The best human hacking team still out-solved the best AI team 2026-08-27 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Bring an AI agent to a hacking competition and you would expect to find it propping up the teams who were struggling. In the 2026 Global Cyber Skills Benchmark, agents showed up in 17 of the Top 25 […]
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AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks 2026-08-26 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Risk managers, auditors and senior executives at 316 companies spent April and May ranking 20 threats they have not yet felt. AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities came back first, according to Gartner. Three months earlier the same quarterly
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Ransomware attackers are zeroing in on mid-market companies 2026-08-24 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Mid-sized companies accounted for 73% of publicly disclosed ransomware and data-extortion incidents with known revenue in North America and Europe between January 2023 and June 2026, according to Black Kite. The analysis covered 13,336 incidents with known revenue and defined mid-market
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Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind 2026-08-21 at 11:41 By Eduard Kovacs Two industry surveys released this week by Kiteworks and CyberSheath paint a consistent picture of the defense industrial base. The post Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article
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Nearly half of enterprises have no one leading PQC migration 2026-08-21 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprises believe they are prepared for the security challenges posed by quantum computing, but gaps in ownership, testing and visibility could complicate their transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), according to new research from Axiad. Who owns PQC migration? (Source:
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Banks look for fraud signals in customer behavior 2026-08-19 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Banks are dealing with more fraud in which customers authorize payments after being manipulated by criminals. ThreatMark’s Fraud Readiness Benchmark 2026 describes a banking environment where social engineering, reimbursement requirements and growing case volumes are changing fraud operations. Social engineering moves
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The hardest part of agentic AI may be rebuilding the business 2026-08-14 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Organizations expect AI agents to change how work gets done, driving productivity and growth while allowing employees to focus on higher-value tasks. Few, however, have the processes and workflows needed to realize those benefits, according to Deloitte’s latest
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Weak IAM affects up to 98% of cloud environments 2026-08-14 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Misconfiguration remains one of the leading threats to cloud environments because a single configuration error can result in public network access, unrotated keys, missing encryption, exposed services, and logging gaps. CISA now mandates baseline cloud configuration practices for US federal
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DDoS attacks hit record scale as 1 Tbps+ campaigns become more common 2026-08-13 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec DDoS attacks grew in scale during the first half of 2026, bringing larger traffic floods, shorter attack durations, and increasingly automated campaigns. Cloudflare’s H1 2026 DDoS Threat Report shows threat actors relying on multi-vector techniques and large-scale
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US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months 2026-08-07 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Every month for the better part of a year, about 4,800 US internet addresses answered a query in the protocol that fuel tank gauges speak. In June the number was 2,354. The count fell across April, May,
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Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic 2026-08-06 at 17:07 By Sinisa Markovic A new mobile ad fraud scheme, dubbed Papyrus, is using a cluster of novel-reading apps to generate hidden browser traffic, according to IAS Threat Lab. Sample novel-reading apps associated with Papyrus (Source: IAS Threat Lab) While a person taps
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INTERPOL flags AI as the new engine of African cybercrime 2026-08-05 at 15:24 By Anamarija Pogorelec Africa’s growing digital economy is exposing governments, businesses and internet users to a rising wave of cybercrime. The continent recorded more than 1.1 billion mobile subscriptions and over $1.1 trillion in digital transactions in 2025, while more than 570
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15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic 2026-08-05 at 12:35 By Mirko Zorz TP-Link prints the serial number of an Omada router on its packaging and on a label attached to the device. Those numbers run in sequence, and feeding a guessed one to the Omada cloud service returns the
What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how 2026-08-05 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned them open. Liquid CO2 flooded the compressors and destroyed them. The
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Your enterprise AI footprint is about three times bigger than your model list 2026-08-05 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Organizations are building AI systems that combine models, agents and external tools instead of relying on standalone AI, according to Snyk’s latest State of Agentic AI Adoption report. The study analyzed 3,044 enterprise environments and 1.39
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Cybercrime goes subscription: AI, malware and infrastructure on demand 2026-07-31 at 16:55 By Anamarija Pogorelec Cybercrime has become a commercialized ecosystem where criminals can buy or rent nearly every capability needed to launch sophisticated attacks. These services provide anonymity, plausible deniability, and access to short-lived infrastructure that is difficult to detect, attribute, and disrupt, enabling
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Companies push AI, sysadmins keep it on a short leash 2026-07-31 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec In 2024, sysadmins expected AI to automate patch management optimization, vulnerability prioritization, infrastructure monitoring, and incident response within two years. Action1’s 2026 Survey Report: AI Impact on Sysadmins found that those expectations proved overly optimistic. The largest shortfalls appeared
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AI agents are changing where cybersecurity seed funding lands 2026-07-31 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec 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 quarter, and the Census Bureau’s count of high-propensity business applications kept climbing. Seed
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1 in 5 Data Center Assets Are Within Easy Reach of Attackers 2026-07-30 at 12:28 By Eduard Kovacs Claroty has analyzed 750,000 cyber-physical systems across some of the world’s largest data center facilities. The post 1 in 5 Data Center Assets Are Within Easy Reach of Attackers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an
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Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher 2026-07-30 at 09:15 By Mirko Zorz 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 without AI. Defenders bought similar technology and
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