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Organizations may face an artificial intelligence (AI) reckoning over the next year. Omdia and Gartner weigh in on how to tackle the governance, security, and value challenges ahead.

"Rogue AI" terminology anthropomorphizes LLMs and shifts risk responsibility from vendors. Defenders should treat agents as untrusted, nondeterministic software systems, not sentient beings with malicious intent.

Organizations don't need better vulnerability scanners; they need to know who owns their assets, and who has the authority and capacity to actually fix them.

A trio of newly discovered backdoors walk and quack like legitimate edge solutions, so it's hard to tell they're not.

Law enforcement from multiple countries collaborated to disrupt a cybercrime operation that has claimed some 500 victims worldwide in the past two years.

A year-old Chinese threat actor looks like a cybercrime gang, acts like a state-associated APT, and attacks organizations in unexpected places.

In yet another ClickFix-style campaign, threat actors abuse legitimate domains from OpenAI and Google to fool unsuspecting users.

The new White House Accord on so-called "Super Intelligence" calls on companies to implement greater controls and oversight over AI safety.

New Swimlane research underscores a paradox: While AI detection and response is essential to giving defenders an edge, one in four security pros say AI limits their skill development.

The APT actor is using a new tactic, dubbed "RedFlick," against Ukrainian-linked targets such as NGOs, think tanks, and journalists to deploy its CosmicPulse backdoor.

As aviation infrastructure suffers more cyberattacks, air traffic systems are the latest target, with a ransomware toolkit installed on at least one operational network.

Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write flaw, in an extremely sophisticated fashion, according to Apple.

A patched Unsloth Studio vulnerability allows malicious AI models to execute arbitrary Python code during inspection, via the trust_remote_code setting.

Automated certificates for everyone, built for today, and hardened for the era of quantum computing.

Microsoft observed a China-based actor using a previously unidentified malware framework in targeted intrusions against telcos, universities, medical, and government-related organizations.

The critical vulnerabilities, which impact default configurations of NetScaler products, essentially give attackers a skeleton key to customers' networks.

The Open Agent Safety Platform relies on hardware and software components to monitor agent activities and quarantine unruly agents before they can cause harm.

A high-severity vulnerability affects the TDengine time-series database used across industrial, IoT, energy, and automotive environments, and orgs should patch right away.

The botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands via Telegram and steal AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.

Enterprises regularly rigorously monitor human employees, while autonomous AI agents quietly operate with broad privileges that could turn them into the next generation of insider threats.