3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (649+ words) Networking gear manufacturer MikroTik has released patches for six vulnerabilities in its RouterOS firmware, two of which can be chained together to take over devices without authentication over SSH. The exploit chain, dubbed MikroTrick, is already being used by attackers…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (439+ words) ShinyHunters is claiming to have broken into a Florida government database containing sensitive information on the state’s drivers. The notorious extortion group said it has breached the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Driver and Vehicle Information Database…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1222+ words) CISOs already have it tough, but the straw that breaks the back of many IT security executives may be the rapidly advancing capabilities of frontier AI models, enterprise insistence on rapid and widespread AI experimentation, and the compounding risk responsibilities…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1142+ words) The closest threat model the security industry has for misaligned AI agents are rogue employees, but enterprises already struggle to contain the potential blast radius of malicious insiders, and AI agents add machine speed, autonomy, and specialized expertise to that…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (684+ words) OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, disclosing that the new flagship model has crossed the “Critical” threshold for cybersecurity risk under its Preparedness Framework, a classification the company said triggers additional deployment restrictions. “GPT‑6 Astra is rolling out today to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (413+ words) In a keynote speech during a summit at OpenAI’s headquarters attended by 300 enterprise security leaders and CISOs from Fortune 1000 companies, OpenAI President Greg Brockman announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a new global initiative to help frontline defenders use frontier cyber…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1250+ words) We have spent years telling chief information security officers (CISOs) that they need to become better aligned with the business. They need to understand strategy. They need to speak the language of the board. They need to build relationships with…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (570+ words) Sabine Frömling, MBA, is an independent cybersecurity, OT security and governance consultant and the author of "ISMS für die Industrie – Der Praxisratgeber", with an English-language edition forthcoming in fall 2026. Since 2008, she has advised companies in the energy, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (292+ words) CrowdStrike today announced SafeMind, a cybersecurity-specific AI model-harness system that CEO George Kurtz described as the “first complete agentic system for cybersecurity” at the company’s Fal.Con conference in Las Vegas. Separately, Red Tempest operates as an offensive red team,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (379+ words) Attackers are using fake CAPTCHA prompts to trick victims into running malicious PowerShell commands as part of a multi-stage intrusion campaign that can establish persistence, conduct network reconnaissance and potentially give operators a path to deeper access within an organization....