in 2023, were each sentenced to four years in prison, the Justice Department said Thursday. Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Tyler Martin previously pleaded guilty to one of three charges brought against them in December and faced up to 20 years…
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Anthropic’s Mythos Has Landed: Here’s What Comes Next for Cyber
In this latest installment of the Reporters’ Notebook video series, we discuss how the new AI model threatens to completely upend cybersecurity, and what industry leaders are telling the press.
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Ex-Twitter CEO’s AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation
Parallel Web Systems raised $100 million in Series B funding to continue building web search for AI agents.
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Coffee with the Council Podcast: Stronger Together – The Value of Participating with PCI SSC
Hello everyone, and welcome to our podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I’m Mark Meissner, Senior Vice President for Education and Engagement at the PCI Security Standards Council. Today I’m joined by a panel of current Principal Participating Organizations, or PPOs. The Principal PO program is one of three levels of participation with the…
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From DMV to Wallet: Understanding Verifiable Digital Credential Issuance
In our last post in this series, we compared two credential formats that shape the digital identity ecosystem: ISO/IEC 18013-5 and -7 mobile documents (mdocs) and W3C Verifiable Credentials (VCs). Both formats define how a credential is structured and shared, but neither can function without an issuance process. This blog post explores what it takes…
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The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security Featuring Dreamplug Technologies Private Limited (CRED)
Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.
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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars
French police have arrested a suspected hacker linked to a series of data breaches affecting organizations in the country. Citing authorities, Le Parisien reported that the suspect, a 20-year-old man using the alias ‘HexDex,’ was taken into custody on April 22, 2026, in the Vendée region, western France. The suspect admitted to using the alias…
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Scottish man pleads guilty to attack spree that created Scattered Spider’s notoriety
A core leader of the hacker subset of The Com responsible for a series of high-profile phishing attacks and cryptocurrency thefts from September 2021 to April 2023 pleaded guilty to federal charges, the Justice Department said Friday. Tyler Robert Buchanan of Dundee, Scotland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.…
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Designing for What’s Next: Securing AI-Scale Infrastructure Without Compromise
6100 Series is an ultra-high-end firewall, delivering exceptional performance, line-rate threat protection, and modular scalability at AI-ready data centers.
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What changed in nginx 1.30.0 and what it means for your upstream config
nginx 1.30.0 brings together features accumulated across the 1.29.x mainline series. The release covers a broad range of changes, from protocol support additions to security-relevant fixes and new configuration options. Keepalive to upstreams is now on by default One of the more operationally significant changes is that keepalive connections to upstream servers are now enabled…
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Global RAM shortage prompts Microsoft to hike Surface prices
Microsoft has decided to drastically raise the prices of its Surface series computers, according to Windows Central. As a result, the flagship models of the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro now cost $1,499 — $500 more than they did at launch in 2024. The main reason for the price hikes is tied to the global…
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Fortinet Issues Emergency Patch for FortiClient Zero-Day
The authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-35616, is the latest in a series of Fortinet vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild.
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Lenovo Expands 360 Program with MSP, Services Focus
Lenovo is rolling out a series of updates to its Lenovo 360 partner program, aiming to simplify partner engagement, accelerate services-led growth, and expand opportunities for managed service providers (MSPs) in key global markets. The enhancements reflect Lenovo’s continued investment in its channel-first strategy as partners increasingly shift toward recurring revenue and outcome-based IT models.…
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Coffee with the Council Podcast: A Panel Discussion on Cryptography
Hello and welcome to our podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I’m Andrew Jamieson, VP, Distinguished Standards Architect for the PCI Security Standards Council. And I’ll be your host today for an exciting panel discussion about the current state of cryptography.
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The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security Featuring Flywire
Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.
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Enterprise laptops adopt Intel’s new Core Ultra Series 3 chips
Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 processors with Intel vPro, built for business PCs, are off to a fast start, already powering more than 125 designs including newly-announced systems from Dell and HP, the company said. Unveiled this week at an event in New York City, the Core Ultra Series 3 with Intel vPro brings what…
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Chained vulnerabilities in Cisco Catalyst switches could induce denial-of-service
Cisco’s widely deployed Catalyst 9300 Series enterprise switches have four security vulnerabilities, two of which could be chained to cause a denial-of-service outage, infrastructure security company Opswat has revealed. The two most operationally significant are CVE-2026-20114 and CVE-2026-20110, which the researchers found could be chained to make possible a dangerous privilege escalation. Opswat’s Unit 515…
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Phishers Pose as Palo Alto Networks’ Recruiters for Months in Job Scam
A series of campaigns that began in August aim to defraud job candidates, using psychological tactics and data scraped from LinkedIn profiles.
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HPE Introduces Sweeping Security To Strengthen AI Adoption
New HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series Firewalls extend consistent protection from core to edge as AI expands across distributed sites Expanded hybrid mesh firewall puts enterprise guardrails around AI to reduce exposure without slowing productivity Built-in security enhancements support resilience as a core business requirement across the hybrid cloud foundation
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TP-Link warns users to patch critical router auth bypass flaw
TP-Link has patched several vulnerabilities in its Archer NX router series, including a critical-severity flaw that may allow attackers to bypass authentication and upload new firmware. […]
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, Risk Management
North Carolina tech worker found guilty of insider attack netting $2.5M ransom
A 27-year-old North Carolina man was found guilty of six counts of extortion for a series of crimes he committed while working as a data analyst contractor for a D.C.-based international technology company, the Justice Department said Thursday. Cameron Nicholas Curry, also known as “Loot,” stole a trove of corporate data, including sensitive employee and…
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The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security Featuring Toast, Inc.
Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.
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Salesforce issues new security alert tied to third customer attack spree in six months
Threat hunters and a collection of unconfirmed victims are responding to a series of attacks targeting Salesforce customers, which the vendor disclosed in a security advisory Saturday. “Salesforce is actively monitoring threat activity targeting public-facing Experience Cloud sites, including attempts to take advantage of overly permissive guest user configurations,” the company said in the alert.…
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“LeakyLooker” Discovery Reveals Nine Vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio, Exposing Sensitive Cloud Data
GUEST RESEARCH: Tenable Research has uncovered a series of security vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio, dubbed “LeakyLooker,” that allowed attackers to run arbitrary SQL queries on victims’ databases and exfiltrate sensitive data within organisations’ Google Cloud environments.
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Armadin secures $189.9 million to counter AI-driven cyber threats
Armadin has raised $189.9 million in Seed and Series A funding. Led by Accel, with participation from Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and follow-on investment from 8VC and Ballistic Ventures, this marks the largest combined Seed and Series A funding round in cybersecurity history. Armadin’s mission is to prepare organizations for the speed…
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Escape lands $18 million funding to scale AI-driven offensive security automation
Escape has raised $18 million in Series A funding to automate the entire security lifecycle with AI agents. The round, led by Balderton Capital with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures and existing investors Iris Capital and Y Combinator, will help lean security teams fight back at a time when code is being written and attacked. According…
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SailPoint expands AI-powered identity security with adaptive identity framework
SailPoint announced significant advancements to its AI-powered SailPoint Platform, introducing the first in a series of capabilities that advance its adaptive identity vision, an approach designed to address the critical security challenges of IT environments. New features include: Privilege: SailPoint is delivering total visibility into privilege risk with the launch of privilege discovery and classification…
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Reclaim Security secures $26 million to automate cybersecurity remediation
Reclaim Security has raised $26 million in total funding, including a recent $20 million Series A round led by Acrew Capital, with participation from QP Ventures and Ibex Investors. The funding will accelerate the company’s mission to eliminate what many security leaders consider cybersecurity’s most persistent gap: remediation. As attacker breakout times have fallen to…
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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…
Global Security News, Network Security
Stranger Things Meets Cybersecurity: Lessons from the Hive Mind
Events and concepts from the Stranger Things television series illustrate how enterprises can defend their networks and stay “right side up.”
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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…
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UAC-0252 Attack Detection: SHADOWSNIFF and SALATSTEALER Fuel Phishing Campaigns in Ukraine
Since January 2026, CERT-UA has been tracking a series of intrusions attributed to UAC-0252 and built around SHADOWSNIFF and SALATSTEALER infostealers. The campaigns rely on well-crafted phishing lures, payload staging on legitimate infrastructure, and user-driven execution of disguised EXE files. Detect UAC-0252 Attacks Covered in CERT-UA#20032 According to the Phishing Trends Q2 2025 research by…
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The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security Featuring Checkout.com
Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.
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Security hole could let hackers take over Juniper Networks PTX core routers
Network admins with Juniper PTX series routers in their environments are being warned to patch immediately, because a newly-discovered critical vulnerability could lead to an unauthenticated threat actor running code with root privileges. The hole is “especially dangerous, because these devices often sit in the middle of the network, not on the fringes,” said Piyush…
AI, Global Security News, privacy
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 turns privacy into a visible and invisible feature
The Samsung Galaxy S26 series is out, offering plenty of security features that protect personal data while providing users with transparency and control over how their information is used. The feature that grabbed the spotlight is the built-in Privacy Display on the Galaxy S26 Ultra model, designed to help keep on-screen activity out of view…
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ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. The post ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS appeared first on Linux Today.
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Flaw in Grandstream VoIP phones allows stealthy eavesdropping
A critical vulnerability in Grandstream GXP1600 series VoIP phones allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain root privileges and silently eavesdrop on communications. […]
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Coffee with the Council Podcast: PCI SSC Publishes First-Ever Annual Report
Welcome to our podcast series, Coffee with the Council. I’m Alicia Malone, Director of Communications and Public Relations for the PCI Security Standards Council. Well, it is hard to believe that we are already in February, but as we kick off 2026, we want to take a moment to also acknowledge all that the…
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Grandstream GXP1600 VoIP Phones Exposed to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Grandstream GXP1600 series of VoIP phones that could allow an attacker to seize control of susceptible devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2329, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of a maximum of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unauthenticated stack-based buffer…
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The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security Featuring Bank of America
Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.
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Samsung sets the date for the S26 series to launch – February 26, 2026
Samsung is set to unveil its next generation Galaxy S series in San Francisco – designed to simplify everyday integrations and seamlessly integrate Galaxy AI into your life.
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Backslash Security raises $19 million to address AI coding security risks
Backslash Security announced a $19 million Series A funding round led by KOMPAS VC, with participation from Maniv, Artofin Venture Capital, and existing investors StageOne Ventures and First Rays Capital. The round, which follows Backslash’s $8 million seed funding, tracks the rapid grassroots shift from AI-assisted coding to autonomous AI agents that software development teams…
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Why boards should be obsessed with their most ‘boring’ systems
Following a series of high-profile cyberattacks, boards of directors are now requiring their organizations to take greater responsibility for the risks posed by enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems pose after a series of high-profile cyberattacks. The Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), incident in Sept. 2025 illustrates the severe consequences of such attacks. The cyberattack forced JLR…