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A conference room with corporate logos from major tech companies on whiteboards, charts showing AI incident data sharing frameworks and security protocols
Policy & Regulation

Cybersecurity Groups Draft 'SAFE' Rules for Sharing AI Incident Data

A coalition of more than 120 companies, including Nvidia, Cisco and Amazon, is asking for public feedback on a proposed framework that would let organisations quietly report AI security failures and share what they learned with everyone else.

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A cybersecurity lab with multiple monitors running the same AI attacks against four different framework interfaces, vulnerability metrics displayed prominently
AI Security

The AI framework you choose is also a security choice

A researcher ran the same attacks against four popular AI agent frameworks and found the most vulnerable was 2.6 times more likely to be broken than the most resistant, using the identical AI model throughout.

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AI Security

The Essential Role of Kill Switches in AI Systems

Rogue AI agents are breaching systems and burning budgets. The question isn't whether you need a kill switch, it's whether your vendor has one.

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An office worker's desk with multiple monitors displaying AI chat conversations and traditional security tool dashboards, illustrating the gap between what secu
AI Security

Are Your AI Safety Tools Actually Watching What Employees Type?

Most companies rely on security tools designed for files and email, not live AI conversations. That gap is now wide open.

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An email platform window on a monitor showing an AI assistant panel, while below it displayed messages appear to impersonate colleagues and contain financial re
AI Security

Your Email AI Assistant Could Be Turned Against You, Researchers Warn

Security researchers have shown how the AI chatbots built into modern email platforms can be hijacked to impersonate colleagues, steal account access, and set up financial fraud, all without a single suspicious link.

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A person's hands on a keyboard with an AI chatbot interface visible on the monitor, showing how easy-to-use prompts are generating sophisticated attack code and
AI Security

When Anyone Can Hack: How AI Is Turning Beginners Into Capable Attackers

The old ranking of hackers by skill is breaking down as chatbots hand novices tools that used to take years to learn.

4 min read
A corporate network architecture diagram displayed on a monitor, highlighting API endpoints and connections between systems and AI services, with API access poi
AI Security

Two-Thirds of Organisations Hit by AI-Related Security Incidents Last Year. The Weak Link Is the API.

Most companies racing to deploy AI have left a quieter door wide open. It's the one their security teams aren't watching.

4 min read
A developer's code editor showing configuration files for an AI coding assistant, with hidden credential theft mechanisms embedded in what appears to be innocuo
AI Security

Poisoned AI instruction files are turning developer tools into silent data thieves

Security researchers found real examples on GitHub where configuration files for AI coding assistants were quietly stealing passwords, API keys, and entire conversations, without triggering a single security alarm.

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Black Hat Las Vegas conference floor with vendors presenting security product booths, large display screens showing new tool demonstrations, attendees examining
AI Security

Black Hat 2026: Every Major Security Product Launch You Need to Know

Fifteen vendors dropped new tools at Las Vegas this week. SecurityWeek's roundup captured the announcements; here is what they actually do and what the pattern tells us about where the industry thinks attacks are headed.

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Threat Intelligence

A Week of Doors Left Open: Rogue AI, an $88M Bitcoin Heist, and Water Systems Under Attack

From a chatbot that wandered past its guardrails to a cryptocurrency wallet undone by weak randomness, this week's incidents share one thread: access nobody meant to give.

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A security operations center with analysts at workstations, AI-generated code snippets and security alerts visible on monitors, human and algorithmic analysis s
AI Security

Where AI Tools Like Claude Actually Belong in the Security Team

Security leaders are under pressure to adopt AI fast. Here is a plain-English look at what platforms like Claude, Codex and Cursor actually do inside a security operations centre, and the policy questions that follow.

4 min read
A business meeting room where software vendors present to executives while security personnel stand unheard in the background, with a timeline showing security
Policy & Regulation

Your Company's Vendor Problem Starts Before Anyone Calls Security

When businesses pick software first and ask security questions second, they hand criminals a head start. Here is why fixing that order matters, and what a grown-up process actually looks like.

4 min read
A timeline visualization showing traditional hacking techniques accelerating dramatically with AI assistance, basic network vulnerabilities being exploited at r
AI Security

AI Isn't Bringing New Attack Tricks. It's Making the Old Ones Much Faster

Security experts say the lesson from AI-assisted hacking isn't panic about sci-fi threats. It's that the basics your organisation has been ignoring for years just got a lot more dangerous to skip.

5 min read
A hacker's workspace with AI chatbot interface running on one monitor, malware code editor on another, pop-up windows mimicking legitimate software alerts scatt
Threat Intelligence

ESET report: criminals are teaching AI new tricks, and old malware new manners

The Slovak security firm's latest threat report says attackers are wiring AI assistants into their toolkits, dressing up scams as helpful pop-ups, and building ransomware that switches off the guards before it strikes.

3 min read
An office workspace transformed from paper-based to digital: one desk piled with birth certificate stacks, adjacent desk showing facial recognition and age veri
Identity & Access

USA Fencing's Identity Problem: How a Sports Body Stopped Checking Kids' Ages by Hand

With more than 50,000 members ranging from age eight to eighty, USA Fencing was drowning in paper birth certificates. Here's how it automated the problem away, and why the data questions around children are still worth watching.

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