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CISOs Are Being Handed the Business Risk Portfolio. Most Aren't Ready.
Security chiefs at Appfire, JumpCloud, and BECU describe how they're learning to own risks that finance and operations used to call their own.

INTERPOL Flags Sharp Rise in Phishing, Ransomware and AI Scams Across Asia-Pacific
A new INTERPOL assessment maps a region where cybercrime is outpacing defensive capacity, with phishing leading the volume charts and ransomware crews exploiting the gap.

Zero Trust as the AI Control Plane: What Zscaler's Vienna Pitch Means for APAC CISOs
AI agents are joining the workforce whether security teams are ready or not. At Zenith Live 2026, Zscaler made its case for why zero trust should govern them the same way it governs humans.

Gravity SMTP Flaw Under Active Exploitation, Leaks API Keys and OAuth Tokens
CVE-2026-4020 lets unauthenticated attackers pull secrets from roughly 100,000 WordPress installs running the mail plugin.

Macron Pushes Wealthy Democracies Toward a Unified AI Regulatory Front
The French president wants the G7 crowd to stop freelancing on AI governance and start coordinating. Whether that translates into anything enforceable is a different question entirely.

usbliter8 Burns a Permanent Hole in A12 and A13 SecureROM
Paradigm Shift's tethered exploit reaches code burned into the silicon, putting a years-long tail on iPhone XS through SE2 boot-chain trust.

The Gentlemen RaaS Ships an In-House EDR Killer to Affiliates
GentleKiller bundles signed-driver abuse with third-party utilities and a kill list of roughly 400 security processes, handed out as part of the affiliate package.

AutoJack: When the AI Browser Becomes the Initial Access Broker
Microsoft researchers describe an exploit chain that turns an agentic browser into a one-click path from web page to host process execution.

Operation Endgame Sweep Takes Down SocGholish Loader Infrastructure
Dutch-led coalition disrupts servers and remediates 14,971 compromised WordPress sites, in the latest tranche of the multinational takedown effort.

Briefing: Apple Fixes Beats Bug, GCP Config Connector Flaw Enables Account Takeover, Velvet Ant's Decade in the Shadows
A Bluetooth eavesdropping patch, a quietly dangerous GCP authorization flaw, and a threat actor that spent ten years undetected, here is what you may have missed.

FortiBleed Campaign Hits 86,644 FortiGate Boxes; CISA Pushes Customers to Lock Down
Russian-speaking operators are working through internet-exposed Fortinet appliances at scale. CISA wants admins moving now.

June Patch Tuesday Breaks OLE Automation, Leaves Word and Excel Silent on Failure
A Windows update shipped June 9 quietly severed the OLE bridge between Office apps and dozens of third-party tools. No error message. Just nothing.

The SOC Triangle Was Always a Lie We Accepted. AI Is Changing the Math.
Security operations have run on a structural compromise for decades, quality, consistency, or cost: pick two. That constraint is finally starting to bend.

AutoJack Exploit in Web-Enabled AI Agents: Bypassing Localhost Security
Microsoft researchers chain three weaknesses in AutoGen Studio's MCP WebSocket layer to achieve host-level remote code execution through a browsing agent.

Tool Sprawl Meets Agentic AI: Why SOCs Are Rethinking the Triage Stack
Forty tools, forty-three day dwell times. Vendors are pitching agentic AI as the fix. Analysts have questions.

Device Code Phishing Is Eating MFA. Behavioral Detection Is the Backstop.
Token theft and consent-grant abuse sidestep the second factor entirely. Defenders are leaning on anomaly detection because the login looks legitimate.

Shadow AI Is an IAM Problem Now, Not a DLP Problem
The risk isn't what employees paste into ChatGPT. It's what tokens, scopes, and service accounts the AI agents they spin up are quietly holding.

Salesforce Cuts Klue Battlecards Tie-In After OAuth Token Compromise
The CRM giant pulled the competitive-intelligence app's integration on June 11, 2026 following a security incident that exposed connected customer data.

Security Protocols for SMBs Adopting Claude
What security leaders at small and medium-sized businesses actually need to know before they hand anyone a Claude license.

Cisco Acquires WideField Security to Wire Identity Intelligence Into Splunk's Agentic SOC
The deal adds credential and session visibility to Splunk's autonomous detection pipeline, filling a gap that pure log-correlation has always struggled with.

SearchLeak Shows How a Single Crafted URL Can Drain Your M365 Tenant
Varonis researchers chained three weaknesses in Copilot Enterprise Search into a full data-exfiltration path. Microsoft patched it. The attack class isn't going anywhere.