Kai: The Agentic AI Platform Built To Fight AI-Enabled Attacks
Kai was founded on a simple and radical conviction: you cannot win a machine-speed war with human-speed defenses. Not with more tools. Not with more headcount.…
Month: August 2026
White House authorizes private US companies to hack foreign criminal networks
President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum on August 12 allowing vetted private companies to run offensive cyber operations against foreign threat actors, under…
Parents take on Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snap in 3,000 youth safety lawsuits
A group of big tech firms is fighting to stop roughly 3,000 youth safety lawsuits from moving forward, and they just lost a critical procedural…
Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access
Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according…
Rimini Street bids to broaden CIO appeal with agentic AI move
Rimini Street, a pioneer in enterprise software third-party maintenance, is steering a new course, having recently released Rimini Govern for AI, a managed service said…
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 21 Deals Announced in July 2026
Twenty-one cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in July 2026. For a detailed view of the more than 420 acquisitions announced in 2025,…
Storm-1175 Replaces Medusa With New StormEncryptor Ransomware
Storm-1175 Replaces Medusa With New StormEncryptor Ransomware Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2026 Microsoft says China-linked Storm-1175 is using a new ransomware called StormEncryptor, replacing Medusa…
Trump turns to private sector in offensive hacking operations memo
President Donald Trump signed a national security memorandum Wednesday that lays the groundwork for private sector companies to take a larger role in helping law…
Black Hat USA 2026: AI is racing ahead of cybersecurity controls
AI took center stage, but the clearest lesson was less about what AI can do than about who is accountable when something goes wrong 12…
[tl;dr sec] #341 – Hugging Face Incident Black Hat Talk, CSS Bomb in your Inbox, GitHub Supply Chain Security Improvements
Deep dive and timeline of HF from OpenAI, Portswigger shows how CSS in webmail clients can be weaponized, GitHub’s platform improvements I hope you’ve been…
AI agents wage near-autonomous cyberattack on Asian government networks
Autonomous AI agents built on open-source frameworks breached Taiwanese government systems, compromised credentials, and probed a nuclear safety agency in a multi-day cyberattack that researchers…
Darktrace completes IRAP assessment for OT and network security platforms in Australia
Darktrace announced on Wednesday that it has completed an assessment by the InfoSec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) of its Darktrace / NETWORK and Darktrace /…