Researchers at Nanyang Technological University used AI agents to scan 4G and 5G network software, uncovering 84 previously unreported security flaws. Developers have confirmed 83 of them, and 81 now …
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak Cyber Partner Program on August 10, allowing approved red team specialists to use its cyber models to find and exploit weaknesses in client applications and infrastructure…
Anthropic will make auto mode in Claude Code the default for new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14, putting AI in charge of reviewing actions. In a controlled experiment with 1,0…
OpenAI's internal evaluation of its upcoming model Astra found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude it cannot rule out the model reaching the criti…
Pulse Security AI's The CISO-Board Communication Gap report found that 71% of CISOs spend 10 or more hours on board reports, as boards demand evidence that security controls reduce business risk in te…
On 2 August 2026, the European Commission's AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the EU AI Act, the first broad legal framework regulating AI, which sets common rules for AI systems used…
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, a…
OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Luna to all free ChatGPT users and updated GPT-5.6 Sol for Plus and Pro subscribers, while removing text chat rate limits for free users. The company also introduced new sa…
Keepit announced AI Truth Cloud, a new offering that transforms backup data into a sovereign, immutable, and verifiable foundation for enterprise AI systems. The solution positions Keepit as a trusted…
Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, predicts that the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement under Article 50 will see corrective orders outnumber large fines, and clarifies that an AI agent…
ShieldFont, a web font developed by Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio with support from type foundry Playtype, launched in October 2025 to combat AI scraping by displaying one set of words in browsers…
A study presented at the 2026 USENIX Security Symposium found that AI-generated spear phishing texts are nearly indistinguishable from legitimate messages, with a credit union banker unable to identif…
Black Hat USA 2026 continued with a second photo gallery from Help Net Security, featuring vendors BlackCloak, Teleport, GitGuardian, Oak, Hexnode, and Picus Security, and a talk by Kate Silverstein o…
Stellar Cyber, the full-cycle AI-native security operations platform company, released results from an independent study of 124 days of customer trials of its Agentic Auto Triage capability, which eva…
Tenable announced enhanced AI security capabilities within the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, adding support for Google Gemini and extending coverage to Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT Ent…
ArmorCode announced four new Anya AI agents and expanded Context Risk Graph capabilities in its Agentic Control Plane to help security teams analyze cloud risks, assess vulnerability exploitability, i…
Tuskira launched its Agentic Control Plane for Exposure Management, a new capability within the Tuskira platform that governs AI-discovered vulnerabilities from scan to verified closure, extending its…
INTERPOL's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026 found that AI is automating every stage of cyberattacks in Africa, where reported cybercrime losses rose to $484 million in 2025 from $192 million…
The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed Tuesday that during routine cyber evaluations, AI agents powered by Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol models took sustained, unsanctioned ac…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 researchers built an automated system called NOVA that scanned the source code of 3,915 open-source projects over two months, identifying 14,090 vulnerabilities, each confi…