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Anthropic's Mythos Leak Points to Pattern of Failures, Sloppy Practices at AI Labs
Anthropic accidentally exposed its most powerful unreleased AI model to compromise, and days later shipped its flagship coding tool's full source code without meaning to. Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI have each had comparable moments. Questions linger about the integrity of third-party AI tools.

Unified Platforms Reduce Risk, Cost From Ransomware and AI Threats
Leaders must maximize existing infrastructure as ransomware and AI-driven threats raise costs and risk. In order to extract more value from current hardware, organizations must strengthen resilience through private cloud architectures, improved storage efficiency and automated recovery.

Moves Reverse Biden-Era Changes; National Coordinator Returns to Health IT Policy
The U.S. Department of Health and Services is reversing Biden-era changes, returning the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's focused role on external health IT policy and standards, while shifting department-wide cybersecurity, cloud, AI and data operations back to the Office of CIO.

Enterprises Seek Multi-Agent Systems to Govern LLM-Generated Code at Scale
As AI-generated code surges, New York-based startup Qodo has raised $70 million in Series B funding to address governance and quality challenges. The company is building multi-agent systems to review code, enforce standards and reduce risk in enterprise software development.

Fallout Continues Over Leaked Claude Source Code Incident
The tension between AI developers and cybersecurity vendors is becoming increasingly apparent as new models show sudden leaps in capability - and AI firm Anthropic, for better or for worse, finds itself at the center of the drama.

Five Practical Use Cases on How AI Is Transforming SOCs for Threat Mitigation
AI is reshaping cybersecurity on both sides of the battlefield. While attackers use it to scale threats, defenders are using AI to reduce noise, accelerate investigations and improve response. This blog provides five real-world SOC use cases for mitigating threats.

Expect Fallout After Remote Access Trojan Added to Popular JavaScript NPM Package
A supply-chain attack backdoored versions of Axios, a popular JavaScript library that's present in many different software packages, to distribute a cross-platform, remote access Trojan. Identifying the full fallout from the attack could take some time, experts warned.

Why Remote Access to Industrial Operations Is the Biggest Unmanaged Risk
Remote access has become one of the largest unmanaged attack surfaces in industrial operations. Legacy VPNs and jump servers expose OT environments to serious risk. Learn how Cisco Cyber Vision's Secure Equipment Access can secure vendor and engineer access while protecting critical infrastructure.

A Disorienting Future: Rapid Pace of Change and AI Agents in the Hands of Attackers
Reflecting the current state of cybersecurity, uncertainty dominated at this year's annual RSAC Conference in San Francisco, as advances in artificial intelligence, including agentic artificial intelligence, now pose risks experts never saw coming. It's a disorientating state of affairs for all involved.

AI is accelerating cyberattacks faster than organizations can prioritize them, forcing security leaders to rethink how they define and defend against “emerging threats.” Most modern threats aren’t new, just amplified by AI, says Akamai's Brent Maynard.

UK NCSC's Richard Horne on Strengthening Cyber Defense and Incident Response
Cyber risk is rising as digital dependence grows and threat actors expand. NCSC CEO Richard Horne outlines why leaders must treat cybersecurity as mission-critical, strengthen their resilience, and align defense efforts to counter ransomware, AI-driven threats, and supply chain attacks.

TriMed Is Among Several Other Medical Device Firms Recently Attacked
A California maker of implantable orthopedic gear is the latest medical device maker in recent weeks to disclose it's been a victim of a cybersecurity incident. The disclosure of the hack on TriMed comes on the heels of an Iranian hacktivist attack on Stryker and a data theft from UFP Technologies.

Founder and CEO Eric Foster Wants to Reduce Dwell Time and Scale Engineering Teams
Tenex plans to use its $250 million Series B funding to expand its AI-driven SOC platform and hire hundreds of engineers. The company aims to improve alert coverage, automate response and reduce attacker dwell time while maintaining human oversight for complex threats.

Analysts Warn Compliance Goals May Outpace Real Security Outcomes
The Pentagon's zero trust overhaul aims to unify cyber defenses, but with a small percentage of target activities reportedly complete, persistent gaps in identity, data and governance are raising doubts about whether the 2027 deadline will deliver real security gains.

Menlo Ventures' Rama Sekhar on Securing AI Agents and Non-Human Identities
As AI evolves from assistants to autonomous agents, enterprises face a new attack surface driven by non-human identities. Rama Sekhar, partner at Menlo Ventures, explains why visibility, governance and AI-driven remediation are critical to securing this evolution.

Segura's Joe Carson on Agentic AI, Cyber Resilience and Estonia's Lessons
AI is accelerating both attackers and defenders, transforming cybersecurity into an AI-versus-AI battle. Segura's Joe Carson discusses why organizations must treat agentic AI as a force multiplier, not a replacement, and how to harness it responsibly in a future driven by autonomous agents.