Threat actors using LLMs needed only eight minutes to move from initial access to full admin privileges in an attack on a company's AWS cloud environment in the latest example of cybercriminals expanding their use of AI in their operations, Sysdig researchers said.
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Microsoft has released LiteBox, an experimental open-source library OS designed to sandbox applications while reducing their exposure to host systems. Written in Rust and published under the MIT license, LiteBox reflects the company’s efforts to upgrade software security as confidential computing gains adoption. LiteBox takes a different path from traditional virtualization or container technologies. Rather..
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There is a time window for every act of online fraud. When a transaction occurs, a fraud system must review it and decide if it’s legitimate before the payment clears or if the account could be compromised. That window happens in a blink, often one-tenth of a second or less. During that time, models must..
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In 2026 stolen credentials and unmanaged machine identities drive breaches—small buys, phone scams, and weak IAM make identity the real perimeter; prioritize inventory, least privilege, and stronger auth.
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By 2026 humans remain cybersecurity’s weakest—and most vital—link as AI-enabled social engineering rises; prioritize behavioral design, real‑time interventions, and leadership.
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Start PQC pilots now—not to prove readiness but to surface interoperability, vendor, inventory, and skills gaps so organizations can manage post-quantum migration risks.
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Alan discovers how the Super Bowl acts as a live-fire exercise in cybersecurity, requiring seamless coordination to manage massive attack surfaces and ensure integrity and trust in real time.
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Unit 42 researchers say an Asian threat group behind what they call the Shadow Campaigns has targeted government agencies in 37 countries in a wide-ranging global cyberespionage campaign that has involved phishing attacks and the exploitation of a more than a dozen known vulnerabilities.
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Orchid Security today added an ability to conduct audits to its platform that enables cybersecurity teams to track behaviors of specific identities. Company CEO Roy Katmor said Identity Audit is designed to make it possible to unify proprietary audit data captured from unmanaged applications with audit logs data collected from third-party identity and access management..
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As the enterprise world shifts from chatbots to autonomous systems, Operant AI on Thursday launched Agent Protector, a real-time security solution designed to govern and shield artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The launch comes at a critical inflection point for corporate technology. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will feature..
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Action depends on truth. Truth is hard to come by. There’s an old trope: “You can’t protect what you can’t see.” This burning need for total visibility has led to an abundance of security data across every domain. But abundance doesn’t equal clarity. One tool says a device is patched, another says it’s vulnerable. HR..
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Permission sprawl is colliding with AI regulations, creating new compliance risks across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Securing AI agents can’t fall on customers. Platform providers must own data protection, prompt injection defense and agent guardrails.
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There’s an old joke in enterprise tech: IT giveth, and security taketh away. At its best, IT exists to empower people – to give employees faster, better, smarter tools to do their jobs. As we know no good deed goes unpunished, though, and security inevitably shows up afterward to clean up the risk created by..
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It is the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that users love and security experts fear. OpenClaw, the agentic AI platform created by Peter Steinberger, is tearing through the tech world, promising a level of automation that legacy chatbots like ChatGPT can’t match. But as cloud giants rush to host it, industry analysts are issuing a blunt..
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The results of our soon-to-be-published Advanced Cloud Firewall (ACFW) test are hard to ignore. Some vendors are failing badly at the basics like SQL injection, command injection, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and API abuse with block percentages under 20%, sometimes way under. Those are just the application-based threats, never mind the vulnerability-based attacks. While it’s […]
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When “Secure by Design” Fails at the Edge Firewalls are still widely treated as the first and final line of defense. Once deployed, configured, and updated, they are often assumed to be a stable control that quietly does its job in the background. Recent ransomware incidents suggest that the assumption is becoming dangerous. In early
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Email attachments remain one of the most trusted entry points into enterprise environments. Despite years of awareness training and secure email gateways, attackers continue to rely on documents because they blend seamlessly into everyday workflows. New reporting from The Hacker News details how APT28, a Russia-linked threat actor, is actively exploiting a newly disclosed Microsoft
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The chatbot era has ended. For two years, we’ve interacted with digital assistants that summarize emails and suggest recipes, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) now draws a definitive line between machines that talk and machines that act. Their newly released Request for Information (RFI) signals a fundamental paradigm shift in how..
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