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Black Hat 2026: Five Security Findings Every Organisation Should Know About
From fake AI tools downloaded 1.7 million times to a flaw that lets attackers hijack internet connections through network devices, this year's hacker conference in Las Vegas carried some practical warnings for businesses of every size.

21 Cybersecurity Companies Changed Hands in July 2026
From a billion-dollar identity security deal to a bank buying a British consultancy, July was a busy month for cybersecurity acquisitions. Here is what each deal means in plain English.

AI Coding Assistants Are Pulling in Open Source Packages Faster Than Anyone Can Check Them
Developers using AI helpers are importing software libraries at machine speed. Security teams built for human review can't keep up, and dodgy code is slipping through.

Team8 Raises $365 Million to Back Cybersecurity and AI Startups
The Israel-based venture firm now manages close to $2 billion in assets and is betting its newest fund on AI-native companies solving real enterprise security problems.

AI Is Spitting Out Working Exploits for $3.61. Microsoft Says the Old Playbook Is Dead.
A senior Microsoft security chief told Black Hat USA that AI tools have made finding and weaponising software flaws so cheap and fast that the entire industry's approach to defence needs to change, starting now.

Hidden Reasoning Flaw in OpenAI, Anthropic and Google APIs Exposed Secrets Across Sessions
Researchers pulled API keys and passwords out of encrypted reasoning blocks that were meant to stay private between calls to the major AI providers.

Mindgard Raises $30 Million to Test AI Systems for Security Flaws
The London-and-Boston startup has already found more than 150 vulnerabilities in popular AI products, including a previously unknown flaw in a widely used code editor. Fresh capital will expand its engineering and sales teams.

Four Gaps That Are Keeping AI Out of Your Security Team's Hands
Security operations centres are spending big on artificial intelligence, but most are not seeing results. Here is why the problem is not the technology.

The software wrapper around your AI agent is the real security risk
Researchers broke into official AI automation tools from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, not by tricking the AI itself, but by exploiting the ordinary code that connects it to the real world.

Some of the Bugs That Hid Inside Everyday Software for Decades
From a print-spooler flaw that Stuxnet quietly exploited to a 30-year-old graphics library hole, a handful of the most stubborn software vulnerabilities ever found show how long danger can lurk unnoticed.

AI Start-Up Corma Raises $60 Million to Build a Cybersecurity Defence System That Never Sleeps
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco company says existing AI tools can attack but not defend. Its answer is a model built from scratch for security teams.

How a Rogue Helper Tool Can Trick an AI Coding Assistant Into Leaking Your Secrets
Researchers show that a hostile plugin can smuggle out SSH keys and source code by breaking one big theft into small, innocent-looking steps.

OpenAI hands a specialised hacking AI to a small club of security firms
GPT 5.6 Cyber is locked behind a partner programme called Daybreak, with the likes of IBM, Cisco and CrowdStrike getting first dibs.

AI Found Thousands of Flaws in Days. Humans Can't Patch Them Fast Enough.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos model discovered more security holes in major software than years of human review had caught. That's exciting for defenders and terrifying for everyone else, because the gap between finding a flaw and fixing it is already dangerously wide.

Weekly Recap: A Metabase Zero-Day, Poisoned AI Plugins, and Routers Left Wide Open
Old bugs are back, supply chains are getting stranger, and the shortest exploit paths are once again the ones nobody guarded.