Hackers armed with advanced AI models are skewing job demand toward cyber workers with greater expertise. But some ask where the next wave of professionals will come from with fewer entry-level jobs.
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Budget and staff cuts at CISA, the top cyber agency in the U.S., have become a national security risk, lawmakers and cybersecurity experts say
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Amazon said AI is making infiltration of open-source communities easier, allowing hackers to develop seemingly legitimate personas by generating contributions
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Cyera is making a billion-dollar bet that data security and agentic oversight must be combined, as it agrees to acquire Oasis Security
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Horizon3.ai, an ethical hacker-for-hire, has raised $250 million. Its approach, autonomous penetration-testing or “pentesting,” mimics actual cyberattacks to find weak spots in firewalls.
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The biggest lesson from OpenAI's AI hacking incident may not be the attack itself. It's that defenders now need to ask whether the AI tools they rely on during an incident will actually help, or refuse when they're needed most.
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AI continues to drive cybersecurity dealmaking. Cyera is buying Oasis Security for $1 billion as enterprises race to secure AI agents.
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Researchers at Amazon said they believe a series of attacks on open-source software packages were part of a campaign by a North Korea-linked hacking group
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Federal authorities warned that cyberattacks on U.S. water utilities have spread across multiple states in recent days, in some cases affecting operations
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After rogue hacks by frontier AI models, corporate dread is driving demand for cyber startup’s Horizon3.ai’s proactive defense model. Summed up by its CEO: “Hack, fix, verify, repeat.”
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Security chiefs are spooked by an OpenAI experiment gone wrong, in which experimental models broke free of a controlled system and hacked another company
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Cyber M&A is headed for another banner year, with a big lift from AI security. “This is the year of the land grab,” said one expert.
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Cyber insurers are shifting focus from defenses to recovery speed as AI advances threaten to accelerate hacker exploitation of software flaws
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Accenture is making a $4.2 billion bet that the next phase of cybersecurity will involve securing physical systems rather than just networks
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Cyber startup Ent raised $100 million to help companies spot risky behavior on desktops, laptops and other devices
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Corporate security chiefs were largely unmoved by an executive order that asks artificial-intelligence developers to submit their models for evaluation before release
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State cyber and tech officials urged Congress to restore money and staff for federal cybersecurity programs as threats escalate from AI and adversaries
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As Washington stalls on implementing AI guardrails, China and the EU are shaping standards for developers worldwide
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A recent EY test of new frontier AI models on a single healthcare customer found 45 million vulnerabilities in a matter of hours. States say they are being excluded from these pilots
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Act-of-war exclusions are largely untested in the cyber insurance market, where the line between cybercrime and nation-state warfare is unclear
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