Tag: ai
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Crush Security Exits Stealth Seeking To Become AI-Powered Trusted Advisor Of The Future
Crush Security, a solution provider startup founded by former channel leaders, is aiming to transform the way cybersecurity tools are evaluated and purchased by bringing AI-driven analysis into the process in a bigger way than ever before, Crush Security CEO Joshua Jones told CRN. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/crush-security-exits-stealth-seeking-to-become-ai-powered-trusted-advisor-of-the-future
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Q1 2026 Open Source Malware Index: Adaptive Attacks, Familiar Weaknesses
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, cloud, credentials, crypto, data, github, guide, intelligence, kubernetes, linux, macOS, malicious, malware, open-source, pypi, risk, software, supply-chain, tactics, theft, tool, update, windows, worm<div cla TL;DR Sonatype identified 21,764 open source malware packages in Q1 2026, bringing the total logged since 2017 to 1,346,867. npm accounted for 75% of malicious packages this quarter. Trojans dominated, with most activity focused on credential theft, host reconnaissance, and staged payload delivery. The quarter’s defining pattern was trust abuse: attackers succeeded by…
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ChatGPT under scrutiny as Florida investigates campus shooting
New cases and research suggest AI chatbots don’t always shut down dangerous conversations. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/chatgpt-under-scrutiny-as-florida-investigates-campus-shooting/
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GUEST ESSAY: Google’s 2029 deadline exposes readiness gap as move to quantum-safe crypto lags
For years, quantum risk was easy for most institutions to treat as premature: real in theory, urgent someday, but not yet an operational problem. That is no longer tenable. Related: AI spawns semantic attacks Two developments this month brought the… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/guest-essay-googles-2029-deadline-exposes-readiness-gap-as-move-to-quantum-safe-crypto-lags/
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How Anthropic’s Mythos has Dramatically Improved the Frontier Model
Tags: aiA new class of AI systems is emerging. They are no longer limited to generating text or assisting with tasks. They are capable of understanding…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/04/how-anthropics-mythos-has-dramatically-improved-the-frontier-model/
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9 AI Agent Authentication Methods for Autonomous Systems
the 9 most common AI agent authentication methods used to secure autonomous systems, APIs, and machine identities. A developer guide to building secure AI agent identity architectures. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/9-ai-agent-authentication-methods-for-autonomous-systems/
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AI Codex Exploits Samsung TV Driver Flaw to Gain Root Access
A new experiment has shown how an AI coding assistant, Codex, can independently escalate privileges on a Samsung Smart TV by abusing dangerously exposed kernel drivers in Samsung’s KantS2 Tizen firmware. Working from an existing browser foothold, Codex chained together source-code auditing, physical memory access, and credential tampering to turn a sandboxed browser process into…
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AI Security Institute Advocates Security Best Practices After Mythos Test
The AISI has issued its judgement on Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-security-institute-best/
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Analysis of 216M Security Findings Shows a 4x Increase In Critical Risk (2026 Report)
OX Security recently analyzed 216 million security findings across 250 organizations over a 90-day period. The primary takeaway: while raw alert volume grew by 52% year-over-year, prioritized critical risk grew by nearly 400%.The surge in AI-assisted development is creating a “velocity gap” where the density of high-impact vulnerabilities is scaling faster than First seen on…
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Die achte Nutanix-Studie mit dem Enterprise Cloud Index – KI liebt Container, erzeugt Schatten-IT und organisatorische Silos
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/ki-liebt-container-erzeugt-schatten-it-und-organisatorische-silos-a-9a52a772733fc6815a5fdf9cd31ef61b/
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The AI inflection point: What security leaders must do now
The questions have matured: The AI discussion in security has evolved in phases.First came skepticism from security leaders, asking whether AI actually works in security operations. Given years of overpromised technology, the caution was warranted.Experimentation followed, with questions centering on what types of work AI should handle and where it introduces risk.Now, the dominant questions…
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The AI inflection point: What security leaders must do now
The questions have matured: The AI discussion in security has evolved in phases.First came skepticism from security leaders, asking whether AI actually works in security operations. Given years of overpromised technology, the caution was warranted.Experimentation followed, with questions centering on what types of work AI should handle and where it introduces risk.Now, the dominant questions…
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AI adoption is outpacing the safeguards around it
AI is becoming part of both professional and private life, reaching mainstream adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet. These systems are now tested in … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/14/ai-adoption-safety-transparency-report/
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Cloudflare baut Infrastruktur für die Ära autonomer KI-Agenten aus
Der nächste Schritt der KI: Mit der Erweiterung seiner Agent Cloud macht Cloudflare deutlich, wohin die Reise geht: weg von statischen Anwendungen, hin zu dynamischen, selbstständig agierenden Systemen. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/cloudflare-baut-infrastruktur-fuer-die-aera-autonomer-ki-agenten-aus/a44617/
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Over Permissive and Proliferating, AI-Driven Browser Extensions Create Security Blindspots
Tags: aiHow many browsers extensions do you have running? Most enterprise users have at least one and seven out of ten have seen an extension expand its permissions over the last 12 months”, with AI extensions being the worst offenders”¦by sixfold. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/over-permissive-and-proliferating-ai-driven-browser-extensions-create-security-blindspots/
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How AI is transforming threat detection
Tags: ai, attack, automation, best-practice, business, ceo, cisa, cve, cyber, data, detection, email, endpoint, framework, google, governance, group, incident response, intelligence, international, jobs, kev, malware, network, nist, organized, phishing, risk, skills, soc, switch, technology, threat, toolReducing alert fatigue: In alert triage, AI agents are reducing alert fatigue by clustering alert patterns and enabling risk-based prioritization, adds Dipto Chakravarty, chief product and technology officer at Black Duck.For example, natural language processing agents can summarize threat alerts at scale and correlate them with threat intel feeds such as CVE.org and the CISA KEV Catalog,…
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The Treatment Was Successful. Unfortunately the Patient Died
Explore the debate between “Cyber Nirvana” and the “Vulnpocalypse” as AI tools like Anthropic’s Mythos threaten to collapse the traditional security model in a “supernova” event. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/the-treatment-was-successful-unfortunately-the-patient-died/
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Why Vulnerabilities Are Increasing in the AI Era?
The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Over the past few years, organizations have witnessed a sharp increase in reported vulnerabilities, with global disclosures crossing 20,000+ annually. While this surge may appear alarming, it does not necessarily indicate that systems are becoming inherently insecure. Instead, the rise of flaws reflects a deeper shift in……
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Fake Claude AI installer abuses DLL sideloading to deploy PlugX
Fake Claude website impersonates Anthropic and delivers PlugX RAT via ZIP download using DLL sideloading. A fake website impersonating Anthropic’s Claude service was found distributing the PlugX remote access trojan, according to Malwarebytes. The rogue site abuses the chatbot’s popularity to trick users into downloading a ZIP archive presented as a “pro version” installer. The…
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RSAC Conference 2026 – Cisco erweitert Zero Trust auf KI-Agenten
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/cisco-erweitert-zero-trust-auf-ki-agenten-a-a2bffdffe0b749c9d2855ce211bc04d4/
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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 … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/14/idan-habler-cisco-agentic-ai-memory-attacks/
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29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control
AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/14/gitguardian-ai-agents-credentials-leak/
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Warum KI das klassische Sicherheitsmodell aushebelt
KI beschleunigt Angriffe schneller, als klassische Sicherheitsmodelle reagieren können. Warum Erkennung und Reaktion nicht mehr ausreichen und weshalb Eindämmung zur entscheidenden Disziplin für Unternehmenssicherheit wird. Jahrelang war »assume a breach«, also »von einem Sicherheitsvorfall auszugehen« eine nützliche Denkweise in der Sicherheit, um eine bessere Erkennung und Reaktion zu fördern. Mit Initiativen wie Project… First seen…
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Anthropic’s Mythos signals a structural cybersecurity shift
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, ciso, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, exploit, governance, network, offense, risk, supply-chain, technology, updateClaude Mythos Preview is a step up: A separate analysis from the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) evaluated Mythos Preview itself.The evaluations involved both capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and more complex ranges designed to simulate multi-step attack scenarios, where the model outperformed other AI systems.Mythos Preview came out on top in a 32-step corporate network attack…
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Best of the Worst: Five Attacks That Already Knew Your Name
<div cla TL;DR This week’s Attack of the Day posts revealed a clear shift from volume to precision. A phishing PDF auto-launched a credential harvest page the instant it opened, no click required. A QR code inside another PDF had the target’s email address pre-encoded in base64, so the landing page pre-filled the victim’s username…
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Here’s how cyber heavyweights in the US and UK are dealing with Claude Mythos
Two reports from former high-level U.S. cyber officials and the UK government’s top AI research institution reveal how top defenders think about the tool’s hacking capabilities. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/claude-mythos-ai-cybersecurity-threat-report/
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CSA: CISOs Should Prepare for Post-Mythos Exploit Storm
Security experts warn of an AI vulnerability storm triggered by the introduction of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos in a new paper from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/csa-cisos-prepare-post-mythos-exploit-storm
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How is Agentic AI driving innovation in cybersecurity?
What Role Do Non-Human Identities Play in Cybersecurity? Securing digital environments often brings to mind defending against human threats, but what about machine identities? Known as Non-Human Identities (NHIs), these are crucial elements that are becoming increasingly relevant in cybersecurity frameworks. With the rapid evolution of Agentic AI innovation and other advanced technologies, the management……
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Lawsuit: AI Illegally Recorded Doctor-Patient Encounters
Patients Allege Health Entities Did Not Get Consent to Record Conversations. Proposed federal class action litigation alleges that two California healthcare organizations violated patient privacy in their use of an AI-enabled ambient tool that records, transcribes, and processes sensitive conversations between clinicians and patients without individuals’ consent. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/lawsuit-ai-illegally-recorded-doctor-patient-encounters-a-31408