The recent Hugging Face breach was the work of several OpenAI models, the AI research company claimed in a blog post. The breach Late last week, the company behind Hugging Face, a platform that enables users to share machine learning…
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OpenAI Presence connects AI agents to enterprise data with built-in guardrails
OpenAI has introduced Presence, a product designed to help companies deploy AI agents that handle customer support and internal service requests across voice and chat. (Source: OpenAI) The company describes Presence as a deployment platform rather than a standalone model.…
Swimlane AI SOC automates security operations for MSSPs
Swimlane has announced the launch of Swimlane AI SOC for MSSPs, which the company says is designed to empower managed security service providers through agentic AI automation rather than compete for their customers. Some AI SOC providers are moving into…
ThreatDown expands security visibility to AI tools and machine identities
ThreatDown has announced a synchronized expansion of its AI and identity security capabilities to protect organizations from emerging, unmanaged risks. The company launched AI visibility, giving security and managed service provider (MSP) teams a full inventory of the AI tools…
Astelia extends reachability analysis with agentic AI for vulnerability management
Astelia has added agentic capabilities to its reachability analysis platform as organizations face shrinking exploit windows and the growing challenge of managing vulnerabilities. At the core of the platform is Astelia’s reachability analysis, which determines whether a vulnerability can be…
Another SharePoint RCE exploited: Patch, then rotate your machine keys (CVE-2026-50522)
Attackers are exploiting a critical SharePoint remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-50522) to extract the servers’ IIS machine keys. “WatchTowr is observing active exploitation of CVE-2026-50522 against on-premise Microsoft SharePoint deployments following the release of public exploit code, with attackers…
Glow exits stealth with $180 million to secure the AI-enabled endpoint
Glow has emerged from stealth with $180 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation to advance a prevention-first approach to endpoint security. The funding round was led by Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Index Ventures,…
Lookout identifies exploitable vulnerabilities in mobile apps
Lookout has announced the launch of the Lookout Mobile Software Exposure Center (MSEC). Integrated natively into the Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security platform, MSEC enables organizations to continuously detect, validate, prioritize, and remediate exploitable vulnerabilities across their mobile software ecosystem. The…
US seizes over 1,000 domains used for illegal World Cup 2026 streams
The US Department of Justice has seized more than 1,000 internet domains that streamed FIFA World Cup 2026 matches without a license. The domain seizure notice (Source: US Department of Justice) The seizures came in three waves over the course…
Arista adds AI-driven zero trust to VeloCloud SD-WAN
Arista Networks has announced the launch of its new AI-driven Edge Threat Management (ETM) for VeloCloud SD-WAN, delivering integrated zero trust security for enterprise branch offices. Customers can leverage this integration to simplify the branch, collapsing multiple disparate boxes into…
Box expands enterprise AI governance with new agent security featuresox
Box has announced new security capabilities designed to give organizations greater control over AI agents working with enterprise content. With new agent guardrails, third-party agent activity oversight, prompt injection detection, agent classification-based access policies, and more, customers will be able…
AI models cheat on cybersecurity evaluations, then fail to admit it
Frontier AI models will take just about any route to finish a task, cheating included, according to new cybersecurity evaluations from the UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI). AISI defines cheating as a model doing something outside the bounds of…
Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform behind 15,000 monthly campaigns
German and US law enforcement have dismantled the infrastructure behind Kratos, a notorious phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. Its alleged developer and administrator was arrested in Indonesia by local police. Seizure banner (Source: BKA) The takedown was led by the Frankfurt public…
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber becomes a vulnerability hunter
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber model finds, validates, and patches vulnerabilities before they can be exploited while helping mitigate broader misuse. It is part of a limited-access pilot program that will soon be available to governments and trusted partners through…
Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents
The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to read it. On GitHub that somebody is usually one…
Snowpick: Open-source ServiceNow exposure scanner
An employee opens a company service portal, searches the knowledge base, and drops a file onto a ticket. Someone who never signed in can send a request to that same portal and get records back. Bishop Fox ran that test…
AI can’t fix cybersecurity’s hiring problem
Organizations are redefining cybersecurity roles through workforce frameworks and placing greater emphasis on verified skills as AI and new regulatory requirements change hiring. The SANS 2026 Cybersecurity Workforce Survey found demand for specialists in new roles more than doubled over…
Security teams keep finding critical flaws after scheduled testing ends
Enterprise environments change between scheduled security assessments, leaving organizations with periods where new vulnerabilities can go undetected. Synack’s State of Continuous Security Validation report found that 95% of surveyed organizations identified high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities outside planned testing windows during…
Cloud operations become the next big role for agentic AI
Companies are using agentic AI to manage growing application environments, automate routine tasks, and support decisions. Business and IT leaders increasingly see the technology as part of cloud application management, according to Unisys’ AI & Cloud Insights Report. To what…
AI agents tricked into recommending malicious GitHub repositories
Roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories were uncovered, more than 800 of them posing as AI Skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in a wave that peaked in April 2026, according to Island. The scale of the FakeGit operation (Source:…