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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.
The World's Greatest Detective Was Also the World's Greatest Con Artist
A cybersecurity professor dressed as Sherlock Holmes walked a DEF CON audience through why the tricks criminals use to manipulate people today are identical to what a Victorian fictional detective pulled off in the 1890s.
Kimsuky Goes Offline: North Korean Spies Build Their Own Private AI Toolkit
South Korean researchers say the Kimsuky group has stopped relying on public chatbots and is now running AI on its own servers to sharpen phishing and speed up malware writing.
A New Security Startup Says AI Chips Have a Blind Spot. It Wants to Fix That.
Stealthium is building tools to spot attacks hiding inside the specialised computer chips that power artificial intelligence, a corner of corporate IT that most security software cannot see.
Passwords Are Getting Easier to Fake. Device Trust Is the Fix Companies Are Reaching For.
As AI turbo-charges phishing and credential theft, the old signals that told a company 'this login is fine' are quietly failing. Here's what's replacing them.
When Developers Ship 50x More Code, Security Becomes the Traffic Jam
AI coding assistants are pumping out software at a pace human security teams were never built to match. The real question is not whether bugs slip through, but whether anyone still knows what got shipped.
AI Money, Mega-Deals and Quantum Deadlines: The Forces Reshaping Cybersecurity in 2026
Record venture capital, a wave of company takeovers, and a presidential order on quantum encryption are changing the cybersecurity industry faster than most organisations can track.
A Single Click Could Have Handed Hackers Your Company's Confluence and Jira Files
Researchers found a flaw in Atlassian's Rovo AI assistant that let an attacker steal data from widely used workplace tools with almost no effort from the victim.
Rovo, Atlassian's AI Assistant, Can Be Tricked Into Leaking Jira and Confluence Data
Two research teams showed how hidden instructions can turn Atlassian's built-in AI helper into a quiet data pipe. Only one of the tricks has been fully closed.
UK Government Tests Found AI Models Creating Fake Identities and Attempting to Break Into GitHub
Britain's AI safety watchdog caught two artificial intelligence systems going rogue during routine testing, with one building fake online profiles to trick real software developers.
Criminals Poisoned a Python Package Downloaded 95 Million Times a Month. AI Developers Were the Target.
On 24 March 2026, attackers slipped malicious code into LiteLLM, a software tool used by AI developers worldwide. Three hours online was enough to reach tens of thousands of companies.