Acumen Cyber and AttackIQ Partner to Strengthen Cyber Defense Validation
Acumen Cyber and AttackIQ announced a strategic partnership to deliver continuous validation of cyber defenses. The collaboration merges Acumen Cyber’s engineering‑led security operations with AttackIQ’s Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform. Together they will emulate MITRE ATT&CK techniques, expose exploitable attack paths, and prioritize remediation based on real‑world risk. A new Threat Debt Index will quantify accumulated adversary opportunity, giving organizations a measurable resilience metric.
Check Point Launches AI Agents That Think Like Attackers as Autonomous Exploitation Reaches Critical Threat Level
Check Point introduced Agentic Exposure Validation (AEV), an AI‑driven module in its Exposure Management platform that deploys autonomous agents to reason like attackers and prove which vulnerabilities are truly exploitable. The launch arrives as frontier AI models have accelerated exploit...
The AI Phishing Revolution: From Spray-and-Pray to Autonomous Operations
AI is reshaping phishing from manual, spray‑and‑pray tactics to fully autonomous operations. Large language models now generate convincing spear‑phishing emails in minutes, while "vibe coding" fuels Phishing‑as‑Service platforms that auto‑write code, obfuscate payloads, and spin up infrastructure. Autonomous agents scrape...
ECB Urges Banks to Tackle AI Security Threats
The European Central Bank convened an emergency meeting with the eurozone’s 111 largest banks to warn of AI‑driven cyber threats, singling out Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview as a high‑risk model. Industry data shows 67% of financial firms are accelerating AI...
AI Coding Tools Are Widening the Security Validation Gap, Survey Finds
New research from Pentest‑Tools.com shows AI coding tools are outpacing security validation, creating a widening gap between code generation speed and vulnerability testing. Only 9% of developers feel testing keeps up, while 51% discover flaws after deployment. The survey of...
Most Organisations Can’t See Their AI Traffic and Attackers Are Already Exploiting That
Check Point’s 2026 Cloud Security Report reveals a stark gap between AI adoption and security readiness. While 77% of organizations have updated their security strategies for AI, only 26% possess the architecture to enforce them, leaving a 51‑point disconnect. Visibility...
Certes Research Warns Legacy Systems Are Biggest Barrier to Quantum Security Readiness
Certes released its Emerging PQC Imperative report revealing that 78% of surveyed organizations view legacy systems as the biggest quantum security risk. While awareness of post‑quantum cryptography is high, only 11% feel confident they can achieve readiness on schedule, and...
Cyber Agony Aunts: New Book Offers Practical Look at Resilience
Rebecca Taylor of Sophos and Amelia Hewitt of Principle Defence released their second co‑authored book, *Resilient You: An Agony Aunts’ Guide To Keeping It Together*, on May 12, 2026. The guide adopts an Agony Aunt format to teach resilience as...
The Invisible Workforce: Why Your Household Apps Now Have Their Own Digital IDs
The article warns that machine identities—digital certificates, tokens and API keys used by applications, cloud workloads, bots and AI agents—are proliferating faster than human credentials. These invisible workers perform critical tasks with high privileges but often lack oversight, making them...
Securing the AI Supply Chain in the European Union
The European Union is moving from voluntary "trustworthy AI" principles to a legally binding framework that couples AI regulation with cybersecurity obligations. The AI Act, NIS2 Directive, Cyber Resilience Act and Data Act together demand auditable security controls across the...
Check Point Wants AI Agents to Do What Security Teams Can’t: Manage Networks at Machine Speed
Check Point unveiled its Agentic Network Security Orchestration Platform, an AI‑driven system that converts business intent into real‑time firewall policies and automatically tightens configurations across multi‑vendor environments. The platform relies on a continuously updated Network Knowledge Graph that models each...
Cyber Attackers Bypass Traditional Defences as ‘User-Driven’ Attacks Surge, Bridewell Warns
Bridewell’s 2026 Cyber Threat Intelligence Report reveals a sharp rise in user‑driven attacks, where threat actors exploit legitimate identities and social engineering to sidestep traditional security tools. The report highlights the emergence of “fix‑style” techniques—ClickFix, FileFix and ConsentFix—that rely on...
Q&A: Why Vulnerability Scans Are Giving Businesses a False Sense of Security
In a recent interview, cybersecurity veteran Phillip Wylie warns that reliance on vulnerability scans and basic phishing tests gives organizations a false sense of security. He highlights how attackers now target overlooked assets such as security cameras, printers, and other...
Huntress and Acrisure Team Up to Offer Zero-Deductible Cyber Insurance for SMBs
Huntress has partnered with Acrisure to launch a zero‑deductible cyber insurance programme for small and mid‑size businesses. Eligible customers using Huntress’s managed endpoint detection and response (EDR) and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) solutions can obtain cyber liability or...
WorkNest Launches WorkNest Secure to Expand Cybersecurity and Compliance Services
WorkNestGroup has launched WorkNest Secure, a new cybersecurity and compliance division that consolidates the capabilities of Pentest People and Bulletproof under a single brand. The division offers services ranging from penetration testing and incident response to vCISO, GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI DSS,...