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Research Finds Most Attacks Exploit Identity Trust, Not Bugs
August 17, 2026
BeyondTrust’s Phantom Labs was founded in 2025 to conduct research and share intelligence pertinent to the company’s security efforts. The recently released Phantom Labs Research Index explores the fruits of the first year of Phantom…
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AI Agents Approving Transactions Enterprises Can't See
August 14, 2026
Enterprise AI has quietly crossed a threshold. What began as a productivity layer for summarizing data and drafting reports has evolved into a class of digital workers with real authority, according to new research from…
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CosmosEscape Flaw Could Have Exposed Every Azure Cosmos DB Account
August 12, 2026
A vulnerability chain in Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB could have allowed an attacker to read or modify customer databases across the service, according to research published by Wiz. Dubbed CosmosEscape, the chain began with a…
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Iranian Hackers Suspected in Attack on 30+ Minnesota Water Utilities
August 10, 2026
A recent cyberattack against water utilities in Minnesota has revealed the extent of the weakness in many operational technology (OT) environments. Municipal water systems largely run on aging and outdated OT, often exposed to the…
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Criminal AI Is Easier to Find—and Harder to Monitor
August 07, 2026
In its new Cybercrime in the Age of AI report, ThreatDown points to a January 2026 attack on a Mexican municipal water utility as evidence that AI can help attackers work faster and beyond their…
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How Ubuntu's Root-Access Fix Created a New Path to Root
August 05, 2026
A new high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8933, has arisen as the result of an update from Canonical in an attempt to harden snap-confine. Intended to reduce the attack surface of snap-confine, the fix inadvertently created…
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PromptFiction Turns Claude Feature Into Attack Vector
August 04, 2026
The debate continues over whether hackers can trick AI agents into betraying users. Meanwhile, Oasis Security recently announced an unsettling finding. New research on the Claude Desktop agent not only found that a convenience feature…
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AI Models Keep Breaking Their Own Rules
August 03, 2026
OpenAI recently published a blog post disclosing an incident wherein two of its AI models broke containment and hacked Hugging Face to retrieve a benchmark answer key and cheat on an evaluation. The language used…
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AvePoint Report Finds AI Adoption Outpacing Enterprise Oversight
July 27, 2026
Organizations are rapidly expanding the use of AI agents even as their ability to monitor and govern the technology falls behind, according to AvePoint’s 2026 State of AI report. The study surveyed 750 enterprise leaders…
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Okta Buys Permiso for $200 Million to Police AI Agents After Login
August 18, 2026
Identity and access management (IAM) company Okta recently signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, with the deal expected to close in Q3 of Okta’s 2027 fiscal year. While the exact terms of the…
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Cyera Adds Oasis Security for $1B to Close the AI Agent Identity Gap
August 11, 2026
The ongoing AI explosion and recent growth of agentic AI usage have created a security landscape with new and evolving risks. Enterprises are deploying AI agents within their networks at a rapid pace, outstripping any…
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Palo Alto Networks Buys Its Way Into Watching Everything
August 02, 2026
On July 21st, 2026, Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire user-focused observability provider Embrace under undisclosed terms. The deal adds Real User Monitoring (RUM) functionality to the company’s existing Observability platform. The acquisition…
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Telemetry Giant Bets $100M That the SIEM Era Is Ending
July 28, 2026
The state of the modern enterprise and security strategies has led to an environment where security teams are drowning in telemetry volume and alert noise, unable to adequately address real concerns among a flood of…
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Why Barracuda Bet Against the Platform Giants
July 22, 2026
In the era of AI, cyberattacks are increasingly targeting both human and non-human identities alike. As technology continues to advance, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) operate and manage sprawling, thinly resourced identity environments, often without…
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Inside Databricks' Bet on Agentic Security
July 12, 2026
The rising prevalence of AI tools in the past few years, and the more recent development of agentic AI, have not only been applied to personal and enterprise purposes, but also significantly shifted the threat…
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Accenture Is Repositioning OT Cybersecurity Around Asset Intelligence
July 05, 2026
In recent years, with rising geopolitical tensions, nation-state threat actors have been increasingly targeting industrial and critical infrastructure environments. Operational technology (OT) environments have historically been underprotected due to reliance on the assumed safety of…
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How a $200 Million Acquisition Exposes the Identity Crisis No One Is Watching
June 26, 2026
According to the Cloud Security Alliance’s recent report on The Non-Human Identity Governance Vacuum, non-human identities now outnumber human ones by roughly 45 to 1. These identities include API keys, tokens, and service accounts that…
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Dragos's Acquisition of Phosphorus Signals a Fundamental Rethink of Industrial Cybersecurity
June 16, 2026
For many years, operational technology (OT) security programs have been designed around the concept of a discrete, identifiable set of industrial control systems. Technologies traditionally relied upon, like Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Distributed Control Systems…
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