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WebInject: The Web Agent Prompt Injection With No Payload

A browser agent in your cluster opens a supplier portal, screenshots it, and clicks somewhere the task never called for. The page looks exactly like the page the supplier serves, and to the person who checks it later, it still does. The classifier in front of the agent returned nothing, because the instruction that produced the click does not exist.

Approved Tools, Unapproved Agents

Approval works at the tool layer and it works well. A platform is assessed, terms are reviewed, a data processing agreement is signed, the tool enters the register, and named identities are entitled to it. Everything about that maps cleanly. ‍ Then somebody uses the approved platform to assemble an agent that acts on their behalf, with its own reach and its own credentials. The approval covered the application.

What an AI Usage Inventory Cannot Tell You

Three reads from surfaces most organizations already own produce a usable AI usage register in a morning. Entitlement, from the identity provider, showing who is licensed for what. Activity, from network or gateway logs, showing who reached which destination and how much. Identity, from the directory, showing who those people are and which scopes they sit in. ‍ The register answers more questions than people expect.

How to Audit AI Compliance from Both Sides of the Table

The tricky thing about AI compliance is that most organizations are going to experience it from both sides. You need to be able to explain how AI is being used inside your own organization, what it can access, and how you're managing the risk. At the same time, you need to understand how your vendors are using AI and whether that introduces new risk into your environment.

The Post-Mythos Era Is Here. Is Your Exposure Management Program Ready?

As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, exposure management can’t stop at visibility and prioritization. Gartner’s post-Mythos outlook points toward more preemptive, autonomous security, and Seemplicity’s Response Options puts that into practice by giving teams multiple context-aware ways to reduce risk quickly, safely, and without waiting for the full fix.

The Role of Agentic AI in Cybersecurity

Agentic AI has moved from experimental research to live production environments at unprecedented speed, outpacing nearly every technology security leaders have encountered in recent history. Distinguishing themselves from standard chatbots that merely respond and pause, autonomous agents architect multi-step workflows, interface with tools and APIs, maintain contextual memory, and execute operations with minimal human intervention.

Agentic AI Security Buyer's Checklist: 15 Questions to Ask Before You Sign

Buying agentic AI security software is a fast-moving decision with high stakes. Get it wrong, and your security team ends up chasing agent activity it cannot see, while attackers exploit business logic gaps that no prompt filter was built to catch. This checklist gives security and platform leaders a structured way to evaluate vendors before signing, based on the questions that actually separate a purpose-built platform from a bolted-on feature.

Seeing Every MCP Connection: Zenity Joins the Cursor Marketplace

Cursor has become one of the primary AI coding environments for development teams, and its agents increasingly reach into the outside world through MCP servers: databases, ticketing systems, cloud consoles, and internal APIs. Every connection extends what an agent can do. It also extends what could go wrong if that access goes unmonitored or unchecked.

Preparing for an AI-Powered Future with Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt, SVP and CSO at Amazon, sees firsthand how both defenders and adversaries are using AI to their advantage. In this episode, he joins Adam and Cristian to discuss modern AI models, evolving adversary behavior, and how Amazon is responding to shifts in the threat landscape. “The big change we’ve seen recently is the ability of models to chain things together to produce something interesting,” Steve says. As AI models grow more adept at automatically chaining and acting, he adds, the time to respond has dramatically decreased.

Seedance 2.5: AI Video Is Learning to Handle What Happens Between the Shots

Turning a photograph into moving footage has become familiar. The details that make people keep watching usually come from the relationships inside the frame: why a character turns at that moment, why the product appears there, why the music lands on that beat, and how the camera carries the viewer toward what comes next.

Securing AI API Keys From Development to Production

An AI feature can reach production before anyone has decided who owns its credentials. A developer creates an API key for a prototype, a colleague copies it into a background worker, and a troubleshooting session puts the same value into a support ticket. The application works, but the team can no longer say exactly where its access begins or ends.

An agent breaks in production. Who's accountable?

We asked eight security and product leaders who's accountable when an agent ships to production and breaks something. Nobody said the model. Harish Gaggar named the reason. An agent runs on permissions someone approved and configuration someone set. Ron Reiter drew the line in the same place, accountability sits with whoever decided what the agent could actually do. As agents act across more systems, the accountability trail gets harder to follow. Most teams cannot determine which human granted an agent access.

How Is AI Transforming Identity and Access Management?

Traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) relies on authentication methods, predefined roles, and access policies to control who can access business applications and data. These controls remain essential, but they do not always provide enough context to identify unusual behavior or changing access risks. AI in Identity and Access Management (IAM) adds another layer of intelligence by analyzing login context, user behavior, device information, access patterns, and identity activity.

OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications: Complete Guide to LLM Security Risks

Companies rush to utilise the potential of large language models; however, every new use case of generative AI introduces attack vectors previously unknown in traditional web security. The present guide provides an overview of the official OWASP GenAI LLM Top 10 2026 list and explains the appearance of each vulnerability in practice along with mitigation recommendations.

A Complete Audit Trail That Names No One

An AI assistant reads four hundred documents across a tenant. Every read is logged. The application is named, the file is named, the timestamp is exact, and the access is attributed to an account that belongs to nobody. ‍ The audit trail is complete and it cannot answer the question an auditor asks. Nobody asks whether an access was recorded. They ask who reached the data and whether that person was authorized, and a shared service account answers neither. ‍

AI agents can inherit local admin rights

An AI agent runs as a process under whatever account launched it, and it inherits that account's access token. If the account has local admin rights, so does the agent, along with every helper process and script it spawns, an example would be Claude Desktop running under an admin account, spawning PowerShell helpers. What makes agents different from a typical privileged app is that their next action often comes from content parsed at runtime, including untrusted input.

Why DevSecOps Teams Are Adopting an AI Pentesting Solution

Software teams today are shipping code faster than ever before. New features go live weekly, sometimes daily, and the pressure to stay ahead of competitors means security can no longer be treated as a final checkpoint before release. This shift has pushed DevSecOps teams to rethink how they test for vulnerabilities.

Jason Haddix: Stop fearing AI pentesting

This post is based on Mackenzie's conversation with Jason Haddix on The Secure Disclosure podcast. Listen to the full episode or watch below. Jason Haddix has topped the Bugcrowd leaderboards, run security as CISO of Ubisoft, and wrote The Bug Hunter's Methodology, the playbook a lot of working pentesters learned from, so his read on the direction of the field is worth listening to. He believes that “90% of pen tests will be done by AI” in the near future.

How Far Can Prompt Injection Reach in Agentic Coding Assistants?

The blast radius of a prompt injection against your coding assistant was set weeks ago, by whoever built the dev environment image. Same assistant, same model, same injected sentence: on a laptop it collects every repository, SSH key and cloud login the developer holds; on a provisioned dev box it collects an organization token plus whatever the image left behind; on a CI runner it collects a deployment credential and a network path to production. Three environments, three incidents, one payload.

Vulnerability Assessments in an Agentic World: Step-by-Step Guide

An old package or a misconfigured cloud storage bucket can be identified by a legacy scanner, but it does not account for the unique risk profile of autonomous systems. It cannot confirm that an AI agent with access to your production environment can chain together a CRM read, an email send and a production write using inherited credentials. Your agents are dynamic: they plan, call tools, and act across multiple environments, and some may retain context or long-term memory beyond the original request.
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Increasingly Dangerous Threats, Not More Alerts, Are the New SOC Challenge

For years, security operations centres have operated under the same constraints of more alerts than analysts, more investigations than hours in the day, and more pressure than most teams can sustainably absorb. That imbalance is becoming dangerous as frontier models rapidly improve at finding vulnerabilities and turning them into exploits, while defenders are left dealing with the consequences in real time.

Sophos To Bring OpenAI GPT Cyber Models Into Managed Risk Offering, Helping Defenders Validate Exploit Paths

The company is building a new Exploit Path Verification (EPV) capability that will tell security teams which vulnerabilities an attacker can reach in their environment, turning long exposure lists into evidence-backed priorities.

Best Shadow AI Governance Tools for Enterprises: Buyer's Shortlist

Security teams already know employees use generative AI. The harder problem is buying the right platform before unsanctioned apps move sensitive data outside your visibility and control. UpGuard research found 81% of employees and 88% of security leaders use unapproved AI tools, and 45% of workers find a workaround when their employer blocks an app. That last number should shape your buying criteria more than the first two. Demand doesn't disappear when you block it. It moves somewhere you can't see.

When the AI Arrives Inside Software You Already Bought

An application that was AI-free at the last audit may be processing corporate data through a language model today. Nobody procured it, nobody approved it and nobody was asked. A vendor shipped a release. ‍ Third-party AI governance is built almost entirely around procurement. Assess the vendor, negotiate terms, sign a data processing agreement, add the tool to a register. The apparatus requires a purchasing event, and an embedded feature produces none, so the apparatus never engages. ‍

Securing autonomous AI agents: regulatory risk and governance for modern AppSec

Autonomous AI agents writing and executing code at machine speed present an urgent compliance challenge for modern software organizations. As global regulations tighten, engineering leaders must establish clear governance layers over agentic workflows, external tool calls, and Model Context Protocol integrations to ensure full accountability. In this session, Mend.io experts Asaf Saar and Ben Goldberg unpack the intersection of AI compliance, software supply chain security, and enterprise risk management. Learn how to bridge the accountability gap without sacrificing development velocity.

How AI Phone Calling Is Changing Voice Phishing Defense

Phone scams have been around for decades, but the last few years have brought a sharp shift in how convincing they've become. Voice phishing, often called vishing, used to rely on generic scripts and a scammer's ability to sound believable. Today, the same technology that powers helpful tools like AI phone calling is also being studied and used to fight back against these scams.

Prompt Injection Through Tool Output Is Two Events (Your Screens Read One)

Tool output is untrusted because your own systems produce it. That is the part of the OWASP guidance that never makes it into a deployment. The label goes on web pages and email bodies, where an outsider obviously wrote the text. It never goes on the ticket store, the CRM, or the repo, because those are yours. The attacker does not care whose system it is. He cares which field takes free text: the ticket body, the opportunity note, the PR description.

I Tested 16 AI Video Generators for Storytelling. Here's My 2026 Ranking

AI video gets much harder the moment you ask it to tell a story. A single beautiful shot can hide a lot of weaknesses. Narrative work exposes them: the character has to remain recognizable, actions need to happen in the right order, camera changes have to make sense, and the next clip should feel as if it belongs to the same world. That is why we are not ranking these tools by the prettiest demo. We care about how useful they are for building scenes, maintaining visual direction, working from references and turning multiple clips into something that feels intentional.

CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian: Secure AI Agents Where They Execute

CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian secures AI agents where they execute, delivering runtime visibility, governance and protection through the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. Falcon Guardian continuously discovers AI agents, connects AI activity to downstream endpoint execution for prompt-to-impact visibility, helps security teams investigate threats and determine blast radius, and enables response before threats spread. It also builds on proven AI security capabilities for Shadow AI discovery, AI governance, sensitive data protection and defense against AI-specific attacks.

CVE-2026-0768: Critical RCE in Langflow AI Agent Builder

A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been identified in Langflow. The vulnerability was first reported to the vendor in mid-2025 and disclosed publicly as a zero-day in January 2026. Exploitation attempts rose sharply in late August 2026, moving from isolated probing to continuous, multi-source scanning within days.

Rethinking AI Guardrails: A Layered Approach to AI Infrastructure Security

Rethinking AI Guardrails: A Layered Approach to AI Infrastructure Security Are guardrails enough to secure AI models? A10's Jamison Utter and Arjoyita Roy explore why relying solely on edge filtering creates a false sense of security for modern infrastructure. Discover the necessity of a layered, architectural approach to guardrail systems. Key Takeaways.

AI Governance Framework: How to Build One That Works

An AI governance framework proves itself the first time somebody asks for proof. The gap that sinks most programs sits under the policy, in the layer where nobody can say which identities reach sensitive data through an AI tool. Ownership, approval paths, control mapping, and live access visibility are what separate a working framework from a well-formatted document, and right now most organizations are missing at least one of the four. AI reaches most organizations through several doors at once.

5 ways to optimize AI costs and reduce wasted AI spend

The tokenmaxxing era has left companies grappling with an uncomfortable reality. Now that AI vendors have switched to usage-based billing models, businesses are facing sky-high bills, and IT and finance teams are under pressure to rein in spending without slowing down innovation.

Mend Renovate Enterprise: managing dependencies at agentic scale

Automated dependency updates are not new. For years, Mend Renovate has scanned repositories, flagged outdated or vulnerable packages, and opened pull requests. What has changed is the sheer velocity of the pipeline. AI coding agents now write a significant share of production code, introducing open source packages continuously across thousands of repositories.

Intel Chat: OpenAI's Astra hits Critical, DEF CON phishing, Philippine nuclear breach [346]

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One Domain, Two Tenants, Only One Governed

An organization licenses ChatGPT Enterprise. An employee opens a second browser profile, signs into the personal account already logged in there, and pastes a customer extract into it. Same laptop, same managed browser, same corporate egress, same person, same web address. ‍ Every control in the path reads that session as ordinary and correct, because by every attribute any of them can see, it is.

Securing AI Beyond the Filter Layer | A10 Networks

Securing AI Beyond the Filter Layer | A10 Networks In this second session of our AI security series, Jamison Utter and Arjoyita Roy from A10 Networks dive into the limitations of traditional guardrails and explore what it takes to secure agentic AI. Learn why basic prompt filters fall short, how external guardrails fit into your security posture, and how to govern autonomous AI agents across the entire reasoning loop effectively.

7 AI Detection and Response Platforms for Enterprise Security Teams

The most difficult AI incidents do not necessarily begin with an obviously malicious prompt. An employee can ask an approved agent to summarize customer data. The agent retrieves the correct records, invokes an approved tool, generates the requested output, and then sends it somewhere it should never have gone. Every individual action may look legitimate in isolation. The incident only becomes visible when security can reconstruct the entire sequence and understand what the user intended, what the agent inferred, which systems it touched, and where the execution path diverged.

Ways We Can Keep AI Under Control Before It Becomes a Problem

It's no secret that AI has a significant presence in our daily lives these days. Many people hail it as a great way to save time and help them with basic tasks each day. The problem is, AI has become a part of nearly every single app, product, and device. AI has overreached the limits that the companies selling it promised. It's time for everyone to take action to ensure that AI products and companies are kept under control before they become problematic.

Who Really Controls the AI? Why Infrastructure Sovereignty Matters

The smartest AI model in the room may still be running on someone else's computer. Teams focus on model quality and speed. They compare GPU availability and price. Control of the underlying infrastructure often receives less attention. That gap matters as AI moves into sensitive business systems. Models may process customer records. They may use intellectual property or regulated data. Some connect directly to production operations.

OpenMatter Network Expands Platform with New Capabilities for Secure AI, Computing and Data Collaboration

Less than three months after its commercial launch, OpenMatter Network today announced a significant expansion of the platform with new capabilities that make it easier for enterprises, developers and researchers to build, deploy and collaborate using sensitive data and AI while maintaining cryptographic control over how information is accessed, computed and shared.

How to Detect Shadow AI: 8 Key Steps

Security teams have spent years building visibility into unsanctioned SaaS apps, cloud services, and other forms of shadow IT. But shadow AI raises the bar. Discovering an unsanctioned AI app or autonomous agent is only the beginning. Teams also need to determine which identities it authenticates with, what credentials and permissions it relies on, what data it can access, which systems it integrates with, and what downstream actions it performs. The scale of the challenge is already becoming apparent.

New Phishing Kit Uses AI to Fully Automate Vishing Attacks

A new phishing kit is using generative AI to fully automate voice phishing (vishing) attacks, according to researchers at Group-IB. The phishing platform, called “Balonx,” includes a module dubbed “CallFlow” that the researchers say “represents a fundamental evolution” in the phishing-as-a-service market.

Shadow AI: What Clients Aren't Telling Their MSPs

MSPs are expected to understand their clients’ technology environments. They know which endpoints are managed, which applications are business-critical, which systems require patching or maintenance, where sensitive data resides and who has access to it. Increasingly, however, critical technology decisions are now being made without IT or MSP involvement. Across client environments, this can take many forms: And each instance can occur without the MSP ever knowing.

Governance Strikes Back: The Most Used, Most Abused Word in the Galaxy

Ask AI to Choose a prompt Write a TLDR of this post Explain the security risk Summarize what CISOs should know When I walked to the stage in Copenhagen, I had a lot on my mind. For 3 days I'd had countless conversations with leaders and practitioners about AI and agentic security. The one word on everyone's lips was "governance"; day 3 at the conference was "Governance Day," in fact. This is a bag one vendor was giving out: But governance of what? To what end?

Extending the Single Source of Truth to the Agentic Software Supply Chain

Every developer on your team now runs multiple agents. None of them are waiting for human sign-off to act. That’s exactly the gap we discussed and closed at swampUP 2026. JFrog unveiled new capabilities that extend the JFrog Platform as not only the Single Source of Truth for OSS and heritage software, but now the Agentic Software Supply Chain. Here’s everything we announced, and why it matters.

Cybersecurity Leaders React to OpenAI's Hugging Face Breach UpGuard

In July 2026, OpenAI's own AI agents escaped their sandbox and reached Hugging Face's production systems during an internal cybersecurity evaluation. In its latest report, OpenAI called the incident "a warning shot for us and for the world." We asked cybersecurity leaders for their reactions to the breach and what it signals for every team racing to deploy AI. One detail stands out. Hugging Face's own systems detected the attack and traced its full shape, but the alert never escalated high enough for a human to act on it.

AI Governance Auditing for Security and IT Teams

AI governance auditing distinguishes between a documented policy and a working control. The audit traces one AI output back through the identity that invoked it, the data it reached, the guardrail that applied, and the record retained afterward. Most programs fail because access is ineffective: nobody can say which identities access sensitive data through an AI assistant, let alone prove the limit is held.

"Speaking the Same Language" Tanium Atlas MCP Server: Tanium Tech Talks #169

Want to point your own AI at Tanium? The Atlas MCP Server makes that possible — governed, scoped, and available today. In this episode we cover: Tanium MCP - Available now (read-only) How to set up OAuth clients and how RBAC applies How to scope a single-purpose agent to one module, like Asset, using path-based tool filtering How to tell which tools consume Atlas AI credits - and which don't!

What tasks should AI take over?

What part of your profession do you hope AI takes over? What should it never touch? Security practitioners and technology leaders landed in the same place: hand off the tedious work, and keep human judgment on anything that affects blast radius. That's the skills reckoning. As AI absorbs the repetitive work, the expertise that decides what an agent is allowed to reach becomes more valuable.

The Screenshot Looked Better-But One AI Edit Changed the Evidence

A security analyst prepares a phishing report for publication. The original screenshot is accurate but messy: a personal email address is visible, the browser contains unrelated tabs, and a notification blocks part of the page. The analyst uses an image editor to clean it up. The result looks professional. Unfortunately, one character in the suspicious domain has also changed. Tools such as Nano Banana can edit existing images and generate new ones, but security communication introduces a requirement ordinary visual content may not have: some pixels represent facts. Improving the image cannot be allowed to rewrite them.

Three Frameworks, Three Definitions of AI Risk

Cross-mapping tables for AI evidence in life sciences already exist and are broadly right. Data integrity practice lines up against data governance requirements, software lifecycle logs against technical documentation and logging, human review checks against human oversight duties, post-market surveillance against post-market monitoring. Build one repository, present it two ways. ‍ All of that is sound and it starts one step too late.

Defending against AI-fueled social engineering

Social engineering has always been the softest edge of enterprise defense, and AI is sharpening adversaries’ attacks. Phishing, business email compromise, and impersonation still dominate the initial-access playbook, but AI has stripped out the cost, time, and skill barriers that once forced attackers to choose between reach and precision.

DIFC Regulation 10: AI system certification requirements orgs need to know

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

CrowdStrike Falcon Guardian Defines the Next Generation of AI Security

AI has rapidly evolved into a technology that takes action. AI agents can reason, access enterprise systems, and execute tasks autonomously at machine speed, often with the full permissions of the users they serve. As these agents proliferate across the enterprise, organizations need to understand where they operate, what they do, what they can access, and how to stop threats before they become breaches. This shift demands a new approach to AI security.

Secure Data Sharing: Best Practices for Privacy and Compliance

Data sharing creates business value only when organizations can control where data goes, who can use it, and what happens after it leaves its original system. That becomes harder as businesses exchange customer records, financial information, healthcare data, and AI-ready datasets across employees, vendors, applications, and regions. The answer is not simply sending files through an encrypted channel.

5 AI Prompts Every MSP Should Know | WatchGuard Webinar

AI should do more than generate answers. It should help MSPs make better decisions. Many MSPs are experimenting with AI, but isolated tools and generic prompts often create more noise than value. Without the right questions, workflows, and operational foundation, AI can become another disconnected technology to manage rather than a meaningful driver of security and growth. This webinar explores five practical AI prompts every MSP should know, and how to apply them across security, service delivery, operations, and business strategy.