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When the 'Attacker' Was an AI Agent: Lessons from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Breach

In this episode of Sophos Cyber Shorts, host Susie Evershed is joined by Ross McKerchar, Sophos CISO, to discuss the recent OpenAI and Hugging Face incident and what it reveals about the future of AI security. From containment failures and over-privileged AI workflows to faster AI-driven attacks, Ross shares practical advice for security leaders on how to strengthen resilience, response, and recovery.

Sophos Launches Sophos Fusion, the Industry's First and Most Complete AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System

Built for a threat landscape reshaped by AI, Sophos Fusion unites security operations, endpoint, network security, identity, email, and cloud into one defense system that prevents, detects, investigates, and responds at AI speed.

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.

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.