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  1. Infosecurity Magazine

    EU Auditors Warn Information-Sharing Gaps Are Hindering Cyber Incident Response

    The EU Court of Auditors has criticized EU shortcomings in responding to major cyber incidents

  2. CSO Online

    Okta bets on identity to control AI agents, but is identity enough?

    Concerns over agentic risks are rising, and identity and access management (IAM) giant Okta believes it’s making the moves of a would-be leader in this emerging cyber market. “Identity is the primary control plane for securing AI,” said Okta CEO and co-founder Todd McKinnon in an earnings call in...

  3. CSO Online

    AI malware just removed the human from the attack loop

    Attackers using AI have greatly benefited when it comes to speed and scale, and now, says Cisco Talos, the technology has evolved to execute large portions of the attack chain entirely without human involvement. Researchers at the threat intelligence group have identified what they call the first...

  4. Dark Reading

    Relays Are Masking Chinese Access to Frontier AI Models in the US

    More than 80,000 AI relay servers are helping users in China mask their identities while they access cutting-edge large language models (LLMs), probably to clone them.

  5. Dark Reading

    How the CISO-CMO Alliance Builds Trust Before Crisis Strikes

    Cybersecurity and brand reputation are inextricably linked. Security and marketing leaders who establish regular touchpoints, develop joint crisis communications plans, and translate security risks into their brand impact position their organizations to significantly outperform those treating...

  6. CSO Online

    Microsoft’s EvilTokens takedown sheds light on state of AI-powered cybercrime

    Microsoft has hailed its success in disrupting EvilTokens, an AI-powered a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform linked to more than 12,000 compromised Microsoft 365 inboxes across more than 10,000 organizations worldwide. Since February 2026, EvilTokens has offered a subscription platform...

  7. Dark Reading

    Microsoft Disrupts EvilTokens Device Code Phishing Service

    Microsoft seized 50 websites and disabled more than 150 domains as part of a coordinated disruption effort against a phishing-as-a-service platform targeting Microsoft 365 accounts.

  8. Dark Reading

    Deception by Design: CISA's Guide to Tricking Cybercriminals

    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is going old school to help organizations with limited resources set traps for hackers.

  9. NY Times

    I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away

    Muse, Meta’s A.I. agent, helped handle my dental insurance, booked dinner reservations and created a podcast for me. It also required my most personal data, and trust.

  10. NY Times

    Anthropic Releases a New A.I. Model, Opus 5.5, Amid Safety Debate

    The company released a cheaper, faster model that it said was the strongest performer on its most rigorous internal safety tests to date.

  11. Dark Reading

    Amid Ongoing Rogue Incidents, Debate Over AI Safety Gets Real

    As more reports of misalignment incidents underscore AI risks, large AI labs, regular businesses, and even nations are searching for better ways to keep control and be secure.

  12. NY Times

    The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I.

    Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.

  13. CSO Online

    Z.ai disables coding assistant feature after flaw exposed enterprise code upload risk

    Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.ai had to disable several features of its ZCode coding assistant this week after a default setting was caught sending users’ local code repositories to Alibaba Cloud servers in China without their consent, raising fresh concerns for enterprises over how AI...

  14. IT Pro

    NCSC talks up agents for cyber defense – but there's an 'inconvenient truth' businesses need to accept

    Cyber defenders need to identify the lowest-risk actions that can be automated before making decisions about adoption

  15. IT Pro Security

    NCSC talks up agents for cyber defense – but there's an 'inconvenient truth' businesses need to accept

    Cyber defenders need to identify the lowest-risk actions that can be automated before making decisions about adoption

  16. Infosecurity Magazine

    North Korean Attackers Hit 30,000 Devices and Steal $10.7m

    WaterPlum compromised 30,000 devices and took funds or credentials from 7000 crypto wallets

  17. IT Pro

    Huawei reiterates its commitment to open source standards at Connect 2026

    The Chinese IT giant is the latest to declare open source a key element of AI

  18. Infosecurity Magazine

    AI Incident Response Readiness Lags Behind AI Adoption, ISACA Finds

    A new report by ISACA found that 71% of orgs have not run AI incident response exercises as teams face rising pressure

  19. IT Pro

    Workers are being told to use AI, but not why to use it

    A Culture Amp survey shows workers are eager for AI tools, but they'd like to know the business goal of the technology

  20. Dark Reading

    More Than a Third of Industrial Orgs See Cybersecurity Risk as a Top Obstacle to Growth, Study Finds

    Industrial companies are increasing cybersecurity investment as connected operations, AI adoption, and IT/OT convergence expand operational risk.