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  1. The Hacker News

    Fake AI Attacks Spread Across US Companies: How MSSPs Can Stop Incidents Early

    Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns between April and October of 2026. The campaigns also increase operational pressure on MSSPs serving US...

  2. The Hacker News

    Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Authenticated RCE Flaw Amid Active Exploitation

    Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of remote code execution in the management interface. "A remote code execution (RCE)...

  3. IT Pro

    Europe must invest in its own AI companies or be left at the mercy of the US and China, says Mistral AI co-founder

    “AI isn’t the internet” warns Arthur Mensch, as he encourages Europe to take a more active role in AI’s development

  4. IT Pro

    LiteLLM flaws allow full admin control and API-key theft

    Users are advised to implement patch immediately in order to avoid breaches

  5. IT Pro Security

    LiteLLM flaws allow full admin control and API-key theft

    Users are advised to implement patch immediately in order to avoid breaches

  6. CSO Online

    Ransomware extortion gets personal as attackers target employees’ families

    Ransomware attackers are expanding their tactics beyond encrypting corporate systems and threatening to leak stolen data. They are increasingly using AI in attacks, exploiting organizations’ own AI systems and even using physical intimidation by threatening employees and their families to pressure...

  7. IT Pro

    EU can't afford sovereign cloud, research claims

    Citing costs that it claims have been overlooked, CCIA Europe is predicting a €115 billion bill.

  8. Infosecurity Magazine

    Warning Over High-Risk Vulnerabilities in Widely Used LLM Gateway Tool

    CVE-2026-35029 and CVE-2026-59823 affect LiteLLM, which is commonly used by enterprises to connect their AI applications to providers like OpenAI and Anthropic

  9. Security Week

    CikaBika Bot RAT Uses Discord for C&C

    Delivered via phishing, the malware provides reconnaissance, remote execution, and data exfiltration capabilities. The post CikaBika Bot RAT Uses Discord for C&C appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  10. The Hacker News

    Why AI Confidence Is Not Validation

    AI is already part of digital forensics and incident response work, with or without a policy in place to govern it. The issue is that these tools are growing more confident in their own output faster than practitioners are developing reliable ways to verify it. Without governance models and...

  11. Wired

    Kids’ Content Is Deeply Broken. A New Platform Wants to Fix It

    Low-quality AI-generated content currently dominates children’s media. Maka, a streaming platform run by child development experts, is offering an alternative.

  12. CIO

    What a cockatoo can teach us about the evidence AI wasn’t built to hear

    AI systems do not make decisions from reality. They make decisions from representations of reality: records, observations, measurements, histories, labels, documents, and whatever else an organization has decided belongs in the data. That distinction sounds almost too obvious to be interesting, yet...

  13. CIO Dive

    Top banks reckon with AI risks, but spot benefits

    “We’re not going to allow just any outside agent to come inside the company because that’s just too risky,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said.

  14. NY Times

    Exhausted Parents Are Turning to A.I. Apps Despite the Risks

    Even as alarm grows over the risks, families are embracing bots and agents to tackle the spiraling administrative tasks of modern child rearing.

  15. Help Net Security

    CISA flags exploited flaws in Palo Alto, Cisco and Ahsay products

    The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: CVE-2026-0322, a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the management interface of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS CVE-2026-76519, a...

  16. IT Pro

    Bank of America hired 1,000 security consultants to address Mythos-spotted flaws

    Temp hires were needed to work through patches and other fixes necessary to address vulnerabilities spotted by the AI security models

  17. IT Pro Security

    Bank of America hired 1,000 security consultants to address Mythos-spotted flaws

    Temp hires were needed to work through patches and other fixes necessary to address vulnerabilities spotted by the AI security models

  18. The Hacker News

    India Mandates Registered Caller Name Display on 4G and Newer Networks From November 1

    The Indian government has directed telecom service providers (TSPs) in the country to mandatorily display callers' registered names along with their numbers for incoming calls starting November 1, 2026, in an effort to help people identify calls from unknown numbers and tackle spam or fraudulent...

  19. Wired

    Democrats Are Gearing Up to Investigate the Trump Administration. It Won’t Be Easy

    As a recent government report on DOGE shows, even getting basic information out of the Trump administration will put a new Congress to the test.

  20. Security Week

    Novel Android RAT ‘Hirudo’ Replaces Banking Apps With Trojanized Copies

    The Hirudo malware combines elements of a traditional banking trojan and a full-featured RAT. The post Novel Android RAT ‘Hirudo’ Replaces Banking Apps With Trojanized Copies appeared first on SecurityWeek.