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OpenAI's AI Model Hacked Hugging Face Trying to Cheat on a Benchmark

By now, there's a good chance you've seen the headlines about the OpenAI-Hugging Face security incident, and there's an equally good chance you skimmed past the actual mechanics on your way to the punchline. That's…

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Cryptomining on AI Gateway Shows Cloud Risks Moving Into AI Stack

Darktrace researchers said they observed cryptomining activity on an AWS EC2 instance tied to Amazon Bedrock access, highlighting how familiar cloud security risks are extending into enterprise AI infrastructure. The June 12 activity involved an…

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Why Enterprises Trust Their AI More Than the Data Proves They Should

Data security and governance company AvePoint has released its third annual State of AI Report, detailing the most recent trends in AI tools and agents. According to the research, nearly half of employees now rely…

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How a Global Tournament Became Cybercrime's Biggest Stage

A recent report from threat analysts at Hoxhunt reveals alarming statistics on the massive spike in cyberthreats surrounding the World Cup. Between April and June of 2026, phishing attacks themed around FIFA World Cup 2026…

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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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Why Barracuda Bet Against the Platform Giants

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

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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