AI tool JINKUSU CAM can bypass KYC on Binance, Coinbase, and Kraken using real-time deepfake facial and voice manipulation. A newly identified AI deepfake tool is raising concerns across the crypto industry as it targets identity verification systems. The software, known as JINKUSU CAM, is designed to bypass Know Your Customer checks on major platforms....Read More
Security spending continues to edge upward across large organizations, though the changes remain gradual and tightly managed. The 2026 RH-ISAC CISO Benchmark reflects a steady environment where budgets expand in small steps, even as AI becomes a routine part of security operations. Budget growth stays measured Spending levels increased during 2025 across both IT and...Read More
Manadia, a data settlement and AI coordination infrastructure designed to enable verifiable executions across blockchain networks, today announced a strategic integration with PVPFun, an AI-driven entertainment infrastructure platform that allows people to build and monetize decentralized applications without coding requirements. Using this partnership, PVPFun integrated its Web3 creation platform with Manadia’s provable, low-trust settlement infrastructure...Read More
California’s artificial intelligence industry includes security leaders working across frontier model development, enterprise AI platforms, data infrastructure, observability, and AI-native software products. The executives in this feature bring experience from high-growth startups, major technology companies, cloud-native environments, offensive security, incident response, compliance, and product security. Their backgrounds reflect how AI security leadership now spans not...Read More
The cost of building software has drastically decreased. We recently rebuilt Next.js in one week using AI coding agents. But for the past two months our agents have been working on an even more ambitious project: rebuilding the WordPress open source project from the ground up. WordPress powers over 40% of the Internet. It is a...Read More
AI Security 101 is no longer a niche topic for research teams. Modern ML systems increasingly include agentic AI that can browse the web, call APIs, execute code, and complete multi-step workflows. That autonomy expands security risk beyond classic model weaknesses into operational compromise paths. Surveys of security leaders reflect this shift: 92% report concern...Read More
Prompt injection and LLM jailbreaks have become the dominant security threat for generative AI applications in production. Industry audits and reports cite prompt injection affecting 73% of deployments, enabling outcomes that range from data leakage and misinformation to unauthorized tool use and system compromise. The core issue is structural: large language models cannot reliably distinguish...Read More
On March 24, 2026, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a broad suite of new security innovations, including HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series Firewalls, AI governance tools, disaster recovery enhancements, confidential computing features, and post-quantum cryptography capabilities to protect workloads across cloud, core, and edge environments. A particularly interesting element is HPE’s prompt-level AI inspection and unified,...Read More
EPAM Systems recently filed a preliminary proxy urging shareholders to vote against a proposal granting 10% owners the right to call online special meetings, while also using its 2026 Investor Day to outline its medium-term AI services and security-focused outlook, including joining the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association. This combination of governance debate and emphasis on...Read More
Upwind Security has appointed Joe Sullivan, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent cybersecurity executives, as a strategic advisor, as the company positions itself to capitalize on growing demand for cloud and AI security. Sullivan previously served as Chief Security Officer at Facebook, Uber and Cloudflare, and earlier spent eight years at the U.S. Department of...Read More
