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Frontier AI models collapse under multi-turn AI attacks, Cisco finds

Attackers who probe large language models rarely give up after one refusal. They reframe, build context across turns, adopt personas, and escalate gradually. New research from …

Cisco
Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era

Security teams already struggle with long lists of vulnerabilities and limited time to patch them. Cisco believes AI could increase that pressure by accelerating vulnerability …

Cisco
Cisco patches another actively exploited SD-WAN zero-day (CVE-2026-20182)

Cisco has patched yet another Catalyst SD-WAN Controller authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-20182) that has been exploited as a zero-day by “a highly …

verifying AI model lineage
Cisco releases open-source toolkit for verifying AI model lineage

Enterprises pulling models from Hugging Face and other open repositories rarely keep records of how those models are altered after download, leaving organizations with little …

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New Cisco firewall malware can only be killed by pulling the plug

Suspected state-sponsored attackers are using a custom backdoor to persistently compromise Cisco security devices (firewalls), the US CISA and the UK National Cyber Security …

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Phishing reclaims the top initial access spot, attackers experiment with AI tools

Phishing returned as the leading method attackers used to break into organizations in the first quarter of 2026, accounting for over a third of engagements where initial …

Cisco
CISA flags another Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bug as exploited (CVE-2026-20133)

CISA added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability (CVE-2026-20133) that Cisco …

Data
Network segmentation projects fail in predictable patterns

Most enterprise networks have segmentation on the roadmap. Many have had it there for years. A survey of 400 U.S.-based network security practitioners who lived through failed …

Idan Habler
Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready

In this Help Net Security interview, Idan Habler, AI Security Researcher at Cisco, breaks down a threat most security teams haven’t named yet: agentic memory as an …

phishing awareness
Phishers sneak through using GitHub and Jira’s own mail delivery infrastructure

Attackers are abusing the notification systems of SaaS platforms like GitHub and Jira to send phishing and spam emails, Cisco Talos researchers are warning. “Because the …

wireless
IT talent looks the other way as wireless security incidents pile up

Enterprise wireless networks are supporting a growing mix of devices and applications, increasing operational demand and security exposure. The 2026 Cisco State of Wireless …

Cisco
Cisco IMC auth bypass vulnerability allows attackers to alter user passwords (CVE-2026-20093)

Cisco has fixed ten vulnerabilities affecting its Integrated Management Controller (IMC), the most critical of which (CVE-2026-20093) could allow an unauthenticated, remote …

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