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A double-edged bleeding edge: Classifying AI threats

Jun 30, 2026 By Colin Cowie In Sophos
Sophos X-Ops presents a working taxonomy for attacks using, and targeting, AI Conversations about ‘AI threats’ typically collapse into one of two extremes. On the one hand, hype: unverified claims that don’t hold up to scrutiny and invite significant criticism. On the other, dismissal: it’s just old tradecraft with new branding.
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The Cybersecurity Poverty Line: Why it exists and why Sophos exists to erase it

Jun 23, 2026 By Joe Levy In Sophos
The Cybersecurity Poverty Line: Why it exists and why Sophos exists to erase it Erase is an ambitious word. We chose it because the agentic era of AI creates a genuine opportunity to change the equation. There are roughly 359 million businesses in the world. Fewer than 35,000 of them employ a CISO. Every framework, product taxonomy, analyst report, compliance regime, and piece of cybersecurity marketing in circulation assumes a senior security leader on the other end.
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We Gave OpenClaw Red Team Tools (It Found Domain Admin)

Jun 11, 2026 By Sophos In Sophos
Our Red Team handed OpenClaw a penetration testing toolkit and pointed it at one of our own legacy Active Directory networks. 23 findings across 11 attack paths... But the findings aren't the interesting part. What's interesting is how it got there. Work that takes our human team three days took the agent three hours. Mid assessment it hit a wall, reasoned about its own limitations and proposed spinning up an EC2 GPU instance to crack a password hash. Nobody told it to.
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Sophos recognized for endpoint leadership in SE Labs Awards 2026

Jun 11, 2026 By Sophos In Sophos
Sophos recognized for endpoint leadership in SE Labs Awards 2026 Independent testing confirms what our customers already know: Sophos Endpoint delivers consistent, real-world protection at every tier of the market, from the largest enterprises to small businesses. We’re proud to announce that Sophos has won three awards at the SE Labs Awards 2026: Enterprise Endpoint (Windows), Small Business Endpoint (Windows), and Small Business Security Development.
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