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  1. CSO Online

    A deep dive into China’s Volt Typhoon suggests it is preparing for an assault on infrastructure

    In a deep dive into the Silent Train attack tactic used by China’s Volt Typhoon cybercrime group, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs highlighted evidence of efforts to pre-position access within what it described as “strategic communications, critical infrastructure and other ecosystems that become essential...

  2. CSO Online

    A deep dive into China’s Volt Typhoon suggests it is preparing for an assault on infrastructure

    In a deep dive into the Silent Train attack tactic used by China’s Volt Typhoon cybercrime group, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs highlighted evidence of efforts to pre-position access within what it described as “strategic communications, critical infrastructure and other ecosystems that become essential...

  3. Dark Reading

    Anthropic-Themed Phishing Emails Bypass Top Security Tools

    Obvious phishing emails with numerous red flags are somehow getting past some of the industry-leading secure email gateway (SEG) products.

  4. NY Times

    Intel’s Shares Plunge 20% as A.I. Hinders Some Parts of Its Business

    The chipmaker, whose largest investor is the U.S. government, reported that the A.I. boom’s domino effect had hurt sales to personal computer makers.

  5. Wired

    What to Know About China’s Top-Secret Spaceplane

    This week, the Pentagon released a full-resolution image of the vehicle, the capabilities of which remain rather mysterious.

  6. CIO Dive

    Microsoft, Google report booming AI revenue as the tech reshapes business

    While AI boosts cloud earnings, the tech giants will still need to prove the technology can drive commercial growth, Forrester Principal Analyst Tracy Woo said.

  7. Dark Reading

    Rethinking Cybersecurity Awareness in the AI Era

    This installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series discusses some of the trends and topics from Cybersecurity Awareness Month, from using AI for better training to educating next-generation workforces on modern risks and emerging threats.

  8. Dark Reading

    Why CTF Competitions May Be More Important Than Ever

    As artificial intelligence squeezes early-career learning opportunities, capture-the-flag contests could be one way to help pick up the slack.

  9. CIO Dive

    Tech Bytes: Big banks unite to back Anthropic’s compute buildout

    Meanwhile, agents continue to claim the spotlight as Nvidia and Meta expand their partnership and IBM introduces controls to secure frontier intelligence.

  10. Wired

    Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts

    The company says an unnamed third-party provider was compromised. Trading has resumed, and Polymarket says affected traders will be made whole.

  11. Wired

    Nothing Headphones Sale: Stylish and Up to 41% Off

    Some of the brand’s best styles, including the Nothing Headphone (1) and CMF Headphone Pro, are at the lowest prices I’ve ever seen ahead of Black Friday.

  12. CSO Online

    New Cisco firewall zero-day being actively exploited

    A high-severity flaw in the Remote Access SSL VPN service of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) is under active exploitation to crash vulnerable devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76418 and rated 8.6 in severity, is...

  13. The Hacker News

    ThreatsDay: Critical Firewall Flaws, Banking Trojans Rented, Weaponized PDF, Token Theft + 26 More Stories

    Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software doing things it shouldn't. There's a strange mix of clever tricks and careless mistakes. Hackers are borrowing trust from...

  14. Wired

    A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System

    Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.

  15. CIO

    Governing the agent workforce: New data on the next frontier of AI risk

    In the fast-paced world of agentic AI, building agents and defending ROI is yesterday’s news. Today, the more pressing challenge is managing and governing the exploding workforce of agents to mitigate growing enterprise risk. The problem intensifies as AI agents move from advisory to more active...

  16. CIO

    Governing the agent workforce: New data on the next frontier of AI risk

    In the fast-paced world of agentic AI, building agents and defending ROI is yesterday’s news. Today, the more pressing challenge is managing and governing the exploding workforce of agents to mitigate growing enterprise risk. The problem intensifies as AI agents move from advisory to more active...

  17. CIO

    Governing the agent workforce: New data on the next frontier of AI risk

    In the fast-paced world of agentic AI, building agents and defending ROI is yesterday’s news. Today, the more pressing challenge is managing and governing the exploding workforce of agents to mitigate growing enterprise risk. The problem intensifies as AI agents move from advisory to more active...

  18. CIO

    Governing the agent workforce: New data on the next frontier of AI risk

    In the fast-paced world of agentic AI, building agents and defending ROI is yesterday’s news. Today, the more pressing challenge is managing and governing the exploding workforce of agents to mitigate growing enterprise risk. The problem intensifies as AI agents move from advisory to more active...

  19. CIO

    Governing the agent workforce: New data on the next frontier of AI risk

    In the fast-paced world of agentic AI, building agents and defending ROI is yesterday’s news. Today, the more pressing challenge is managing and governing the exploding workforce of agents to mitigate growing enterprise risk. The problem intensifies as AI agents move from advisory to more active...

  20. Dark Reading

    Claude Model Builds Exploits Across Major Browsers & OSes

    An unreleased version of the AI model has found and chained multiple vulnerabilities in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux, Anthropic says.