Week in review: Cisco fixes IMC bug, Patch Tuesday forecast, Black Hat USA 2026

Help Net Security's weekly review highlights Cisco's fix for an IMC bug, a Patch Tuesday forecast, and Black Hat USA 2026. In an interview, Stairwell founder and CTO Mike Wiacek discusses Backstory, an AI agent that maps malware campaign spread from a single alert.

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent that takes a single alert and works outward to map how far a malware campaign spread. He walks through the research behind the claim that each published sample hides an … More https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/09/week-in-review-cisco-fixes-imc-bug-patch-tuesday-forecast-black-hat-usa-2026/ The post Week in review: Cisco fixes IMC bug, Patch Tuesday forecast, Black Hat USA 2026 https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/09/week-in-review-cisco-fixes-imc-bug-patch-tuesday-forecast-black-hat-usa-2026/ appeared first on Help Net Security https://www.helpnetsecurity.com .