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What Is Dark AI? How Scammers Are Using Artificial Intelligence Against You

AI isn't just being used for good. Dark AI — artificial intelligence weaponized for malicious purposes — is behind a new wave of scams, phishing attacks, deepfakes, and cybercrimes that are harder than ever to detect. Scammers are now using AI to clone voices, fake video calls, impersonate people you trust, and generate convincing phishing messages at massive scale — all powered by dark GPTs built without safety restrictions.

The $50K per hour network downtime dilemma

Networking and network security stakes are high. Like really high. Infrastructure downtime costs teams at minimum $50,000 per hour, according to Business Wire. So what’s standing in the way of a faster, more coordinated response? Join Netskope and Tines for a live conversation on how you can move from reactive networking and network security operations to proactive response. Learn how to bridge the gap between detection and resolution across modern hybrid environments, improving reliability, accelerating response times, and reducing the manual work that slows teams down.

NVIDIA OpenShell Secures the Agent. Who Governs the Fleet?

Most attempts to control AI agents work at the model layer (alignment, system prompts) or the application layer (guardrail libraries, output filters). Both share a flaw: the thing being secured is also the thing doing the securing. A sufficiently confused or sufficiently compromised agent can talk its way past its own instructions. OpenShell takes a different position, and it is the right one. Put the controls in the environment, where the agent cannot negotiate with them.

The Room Where V2 Happens

I ran the same internal AI workshop twice in one week. Same content, same agenda, same Zoom link, just offered at multiple times to cover different schedules. By the second session, half of my material was wrong. Between the two scheduled sessions, something had changed. In the first session we couldn't use the skills feature in Claude. By the second, we could. Nothing dramatic happened.

SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities in active exploitation

On July 14, 2026, SonicWall disclosed two vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA1000 appliances. Models 6210, 7210, and 8200v are affected. CVE-2026-15409 is a critical (CVSS score of 10.0) unauthenticated server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw that allows an attacker to force the appliance to make requests to unintended destinations.

The State of Ransomware 2026: Payments are dropping but encryption is climbing

The State of Ransomware 2026: Payments are dropping but encryption is climbing Insights from 2,158 IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries whose organizations were hit by ransomware in the past year. This year's data has a few eyebrow-raising departures from the patterns of past State of Ransomware reports. Exploited vulnerabilities lost their three-year grip on the top root-cause spot. Median ransom demands and payments both dropped, yet the average recovery bill still climbed.

Emerging Threat: (CVE-2026-56164) SharePoint Server Privilege Escalation via Missing Authentication

CVE-2026-56164 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server, caused by a missing authentication check on a critical function (CWE-306). An unauthenticated attacker can exploit it over a network, with no credentials and no user interaction required. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (Medium), and Microsoft rates it Moderate.

GitProtect 2.4.0: Complete QA Protection in Azure DevOps, FIPS-Compliant Encryption, and More

The new 2.4.0 release delivers complete protection for your entire Quality Assurance (QA) workloads in Azure DevOps. Teams on platforms hosted locally in Windows can now secure them with the AES encryption compliant with the federal, enterprise-grade FIPS standards. This release also packs other notable upgrades, including seamless Active Directory integration, a smarter repository exclusion mechanism, and full German language support. Dive into the full breakdown below.