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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 Municipal water systems largely run on aging and outdated OT, often exposed to the…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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Inside the FSB's Decade-Long Campaign to Weaponize Network Neglect
July 26, 2026
An unprecedented coalition of US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and five EU nations recently issued a joint advisory, titled “Improve Router Hygiene to Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Targeting.” The document explicitly names Russia’s FSB…
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Inside the Extortion Operation With No One Behind the Keyboard
July 25, 2026
Since the inception of ransomware as a form of cyberattack, the tactics and technologies used by ransomware threat actors have continuously evolved to increase success rates and payouts. Throughout this time, the one constant has…
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OpenAI's AI Model Hacked Hugging Face Trying to Cheat on a Benchmark
July 23, 2026
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
July 21, 2026
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
July 20, 2026
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
July 19, 2026
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
July 14, 2026
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
July 13, 2026
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
July 09, 2026
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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