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forbes.com - Aliasgar Dohadwala - Agentic AI Creates A New Cybersecurity Challenge And A Defense Model
Agentic AI Creates A New Cybersecurity Challenge And A Defense Model
Forbes

Aliasgar Dohadwala, CEO of Visiontech Systems, is a visionary and serial entrepreneur with a knack for turning challenges into opportunities ​The cybersecurity industry faces a paradox. Organizations invest heavily in artificial intelligence…

engadget.com - Max Miller - AI is changing cybersecurity in quick and terrifying ways
AI is changing cybersecurity in quick and terrifying ways
Engadget

Can the cybersecurity industry keep up? Imagine I came to you with the following proposition: You will give me trillions of dollars. In exchange, I will build a machine that pollutes the environment, steals from every artist and academic on the…

techcrunch.com - Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai - Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say
Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say
TechCrunch

Kimi K3, the latest AI model made by Chinese company Moonshot, escaped an environment set up to test its cyber capabilities, researchers said in a blog post published on Friday. The news shows once again that companies and independent organizations…

businessinsider.com - Samuel O'Brient - A research firm shares its top cybersecurity stock picks with agentic AI threats on the rise
A research firm shares its top cybersecurity stock picks with agentic AI threats on the rise
Business Insider

Citrini Research, the market research firm that went viral for its futuristic AI doomsday scenario earlier this year, sees the rise of agentic threats boosting demand for cybersecurity. In a note published on Friday, Citrini shared its bullish…

independent.co.uk - Alex Woodward - America's water systems are 'super vulnerable' to attacks, cybersecurity experts say
America's water systems are 'super vulnerable' to attacks, cybersecurity experts say
The Independent

Hackers have broken into water systems in at least a dozen states in recent weeks, what cybersecurity experts say should be an urgent wake up call to immense vulnerabilities in American infrastructure. “Malicious cyber actors” have…

seekingalpha.com - Max Gottlich - Cybersecurity decouples from SaaS as AI threats surge - Citrini (CIBR:NASDAQ)
Cybersecurity decouples from SaaS as AI threats surge - Citrini (CIBR:NASDAQ)
Seeking Alpha

Cybersecurity stocks benefit from a surge in attacks linked to advanced AI agents, while traditional software struggles partly due to market concerns over automation making their products obsolete. Network security hardware and data resilience…

seekingalpha.com - Mike Zaccardi - BUG: Battle-Tested Cybersecurity Stocks Look Strong, Despite AI Threats (NASDAQ:BUG)
BUG: Battle-Tested Cybersecurity Stocks Look Strong, Despite AI Threats (NASDAQ:BUG)
Seeking Alpha

Global X Cybersecurity ETF earns a reiterated buy rating as technicals strengthen and sector resilience persists amid AI-driven volatility. BUG trades at a premium 27x P/E, with concentrated exposure to US SMID-cap growth and limited international…

techradar.com - Vishal Salvi - Why cybersecurity must evolve for the age of AI agents
Why cybersecurity must evolve for the age of AI agents
TechRadar

For years, cybersecurity was built on a simple assumption: systems follow defined rules. Applications do what they are programmed to do, while people log in, are given permissions and access the resources they need. Artificial intelligence (AI) is…

fortune.com - Shlomo Kramer - The godfather of Israeli cybersecurity: The Hugging Face incident exposes the wrong AI security debate
The godfather of Israeli cybersecurity: The Hugging Face incident exposes the wrong AI security debate
Fortune

The proliferation of AI agents at companies across the world introduces a new level of risk and vastly magnifies insider threats. Companies must now control how agents interact with users, other agents, data, and applications. Controlling these…

upworthy.com - Adam Albright-Hanna - Janet Jackson's unique song made so many laptops crash that it became a cybersecurity case
Janet Jackson's unique song made so many laptops crash that it became a cybersecurity case
Upworthy

When someone queues up a track on a laptop, the expectation is a few minutes of music. The thought of a song crashing the computer never crosses anyone's mind. Yet, that is precisely what happened when people tried to play Janet Jackson's 1989 hit…

mpost.io - Alisa Davidson - Containment Failure: Why Frontier AI Cybersecurity Evaluations Are Exposing The Industry's Weakest Link | Metaverse Post
Containment Failure: Why Frontier AI Cybersecurity Evaluations Are Exposing The Industry's Weakest Link | Metaverse Post
Today's Top AI and Crypto News | Metaverse Post

AI safety tests at Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI turned into real breaches, exposing critical gaps in evaluation containment and accelerating regulatory scrutiny. In the span of two weeks, three of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence…

theconversation.com - James Davenport - Museums face growing cyber threats but security remains an afterthought
Museums face growing cyber threats but security remains an afterthought
The Conversation

In the last few years, some of the UK's biggest cultural institutions have experienced major threats to their security. A report by the public accounts committee (PAC) has warned that such incidents have exposed serious weaknesses across the sector…

indianexpress.com - Anagha Jayakumar - After incidents involving AI agents, are companies facing a new kind of cybersecurity threat?
After incidents involving AI agents, are companies facing a new kind of cybersecurity threat?
The Indian Express

The incidents raise a question: Do these indicate a new class of cybersecurity risk, or are they primarily revealing the limitations of how increasingly autonomous AI systems pursue goals during testing? Unlike chatbots, or by extension Large…

pymnts.com - PYMNTS - Wall Street's New Cybersecurity Threat Starts With a Phone Call
Wall Street's New Cybersecurity Threat Starts With a Phone Call
PYMNTS.com | Breaking News, Trends and Analysis

A campaign update shared Thursday (Aug. 6) by Google's Threat Intelligence Group showed attackers from the threat actor group UNC6671 had initiated a cyber infiltration campaign targeting companies including Blackstone, Apollo Global Management…

the-decoder.com - Matthias Bastian - OpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time
OpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time
The Decoder

Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER OpenAI is pausing parts of the development of its new AI model, Astra, after internal tests revealed cybersecurity capabilities so strong that the model could reach the highest risk level ('Critical') in the…

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