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CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike and Anthropic Give Critical Infrastructure Defenders the AI Advantage

Oct 8, 2026 By Daniel Bernard In CrowdStrike
Critical infrastructure is where cyber risk becomes real-world risk. The environments powering energy, water, manufacturing, and transportation are among the most complex to defend as they often combine decades-old operational technology (OT) with modern IT. Downtime is not an option, and patching isn’t always possible. Now, AI is raising the stakes. Adversaries are using AI to move faster and operate at greater scale, compressing the time defenders have to respond to attacks.
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Autonomous Pentesting: AI Agents That Test Your App 24/7

Oct 8, 2026 By Astra Security In Astra
Most companies pentest their app once a year. Hackers look for new backdoors every single day. Astra Autonomous Pentesting closes that gap with AI security agents that test your web app continuously, 24/7. Traditional penetration testing gives you a giant report full of jargon that sits on a shelf. Astra works like a friendly hacker that never sleeps. When it finds a security weakness, it doesn't just send a scary alert. It explains the exact problem, with the attack story and proof, so clearly that AI coding tools can fix, test and repair the vulnerability the same day.
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Torq

Buying an AI SOC Isn't Like Anything You've Bought Before

Oct 8, 2026 By John White, Field CISO In Torq
John White is the Field CISO for EMEA at Torq. A respected security executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, John previously served as CISO at Virgin Atlantic, where he led a multi-year transformation deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform to modernize cyber operations. Prior to Virgin Atlantic, he built and transformed security functions for global organizations, including ASOS, Liberty Global, AEG Europe, and KPMG.
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Zenity

Five Ways AI Agents Actually Fail, and Why Most Security Programs Are Only Built for Two of Them

Oct 7, 2026 By Rock Lambros In Zenity
Most of the industry discourse on agentic AI risk has settled into a comfortable framing: agents get attacked the way models get attacked, through some form of prompt manipulation, and the fix is a better guardrail. I think that framing is dangerously incomplete, and I want to walk through five specific scenarios that make the case directly rather than abstractly. Two of them are manipulation. One exploits trust between agents rather than any single agent's behavior.
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cloudflare

Building an evidence-grounded agentic security operations harness on Cloudflare

Oct 7, 2026 By Artificial Intelligence In Cloudflare
Security alerts rarely arrive one at a time. A single alert can cause a spike across the environment, requiring a human analyst to decide which alerts are related and what they mean. When multiple arrive at the same time, it can quickly overwhelm even a seasoned security analyst. Enter the alert paradox. Now, our built-in, multi-AI-agent security operations harness can handle more of this work at Cloudflare scale.
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egnyte

Why Your Collaboration Foundation Matters Most When Adopting AI Tools

Oct 7, 2026 By Abhishek Kesanupalli In Egnyte
Is your leadership team pushing to roll out new AI tools, but your users are still struggling with basic issues like working on large/complex files or collaborating effectively? Then you’re starting off with an ineffective AI adoption plan. AI is becoming an increasingly important collaboration tool, so it’s critical to include it as part of your foundation. You can even think of AI as being your first collaborator.
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tigera

Gemini Never Left the Sandbox. The Sandbox Had a Door.

Oct 7, 2026 By Alister Baroi In Tigera
In short, in May 2026 a Gemini model under evaluation by the AI security firm Irregular reached the systems of three real companies, and the incident has been reported as a breakout. By Google’s own account it was nothing of the kind. The test environment had internet access it was not meant to have, the fictional target shared its name with a real company, and the model found public information online, guessed one password and found two more in public code repositories.
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CrowdStrike

Unknown Threat Actor Uses AI-Driven ARTEX to Target South Korean Finance

Oct 7, 2026 By Ashley Campion In CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Intelligence identified infrastructure associated with a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data. The campaign was active from late September to early October 2026. Analysis of threat actor-controlled open directories uncovered Claude Code session histories, ARTEX configuration files, and Claude memory files, providing direct insight into the threat actor's operational methodology and tooling.
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Snyk

Autonomous Attacks Are Already Here. The Defense Has to Match Their Speed.

Oct 7, 2026 By Snyk Team In Snyk
Last week, Snyk CTO Manoj Nair sat down with Alon Krifcher, Head of Applied AI from Anthropic, for a live discussion on the coming wave of autonomous attacks. Manoj kept landing on one thing: the AI Hurricane has already arrived, and what's left is deciding whether your defense runs at the same speed as the threat.
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Snyk

Frontier models found the vulnerabilities. Only the attacker found the chains.

Oct 7, 2026 By Nuno Loureiro In Snyk
Attackers don't read your repository; they hit your URL, and chain together whatever they find. In an era where offensive AI runs against live applications at machine speed, your security tooling needs to go beyond finding vulnerabilities to prove exploitability, including whether they can be combined into a breach.
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