Sophos X-Ops found that attackers are impersonating AI brands such as Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot to distribute information stealers, backdoors, and malicious browser extensions. In a rev…
OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak initiative, delivering a specialized cybersecurity model, GPT-5.6-Cyber, to select partners including Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cisco, Sophos, and Cloudflare. The m…
Open source libraries are evolving into reference implementations for coding agents, according to an analysis by a software engineer. The shift is driven by the rise of coding agents that can generate…
A security researcher testing OpenAI's verified defender access found that the company's own benchmark data shows a stark disparity: verified individual defenders achieve a 2.0% completion rate on adv…
Axios reported that hackers' AI chat logs reveal evolving tactics, with cybercriminals increasingly using generative AI tools to craft more convincing phishing emails and malware, according to a new a…
Apple Inc. has introduced a quota cap and a 30-day cool-off period for security researcher bug reports after its systems were overwhelmed by low-quality, AI-generated submissions, according to a Finan…
Sophos's July 2026 telemetry report reveals that coding agents from Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex triggered EDR rules designed to catch attackers, with credential access and execution tactics …
Sophos launched Sophos Fusion, an AI-native defense system designed to counter AI-powered cyber attacks, integrating the recently acquired Secureworks for $859 million. The platform, rolling out from …
Sophos X-Ops collected seven days of endpoint telemetry from Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex running on Windows in June 2026. Behavioral detection flagged all three, with 56.2% of blocking rules…
Sophos found that AI coding agents Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex triggered behavioral detection rules designed to catch ransomware operators, with 56.2% of blocks related to credential access …
More than 120 cybersecurity professionals signed an open letter urging the Trump administration to lift export-control restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, arguing the restrictions…
A group of cybersecurity experts led by former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos is urging the US government to lift restrictions on non-US nationals' access to Anthropic's frontier models M…
Sophos X-Ops analysts detected a modular post-exploitation framework that used AI-assisted tooling and automated workflows to test endpoint detection and response (EDR) evasion, according to a Sophos …
On June 2, 2026, Sophos researchers detected a modular post-exploitation framework that used AI-assisted development and automated Active Directory discovery, Sophos told BleepingComputer. The toolkit…
Sophos uncovered an AI-powered malware-testing framework used by a threat actor to develop and refine endpoint detection and response (EDR) evasion techniques. The investigation began after an anomalo…
Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity firm Sophos is struggling to refinance approximately $2.6 billion in debt as private credit lenders hesitate over fears that artificial intelligence could disrupt the s…
Bug bounty programs are being overwhelmed by a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports, forcing some companies to suspend their initiatives. Bugcrowd reported a fourfold increase in s…