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Google has announced that Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is adopting a new cryptonym-based naming convention for tracking threat actors. According to the internet giant, the schema moves away from sequential numbers and disparate identifiers, relying instead on two-word combinations for each activity cluster. The first word, Google explains, is
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A new global survey of nearly 2,000 tech leaders shows the CIO job has been rewritten in the space of a year. The org chart hasn’t caught up yet. A year ago, a CIO’s job was fairly easy to describe: keep the systems running, keep the data
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By Krishnakumar Kamath, Cybersecurity Consultant, Experion Technologies On an ordinary Tuesday morning, a product leader I know received a message that made the room go quiet: “Why is our application talking to a new destination?” Nothing had crashed. The dashboards were calm. Yet the traffic was real and it was
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Threat actors have been exploiting a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Fastjson, security researchers warn. A popular JSON processing library for Java, Fastjson was developed by Alibaba for JSON serialization and deserialization. Tracked as CVE-2026-16723 (CVSS score of 9), the unauthenticated bug impacts all deployments running as a
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GLM-5.2 is a Chinese open-weight AI model challenging Claude and GPT-5.5 with powerful coding, long-context reasoning, and AI agent capabilities. Artificial Intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace, and open-source models are no longer just affordable alternatives to proprietary AI systems. They are now challenging the industry'
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Arista Networks on Monday released patches for a critical-severity OS injection vulnerability in the VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) centralized management platform, warning that it has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The security defect is tracked as CVE-2026-16812, has a maximum CVSS score of 10, and could be exploited
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Australian power company Origin Energy Limited said the recent data breach affects 900,000 current and former customers. Origin Energy, which has roughly 4.8 million customers, is one of Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailers. The company recently started investigating a cybersecurity incident and determined that threat actors
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Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded on Monday afternoon to murmuring in the industry that his company somehow supports efforts by the U.S. government to ban open-weight Chinese models, or possibly open-weight models generally. “Anyone who has read my past writing should know that I don’t regard
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MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4 AI agents can break through security, but they are also the solution to defending against an increasingly dangerous ecosystem of threats. On Monday, Microsoft announced a new security model that it says helped outperform several rival AI systems on a
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Nvidia has made a fortune on the AI boom. But the flames of opposition to open-weights models — that is, models that anyone can download, modify, and run on their own infrastructure — could change that, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t waiting to find out. On Friday, a cadre of
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TL;DR Microsoft launched Project Perception, an agentic security system with red/blue/green AI agents. Its MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model scores 96% on CyberGym (+12 over Mythos) at 50% lower cost. Public preview August 3. Microsoft announced Project Perception on Monday, an agentic security system that coordinates three classes of AI
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The combination of sophisticated attacks and increasingly complex deployments makes achieving cybersecurity and establishing centralized visibility greater challenges than ever. Organizations generate unprecedented volumes of security telemetry across disparate environments. Security teams often struggle with the quantity of information, and fragmented visibility across tools, cloud environments and endpoints leaves dangerous
