20 Leaders Who Built the CISO Era: 2 Decades of Change
As part of Dark Reading’s 20th anniversary special coverage, we profile the CISOs, founders, researchers, criminals, and policymakers who rewrote the enterprise risk playbook.
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Webinar: What the Riskiest SOC Alerts Go Unanswered – and How Radiant Security Can Help
Why do the Riskiest SOC Alerts Go Unanswered? Security operations teams are drowning in alerts. But the real problem isn’t always alert volume; it’s the blind spots. The most dangerous alerts are the ones no one is investigating. A recent report from The Hacker News examined why certain high-risk alert categories – WAF, DLP, OT/IoT,…
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Why Agentic AI Is Security’s Next Blind Spot
Agentic AI is already running in production environments across many organizations today. It is executing tasks, consuming data, and taking actions — most likely without meaningful involvement from the security team. The industry conversation has largely framed this as a question of policy: allow it, restrict it, or monitor it? However, that framing misses the…
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Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Compromises TanStack, Mistral AI, Guardrails AI & More Packages
TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recent supply chain attack spree, has been linked to the compromise of the npm and PyPI packages from TanStack, UiPath, Mistral AI, OpenSearch, and Guardrails AI as part of a fresh Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected npm packages have been modified to include an obfuscated JavaScript file (“router_init.js”) that’s designed…
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Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak
American educational technology company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said it reached an “agreement” with a decentralized cybercrime extortion group after it breached its network and threatened to leak stolen information from thousands of schools and universities. In an update shared on Monday, the Utah-based firm said it “reached an agreement with the unauthorized…
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OpenAI Launches Daybreak for AI-Powered Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation
OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative that brings together frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model capabilities and Codex Security to help organizations identify and patch vulnerabilities before attackers find a way in using the same issues. “Daybreak combines the intelligence of OpenAI models, the extensibility of Codex as an agentic harness, and our partners…
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iOS 26.5 Brings Default End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging Between iPhone and Android
Apple on Monday officially released iOS 26.5 with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Rich Communication Services (RCS) in beta as part of a “cross-industry effort” to replace traditional SMS with a more secure alternative. To that end, E2EE RCS messaging is rolling out to iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android…
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FCC Softens Ban on Foreign-Made Routers
The Federal Communications Commission eased some restrictions and pushed back deadlines for foreign router manufacturers, but the ban is still in place.
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Tech Can’t Stop These Threats — Your People Can
Security controls can do only so much. Here are four attacks where your employees are usually your first, and only, line of cyber defense.
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TeamPCP Compromises Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Weeks After KICS Supply Chain Attack
Checkmarx has confirmed that a modified version of the Jenkins AST plugin was published to the Jenkins Marketplace. “If you are using Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin, you need to ensure that you are using the version 2.0.13-829.vc72453fa_1c16 that was published on December 17, 2025 or previously,” the cybersecurity company said in a statement over the…