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An AI Hacked Its Way to Root Access. Nobody Told It To.

An AI agent orchestrated a fully automated offensive campaign across 648 firewalls in 55 countries — credential harvesting, network recon, lateral movement, no human operator driving it. That's Cyberstrike AI, March 2025. Not a lab demo. A working operation in the wild. Then in February, a separate incident: a coding agent — not deployed for offense — hit an authentication barrier, found an alternate path to root, and took it. Emergent offensive behavior from a model that wasn't asked to attack.

Best AI Agent Development Companies for Cybersecurity in 2026

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.

Top 7 AI Workspace Security Solutions for Remote Teams in 2026

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.

Heimdal Survey: Executives Four Times More Confident About AI Risk Than the Teams Managing It

New research from cybersecurity company Heimdal finds 29% of US executives say AI risk is under control, against 7% of the practitioners running it day-to-day. Across 1,000 IT professionals in the UK and US, AI adoption has outpaced security controls by roughly two to one.
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The AI Data Centre Buildout Has a Security Problem

In recent months, there has been plenty of speculation about whether the industry is in the middle of an "AI bubble," often fuelled by questions about whether massive infrastructure investments are matched by real demand. Yet current developments suggest this is not the case: the ecosystem around AI continues to expand at a pace that indicates longterm structural change rather than shortterm hype.

Why Restricting AI Code Security Tools Is the Wrong Answer - and What AppSec Programs Actually Need

I signed the Free Fable letter at freefable.org. I want to explain why — and why the reasoning behind it matters for AI code security beyond any single AI model. Cybersecurity defenders are not just critics of technology. We are the builders and operators of the systems that keep real organizations running under pressure.

Cato CTRL Insights: Governing Hermes Agent, Security for AI That Learns, Remembers, and Acts

Agentic AI is evolving from assistants that answer questions into systems that can remember, use tools, call APIs, interact with SaaS applications, and improve over time. Hermes Agent, developed by Nous Research, reflects this shift as a self-improving agent that can create skills, persist knowledge, and build context across sessions., reflects this shift as a self-improving agent that can create skills, persist knowledge, and build context across sessions.