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AI Botnets Drive Surge in Financial Sector DDoS Attacks

Tiffany Wang  •  May 20, 2026

Akamai says AI-enabled botnets, geopolitical hacktivism and financially motivated cybercriminals drove a massive rise in DDoS, API and web attacks against global financial services firms in 2025, with banks suffering the majority of incidents.

Agentic AI

Torq Purchases Jit to Provide AI-Powered Security Context

Michael Novinson  •  May 19, 2026

Torq acquired security context graph startup Jit to give AI-driven SOC workflows deeper awareness of organizational relationships, historical incidents, user privileges and asset behavior, helping autonomous agents improve alert triage, investigations and false-positive reduction.

Cybercrime

Belarus Hackers Target Ukraine With Spear-Phishing

Tiffany Wang  •  May 14, 2026

FrostyNeighbor, a Belarus-aligned cyberespionage group, has been targeting the military, defense and governmental entities in Ukraine through email spear-phishing since March. The long-running group uses lure documents disguised as web files to deliver Cobalt Strike malware while also exploiting a WinRAR vulnerability...

Agentic AI

Cisco CEO Robbins Ties AI Push to Unpatchable Tech Risk

Michael Novinson , Tiffany Wang  •  May 13, 2026

Cisco is embedding Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview into internal security operations to test code, accelerate patching and push infrastructure upgrades, even as it lays off 4,000 employees to redirect spending toward AI, silicon, optics and security.

Frame Security Debuts With $50M for Human-Centric Protection

Michael Novinson  •  May 12, 2026

Frame Security, founded by former Wiz product and sales leader Tal Shlomo, emerged from stealth with $50 million to build AI-generated cyber training and simulations designed to prepare employees for phishing, deepfakes, voice cloning and other personalized social engineering attacks.

Agentic AI

Your Fraud Detection Model Is Already Too Late to the Party

Suparna Goswami  •  April 14, 2026

For years, fraud prevention has followed a familiar script. A transaction is initiated. A model evaluates it. Fraud still gets detected as it happens or after it occurs. But this model is breaking down with the rise of instant payments and artificial intelligence tools.

Bug Management in the Mythos Era: 'Assume You're Unpatched'

Mathew J. Schwartz  •  April 9, 2026

Thanks to Anthropic's Mythos presaging a world in which zero-day exploits are common, one cybersecurity expert says the new mantra is this: "assume you are unpatched." Vendors and customers must focus more than ever on strong monitoring, behavior-based controls and virtual patching.

France Limits Chinese-Made Solar Energy Components

David Meyer  •  April 8, 2026

France is saying "non" to Chinese photovoltaic components through a mix of protectionism and cybersecurity requirements as it readies a government-backed program of new solar energy projects. Chinese cybersecurity laws require firms to share key information and generally cooperate with Beijing.

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Banks Are Feeling the Heat as Fraud Becomes Industrialized

Suparna Goswami  •  April 7, 2026

Financial fraud is no longer a standalone cybercrime but a core component of global organized crime, increasing risks for banks and enterprises by making campaigns harder to detect, faster to monetize and more difficult to recover, according to INTERPOL's latest threat assessment.

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3rd Party Risk Management

ISMG Editors: Vendor Breaches Expose Healthcare Risk

Anna Delaney  •  April 3, 2026

In this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed growing cyber risks in healthcare following recent vendor breaches, key takeaways from RSAC Conference and whether the Pentagon's zero trust push is delivering real security benefits or just checking off boxes.

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Agentic AI

Speed, Judgment and Behavior: AI's Defense Mandate

Tom Field  •  March 31, 2026

Cybersecurity can no longer stop at the system boundary. Organizations must understand how humans and AI agents behave, and intervene before attackers exploit that behavior, says Niloofar Razi, operating partner at Capitol Meridian Partners.

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Agentic AI

How AI Agents Are Redrawing Enterprise Security Models

Michael Novinson  •  March 28, 2026

Perimeter defense has become obsolete, and as AI agents operate across enterprises with unconstrained access, securing the full data-to-model continuum is the only viable path, says Abhishek Shukla, managing director at Prosperity7 Ventures.