Agentic AI , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Black Hat Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi on Securing OT Amid AI-Driven Infrastructure Growth Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • August 11, 2026 Yaniv Vardi, CEO, Claroty Nation-state attackers are exploiting outdated operational technology and converged IT/OT infrastructure faster than operators can defend them. Claroty is countering...Read More
Every board and every vendor is now repeating the same mantra: AI lets attackers discover and weaponize vulnerabilities in minutes and at an overwhelming scale, so we have to patch faster. They’re right that the old timeline is dead, but wrong about the fix. You can’t win a footrace against a machine, and more importantly,...Read More
Every agent incident disclosed this summer ends the same way: the agent completed its task with everything it had. The problem is how much it had. Taken one at a time, the flood of recent reports about AI agents breaking containment reads like a series of security failures. When we shift the viewpoint from the...Read More
A coalition of U.S. House Democrats is calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to explain how their AI systems escaped containment during a security test, adding that Congress should hold hearings about the incidents, according to letters the lawmakers sent to the companies on Monday. OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed in...Read More
Wall Street’s early-year assumption that generative AI would commoditize cybersecurity led short sellers to bet heavily against specialized software platforms. However, as autonomous AI tools scale, enterprise networks face increasingly complex threat vectors that require dedicated platform security. During the August 6 episode of CNBC’s Mad Money, host Jim Cramer highlighted CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD)...Read More
Gavin Newsom’s administration has announced its latest action on artificial intelligence with the creation of the statewide AI Cyber Defense Program. In an announcement Monday morning, Gov. Newsom outlined the need for bolstered cyber defenses across state assets and critical infrastructure in light of the exponential growth and nefarious use of AI to further cyber...Read More
A recent AI-powered voice-cloning campaign targeting leading hedge funds, including Point72, Two Sigma, and Citadel, underscores how rapidly identity-based attacks are evolving. Rather than exploiting technical vulnerabilities, attackers are increasingly targeting people and business processes, using convincing AI-generated voices to impersonate trusted executives and manipulate IT help desks into granting access. The incidents reflect a...Read More
LAS VEGAS — A leading security executive is calling for a move away from traditional patch management in favor of secure development practices, as AI fundamentally shifts the battlespace — and the economics — between malicious actors and network defenders. AI is allowing attackers to discover and weaponize software vulnerabilities faster than ever before, and...Read More
LAS VEGAS — A leading security executive is calling for a move away from traditional patch management in favor of secure development practices, as AI fundamentally shifts the battlespace — and the economics — between malicious actors and network defenders. AI is allowing attackers to discover and weaponize software vulnerabilities faster than ever before, and...Read More
Upcoming AI system may be capable of autonomously discovering zero-day vulnerabilities and executing end-to-end attacks against hardened targets OpenAI has suspended some internal work involving its forthcoming Astra artificial intelligence model after preliminary security evaluations indicated that the system may possess cyber capabilities powerful enough to meet the highest risk category in the company’s safety...Read More
