Tenable Tackles AI Governance, Shadow AI Risks, Data Exposure
The Tenable One AI Exposure add-on discovers unsanctioned AI use in the organization and enforces policy compliance with approved tools.
Out-of-the-Box Expectations for 2026 Reveal a Grab Bag of Risk
Security teams need to be thinking about this list of emerging cybersecurity realities to avoid rolling the dice on enterprise security risks (and opportunities).
2026: The Year Agentic AI Becomes the Attack-Surface Poster Child
Dark Reading asked readers whether agentic AI attacks, advanced deepfake threats, board recognition of cyber as a top priority, or password-less technology adoption would be most likely to become a trending reality for 2026.
Torq Moves SOCs Beyond SOAR With AI-Powered Hyper Automation
Investors poured $140 million into Torq's Series D Round, raising the startup's valuation to $1.2 billion, to bring AI-based "hyper automation" to SOCs.
ShinyHunters Expands Scope of SaaS Extortion Attacks
Following its attacks on Salesforce instances last year, members of the cybercrime group have broadened their targeting and gotten more aggressive with extortion tactics.
Chinese Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updates for 6 Months
State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious downloads.
County Pays $600K to Wrongfully Jailed Pen Testers
Iowa police arrested two penetration testers in 2019 for doing their jobs, highlighting the risk to security professionals in red teaming exercises.
Attackers Harvest Dropbox Logins Via Fake PDF Lures
A malware-free phishing campaign targets corporate inboxes and asks employees to view "request orders," ultimately leading to Dropbox credential theft.
Russia-Aligned ELECTRUM Tied to December 2025 Cyber Attack on Polish Power Grid
The "coordinated" cyber attack targeting multiple sites across the Polish power grid has been attributed with medium confidence to a Russian state-sponsored hacking crew known as ELECTRUM. Operational technology (OT) cybersecurity company Dragos, in a new intelligence brief publi
Fake Moltbot AI Coding Assistant on VS Code Marketplace Drops Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension for Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on the official Extension Marketplace that claims to be a free artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, but stealthily drops a malicious p
Google Disrupts IPIDEA — One of the World’s Largest Residential Proxy Networks
Google on Wednesday announced that it worked together with other partners to disrupt IPIDEA, which it described as one of the largest residential proxy networks in the world. To that end, the company said it took legal action to take down dozens of domains used to control devices
SolarWinds Fixes Four Critical Web Help Desk Flaws With Unauthenticated RCE and Auth Bypass
SolarWinds has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting SolarWinds Web Help Desk, including four critical vulnerabilities that could result in authentication bypass and remote code execution (RCE). The list of vulnerabilities is as follows