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Malware Campaign Uses AI Hype to Spread AsyncRAT

A new FortiGuard Labs investigation reveals a malware campaign built entirely around a contradiction. The campaign uses the promise of AI education to deliver an Asynchronous Remote Access Trojan (AsyncRAT)—while also bearing the unmistakable fingerprints…

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OT Security Ratings Fall as Visibility Improves

Industrial organizations may be getting a clearer view of their cybersecurity risk, and the picture is not as reassuring as many previously believed. Fortinet’s 2026 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report found a sharp…

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NSPM-12 Rewires the Governance of America's Most Sensitive Cyber Networks

For over 35 years, the framework governing the National Security Systems (NSS) of the United States has been governed by National Security Directive (NSD) 42, a policy set by the Bush administration in 1990. This…

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How Hacked Devices Are Rewriting the Threat Landscape

The nationally-recognized nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center recently published its 2026 Trends in Identity Report (TIR), the fifth installment in the annual series exploring the current state of the identity threat landscape. The report outlines…

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Five Eyes Warns Chinese Intelligence Is Using Job Platforms to Recruit Sources

Chinese military intelligence operatives are posing as online recruiters to reach people with sensitive government or military knowledge, according to a joint warning from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance. The joint advisory from the United…

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How DragonForce Weaponized Microsoft Teams to Outlast Its Own Ransomware

In a recent attack, threat actors compromised a U.S. services firm’s network using malware tactics unseen prior to this incident. The attackers’ initial access was traced to an unidentified vulnerability in either an SQL or…

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Fake Banks and Phantom Agencies Draining Billions from U.S. Bank Accounts

New Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data shows how imposter scams have become the most reported form of fraud in the U.S. Financial losses nearly tripled from 2020 to 2025, and last year, Americans lost $3.5…

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Rokarolla Malware Can Block Alerts and Manipulate Android Banking Sessions

Zimperium researchers have identified an Android banking trojan that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps and can help attackers manipulate infected phones during fraud attempts. The malware, called Rokarolla, is distributed through malicious websites that…

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Inside the PeopleSoft Zero-Day That Let Attackers Look Like Legitimate Users

Threat researchers have discovered a campaign by the cybercrime group known as ShinyHunters, historically known for carrying out massive data breaches and extortion attacks. This most recent campaign, based on activity observed between May 27th…

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Inside Databricks' Bet on Agentic Security

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

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

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

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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Zscaler’s Symmetry Deal Targets AI’s Growing Access-Control Problem

Zscaler has announced plans to acquire Symmetry Systems, a move aimed at giving enterprises better visibility into how AI agents, service accounts, and other non-human identities access applications and data. The proposed acquisition would add…

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Torq's Acquisition of Jit and the Rise of Context-Driven SecOps

Since the inception of AI security operations center (SOC) platforms, they have operated around and struggled against fragmented, context-free data. Architectures that center around security alerts treat each of these events in isolation, stripping out…

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Cyera’s $50M Genie Deal Signals the Rush for AI Security Startups

Cyera has acquired Genie Security, a five-person Israeli cybersecurity startup founded only months ago, in a deal reportedly worth about $50 million, underscoring how quickly larger security companies are moving to buy young teams building…

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Akamai's LayerX Acquisition Redraws the AI Governance Perimeter

In the ongoing AI boom, the adoption and implementation of AI tools and agents is rapidly outpacing the rate at which governance instrumentation is being built to contain and manage them. Previously existing controls like…

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Why Cisco Paid $400M to Secure the Identities No One Is Watching

The broad digital landscape in recent years has seen a massive increase in non-human identities (NHIs), including API and access keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, and AI agents. These identities now outnumber human users by…

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