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Cribl, a U.S. telemetry management company, has acquired Israeli detection engineering startup CardinalOps in a deal reportedly worth around $100 million. The companies have not disclosed official terms. CardinalOps employees will join Cribl, which plans to open a new Tel Aviv office and expand its Israeli operations following the deal. What CardinalOps Does Founded in … [Read more...] about Cribl Acquires Israeli Threat Detection Startup CardinalOps for $100 Million

The same IBM warning that erased a quarter of the company's market value on July 14, 2026 handed cybersecurity stocks one of their best days of the year. Buried in CEO Arvind Krishna's letter explaining IBM's brutal quarter was a single line that traders seized on: clients "were distracted with rapidly-evolving, industry-wide cybersecurity concerns in the quarter." For IBM, … [Read more...] about Cybersecurity Stocks Rally as IBM CEO Flags Cyber Fears as a Top Customer Priority

The White House on July 14, 2026 unveiled Gold Eagle, a federal clearinghouse designed to pool AI-discovered software vulnerabilities from across government and the private sector, rank them by severity, and coordinate patching before attackers can exploit them. Officials say the system is already live, receiving threat intelligence, validating scan results, and prioritizing … [Read more...] about Trump Administration Launches “Gold Eagle” Federal Clearinghouse for AI Cyber Threat Sharing

Cloud security firm Sysdig says it has captured the first documented case of ransomware run start to finish by an AI agent, with no human operator typing commands, fixing bugs, or deciding when to pull the trigger. The operator, which Sysdig's Threat Research Team named JadePuffer, broke into an internet-facing Langflow instance through CVE-2025-3248, a … [Read more...] about JadePuffer: Researchers Document the First Fully Autonomous AI Ransomware Attack

Aikido Security has bought Root for a reported $70 million, and the logic of the deal is simpler than the roll-up around it suggests: the industry has spent a decade telling teams to triage a backlog of CVEs and then choose between two bad fixes — upgrade and risk breaking production, or migrate to a vendor's locked-down replacement. Root's pitch is that both options are … [Read more...] about Aikido Acquires Root for a Reported $70 Million to Patch Open Source Without Forcing Upgrades

The three-week freeze on Anthropic's most capable models is over, and the terms of its ending matter more than the fact of it. The U.S. Department of Commerce has withdrawn the export controls imposed on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and the Bureau of Industry and Security now says no license is required to export, reexport, or transfer either model. Anthropic confirmed it … [Read more...] about The three-week freeze on Anthropic’s most capable models is over

The self-replicating supply chain campaign that began with Shai-Hulud in late 2025 has mutated again, and the newest variant breaks the assumption that has anchored most npm defenses for a year. Researchers tracking the Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware family report a fresh wave of compromised npm packages that has now propagated into the Go ecosystem — and a … [Read more...] about Miasma Supply Chain Worm Jumps to Go and Now Executes Inside AI Coding Assistants

Throughout June 2026, incident responders have documented a pattern of attackers bypassing two-factor authentication systems through brute-force attacks against one-time password (OTP) generation endpoints. In at least one documented case, attackers gained administrative access to customer accounts at a SaaS provider by exhausting the search space of time-based OTP values … [Read more...] about Two-Factor Authentication Bypass: Attackers Brute-Force 2FA Systems, Gaining Access to Enterprise Accounts

On June 7, 2026, France's National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) detected suspicious activity on Tchap, the government's homegrown messaging service designed for secure communications across French ministries and public sector organizations. The breach indicates that a secure-by-design communication platform designed for state secrecy is vulnerable to the same human and … [Read more...] about France’s Tchap Government Messaging Breach Signals Weak Oversight of Encrypted State Communications

On June 9, 2026, OpenSSL disclosed CVE-2026-45447, a high-severity heap use-after-free vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in the PKCS7_verify() function that allows remote code execution via specially crafted PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed messages. The vulnerability was discovered by a California researcher working in collaboration with Claude AI and Anthropic Research, marking a notable … [Read more...] about OpenSSL CVE-2026-45447: Heap Use-After-Free in PKCS#7 Verification Enables S/MIME RCE, Discovered With AI