When cyber threats start thinking for themselves 2026-03-02 at 07:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jason Rivera, Field CISO & Head of Solution Engineering at SimSpace, discusses how autonomous AI agents are changing cyber threats. Drawing on experience in the US Army, NSA, Deloitte, and CrowdStrike, he describes how security […]
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Hackers Weaponize Claude Code in Mexican Government Cyberattack 2026-03-01 at 15:02 By Ionut Arghire The AI was abused to write exploits, create tools, and automatically exfiltrate over 150GB of data. The post Hackers Weaponize Claude Code in Mexican Government Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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LevelBlue Research: CIOs Recognize the Double-Edged Sword of AI 2026-02-28 at 10:37 By A Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) life is rarely simple or easy. Many are concerned about threat actors using AI to attack their organization, while at the same time attempting to convince their leadership to invest in AI as a defensive measure. This
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IronCurtain: An open-source, safeguard layer for autonomous AI assistants 2026-02-28 at 07:07 By Zeljka Zorz Veteran security engineer Niels Provos is working on a new technical approach designed to stop autonomous AI agents from taking actions you haven’t specifically authorized. His open-source software solution, called IronCurtain, aims to neutralize the risk of an LLM-powered agent
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Trump Orders All Federal Agencies to Phase Out Use of Anthropic Technology 2026-02-27 at 23:30 By Associated Press OpenAI and Google, along with Elon Musk’s xAI, also have contracts to supply their AI models to the military. The post Trump Orders All Federal Agencies to Phase Out Use of Anthropic Technology appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Anthropic Refuses to Bend to Pentagon on AI Safeguards as Dispute Nears Deadline 2026-02-27 at 14:50 By Associated Press Anthropic said it sought narrow assurances from the Pentagon that Claude won’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons. The post Anthropic Refuses to Bend to Pentagon on AI Safeguards as
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Ransomware activity peaks outside business hours 2026-02-27 at 12:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec Intrusions continue to center on credential access and timed execution outside standard business hours. The Sophos Active Adversary Report 2026 analyzes 661 incident response and managed detection and response cases handled between November 1, 2024 and October 31, 2025, spanning organizations in 70
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The CISO role keeps getting heavier 2026-02-27 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Personal liability is becoming a routine part of the CISO job. In Splunk’s 2026 CISO Report, titled From Risk to Resilience in the AI Era, 78% of CISOs said they are concerned about their own liability for security incidents, up from 56% last
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AWS Security Hub Extended brings enterprise security under one roof 2026-02-26 at 23:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS Security Hub Extended is a plan within Security Hub that simplifies how customers procure, deploy, and integrate a full-stack enterprise security solution across endpoint, identity, email, network, data, browser, cloud, AI, and security operations. The plan allows customers
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The $19.5 million insider risk problem 2026-02-26 at 09:09 By Mirko Zorz Routine employee activity across corporate systems carries an average annual cost of $19.5 million per organization. That figure comes from the 2026 Cost of Insider Risks Global Report, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and based on data from 354 organizations that experienced one
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Open-source security debt grows across commercial software 2026-02-26 at 08:36 By Mirko Zorz Open source code sits inside nearly every commercial application, and development teams continue to add new dependencies. Black Duck’s 2026 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report data shows that nearly all audited codebases contain open source components, with average component counts
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AI-driven DAST reduces manual setup and surfaces exploitable vulnerabilities 2026-02-26 at 07:35 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Joni Klippert, CEO at StackHawk, discusses what defines DAST coverage in 2026 and why scan completion does not equal security. She explains how AI-driven DAST testing automates attack surface discovery, supports business-logic testing in
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The Blast Radius Problem: Stolen Credentials are Weaponizing Agentic AI 2026-02-25 at 18:16 By Kevin Townsend More than half (56%) of the 400,000 vulnerabilities IBM X-Force tracked in 2025 required no authentication before exploitation. The post The Blast Radius Problem: Stolen Credentials are Weaponizing Agentic AI appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt
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Anthropic’s Remote Control feature brings Claude Code to mobile devices 2026-02-25 at 14:39 By Sinisa Markovic Anthropic has introduced a new Claude Code feature called Remote Control, allowing developers to continue a local coding session from a phone, tablet, or any web browser. The feature is rolling out as a research preview to Max users.
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Cyber valuations climb as capital concentrates, AI security expands 2026-02-25 at 08:59 By Sinisa Markovic Venture funding in cybersecurity continued to concentrate in large private rounds at the end of 2025, driving valuations higher across stages. Data from DataTribe shows total capital invested approached $150 billion for the year, with a disproportionate share flowing into
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Microsoft expands Sovereign Cloud security with governance, local productivity and AI 2026-02-24 at 15:26 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft expands Microsoft Sovereign Cloud with new disconnected and AI capabilities that help organizations run critical infrastructure, productivity services and large AI models inside sovereign boundaries while keeping governance and operational continuity across connected and disconnected environments. Sovereign
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Windows 365 for Agents brings managed cloud PCs to autonomous workflows 2026-02-24 at 13:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft’s Windows 365 for Agents is a cloud platform that gives AI agents secure access to cloud PCs. It lets builders run copilots, agents, and automated workflows in Windows environments without managing infrastructure. The platform includes security, policy
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AI is becoming part of everyday criminal workflows 2026-02-24 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Underground forums include long threads about chatbots drafting phishing emails, generating code snippets, and coaching social engineering calls. A new study examined conversations captured between January 1, 2025 and July 31, 2025 across dozens of cybercrime forums to map how AI
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EU targets Meta over WhatsApp AI access restrictions 2026-02-09 at 17:42 By Sinisa Markovic The European Commission believes Meta breached EU competition rules by blocking other AI assistants from accessing and interacting with users on WhatsApp. The case centers on a change Meta announced on 15 October 2025 to the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms. The
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AI agents behave like users, but don’t follow the same rules 2026-02-09 at 08:19 By Anamarija Pogorelec Security and governance approaches to autonomous AI agents rely on static credentials, inconsistent controls, and limited visibility. Securing these agents requires the same rigor and traceability applied to human users, according to Cloud Security Alliance’s Securing Autonomous AI
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