Tag: defense
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CISA Deploys Anthropic’s Mythos AI to Hunt Vulnerabilities in U.S. Government Code
CISA is using Anthropic’s Mythos AI to scan federal code for vulnerabilities, aiming to find flaws before hackers and foreign intelligence services. Three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that CISA, the U.S. government’s civilian cyber defense agency, is running Anthropic’s Mythos AI model against federal code repositories to find vulnerabilities before foreign intelligence…
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NCSC Touts National Scale, AI-Powered “Cyber Shield” for Defense
The National Cyber Security Centre wants to work with AI partners to build a new “Cyber Shield” to defend the UK First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ncsc-national-cyber-sheild-ai/
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Webinar tomorrow: Why modern email attacks require a new approach to defense
Tomorrow’s webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations detect sophisticated phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks while reducing alert fatigue through automated investigation and response workflows. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/webinar-tomorrow-why-modern-email-attacks-require-a-new-approach-to-defense/
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4 Best Email Security Solutions to Keep Employee Inboxes Safe
Compare leading and best email security solutions with AI threat detection, phishing defense, malware blocking, and DLP features for teams. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/best-email-security-solutions-employee-inboxes-safe/
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US Cyber Agency Uses Anthropic Mythos to Audit Government Code for Bugs
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has started using Anthropic’s advanced AI model, Mythos, to audit government software for vulnerabilities. This marks a significant shift toward AI-assisted cyber defense operations. Sources familiar with the initiative report that CISA is deploying Mythos to systematically scan federal code repositories to identify security flaws that foreign…
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How Dragos Acquisition Expands Accenture’s OT Security Reach
Joint Accenture-Dragos Platform Adds OT, Threat Intelligence and Incident Response. Accenture says its acquisition of Dragos combines managed security services with leading OT threat intelligence, asset discovery and incident response capabilities, helping industrial organizations strengthen defenses as AI adoption and IT-OT convergence increase cyber risk. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/how-dragos-acquisition-expands-accentures-ot-security-reach-a-32148
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Why a Platform Approach to SASE is Your Best Defense Against Adversarial AI
SASE architectures, though not new, were formally introduced as a market capability in 2019. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/why-an-platform-approach-to-sase-is-your-best-defense-against-adversarial-ai
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Most cybersecurity workers have been told to conceal a breach, report finds
The security firm Bitdefender’s annual survey also found that U.S. companies were simultaneously more confident and more strained on cyber defense than foreign peers. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/data-breach-coverups-ai-bitdefender/824331/
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Azure Password-Spraying Attack Bypasses MFA Defenses
Threat Actor Uses Deprecated OAuth 2.0 Authentication Flow. Attackers behind a password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 accounts have amassed dozens of victims by abusing a deprecated feature in OAuth 2.0 to generate access tokens, in some cases sidestepping multifactor authentication controls, warn researchers. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/azure-password-spraying-attack-bypasses-mfa-defenses-a-32128
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Webinar: Why traditional email security is no longer enough
Modern phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks increasingly exploit trusted identities and legitimate business workflows, making them harder for traditional email defenses to detect. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations automate detection and response. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/webinar-why-traditional-email-security-is-no-longer-enough/
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Hackers Use Vulnerable Windows Drivers to Kill EDR in Ransomware Attacks
Hackers increasingly rely on vulnerable, legitimately signed Windows drivers to neutralize endpoint defenses, turning defense evasion into a decisive phase of modern ransomware attacks. Over the past three years the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) technique has migrated from research proof-of-concept into a commoditized, routinely deployed capability in ransomware-as-a-service toolkits. By abusing signed kernel…
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NDR is a requirement for modern security defenses and the agentic SOC
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/native/ndr-is-a-requirement-for-modern-security-defenses-and-the-agentic-soc
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How Agentic AI Is Reshaping the Modern SOC
Agentic AI is redefining security operations by embedding intelligence across detection, investigation and response. Optiv’s Ben Spencer and Google Cloud’s Wayne Kearns explain how AI-powered SOCs strengthen defense, why human expertise is essential and how MSSPs can accelerate enterprise adoption. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/how-agentic-ai-reshaping-modern-soc-i-5554
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Why Cyber Resilience Must Outpace AI-Driven Threats
Former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis Calls for Coalition Defense Strategy. Cybersecurity leaders must shift from information sharing to true collaboration as AI accelerates ransomware and nation-state threats. Halcyon’s Chris Inglis explains why resilience, coalition defense and human accountability will help security teams outpace increasingly sophisticated attackers. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/cyber-resilience-must-outpace-ai-driven-threats-a-32119
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Half the defense base still builds security around compliance
CMMC requirements are appearing in defense contracts and moving down through supplier networks to thousands of companies new to this kind of compliance work. Many run on … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/30/federal-cybersecurity-compliance-report/
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DHS Eyes 600 New Cybersecurity Hires, New Director for CISA
DHS Secretary Says Agency Has Funding But Lacks Skilled Cybersecurity Personnel. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told lawmakers CISA has adequate funding but must hire roughly 600 cybersecurity professionals under new leadership to restore its workforce, rebuild public-private threat sharing and strengthen U.S. defenses against nation-state cyberthreats. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/dhs-eyes-600-new-cybersecurity-hires-new-director-for-cisa-a-32105
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Straiker Raises $64M to Safeguard Autonomous AI Agents
Series A Funding Supports Pre-Training, Reinforcement Learning for Security Models. AI security startup Straiker closed a $64 million Series A funding round to expand GPU infrastructure, develop specialized security models and strengthen defenses against increasingly autonomous enterprise AI agents capable of operating with minimal human oversight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/straiker-raises-64m-to-safeguard-autonomous-ai-agents-a-32093
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Webinar: Why business email compromise attacks keep succeeding
Business email compromise attacks increasingly rely on convincing impersonation rather than malware, making them harder for employees and traditional email defenses to detect. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help identify sophisticated email threats and automate response workflows. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/webinar-why-business-email-compromise-attacks-keep-succeeding/
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Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that | Bruce Schneier
Modern AI systems are, in effect, a universal adviser to help people do harmful things. We’ll need to harness AI for defense, tooEarlier this week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club jointly released a <a href=”https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/4523810/five-eyes-cyber-security-agencies-statement/”>statement warning of the increasing cyber risks of AI models: in particular, their…
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From mythos to reality: Why the 2026 state of pentesting report proves the need for programmatic defenses
AI can find zero-days in minutes. Your defense strategy must evolve now. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/spons/from-mythos-to-reality-why-the-2026-state-of-pentesting-report-proves-the/823726/
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Third-Party Breaches Teach Education Sector a Costly Lesson in Vendor Risk
Rising threats from third-party actors are forcing institutions to play defense to protect student data from ransomware and other attacks. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/third-party-breaches-teaches-education-lesson-vendor-risk
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Claude Mythos 5 Redeployed to Help U.S. Organizations Strengthen Cyber Defense
Anthropic has officially restored access to its Claude Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model for a select group of U.S. organizations tasked with defending critical national infrastructure. This reinstatement ends a two-week suspension that began on June 12, 2026, which prompted direct, high-level engagement between the AI developer and federal authorities. Access to both Claude Mythos…
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Water and Wastewater Systems Become Strategic Targets for Russia, China, and Iran
Water and wastewater systems have become strategic gray”‘zone targets for Russia, China, and Iran, driven by chronic underinvestment and weak operational”‘technology (OT) defenses that make these utilities easy to probe and exploit. Internet”‘facing human”‘machine interfaces (HMIs), exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs), default credentials, and poor IT/OT segmentation create low”‘cost access paths whose impact is disproportionately…
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China-Linked Malware Found in Counterfeit USB Drives Used on Japan Defense Force Classified Networks
Japan’s defense infrastructure has faced scrutiny following an investigation that revealed members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) used counterfeit USB drives embedded with malware linked to China on systems handling classified information. According to findings reported by Nikkei, these compromised USB devices were acquired at significantly lower costs through unofficial channels. They were subsequently…
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Russian APT ‘Gamaredon’ Upgrades Its Arsenal, Requiring New Defenses
The FSB state-sponsored operation has gotten a lot better at loading its malware and hiding its servers. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/russia-apt-gamaredon-arsenal-defense
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The 2026 MSSP Blueprint: Frontier AI Defense
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/native/the-2026-mssp-blueprint-frontier-ai-defense
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New GhostShell Hacking Group Targets Ukraine’s Drone Defense Sector
Researchers warn GhostShell is using fake drone documents to target Ukrainian defence teams, stealing passwords and sensitive data in a new cyber campaign. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/ghostshell-hacking-group-ukraine-drone-defense-sector/
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AWS Urges Organizations to Turn Outbound Blind Spots Into Monitored Checkpoints
When securing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) estate, teams naturally concentrate on inbound protections firewalls, WAFs, and IAM policies because those defenses stop the most visible attacks. Yet outbound traffic often remains under-monitored, left permissive to avoid breaking dependencies or to simplify operations. That default laxity creates a blind spot: without egress visibility and controls,…
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Cybercriminals Abuse TDS Infrastructure to Bypass Firewalls and Hide Malicious Destinations
Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing traffic distribution systems (TDSs) to evade defenses, conceal malicious destinations, and funnel victims into phishing, fraud, and malware campaigns. Once considered a legitimate marketing tool to route visitors to different content or offers, TDS infrastructure is now being repurposed as a stealthy redirection layer that complicates detection and response for network…