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Analysis from vulnerability intelligence firm VulnCheck shows AI-discovered flaws aren't being exploited any faster than traditional ones.

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It includes the new agentic model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and the Project Perception platform, with the tech giant claiming it’ll do a better job than its rivals at half the cost.

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In a Monday filing, the Justice Department said states sued before agencies even decided how the order would work.

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APT-number conventions are out, cryptonyms are in, and security teams now have one more naming system to keep straight.

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In a letter first reported by CyberScoop, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said ‘devastating’ attacks on the federal government have accumulated due to the tech.

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The administration set a target date of September for CISA to finalize the rule, but where the agency is headed remains a mystery to some.

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Roughly 1 in 4 of those compromised IPs are based in the United States, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs said. Botnets like IPIDEA have also rebounded quickly, surpassing their pre-disruption footprint.

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Other signatories of the letter include Meta, Palantir, Perplexity, Mistral, NVIDIA, Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, Hugging Face, Dell Technologies and IBM.

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The move stems from a Trump executive order as the administration continues to pursue cyber-enabled fraud and other crimes.

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Laundry Bear exploited a zero-day vulnerability for five months before it was patched in November 2025, and the group is still actively exploiting vulnerable environments.

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The government spent the past two decades learning what private sector partners have always known: cyber resilience requires everyone in the room. ANCHOR-CI is proof that the lessons may finally stick.

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The Government Accountability Office looked at 117 rules across 37 agencies and found 70% had reporting requirements that were overlapping.

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The worm blends in with thousands of other commands occurring daily in any given environment, yet its intent and origins remain unknown.

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While distillation attacks by foreign governments and companies have real national security implications, questions around who ultimately owns the data in AI systems are fraught.

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At the time, Hugging Face said it wasn’t clear which LLM was used in the attack. OpenAI confirmed it was one of their models being tested for “maximal” cyber capabilities. 

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New research from the UK shows how nearly every model tested tried to cheat, scam or cut corners on its way to solving problems.

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The messy approach to U.S. AI regulation reflects both the rapid speed of model cyber capabilities and the White House’s “education” over the past two years, experts said.

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The House Intelligence Committee advanced its fiscal 2027 authorization legislation Monday.

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DTEX researchers found a series of transactions in a payment wallet showing North Korean IT worker salaries flowing into sanctioned entities that support the regime’s military programs.

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