Financial Institutions Face Security Risks From AI Traffic Bypasses New survey shows four in five financial firms detected malicious bots spoofing legitimate AI assistant identities to breach perimeter defenses.
By Jesse JacobsOct 16, 2026
A vast majority of financial institutions are struggling to secure their networks against malicious bots disguised as legitimate artificial intelligence...Read More
China has proposed new export controls on several of its domestically developed AI technologies, including models, agents, and computing clusters, according to Reuters. This could run counter to the open-weight design of China’s most capable releases, but should preserve API access for individual users, allowing the tools to grow in popularity overseas.Over the past few...Read More
A penetration test used to have a predictable rhythm. Security teams defined a scope, scheduled an engagement, waited for testers to complete their work, received a report, fixed the most important findings, and repeated the exercise months later. Enterprise software no longer changes at that pace.7 AI Penetration Testing Companies Enterprise Security Teams Should Know1....Read More
Developers work in Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and other AI-assisted environments. Business teams experiment with app builders, automation tools, AI browsers, and copilots. Employees connect models to internal systems through MCP servers. Some of those tools run inside a browser, some operate as desktop applications, and others execute locally with access to files, credentials, terminals,...Read More
JOSEPH GABRIEL LAGONSIN News Editor Tanium has been selected as a testing partner for Microsoft’s Codename MDASH and is taking part in a limited private preview of the security system. The arrangement places Tanium among a small group of organisations working with Microsoft on MDASH, which uses more than 100 specialised AI agents across multiple...Read More
LLM, or something else? There seems to be debate about whether Jev is technically a large language model (LLM), with TypeSafe suggesting it is not, but HiddenLayer saying that it appears to be one. TypeSafe has even coined a name for the category: System One, which TypeSafe described as “a new class of frontier models...Read More
A CLI, the command line, is the surface we set aside years ago in the name of “security,” and it’s worth a second look. Agents are text creatures, and the command line is their first language. Give an agent a CLI and it can drive your system out of the box, because it already knows...Read More
AI-powered security tools promise to make MSP operations more efficient, but new research from N-able suggests they may be creating additional challenges for providers already struggling with security alert fatigue. According to N-able’s AI Fog Report: When the Signal Becomes the Noise, released October 15, 61% of MSP respondents said security alert noise disrupts incident...Read More
Agentic development is outpacing every security model built to contain it. What was once a set of tools a person had to operate is now a team of AI agents that finds what is exploitable and fixes it at machine speed.BOSTON, October 15, 2026 — Snyk, the AI security company, today announced Evo Agentic AppSec,...Read More
ZDNET’s key takeaways NordVPN is evolving its products for AI threats. An invisible, catch-all solution is easiest to adopt. The future of secure AI is small, local models. AI has hijacked many basic principles of the security landscape. The cybersecurity industry is adapting to that threat by preparing for new threats and implementing AI as...Read More
