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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 exciting for defenders and terrifying for everyone else, because the gap between finding a flaw and fixing it is already dangerously wide.
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.
Qilin Ransomware Crews Break In Through Palo Alto Firewall Flaw
Arctic Wolf Labs says attackers used CVE-2026-0257, a now-patched authentication bypass in PAN-OS, to get inside networks before deploying Qilin ransomware in June 2026.
Qilin ransomware crew is breaking into Palo Alto VPNs through an unpatched flaw
Arctic Wolf says multiple Qilin affiliates are exploiting CVE-2026-0257 in Palo Alto Networks firewalls to encrypt whole networks. Over 167,000 VPN instances remain exposed online.
Fake Pirated Software Ads Are Draining Passwords and Hijacking Computers to Mine Crypto
A campaign uncovered by Palo Alto Networks researchers is tricking people into downloading malware disguised as cracked software, stealing saved passwords while quietly running up victims' electricity bills.
AI Assistants Are Inventing Fake Web Addresses — and Criminals Are Buying Them Up
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks found that AI tools routinely make up plausible-sounding website addresses that don't exist. Criminals are registering those addresses before anyone notices — and one already built a full fraud operation using the same AI trick.
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Palo Alto Firewall Flaw Being Exploited Now
A misconfigured URL filtering setting in Palo Alto Networks firewall software is letting attackers weaponise the firewalls themselves — turning them into unwitting cannons pointed at other targets.
Palo Alto Confirms In-the-Wild Abuse of GlobalProtect Auth Bypass (CVE-2026-0257)
An unknown actor is exploiting a 7.8-rated authentication bypass in PAN-OS portals and gateways to slip past GlobalProtect logins.
CVE-2026-0257: Palo Alto GlobalProtect Authentication Bypass Hit in the Wild Within Days of Disclosure
A credential-less VPN session forgery flaw in PAN-OS moved from 'medium severity, no known exploitation' to CISA's KEV catalog in sixteen days. Federal agencies had 72 hours to patch.
Palo Alto GlobalProtect Auth Bypass Hits Live Exploitation
CVE-2026-0257 lets attackers stand up unauthorized VPN sessions against PAN-OS and Prisma Access. Patches are out. So are the exploits.