A critical sandbox escape vulnerability was discovered and patched in isolated-vm, a library for running JavaScript code inside an isolated process. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow attackers to hijack the host’s control flow, which could enable remote code execution. Isolated-vm is downloaded more than 1 million times per week and is also used as...Read More
‘We Are Crossing a Threshold’ Warns Critical Infrastructure Security Expert Shaun Waterman • August 20, 2026 Image: Agung Priyo/Shutterstock An artificial intelligence-assisted cyberattack campaign is targeting widely used online operational technology devices made by Siemens, the U.S. cyber defense agency warned Wednesday – the first time it’s called out an AI-assisted cyber campaign...Read More
Brandon Wolfe, Global Field CTO, Tanium. Image courtesy of Tanium. – Advertisement – Tanium sees the central security problem of the agentic AI era as one of visibility and speed: Enterprises can’t defend what they can’t see, and they can’t match machine-speed attacks with delayed, fragmented decisions. Brandon Wolfe, Global Field CTO at Tanium, says...Read More
F5, the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, introduced significant enhancements to the F5 AI Gateway and integrated the solution into the F5 AI Security Platform. The enhanced F5 AI Gateway seamlessly enforces policies on every AI request, giving enterprises a unified control plane to govern how AI models, agents,...Read More
Concentric AI has introduced a vision model feature for its Concentric AI Semantic Intelligence platform designed to detect sensitive documents based on their visual characteristics. The company said the feature provides a way to identify documents with unique visual signatures, including passports and driver licenses, helping organizations discover sensitive information stored across environments and in...Read More
U.S. cybersecurity agencies warn that threat actors are using AI-generated scripts to exploit Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in U.S. critical infrastructure. PLCs are industrial computers used to automate and control machinery and physical processes in factories and other critical infrastructure. The NSA, CISA, FBI, Department of Energy, and Environmental Protection Agency issued...Read More
Fortinet has announced the acquisition of Virtue AI, an AI security specialist that provides runtime protection, automated validation, and security for autonomous AI systems. The move will see Virtue AI’s capabilities added to Fortinet’s existing AI security portfolio, which includes FortiGate Hyperscale Firewall and FortiAIGate. The cybersecurity giant said the deal will strengthen its ability...Read More
“This is the pattern CISOs must internalize: in agentic systems, the malicious action and the legitimate action are the same action with different intent, which collapses the entire signature-and-anomaly detection model that enterprise security has been built on for twenty years,” Mahapatra said. “CoSnitch is serious, but its defining property is that nothing was broken....Read More
CIOs Can Strengthen Oversight Through Reporting, Records and Insurance Reviews Jennifer Lawinski • August 18, 2026 Andy Moss, partner, Reed Smith, and Carolyn H. Rosenberg, partner, Reed Smith An artificial intelligence hallucination, data breach or misleading claim about system performance can become a boardroom issue when it affects a company’s financial results, prompts...Read More
$BNB Chain has unveiled a significant update to its on-chain AI agent deployment platform, $BNB Agent Studio, with the integration of Altana Network’s Smart Agentic Wallet as a new wallet option. This version two upgrade, reported by Crypto Briefing, marks a strategic move to enhance the security and control of AI agents operating on the...Read More
