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US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars

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US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars 2026-10-18 at 14:00 By Kevin Townsend CyberSN’s Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It’s a mixed bag. The post US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is […]

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The cyber talent shortage? Job postings just hit a four-year low

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The cyber talent shortage? Job postings just hit a four-year low 2026-10-16 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz US employers posted 235,786 cybersecurity jobs from January through September 2026. That is the lowest total for those months in the four years that staffing and workforce intelligence firm CyberSN has tracked. They pulled the listings from job […]

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Stolen AI API keys are paying for hackers’ autonomous scans

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Stolen AI API keys are paying for hackers’ autonomous scans 2026-10-16 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec A seller on a restricted criminal forum is marketing an autonomous hacking tool that runs on stolen OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys, so the key’s owner pays for the scans. Bitsight’s threat intelligence team tracked the shift across […]

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DDoS attacks can knock services offline before links reach capacity

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DDoS attacks can knock services offline before links reach capacity 2026-10-16 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec More than 9.1 million DDoS attacks were recorded globally between January and June 2026, an increase of nearly a quarter year over year, according to Netscout’s DDoS Threat Intelligence Report. Large attacks and distributed targeting strain defenses Attacks exceeding […]

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The internet’s attack surface moves at very different speeds

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The internet’s attack surface moves at very different speeds 2026-10-15 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Censys found that AI-related software exposed to the public internet grew 63% in nine months, from 164,088 IP addresses in October 2025 to 267,915 in July 2026. Elsewhere in its scans, the internet-scanning company measured much slower movement. Exposed industrial […]

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AI-generated changes create review bottlenecks in software delivery

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AI-generated changes create review bottlenecks in software delivery 2026-10-15 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec 83.4% of respondents who use DevOps practices run CI/CD pipelines, making them the most widely adopted practice in that group, according to JetBrains’ The State of CI/CD in 2026 report. Adoption exceeds that of containerisation and orchestration, infrastructure as code, GitOps […]

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Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability

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Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability 2026-10-14 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Software that works on an employee’s behalf is now turning up in incident reports. At 95% of the companies in a Trellix survey of 600 CISOs, an AI agent or other autonomous system was linked […]

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Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab

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Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab 2026-10-13 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Booz Allen set frontier AI models against an isolated industrial-control testbed in its Chantilly, Virginia lab and watched them clear all eight attack objectives it had defined. The Booz Allen frontier AI OT test architecture (Source: […]

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What makes some open source updates so difficult?

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What makes some open source updates so difficult? 2026-10-12 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Many organizations adopt open source software because they see it as a cheaper alternative to proprietary development. Maintaining it, however, still requires engineering effort, according to Google’s case study, “How much does it cost to maintain a copy of an open […]

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The people who know passkeys best are still typing passwords

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The people who know passkeys best are still typing passwords 2026-10-08 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Yubico and Okta asked 1,890 technology and security professionals across nine countries how they sign in to work accounts. The most common answer was a username and password, at 43%, from a group in which 87% said they were […]

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Even with OT network visibility, critical infrastructure operators struggle with legacy equipment

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Even with OT network visibility, critical infrastructure operators struggle with legacy equipment 2026-10-07 at 07:50 By Anamarija Pogorelec Large critical infrastructure operators run seven separate security tools on average, and most still cannot see every asset on their operational technology (OT) networks. That is the picture from a Palo Alto Networks survey of more than […]

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Automation, AI agents or people? Sorting out who handles each security finding

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Automation, AI agents or people? Sorting out who handles each security finding 2026-10-07 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Just over half of the 200 senior security and technology leaders polled for ArmorCode say their organizations will struggle to simplify their software security programs if they keep working the way they do today. The respondents are […]

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How RMM abuse gives attackers a way in that looks like business as usual

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How RMM abuse gives attackers a way in that looks like business as usual 2026-10-05 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Huntress found attackers using legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software in 45% of the endpoint-related incidents it recorded in the first quarter of 2026. The security company also ranked 11 attack tactics by how […]

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AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns

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AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns 2026-10-02 at 15:47 By Sinisa Markovic Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 to June 2026, describes a near-term period in which attackers collect the benefits […]

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Criminal recruiters want people on your payroll

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Criminal recruiters want people on your payroll 2026-10-02 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Legitimate employee access can let criminals circumvent security controls that would be difficult to overcome from outside an organization. Routine actions such as information lookups, account resets, transaction approvals and shipment changes can become services sold to criminal customers, according to Intel […]

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Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list

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Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list 2026-10-02 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Companies are putting more money into AI while naming attacks on AI systems as the threat they are least ready to face. PwC surveyed 3,934 business and technology leaders in 71 countries between May and July 2026. Half […]

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AI agents keep access to company data after their work is done

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AI agents keep access to company data after their work is done 2026-10-02 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec IT teams responsible for identity security are concerned about AI agents’ ongoing access to company systems and the actions they take on users’ behalf, according to a Delinea’s 2026 Identity Security Report: The AI Enforcement Gap. “Written […]

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Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says

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Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says 2026-10-01 at 17:30 By Kevin Townsend PwC’s survey found that only 22% of leaders would use fully autonomous AI for cyber defense, while just 21% are implementing quantum-resistant security measures. The post Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says appeared […]

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Many expect AI in the SOC to make entry jobs harder to get

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Many expect AI in the SOC to make entry jobs harder to get 2026-10-01 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A junior analyst in a security operations center, or SOC, has usually learned the job the slow way. You work the same phishing lure dozens of times, chase the same familiar malware pattern and write up […]

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Google: AI Is Changing the Pace and Profile of Vulnerability Discovery

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Google: AI Is Changing the Pace and Profile of Vulnerability Discovery 2026-09-30 at 17:05 By Eduard Kovacs Google’s analysis found that AI-discovered vulnerabilities are more likely to enable remote code execution. The post Google: AI Is Changing the Pace and Profile of Vulnerability Discovery appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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