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Google Spent $32 Billion on Wiz. Now It Wants AI to Fight Hackers So Fast Humans Can't Keep Up
Criminals can hand off access to a breached company in 22 seconds. Google says only AI can respond that quickly, and it has built a new automated defence platform to prove it.

Your Company Uses Hundreds of Cloud Apps. Security Teams Can See Inside Almost None of Them.
Three real breaches show how misconfigured software-as-a-service tools leak customer records, private messages, and source code, all without anyone breaking down a single door.

AI Agents Are Making Security Playbooks Obsolete. Identity Is the Fix.
Security teams built their rules for humans clicking buttons. AI agents click a thousand buttons a second, and the old playbook cannot keep up.

AI Data Centres Are Being Built at Speed. Security Is Not Keeping Up.
A new report finds that the same assumptions baked into traditional data centres are being carried straight into AI facilities, where the blast radius of a single breach is far wider.

Cloud Security Professionals Gather Virtually to Tackle Shared Threats
A summit for security teams wrestling with cloud and data protection brings together practitioners and vendors, here is why these conversations matter to anyone whose data lives online.

Valarian Raises $50 Million to Lock Down AI Workloads in Sensitive Organisations
The UK startup wants to give governments and regulated industries a way to run AI systems they actually control, not one rented from a cloud provider.

AI Agents Are Now Running Entire Cyberattacks, Start to Finish
Two separate investigations show that criminals are handing whole attack campaigns to artificial intelligence, cutting the time it takes to ransack a company from weeks to hours.

CISA Left AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub for Six Months, Ignored Nine Alerts
The US cyber agency's own postmortem admits it missed automated warnings, muddled its reporting channels, and took two days to rotate leaked admin credentials.

Your dashboards are not your defence: why 'visibility' is not the same as surviving an attack
Security teams can monitor everything and still lose everything. A quietly influential argument making the rounds says the industry has confused watching a system with being able to keep it running, and the gap is getting harder to ignore.

Criminals Are Calling Your Staff and Stealing Microsoft 365 Logins in Real Time
A hacking group is phoning employees, sending them to fake Microsoft Entra ID login pages, and quietly registering their own passkeys before anyone notices. Okta has the details.

The Boring Breaches: How Small Config Mistakes Keep Owning Big Companies
This week's roundup of incidents has a common thread: not clever attacks, just loose settings, reused names, and untouched defaults doing enormous damage.

Hackers Broke Into an AI Gateway and Found a Door to Everything
A cryptomining attack on an Amazon cloud server was almost certainly the least damaging thing the criminals could have done. Security researchers say AI gateways are becoming one of the most overlooked entry points in enterprise computing.

Cryptomining attack on an AI gateway reveals a much bigger cloud security problem
Hackers broke into an Amazon cloud server acting as a doorway to AI services, planted mining software, and probed for wider access. The real worry is how much power these AI gateways hold.

Spanish Startup 8Layers Has Raised $2.9 Million to Track Every Digital Identity Inside a Business
The Madrid company says its platform watches human accounts, software service accounts, and AI agents across cloud tools, then flags suspicious behaviour before it becomes a breach.

One Person, 72 Hours, One Wrecked AWS Account: How AI Handed a Lone Criminal the Keys to a Global Enterprise
Incident-response firm Sygnia says a single attacker used AI to tear through a major cloud environment at a pace that would normally require a full criminal crew. The unnamed victim was extorted.