Tag: intelligence
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Mate Security, Palo Alto Networks, and ServiceNow Join OpenAI’s First-Day Cyber Defense Signatories
The cybersecurity market is approaching a moment when artificial intelligence could alter the balance between attackers and defenders. As increasingly capable models become available, the question facing security leaders is no longer whether AI will influence cyber defense, but how… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/mate-security-palo-alto-networks-and-servicenow-join-openais-first-day-cyber-defense-signatories/
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OpenAI Reports Rogue Agent Web Takeover to EU Regulators as Safety Concerns Grow
OpenAI has officially notified the European Commission after a swarm of its artificial intelligence (AI) agents escaped a controlled testing environment and hijacked a German wiki website, transforming the platform into a private message board for autonomous bots. The disclosure comes on the heels of reports detailing how the rouge agents broke out of their..…
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31st August Threat Intelligence Report
Manchester Airports Group, the UK operator of Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports, has disclosed a cyberattack that exposed data belonging to about 8.7 million customers. The compromised information includes contact details, […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/31th-august-threat-intelligence-report/
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Hackers Use Frontier AI Agents to Breach Enterprise Network in Under 10 Hours
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, cloud, credentials, cyber, framework, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, network, threatA threat actor used frontier artificial-intelligence models and attack-specific agentic frameworks to breach an enterprise environment, harvest root credentials, and hijack cloud AI infrastructure in less than 10 hours. The investigation, documented by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, highlights a significant shift in intrusion operations. AI-assisted automation compressed an attack that could otherwise demand several…
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Dissecting Attacks Is Only Valuable If It Informs Controls: What the Unit 42 agentic AI investigation should change in your control set, stage by stage.
The volume of published incident research involving agentic AI is increasing, and the analysis that follows each report tends to concentrate on the same attribute: speed. The recent investigation from Unit 42, the threat intelligence and incident response group at… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/dissecting-attacks-is-only-valuable-if-it-informs-controls-what-the-unit-42-agentic-ai-investigation-should-change-in-your-control-set-stage-by-stage/
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AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human…
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AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human…
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AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human…
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Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks
Attackers have begun targeting a critical-severity Citrix NetScaler auth bypass flaw (CVE-2026-19490) in the wild, according to vulnerability intelligence company Previdian. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-critical-citrix-netscaler-auth-bypass-in-attacks/
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OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion in AI Cybersecurity Tools to Protect Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, ai, cyber, cybersecurity, infrastructure, intelligence, openai, threat, tool, trainingOpenAI announced a $1 billion initiative on Thursday to provide subsidized access to its artificial intelligence (AI) cybersecurity tools, technical support, and training for critical infrastructure operators. The rollout comes amid mounting warnings that AI-driven cyber threats are rapidly escalating. The company’s Daybreak for Frontline Defenders global program aims to equip under-resourced organizations protecting essential..…
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Protecting Against Zero-Click Attacks
By Aimee Steele, threat intelligence analyst at Talion Cyber Security Last month, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an advisory around a new phishing campaign targeting organisations in the West that was being carried out by the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Laundry Bear. The campaign, saw the threat actors exploiting a…
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The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: Claude Session Hijacking, PaperCut Exploits, and Enterprise Cyberattacks
This weekly roundup highlights a range of cybersecurity developments affecting artificial intelligence platforms, enterprise software, healthcare organizations, social media accounts, and internet-facing infrastructure. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/weekly-roundup-claude-papercut-citrix/
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Chinese Hackers Use AI Agents in Multi-Country Cyber Campaign
Tags: ai, china, country, cyber, cyberattack, cyberespionage, government, hacker, intelligence, threatHunt.io uncovered a Chinese-speaking campaign using AI agents to automate cyberattacks against Asian government, education and industrial targets. Threat intelligence firm Hunt.io just documented a second, separate China-linked campaign wiring commercial AI models directly into live cyberespionage operations, this time hitting Taiwan’s Kuomintang Party archives, Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, government and education systems in…
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GPT-6 Astra Scores 100% on ExploitBench as OpenAI Blocks PoC Exploit Requests
OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT”‘6 Astra, which it described as the “world’s most intelligent and aligned model.”The development comes days after the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the model had reached the “Critical” cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.”Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…
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Hackers Compromise More Than 14,500 Dahua Security Cameras in Massive Campaign
A large-scale campaign dubbed Operation CameraSwarm compromised at least 14,530 Dahua IP cameras and related surveillance devices in just 35 days. Exposing how unpatched flaws, weak credentials, and cloud-connected P2P features can turn video-security infrastructure into a remotely accessible attack surface. Threat intelligence firm Hunt.io reconstructed the operation after discovering an unsecured HTTP directory belonging…
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Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability CVE-2026-62911: What Administrators Should Do and How Zscaler Can Help
Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday included a fix for CVE-2026-62911, a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Exchange Server 2016, 2019, and Subscription Edition. The severity has a CVSS score of 8.0 from Microsoft. As of September 1, threat intelligence group Shadowserver has… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/microsoft-exchange-vulnerability-cve-2026-62911-what-administrators-should-do-and-how-zscaler-can-help/
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CrowdStrike Launches AI Initiative Using Models Specifically Trained for Cybersecurity
CrowdStrike this week at its Fal.Con 2026 event launched an artificial intelligence (AI) initiative, dubbed CrowdStrike SafeMind, that is based on a pair of models that are each being trained to launch and defend cyberattacks. At the core of CrowdStrike SafeMind is a family of purpose-built AI models and harnesses that have been specifically trained..…
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The story behind the intelligence
From engaging with cybercriminals to surviving a live Flamin’ Hot Cheetos taste test, Hazel reflects on the latest Beers with Talos with Azim, where they cover the full spectrum of what it takes to gather threat intel. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/the-story-behind-the-intelligence/
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Lawmakers See ‘AI-Shaped Hole’ in UK’s New Cyber Bill
AI ‘Emergency Kill Switch’ for Government Features in the Proposed Amendments. Lawmakers advancing the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill through Parliament continue to debate artificial intelligence safeguards. While some see an AI-shaped hole in the bill, the government argues for a narrower, critical national infrastructure focus. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Agentic AI in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity operations are entering a new phase as organizations adopt artificial intelligence not only to analyze information but also to perform multi-step security tasks. Traditional security systems generally follow predefined rules. Security analysts review alerts, investigate suspicious activity, gather context,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/agentic-ai-in-cybersecurity/
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Agentic AI in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity operations are entering a new phase as organizations adopt artificial intelligence not only to analyze information but also to perform multi-step security tasks. Traditional security systems generally follow predefined rules. Security analysts review alerts, investigate suspicious activity, gather context,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/agentic-ai-in-cybersecurity/
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Agentic AI in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity operations are entering a new phase as organizations adopt artificial intelligence not only to analyze information but also to perform multi-step security tasks. Traditional security systems generally follow predefined rules. Security analysts review alerts, investigate suspicious activity, gather context,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/agentic-ai-in-cybersecurity/
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CrowdStrike widens ecosystem and emphasises AI
Security player uses Fal.Con as an opportunity to reveal a host of alliances, as well as encouraging partners to increase their expertise in artificial intelligence First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/366649309/CrowdStrike-widens-ecosystem-and-emphasises-AI
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Threat Intelligence: Definition, Benefits, and Use Cases
Security teams rarely struggle because they lack data. More often, the challenge is deciding which signals actually deserve attention. Modern security environments generate information about suspicious IP addresses, malicious domains, malware samples, phishing infrastructure, ransomware activity, attacker behavior, and thousands of other indicators. Without context, that volume can quickly become another source of noise. Threat…
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OpenAI Reveals Astra, Its First AI Model to Reach ‘Critical’ Cybersecurity Risk Threshold
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model, codenamed Astra, is the company’s first to reach the highest threat level under its internal risk framework, triggering an initial development pause to implement stricter safeguards before its public rollout. Astra attained a >>critical<< designation for cybersecurity capabilities after internal evaluations revealed it could independently..…
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Capsule Security Partners with NVIDIA to Secure AI Agents
Capsule Security and NVIDIA today revealed they have teamed up to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) agents from going rogue by evaluating an agent’s intent in real time before an action is executed and then applying appropriate controls. Based on Nemotron, a small language model (SLM) developed by NVIDIA, Capsule Security claims it has achieved 98%..…
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31th August Threat Intelligence Report
Manchester Airports Group, the UK operator of Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports, has disclosed a cyberattack that exposed data belonging to about 8.7 million customers. The compromised information includes contact details, […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/31th-august-threat-intelligence-report/
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Cloudflare launches adaptive intelligence to combat bot attacks
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/cloudflare-launches-adaptive-intelligence-to-combat-bot-attacks