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A likely Iran-backed actor targeted more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota in a sobering reminder of rising threats to US critical infrastructure.

A myriad of software makes up the typical AI harness, and trust issues between the components can create concerning attack vectors.

In this edition of Reporters' Notebook, our journalists discuss the ins and outs of Anthropic's Claude Mythos rollout. How seriously should we take its risks? How big of a deal is it?

The organized crime groups have moved from goods to services and continue to traffic people from at least 80 countries, costing nations in the region at least $88 billion in 2025 alone.

A premium-grade malware-as-a-service offering takes flight with multiple threat groups, building infostealers that drain victims' bank accounts.

OpenAI's goal-seeking agent compromised a Modal customer environment and others during its sandbox escape.

The agentic AI playing field was heavily tilted toward offense, so researchers began using red team agents to help teach their blue counterparts.

Dark Reading walks through the many twists and turns in the bizarre story of how OpenAI's agent AI system broke out of its sandbox and decided to target Hugging Face, and what CISOs should be aware of.

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 20: Expert Rich Mogull reflects on lessons cyber teams should pull from the OpenAI agent's attack on Hugging Face.

New research shows how security scanners embedded in the software supply chain can be attacked to serve as a foothold for downstream attacks.

The vulnerability in the AI hosting platform Ruflo allows an unauthenticated attacker to take over the system and corrupt memory, so bad behavior can persist after patching.

Dormant nonhuman identities can create security blind spots, says security researcher Aleksandr Krasnov, who plans to release an open source tool next week at Black Hat USA 2026 that sniffs out trust paths.

A host of Internet-exposed remote hardware management processors are subject to offline password-cracking attacks — and adversaries have taken note.

OpenAI's recent AI agent sandbox escape proves traditional security principles matter more than ever: limit access, isolate execution, log everything.

Researchers propose focusing on identification of certain cognitive elements in LLMs that indicate when AI systems may take an unwanted action.

Microsoft patched a high-severity vulnerability earlier this month that allows a threat actor to escalate privileges and compromise an AD environment.

The cybersecurity pioneer discusses the evolution of the CISO role, AI's impact on careers, and why operational resilience is the profession's next frontier.

Attackers used Hermes, an autonomous open source tool, in unrestricted "YOLO mode" to conduct espionage against Thailand's Ministry of Finance.

PleaseFix class of flaws makes it easy to socially engineer agentic browsers and highlights weaknesses in how they handle cross-origin requests.