Microsoft has introduced a series of security tools and capabilities focused on AI-driven vulnerability discovery, AI agents, and AI models. The updates include a multi-agent vulnerability discovery system, new controls for managing and securing AI agents, data protection capabilities, and…
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Microsoft responds to security challenges emerging in AI development
Microsoft has introduced a series of security tools and capabilities focused on AI-driven vulnerability discovery, AI agents, and AI models. The updates include a multi-agent vulnerability discovery system, new controls for managing and securing AI agents, data protection capabilities, and…
Simplify security management with CIS SecureSuite Platform
New operating systems prioritize usability, a reality which threat actors use to exploit security gaps. Every misconfiguration creates an opportunity for compromise, and lean teams struggle in their security management efforts to harden hundreds or thousands of endpoints. CIS SecureSuite…
Malware campaign targeting Minecraft users infects over 116,000 systems
A Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) operation named WeedHack is targeting Minecraft users and allows threat actors to gain remote access to victims’ screens, webcams, and files through a web-based dashboard, McAfee researchers found. Minecraft, developed by Mojang Studios and released in 2011,…
Autonomous AI-driven worm can reason its way through corporate networks
Researchers at the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and the University of Cambridge have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven worm that does not operate on a fixed list of exploits. Instead, it analyzes each target it encounters, reasons…
Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar
Enterprise teams are running AI agents that write code, drive browsers, answer customer calls, manage cloud infrastructure, and query data warehouses with standing credentials. A new independent assessment of 100 production agents finds that nearly all of them carry the…
New Android feature promises to spot deepfake scam calls
Android is introducing fake call detection to help protect users from impersonation scams. The feature can detect and flag suspected spoofed calls when both parties use Phone by Google on Android 12 or later. It will roll out globally this…
Microsoft Scout agent opens a new category of always-on Autopilots
Workplace AI assistants have mostly waited for a prompt before doing anything. A user asks, the tool answers, and the exchange ends there. Microsoft is putting a different kind of agent inside its Office applications, one designed to keep operating…
Google adds a silent check to catch scammers posing as your contacts
Android is introducing fake call detection to help protect users from impersonation scams. The feature can detect and flag suspected spoofed calls when both parties use Phone by Google on Android 12 or later. It will roll out globally this…
Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations in more than 15 countries
Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its cybersecurity initiative built around the Claude Mythos Preview model, by adding about 150 organizations following several weeks of work with its initial group of partners, security firms, open-source maintainers, and government agencies. Organizations joining…
MazeBolt brings AI-generated attack simulation to DDoS security testing
MazeBolt has announced the launch of RADAR VectorAI, a new MazeBolt module that creates AI-generated DDoS attacks. As AI outpaces human response, enterprises need to have access to validated DDoS vulnerability data about both known and AI-generated attack vectors. Mythos…
Critical Start expands MDR capabilities with multi-agent AI system
Critical Start has released SOC AI, a production-proven multi-agent framework powering its AI-led Managed Detection and Response (MDR). SOC AI coordinates ten specialized agents across the full alert investigation and response lifecycle, covering detection, triage, response, threat hunting, and continuous…
Netskope adds AI asset discovery and AISecOps agent to AI security portfolio
Netskope has announced Netskope One AI Command Center, bringing together AI discovery, risk intelligence, and autonomous response capabilities in a single platform. As the latest expansion of the Netskope One AI Security suite, it helps security teams understand what AI…
A small Slovenian team handles 6,000 cyber incidents a year
Online fraud complaints, ransomware cases, and phishing tips reach Slovenia’s national cyber response center in steady volume, and a team of around a dozen analysts sorts through them. Gorazd Božič, who manages SI-CERT at the public agency ARNES, described that…
Agent Threat Rules: Open detection rule format for AI agent security threats
AI agents run inside coding assistants, MCP servers, and multi-agent frameworks, and the access that makes them useful also opens paths to prompt injection, tool poisoning, and credential theft. Public CVE feeds carry agent-execution flaws that reach production faster than…
What CISOs need to do about post-quantum migration in the next 24 months
In this Help Net Security video, Garfield Jones, SVP Global Strategy and Research, QuSecure, lays out what CISOs should do over the next 24 months. A recent Google paper moved the expected arrival of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer from…
Known vulnerabilities behind most application security incidents
Eight in ten organizations took an application security hit during the past year tied to a vulnerability their team had already cataloged, according to a survey of 902 IT and security professionals conducted by the Cloud Security Alliance. The pattern…
Tuskira Quell identifies, mitigates, and validates zero-day risk before breach
Tuskira launched Quell, its exposure-led zero-day defense capability. Quell helps enterprises survive the window between a zero-day’s disclosure and a patch by determining which zero-days are reachable in their environment, whether existing controls would stop them, and which compensating control…
Noma brings visibility and access governance to AI agents and MCP servers
Noma has announced the launch of Noma Agent Access Control, which helps security teams discover, govern, and enforce access policies for AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers throughout the enterprise. AI agents and MCP servers have proliferated across…
64,000 accounts exposed in breach of GTA V cheat service Atlas Menu
Atlas Menu, a cheat service for Grand Theft Auto V and Counter-Strike 2, has been added to the Have I Been Pwned database following a data breach that exposed tens of thousands of user records. The incident exposed approximately 64,000…