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PaperCut
AI agents exploited PaperCut flaws to breach 395 organizations

A threat actor built a working exploit for PaperCut print management software, then handed the job of breaking into hundreds of organizations to AI agents that did most of the …

door
AI is changing what Salesforce security needs to govern

Existing security and governance practices have largely focused on identities, permissions, access, configurations and controls. WithSecure’s Navigating Trust in the Modern …

CISO
AI adoption brings new security headaches for already stretched CISOs

CISOs are taking on AI governance without a matching increase in resources or expertise, adding to an already broad remit spanning data protection, identity, resilience and …

Hands
A new open standard locks AI weights to approved hardware

OPAQUE, a confidential computing company that runs AI workloads inside hardware-isolated environments so operators cannot inspect them, released an open standard that lets AI …

CISA
Chinese AI firms are siphoning capabilities from American models, CISA warns

China-based AI companies are using large-scale knowledge distillation campaigns to copy capabilities from leading U.S. AI models, according to a joint cybersecurity advisory …

AI-Infra-Guard
AI-Infra-Guard: Open-source security scanner for AI systems

Tencent’s Zhuque Lab built AI-Infra-Guard, an open-source security scanner for AI systems. It fingerprints running services such as Ollama, vLLM and ComfyUI and checks …

data analytics
Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results

In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028, 70% of large SOCs will …

botnet
What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them into something that will …

AI
Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks

AI agents are automating parts of cyberattacks with less human involvement, including vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting, and troubleshooting, according to Google …

Doppler secrets management platform
Product showcase: Doppler secures secrets for humans, pipelines, and AI agents

Every engineering team has spent years trying to keep credentials out of source code. Then AI agents moved the problem. Coding agents review code, agents run workflows, and …

Microsoft
Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs

Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without …

OpenAI
OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI

OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined …

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