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Bitsight's annual Ratings Algorithm Update (RAU) has been in effect as of July 16, 2026. In preparation, RAU 2026 Preview was made available in April 2026. As in the past, RAU 2026 is an effort to account for the continuous evolution of the threat landscape the Bitsight security ratings seek to quantify. This year's update is focused on modernizing the rating by improving how it is composed from various risk vectors (RVs). In particular, this entails the following.

The security world has a new focus: VulnOps. In response to Mythos, Daybreak, and the other frontier models that are sure to follow, organizations are racing to build permanent vulnerability operations functions that combine vulnerability management with more robust automation. The need for this discipline was always there. But now that AI can discover and help weaponize vulnerabilities at machine speed, the old quarterly-scan-and-patch approach is becoming less viable.

TeamPCP is a financially motivated ransomware group tied to software supply chain compromise, credential theft, extortion, and abuse of developer infrastructure. The group is also tracked through aliases including ShellForce, PCPcat, TeamPCP, DeadCatx3, Altered Spider, and PersyPCP. The group has also claimed ownership of CipherForce, which it describes as its private locker.

I remember the days when merely saying “AI” was enough to earn glares for bringing up such a taboo subject, almost equivalent to saying “Voldemort.” Now, AI is at the center of many people’s daily lives and certainly at the center of business operations. I find myself using AI for everyday tasks. Unfortunately for security teams, the bad guys are using it too.

AI is becoming part of almost everything: customer support, security operations, software development, research, analytics, internal workflows, and, most importantly, drafting emails. AI is increasingly embedded in real business processes, and that creates new risks, not to mention the level of unprecedented access mainly of these platforms to our data. Token torching (a type of Denial-of-Wallet (DoW) attack) is one emerging AI risk.

One issue we keep hearing from insurance underwriters and portfolio managers is some version of the same question: how do you price a risk that can change between bind and the very next day? The steady stream of headlines about Claude Mythos is the latest reason why this question comes up, but it isn’t really all about Mythos. Frontier AI is collapsing the gap between vulnerability disclosure and weaponized exploit, and the numbers are no longer subtle.

The 2026 NASCIO-Deloitte Cybersecurity Study reveals a stark reality for CISOs in state governments: while cyber threats are growing in both sophistication and volume, the resources available to combat them are failing to keep pace. As foreign adversaries and cybercriminals weaponize AI to probe for vulnerabilities, state CISOs find themselves at a critical juncture, navigating expanding responsibilities amidst tightening budgets.