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EU
EU begins enforcing AI Act, putting AI models under the microscope

Europe’s fight to regulate AI models moved from paper to practice on 2 August 2026, when the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began …

AI
Chinese hacker used DeepSeek to launch autonomous cyberattacks on vulnerable servers

A Chinese threat actor operating under the aliases “knaithe” and “KnYuan” used multiple LLMs to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems …

CISA
CISA lays out new guidance for using open-source software

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guide, which provides federal agencies …

Mike Wiacek
Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you

In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent that takes a single alert and works outward to map how far …

Claude
Anthropic’s Claude breached three companies during security tests

Anthropic has disclosed that its AI model Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems of three different organizations during cybersecurity evaluations. The disclosure …

automation
Companies push AI, sysadmins keep it on a short leash

In 2024, sysadmins expected AI to automate patch management optimization, vulnerability prioritization, infrastructure monitoring, and incident response within two years. …

money
AI agents are changing where cybersecurity seed funding lands

Founders pitching a cybersecurity seed round this summer are joining a line that keeps getting longer. Product Hunt launches hit their highest level since late 2023 last …

Google Chrome
AI takes on a bigger role in finding Chrome vulnerabilities

Google has expanded the use of AI in Chrome’s security workflow, using it to find vulnerabilities, triage bug reports, generate patches, and review code to shorten the …

CISA
CISA sets a new SBOM baseline

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), together with its co-authoring partners, has released the 2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of …

cost data breach
Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher

More than one in four organizations hit by a malicious attack over the past year say AI drove it. Those breaches averaged about $1 million above the malicious attacks that ran …

LLM
Your AI agents can reach data no one approved

A credential expired. An AI agent kept using it anyway, and a mid-sized company’s systems went down for a quarter’s worth of trouble before anyone traced the …

AI
VERITAS project could change the way scientists secure AI

The AI models, datasets, and automated systems researchers depend on can be compromised in ways conventional cybersecurity tools aren’t designed to detect. A new project …

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