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AWS Says Its AI Agent Handing Over Passwords Is Working as Designed
Palo Alto Networks researchers found that Amazon's AI agent platform exposes plaintext credentials by default. AWS closed the report as 'informative'. Security teams carry the risk.
Who Is Running Up Your AI Bill at 3am
Security researchers have mapped an ecosystem of more than 80,000 proxy servers quietly routing stolen AI credentials to frontier models, and companies are footing bills they never ran up.
Cylake Raises $290 Million to Build a Security Platform That Never Touches the Public Cloud
A new cybersecurity startup backed by the founder of Palo Alto Networks has pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars to serve banks, hospitals, and government agencies that cannot put their data on shared internet infrastructure.
33 Cybersecurity Companies Changed Hands in August 2026
From Visa's $2.4 billion grab of fraud-detection firm BioCatch to Munich Re's $575 million bet on cyber insurance, August was a busy month for dealmaking in the security industry.
AI-Assisted Ransomware Gang Tore Through a Corporate Network in Under 10 Hours
Unit 42 researchers watched attackers use AI agents to do in a single working day what normally takes criminal crews two weeks. The case is a signal, not an outlier.
Criminals Pose as IT Support Inside Microsoft Teams to Take Over Company Networks
A hacking campaign called Spring Ring tricked more than 150 employees at ten-plus companies into handing over remote control of their computers, all through a fake Teams call from a fake help desk.
Palo Alto Networks Buys AI Agent Platform Consult, Posting 34% Revenue Jump
The cybersecurity company's latest acquisition adds an AI agent platform to its portfolio, while fresh quarterly figures show strong growth across its newer product lines.
AI Malware Is Real. It Is Also Mostly Hype.
Palo Alto Networks studied 405 malware samples linked to AI tools. Only 12 ever reached a real computer, and existing defences caught every single one.
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.
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.
New Kimwolf v7 Botnet Disguises DDoS Attacks as Normal Web Traffic
Palo Alto Networks says the upgraded Android and smart-device botnet hides its floods inside HTTP/2 sessions that look like ordinary browsing.
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 good news for defenders in theory, but the gap between finding a flaw and fixing it was already brutal before AI joined the hunt.
Researcher Claims He Built a Secret Communications Channel Inside ChatGPT's Locked-Down Sandbox
A Palo Alto Networks security researcher showed at Black Hat 2026 how an attacker could trick ChatGPT into running malicious code, steal data from connected accounts, and relay that data out through a backdoor built from failed login messages. OpenAI says the key components have been removed.
AI Is Writing the New Cybercrime Playbook. Here Is How Defenders Are Answering
Automated attacks can now break through company defences in seconds. A new generation of AI-powered security tools aims to fight back at the same speed, before human analysts even see an alert.
Palo Alto Networks Is Buying Embrace to Watch How Real Users Experience Its Customers' Apps
The cybersecurity giant adds user-experience monitoring to its growing observability business, months after spending $3.35 billion on Chronosphere.