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Moving past autonomous exploitation to machine-speed security

Frontier AI advancements have created a world where exploitation outpaces defense. The average enterprise takes 32 to 43 days to patch, but the mean time to exploit a vulnerability is 10 hours. This...

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14 ways attackers abuse cloud services to hack your enterprise

Attackers are increasingly abusing trusted SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure, and identity systems to blend malicious activity into legitimate enterprise traffic. Adversaries are pushing command...

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US bans DeepSeek across federal agencies, putting AI supply chains under...

DeepSeek has been dealt a huge blow in the US, even as it continues to innovate and keep pace with, or in some cases outperform, rival models from American labs. The US Secretary of Homeland Security...

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UK FCA exec wants to require disclosure of ‘significant AI failures and...

When UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Chief Data Officer Jessica Rusu gave a speech on Monday advocating that UK companies be required to report “significant AI failures and near-misses,” she...

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KVM escape exposes broader attack surface in Linux networking

Security researchers have found a critical flaw in the Linux kernel’s networking stack that can let attackers escape a KVM virtual machine and execute code on the host system. The weakness could also...

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When defrost becomes sabotage: 3 OT lessons from France’s supermarket attack

On the night of 11 October, someone remotely put the cold cases of several hundred French supermarkets into defrost. At Intermarché and Netto stores, fridges and freezers warmed to around 50°C and...

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OT systems complicate quantum-resistant data protection

Quantum-resistant cryptography presents security leaders with various challenges, but CISOs in industries dependent on IoT and operational technology (OT) devices may face a particularly difficult...

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F5 rushes out emergency NGINX patches for three critical flaws

F5 is once again disclosing cybersecurity flaws in its core offerings. The app delivery and security provider has released out-of-band (OOB) security patches that address multiple flaws in NGINX, its...

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Microsoft, Nvidia push provenance checks as open-weight AI adoption accelerates

Microsoft and Nvidia are urging enterprises to assess the security of open-weight AI models throughout deployment, warning that changes to model weights and configurations can weaken safeguards even...

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ConnectWise backup credentials exposed multiple Microsoft 365 tenants

ConnectWise has disabled key cloud services and is investigating unauthorized access to customers’ Microsoft 365 environments after a credential tied to its Cloud Backup platform was compromised and...

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The password nobody owns: Taking machines to zero standing privilege (ZSP)

Ask your infrastructure lead who owns the service account behind the overnight finance batch and notice how long the answer takes. In many of the environments I’ve reviewed, the engineer who set it up...

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9 rising malware trends every security pro should know

Malware is evolving rapidly, driven by advances in AI and changes in computing infrastructures. Security professionals must continuously educate themselves on these trends to defend against...

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Hallucinated domain in official OpenAI skill underscores AI supply chain risks

Researchers have discovered a first-of-its-kind supply-chain vulnerability in OpenAI’s official skills repository. OpenAI maintains an official GitHub repository of skills that teach AI agents how to...

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Xbow spent $40K on AI and cracked Google Chrome wide open

A chain of vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome browser could have enabled researchers to take control of one billion Windows machines worldwide — and it cost them just $40,000 in AI compute time to...

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Bank of America spent millions on anti-money-laundering tech, but not enough...

Bank of America has had to spend big on IT in response to an AI security audit and findings that its anti-money-laundering (AML) controls were lacking. The bank was fined a whopping $1.2 billion for...

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Linux kernel gets a fix for a flaw that enabled attackers to escape VMs

The Linux kernel’s networking stack was found vulnerable to a guest-to-host escape attack, in which an attacker operating inside a virtual machine (VM) could cross the isolation boundary and access...

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BeyondTrust zero-day tied to Chinese spies puts Remote Support users on alert

Organizations running self-hosted BeyondTrust Remote Support should treat exposed appliances as potentially compromised after a suspected Chinese espionage group exploited a critical zero-day to gain...

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Cyberattack AIs must be trained only on air-gapped systems, hundreds of AI...

Current security procedures for training AI models are inadequate, hundreds of AI researchers have warned governments and the AI community. They are calling for tougher rules and the establishment of...

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Malware evasion made easier with AI — but behavior still gives it away

Fresh research suggests recent panic over AI-generated malware may be overblown. Last month Anthropic detailed how Russia-linked cyberespionage group Midnight Blizzard used Claude to rebuild malware...

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No click required: How the ad industry became a pipeline for mercenary spyware

That ad you just scrolled past on your phone but barely spared a look or click? It could be tracking your movements and collecting your data, without you having to do a thing. This “zero-click...

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