Frontier AI raises the cybersecurity bar: Why prediction must become prevention
Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. It is giving defenders new ways to sift through vast amounts of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and automate routine work. But it is also giving attackers the ability to discover...
Cloudflare says 1 Tbps DDoS attacks grew sixfold in the second quarter
Cloudflare Inc. reported today that distributed denial-of-service attacks above 1 terabit per second grew sixfold between the first and second quarters of 2026, to 805 from 130. That took the half-year total to 935 attacks over 1 Tbps, against 219 in the fourth...
Blumira launches Hearth, an AI command center that spans rival security tools
Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today launched Hearth, a vendor-agnostic artificial intelligence command center that lets security teams investigate and act across their existing tools from a single interface. The product is available to...
DEF CON hackers launch Water Watch Center to defend small water utilities
DEF CON Franklin and the National Rural Water Association have launched the Water Watch Center, a program that delivers managed cybersecurity services to small water utilities that have no security staff of their own. The launch came on Aug. 7 at the DEF CON hacker...
Corma launches with $60M in funding for defensive cybersecurity AI
Defensive cybersecurity startup Corma Labs Ltd. today announced it has raised $60 million in seed funding to build a foundation model purpose-built for security defense. Founded in 2025, Corma runs offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco and describes itself as a...
Rapid7 beats estimates, raises profit outlook and cuts 12% of staff
Shares of Rapid7 Inc. rose more than 8% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company beat second-quarter earnings and revenue estimates while disclosing plans to cut roughly 12% of its workforce. For the quarter ended on June 30, Rapid7 reported adjusted...
On theCUBE Pod: Black Hat exposes agentic threat, theCUBE remembers David Floyer
Artificial intelligence systems are developing faster than cybersecurity experts — and the energy grid — can keep up with. At the recent Black Hat USA event, security analysts viewed the rise of AI-driven cyberattacks as a “sky is falling” threat, according to Dave...
Elastic targets AI-powered SOC with Alert Zero to eliminate alert fatigue
Security operations centers have spent years stacking tools to solve alert volume issues that tools simply can’t fix, and Elastic is now making the case that AI-powered SOC is the only viable path forward. The problem is structural, according to Mike Nichols...
Finding big money for AI and a smaller world for security at Black Hat USA 2026
Las Vegas was hotter than hell last week, but not as hot as the market for artificial intelligence-enabled security at Black Hat USA 2026. A bandwagon of million-dollar booths for overfunded agentic security startups arose like mirages from the desert. Fortunately,...
Post-quantum security puts crypto agility at the center of infrastructure protection
The post-quantum security transition is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges facing enterprise and government infrastructure. In “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, adversaries steal encrypted data today to unlock it once quantum computers mature....
Cyber risk management moves beyond dashboards toward autonomous remediation
Organizations are rebuilding cyber risk management around faster response as frontier AI turns newly discovered vulnerabilities into usable weapons within hours. The shrinking window between vulnerability discovery and weaponization came up in nearly every...
Fortinet targets network security platform convergence to address AI-era complexity
In the rush to adopt AI, enterprise security architectures are diminishing, and the only appropriate response is a network security platform that incorporates networking and security into a single, consistently governed fabric. That’s the vision Anthony James...
How to combat the new threats in open-source libraries
The recent breach of GitHub Inc. that gave attackers access to around 4,000 of the platform’s internal code repositories dramatizes the growing threats from malicious actors who bury malware in open-source software libraries. Supply chains are coveted targets for...
Shared context speeds risk response across security and engineering
Security and engineering teams can no longer operate in silos as software delivery accelerates and adversaries move faster with AI, requiring shared context from production data so both sides can prioritize risk and respond without friction. At Black Hat USA 2026,...
Blackstone, KKR and CME targeted in vishing wave tied to BlackFile crew
Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group today said the extortion crew behind the retired BlackFile brand has spent June and July working its way through private equity firms, law firms and financial services companies. Reuters reports that the phishing domains...
Microsoft looks beyond faster patching to safer software in the AI era
AI is ending the era of scarce vulnerabilities, making powerful offensive capabilities abundant and pushing cybersecurity teams to move beyond reactive patching toward fundamentally safer software construction. That reality was the core of a Black Hat USA keynote from...
Cloudflare shares jump 18% on revenue beat and raised full-year outlook
Shares in Cloudflare Inc. were up more than 18% in late trading today after the content delivery network and security company beat second-quarter estimates and raised its full-year forecast. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Cloudflare reported adjusted earnings...
Broadcom updates VMware security for AI-era threats
Broadcom Inc. today introduced new security, performance and automation capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation that are intended to help enterprises defend private clouds against artificial intelligence-assisted attacks while reducing operational complexity and...
New details on OpenAI/Hugging Face attack emerge as security industry debates AI agent controls
How fast is artificial intelligence advancing? Behind the scenes at OpenAI Group PBC, AI agents are fluent, technically precise and occasionally profane in their extensive conversations…with each other. This was one of the more interesting details revealed by OpenAI...
Defenders adapt as attackers accelerate: theCUBE’s Black Hat day one keynote analysis
The accelerating speed of AI-driven attacks is exposing an AI security skills gap that many security teams are only beginning to address. Defenders can’t hire their way out of that speed differential as attackers continue to outpace traditional security operations....
Mystery Lumber Delivery on Your Driveway? Here’s How to Avoid Legal and Financial Disaster
Mystery Lumber Delivery on Your Driveway? Here’s How to Avoid Legal and Financial Disaster Go to Source Introduction: Unordered Lumber Blocking Your DrivewayPicture this—you step outside, and there’s a stack of lumber blocking your...
UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice
The British government has awarded places on its latest G-Cloud procurement framework, through which the public sector could spend an estimated £14 billion ($18.9 billion) over four years. Whitehall hopes smaller UK suppliers will capture more of that business than...
What should the future look like? Inside the tech-funded program to create a new aesthetic
In late December, Stripe CEO and tech billionaire Patrick Collison and libertarian economist Tyler Cowen published a one-page website with the provocative title “A Call for New Aesthetics.” In around 500 words, the two longtime collaborators outlined an informal grant...
What’s a space stock, anyway?
The second space race has birthed a handful of public space companies that finally allow investors to own their own piece of the new orbital economy. Yes, there’s newly public SpaceX, but there are also plenty of others, like AST SpaceMobile, Rocket Lab, Firefly...
Fresh Windows Zero-Day Exploited in North Korean Cyberattacks
The bug allowed attackers to gain full control of the victims’ systems and deploy the ForestTiger backdoor. The post Fresh Windows Zero-Day Exploited in North Korean Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
American Heart Association to coffee fans: Go ahead and have 5 cups a day (as long as you also do this)
What’s the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world? It’s not alcohol, cannabis, or nicotine. It’s caffeine. At least 85% of Americans consume some form of the entirely legal drug every day. Clearly, we’re a nation in love with our morning cup (or three)...
Is it better to blend in or stand out at work? Here’s the surprising truth
If there is one thing on which recruiters, hiring managers, and founders typically agree, it’s the notion that technical competence alone, including a proven track record or domain-specific expertise, is no longer enough to get hired. In fact, organizations today are...
Malicious LiteLLM Releases Tied to Trivy Hack May Have Exposed 2,100+ Organizations
Two malicious LiteLLM releases sat on PyPI for about 40 minutes in March carrying credential-stealing code capable of harvesting cloud keys, SSH keys, Kubernetes tokens, database passwords, and other secrets from systems that installed them. Threat intelligence firm...
Google is now sending out emails with discount codes for the Pixel 11
You may want to keep a close eye on your Gmail inbox if you're looking to get a Pixel 11.
Ivanti EPM Update Patches Remotely Exploitable Flaws
The vulnerabilities could be exploited to leak credentials for external SQL connections or crash an agent service. The post Ivanti EPM Update Patches Remotely Exploitable Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.