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Biggest this week
- Westcon-Comstor posts record US$3.37B first-half sales as APAC demand for AI, cloud and cyber accelerates — Reseller News (NZ), 2d ago
- GitHub Octoverse 2026 — Simon Willison (AI), 4d ago
- Binance Suffers Security Breach Affecting $6.3 Billion in Assets, Nearly $3 Billion Frozen — The Hacker News, 2d ago
- Upwind Security Raises $400 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation — SecurityWeek, 4d ago
- Binance hit by record $6.3 billion crypto hack, scrambles to freeze funds — The Record, 2d ago
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Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x f…
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Microsoft Teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection
Microsoft has announced plans to add AI-powered phishing detection to Teams messages starting in early November 2026. [...]
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AI Tools Are Generating Massive Attacks for Little Cost
One campaign targets 105 sites using open-weight models; in another, public models gained full domain control for $12. Cyber-defense will have to change.
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Large businesses’ cybersecurity insurance claims are now less frequent but more expensive
AI-powered attacks and hidden supply-chain weaknesses are making insurers work more difficult, according to a new report.
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You gave your AI agent access, but who is giving it orders?
AI agents can be manipulated through malicious emails, websites, and plugins into executing commands, stealing data, or deleting files using their legitimate permissions. Gen Digital explains how its Agent Trust Hub helps protect …
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Cyber Insurance's New Reality: Underwriting Isn't Enough
Rising AI, social engineering, and cloud risks are pushing carriers beyond risk transfer and deeper into cybersecurity itself.
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Infostealer riding the AI Train
Key Points Introduction Infostealers commonly target browser passwords, session cookies, and cryptocurrency wallets. This malware combines those established capabilities with dedicated collection routines for AI applications and d…
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Cybercrime Is The World’s Third-Largest Economy. AI Attacks And Defends.
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 23, 2026 – Read the Full Story in The Times of Israel Imagine a country without borders, universities, factories or an elected government.…
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AI Agents as Insider Threats: Inside Microsoft's Bet on a Unified Security Stack
Microsoft's Project Perception adds Guardian Agents to monitor and contain anomalous AI agents, but experts warn that policing unpredictable agents with other agents may multiply — not contain — the risk.
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China APT Uses AI Pentest Tool Artex in ConnectWise Attacks
The state-sponsored hackers targeted hundreds of organizations and gained privileged access to some environments. The post China APT Uses AI Pentest Tool Artex in ConnectWise Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Critical x402 SDK Flaw Could Let Malicious APIs Drain AI Agents’ Token Balances
AI agents paying for API calls with the x402 SDKs could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it, security firm V12 said on October 22. The cause was the SDKs' default client, whic…
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Hackers hijack exposed AI models to launch cyberattacks at victims’ expense
An attack tool built around AI goes looking for AI models that anyone on the internet can reach, then uses them to plan break-ins while the model s owner pays for the computing power. Symantec captured the agent s instruction set …
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Google opens its cloud to rival OpenAI, promises business data won’t train models
Google Cloud is adding OpenAI models to its platform, initially through a private preview for selected business customers. The launch includes GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Google positions them as options for demanding…
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AI is taking cybersecurity jobs at junior and experienced levels alike
Organizations are cutting cybersecurity roles as they adopt AI, even while reporting shortages of the expertise needed to manage threats, according to Barracuda’s Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report. 56% have experienced professional …
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Zoom updates Up Partner programme with simplicity, incentives, MSP specialisation
Zoom is updating its partner programme over the next several months with a streamlined structure and new incentives for improved partner enablement and a deeper focus on AI-powered offerings. Announced at Zoomtopia Partner Connect…
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Microsoft Links Storm-0940 to ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack
The China-linked actor used an AI-enabled penetration-testing tool to automate and accelerate its attack on more than 2,200 tenants.
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DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video)
DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) OK well this is a first for me... at 00:44 in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat : The visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it . Via…
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Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AA…
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Exclusive: bipartisan bill would develop federal guidance for distillation attacks, convene industry on defensive cyber
One of the bill’s sponsors told CyberScoop it’s “incredibly expensive” for U.S. AI companies to stay ahead and distillation attacks incentivize stealing over innovation. The post Exclusive: bipartisan bill would develop federal gu…
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Microsoft blames ConnectWise attacks on Chinese state hacker using ARTEX AI agents
A Chinese government-aligned hacking group used automated tools to carry out the recent supply chain attack on IT management software company ConnectWise and is using the same techniques to try to compromise organizations around t…
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I understand that there are people who think we must pass through the Vulnpocalypse to get to Vulnhallah, a ti…
I understand that there are people who think we must pass through the Vulnpocalypse to get to Vulnhallah, a time when all code is written by AI then checked by AI and has no vulns that AI can find, while we sit back and feast. But…
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Quoting Armin Ronacher
As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins. Armin Ronacher Tags: security , generative-ai , armin-ronacher , ai , ai-security-research , llms
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China-nexus actor linked to attack on ConnectWise Cloud Backup
Researchers said the hackers employed a powerful AI tool to accelerate and scale the attacks against hundreds of Microsoft 365 users.
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Agentic AI helps hackers level up, even without detailed instructions
Low-skilled hackers are likely to become a lot more dangerous over the next 12 months, CrowdStrike warned.
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As AI Risks Grow, Insurers Split on Covering the Damage
Insurers are split on AI risk: some build specialized agentic AI coverage, while major carriers quietly exclude it — leaving enterprises exposed without their knowledge.
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Machine speed attacks require machine speed detection and response
Attackers can steal credentials and begin exfiltrating data within minutes, often before security teams can respond. Exaforce examines real-world attacks involving stolen GitHub tokens, malicious AI installers, and MFA phishing, e…
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LiteLLM hit by second supply chain attack this year, users urged to rotate credentials
A malicious release of LiteLLM pushed to PyPI and Docker registries on Wednesday carried malware built to harvest cloud logins, developer secrets and API keys for AI services from anyone who installed it. “LiteLLM got compromised……
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OpenAI’s coding agents talked themselves out of being monitored
Two AI coding agents running inside OpenAI silently weakened the systems built to catch AI misbehavior, and one of them then told its human operator it had done no such thing. OpenAI disclosed both episodes in a misalignment repor…
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Fingerprint uses AI coding tools to automate fraud detection setup
Fingerprint has announced Agentic Installation, the AI-powered onboarding path for companies to deploy device intelligence to their websites or apps in minutes to detect and stop fraud. By running a single prompt in an AI coding t…
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The AI Agent Nobody Owns: Watch Expert Webinar On Your Newest Insider Threat
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. No…
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XTIUM expands XTAI with centralized AI governance and cost management
XTIUM has released the latest version of XTAI (XTIUM Trusted AI), expanding its AI Service Platform with XTAI Orchestrator. The new governance platform brings together managed AI services, AI-powered voice, custom XTAI Agents, man…
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SentinelOne brings runtime threat detection and response to AI agents
SentinelOne has unveiled Singularity Agentic Detection and Response (ADR), a new offering that discovers AI agents, enforces what agents are allowed to do, monitors agent behavior in depth, and detects and stops unintended and mal…
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Broadcom adds real-time scam detection to 3-D Secure authentication
Broadcom has announced the launch of Arcot Scam Defense, a new feature of Arcot by Broadcom, designed to block social engineering fraud during card-not-present (CNP) transactions. “Financial institutions are experiencing broad inc…
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Claude Security can now spot vulnerabilities that reappear in code
Anthropic has updated Claude Security with ongoing code scanning and automatic fix tracking to help security teams monitor vulnerabilities as software changes. The service scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches f…
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OpenCode Flaw Lets Malicious MCP Servers Execute Code During Sign-In on Windows and WSL
A flaw in the OpenCode AI coding agent allowed a malicious or hijacked MCP server to run code on a developer's Windows or WSL machine when the developer signed in. OpenCode connects to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to add o…
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Anthropic finds 94 cases where open-source projects drop security controls without warning
Software can expose complex functionality to unauthenticated users even when that functionality is disabled or unnecessary. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team used Claude to examine 25 open-source projects and reported 493 issues invol…
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LiteLLM Suspects GitHub Token Leak in AI Gateway Logs Behind Malicious Package Release
LiteLLM on Wednesday disclosed that threat actors compromised "multiple independent security controls" to push a malicious version of the Python package containing a credential stealer and a backdoor. On October 21, 2026, LiteLLM'…
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AI-found bugs are expected to rise, and OpenAI has a five-stage response plan
OpenAI has proposed a five-stage process for handling critical vulnerabilities in widely used software. The process grew out of a two-month response to flaws in PHP, the open-source language that runs websites and web applications…
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AI agent permissions are outrunning security
Most organizations have handed AI agents work that used to need a person’s sign-off. In a survey of 1,100 IT and security decision-makers, 70% said they now let AI make decisions and take actions that would have required human app…
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Say a few words, and a rigged AI asks for $5,000
Researchers at Imperial College London tampered with speech-to-text models so they transcribed most speakers accurately and misbehaved for one chosen person. When that person spoke, the models produced output the attacker had pick…
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UAE Transitions 50% of Gov't Services to Agentic AI
The United Arab Emirates says it's creating a foundation of security and safety as it transforms its public service footprint.
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AI coding boom exposes cracks in cloud development
Developers are encountering bugs, testing delays and disruptions in shared cloud environments as AI increases the volume of code they produce, according to LocalStack’s 2026 State of AI in Cloud Development report. More code adds …
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China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that a China state-aligned actor dubbed Storm-0940 was behind the recent supply chain compromise of the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application. During the incident, Storm-0940 used ARTEX, a Go-based …
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AI agent observability is struggling to keep up with hallucinations
Sixty-two percent of IT and engineering professionals now rely on AI agents frequently to work out why their systems broke, and more than half have no way to measure whether the agents get it right. Splunk surveyed 2,050 of them a…
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OpenAI’s models are deliberately breaking their misalignment monitoring systems
AI agents are getting more inventive in finding ways to circumvent safeguards to prevent bad behavior, OpenAI has revealed. On Tuesday, it reported two incidents, both involving the agent disabling or interfering with its alignmen…
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Smashing Security podcast #489: How a brand new crypto wallet came with a spy inside
Imagine buying a brand new hardware wallet for your cryptocurrency with the shrink-wrap still on... what could possibly be hiding inside? We break out a Geiger counter and a cat to find out. Meanwhile, malicious ads are targeting …
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Local tech leaders willing to ‘lean into’ change as AI dominates discourse, says Ingram’s De Suza
Technology industry leaders gathered at Ingram Micro’s Executive Connect event last week displayed optimism and a willingness to lean into change rather than shy away from it, while AI remained a major topic of discussion. This is…
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Google Chrome adds Gemini-powered scam detection, warns users of ClickFix attacks
Chrome is getting new scam protections that use Gemini to detect deceptive websites and warn users when they copy suspicious commands from ClickFix attacks. [...]
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Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligned threat group
Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework to automate attacks and “reach more than 2,250 tenants at 2,900 sign-in attempts per minute,” Microsoft researchers said. The post Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chai…
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AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise
Storm-0940 used ARTEX agentic AI to accelerate a ConnectWise supply chain compromise, enabling application credential abuse across Microsoft 365 environments. The post AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enabl…
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