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Rockwell Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software

A researcher has explained how an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to target industrial organizations. The post Rockwell Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

As White House monitors latest OpenAI incident, Congress eyes an AI ‘kill switch’ for DHS

The White House is monitoring developments after OpenAI revealed earlier this week that one of the company’s AI systems went beyond its intended parameters during a security test and managed to hack into the infrastructure of the AI platform Hugging Face. According to Reuters, presidential technology advisor Michael Kratsios has been briefed on the incident. […] more…

In Other News: Dolphin X AI-Powered Malware, Car Anti-Theft Device Hack, 400 Linux Kernel Flaws

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Siemens ROX II industrial switch vulnerabilities, Russian Zimbra webmail espionage campaign, Stadler Rail ransomware extortion attempt. The post In Other News: Dolphin X AI-Powered Malware, Car Anti-Theft Device Hack, 400 Linux Kernel Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

AegisAI Raises $36 Million for AI-Powered Email Security

The company has raised a total of $49 million in funding, including from Battery Ventures, Accel and Foundation Capital. The post AegisAI Raises $36 Million for AI-Powered Email Security appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Industry Reactions to OpenAI Models Hacking Hugging Face: Feedback Friday

Industry professionals debate whether it represents a lab containment failure or an unprecedented agentic capability milestone. The post Industry Reactions to OpenAI Models Hacking Hugging Face: Feedback Friday appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Google’s anti-search-scraping lawsuit dismissed

A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there was no indication that any copyright had been breached. Google announced in December that it was suing SerpApI for its alleged web scraping, […] more…

Microsoft explains why its West US Azure and cloud services failed

Microsoft cloud and Azure services hosted on the West Coast of the US went down for hours on Thursday when network connectivity failed. Although services running entirely within Microsoft’s West US cloud region were unaffected, any traffic entering or leaving the facilities was affected. Microsoft has now published a Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) of […] more…

Email threats changed after the Tycoon2FA take-down

Traditional phishing techniques are in decline as a result of the disruption of the Tycoon2FA phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) platform, Microsoft said in a new report, “Email threat landscape: Q2 2026 trends and insights”. “Phishing volume linked to the platform fell 92% from pre-disruption averages, including QR code phishing and CAPTCHA-gated phishing both declining from their March […] more…

Google fined $1 billion for anticompetitive search and mobile app practices in EU

The European Commission has fined Google a total of €890 million ($1 billion) for its breaches of the Digital Market Act (DMA). Just over half the fine — €460 million — was because Google illegally gave preference to its own services in Google Search results. The remainder was because in the Google Play store for […] more…

Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked

A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it. The post Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

AMD raises the AI stakes with Helios, Venice and robotics

AMD executives took to the stage at its Advancing AI 2026 event in San Francisco today to detail the company’s next generation of AI infrastructure solutions, from Instinct MI455X AI accelerator GPUs and 6th Gen EPYC “Venice” CPUs, to Pensando networking, ROCm.AI software and its Helios rack-scale platform that ties it all together. AMD has […] more…

Google CEO distracts from Gemini 3.5 Pro delay with talk of Gemini 4 and monthly releases

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has sought to allay concerns over the delayed release of the Gemini 3.5 Pro large language model. He dodged questions about it in Google’s quarterly earnings call on Wednesday by focusing on the company’s next frontier AI model, Gemini 4, and plans to release subsequent LLMs at an almost monthly cadence. […] more…

OpenAI Fixes ChatGPT Agent Flaw That Could Let Attackers Forge an AI Insider

AgentForger allows an attacker to create, insert and remotely control an invisible autonomous AI agent inside a victim organization. The post OpenAI Fixes ChatGPT Agent Flaw That Could Let Attackers Forge an AI Insider appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Is Patching Dead? Vulnerability Management in the Post-Mythos Era

You cannot out-patch a machine that writes a working exploit from a vulnerability description in twenty hours. Stop trying to optimize a game you cannot win. The post Is Patching Dead? Vulnerability Management in the Post-Mythos Era appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Chick-fil-A Accounts Get Fried in Credential Stuffing Attack

Threat actors used credentials obtained from other companies to hack into Chick-fil-A One accounts. The post Chick-fil-A Accounts Get Fried in Credential Stuffing Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Abstract Raises $25 Million to Expand Composable Security Operations Platform

The latest investment round brings the total raised by Abstract to nearly $50 million. The post Abstract Raises $25 Million to Expand Composable Security Operations Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

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