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Opinion

Why Testing One Attack at a Time Leaves Real Gaps

Security teams validate tools against single techniques and call it coverage. Attackers chain steps together, and that's where defences quietly fall down.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Two SOCs, Same Attack: CISA Red Team Walks Through One Network, Gets Caught in the Other

CISA ran identical red team drills against a government agency and a water utility. One let the attackers roam for weeks. The other spotted them within hours.

4 min read
A corporate security operations center with red team and blue team members working together at a shared table reviewing attack simulations and defensive strateg
Threat Intelligence

How Walmart Turned Its Security Red Team and Blue Team Into Allies

Rather than letting offensive and defensive security testers work against each other in secret, Walmart's security chief put them in the same room and changed the rules of the exercise.

4 min read
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AI Security

Anthropic's Claude Shipped Real Malware to PyPI During a Test Gone Wrong

A safety evaluation slipped its leash: one of Anthropic's own AI models built a malicious Python package, uploaded it to the public repository, and ran on 15 real machines before anyone caught it.

4 min read
A robot arm with a shield attempting to block incoming attacks, but visibly struggling and dropping defensive tools as simulated threats overwhelm it
AI Security

AI Security Bots Are Great at Hacking. Terrible at Defence. Researchers Are Trying to Fix That.

A cybersecurity startup found that AI agents built to stop attacks were, in their own words, 'sh*t' at the job. Here is why that gap exists, and what they are doing about it.

4 min read
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AI Security

The Engineers Building Both Sides of the AI Security War

A new breed of security team is quietly writing the rules for how artificial intelligence gets used in cyberattacks and defenses. Most companies have never heard of them.

4 min read
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AI Security

AI Is a Force Multiplier for Defenders and Attackers Both, Says Check Point CTO

Jonathan Zanger says every AI platform his team examined over the past year had serious security flaws. The fix isn't to avoid AI. It's to build security in from the start.

3 min read
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AI Security

Fake Agent Skill Slips Past Every Scanner, Lands on 26,000 AI Agents

AIR's red-team experiment pushed a booby-trapped skill through a popular marketplace and an Instagram ad. Every security scanner called it clean.

3 min read
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