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What AI Can't Hide When It Writes a Phishing Email

Jun 18, 2026 By KnowBe4 Threat Lab In KnowBe4
Phishing has always been a game of impersonation. But for decades, the tell was in the details: a misspelled word here, an awkward sentence there, a logo that was just slightly off. Security awareness training built an entire doctrine around those cues. Spot the typo, avoid the trap. That playbook is now obsolete. KnowBe4's latest Phishing Trends Report found that 86% of phishing attacks observed in the last six months involved some level of AI assistance.
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Your AI Agents Are Eager to Please And Easy to Exploit

Jun 18, 2026 By Bryan Palma In KnowBe4
An AI-driven system at a beverage manufacturer recently churned out several hundred thousand excess cans after misreading unfamiliar packaging. The system didn’t recognize the company’s new holiday labels, flagged them as an error, and triggered additional production runs before the company caught the mistake. The system followed its instructions perfectly.
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Zenity

The Enterprise Just Got Its First Population of Autonomous Actors

Jun 18, 2026 By Cinthia Portugal In Zenity
For the past two decades, enterprise security has evolved around a relatively stable assumption: software executes instructions, people take actions, and security teams are responsible for understanding and governing the interaction between the two. The technologies have changed. Infrastructure moved to the cloud. Applications became distributed. Identities expanded beyond employees to include partners, contractors, and machines. Yet the underlying model remained remarkably consistent.
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Put agentic AI to work: Real-world defense against threats

Jun 18, 2026 By Elastic In Elastic
Attackers are using AI to compress timelines from hours to minutes. Most SOCs, and most security platforms, weren’t built for that speed. Join Elastic Security product and research experts for a look at how modern security teams can detect, investigate, and respond faster using agentic AI. You’ll learn how to: You’ll leave better equipped to reduce investigation time, keep analysts focused on decision-making, and modernize security operations for machine-speed threats without removing humans from the loop.
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GenAI fraud detection in academia vs industry

Jun 18, 2026 By Persona In Persona
Academic fraud datasets often lack real-world grounding and miss insights that you can only glean from defending against ongoing adversarial attacks. Just ask Zhaofeng Si, a PhD student in computer science at the University at Buffalo who studies the detection of AI-generated synthetic images. Three weeks ago, he joined Persona for a 12-week internship. Now, he’s working alongside Persona’s research scientists to build a benchmark for selfie fraud.
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AI Agent Security Explained: Agents, MCP, Prompt Injection, and the AI Harness

Jun 18, 2026 By Brian Hutchins In Nightfall
AI Agent Security is quickly becoming one of the most important areas in cybersecurity. Terms like "agent," "harness," "MCP," "tool calls," "tool responses," "instruction hijacking," "indirect prompt injection," "prompt exfiltration," and "tool misuse" are appearing in conference talks, vendor announcements, podcasts, and industry discussions, often without clear explanations.
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Arctic Wolf

AI Export Controls and the Risk of Slowing Down Defense

Jun 18, 2026 By Nick Schneider In Arctic Wolf
The Trump administration has ordered Anthropic to restrict access to its most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. Officials raised the possibility that these systems could be used by foreign actors to identify software vulnerabilities or support cyber attacks.
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Feroot

What Canada's Bill C-36 Means for AI-Powered Digital Experiences

Jun 18, 2026 By Feroot In Feroot
As Canada strengthens privacy protections and enforcement, organizations must find a way to accelerate AI innovation while maintaining continuous visibility into how customer data is collected, shared, and protected. Canada’s proposed Bill C-36 is about more than privacy regulation. It reflects a broader challenge facing governments, regulators, and businesses around the world.
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Best AI Agent Development Companies for Cybersecurity in 2026

Best AI Agent Development Companies for Cybersecurity in 2026

Jun 18, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Cybersecurity teams continue to face challenges and all sorts of pressure. The volume of cyberattacks is increasing, while they have limited resources to investigate alerts, monitor systems, and respond to incidents. AI agents are receiving a great deal of interest due to their ability to automate repetitive security tasks, speed up threat identification, and support incident response 24/7.
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Top 7 AI Workspace Security Solutions for Remote Teams in 2026

Top 7 AI Workspace Security Solutions for Remote Teams in 2026

Jun 18, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Remote work has permanently changed how organizations operate. Teams collaborate across time zones, connect through SaaS platforms, and rely on cloud-based workflows to maintain productivity. At the same time, artificial intelligence has become embedded throughout modern work environments. Employees use AI copilots to draft content, summarize meetings, write code, analyze data, and automate repetitive tasks.
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