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White House Intros Classified Cybersecurity Review for Frontier AI Models

The White House is moving forward with a voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities and risks of advanced artificial intelligence models, though the standards guiding those evaluations remain classified.

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Cybersecurity Researchers: AI Has Crossed into the Live Attack Chain

AI is moving beyond assisting cybercriminals and beginning to operate within live attacks, according to a new report from Check Point Research. The technology is making sophisticated capabilities faster and more accessible while creating new security risks for businesses deploying their own AI systems.

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Report: Cloud Crime on the Rise as Attackers Exploit Trust

CrowdStrike's 2026 Threat Hunting Report traces a multiyear shift from conventional intrusions toward attacks that exploit trusted identities, cloud services, AI systems and software dependencies.

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Report: AI Attacks Push Organizations Toward Autonomous Cybersecurity Defense

Artificial intelligence is raising the stakes of cyber conflict as attackers use the technology to accelerate reconnaissance, uncover vulnerabilities, and launch attacks faster than many security teams can respond.

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Microsoft, Nvidia Move Enterprise AI Toward Active Cyber Defense

AI security is entering a new stage as organizations look beyond protecting models from prompt injection, unauthorized access, and data exposure.

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Gartner Marks Enterprise Move from AI Experiments to AI Engineering

According to Gartner's recent "Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture, 2026" report, enterprises are moving from AI experimentation toward a more industrialized approach to AI delivery.

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Tech Industry Leaders Launch Open Secure AI Alliance

NVIDIA and 36 other partners are targeting agent security across multi-vendor clouds by combining open technologies for workload identity, agent controls, vulnerability scanning, and software supply-chain security.

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Malware Turns Microsoft 365 Calendar Into Covert Attack Vector

Security researchers at Group-IB have uncovered a Windows malware strain that turns Microsoft 365 calendars into covert channels for receiving commands and stealing files from targeted organizations.

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Report: Content Infrastructure, Governance Lag Behind Agentic AI Adoption

AI agents have quickly moved into mainstream enterprise use, but the content infrastructure needed to support them has struggled to keep up, according to a new report from cloud content management company Box.

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Phishing Report Emphasizes Importance of Building a Security Culture

While cybersecurity teams have invested heavily in e-mail protection, endpoint security, and identity controls, new research from Fortra suggests one challenge remains difficult to solve: users.