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AI assistants, agent skills and open–chain targets for cybercriminals, according to new frontline research from Mandiant

Cisco Talos says three separate threat groups are exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) flaws. The main target is CVE-2026-20079, a critical authentication bypass that lets unauthenticated attackers remotely bypass security controls, run scripts and potentially gain root access. Attackers also exploit CVE-2026-20316 to access sensitive data through a low-privilege account. The…

Google has warned that cyber attackers are moving from simple AI prompting to more autonomous, agent-based operations, according to research from Google Threat Intelligence Group.

Mid-sized companies accounted for 73% of publicly disclosed ransomware and data-extortion incidents with known revenue in North America and Europe between January 2023 and June 2026

AI tools are being used by cyber attackers to write malicious code, build tools that harvest credentials, search compromised networks, identify valuable business information, manage technical infrastructure and generate commands during intrusions.

The conversation about AI in cybersecurity tends to swing between two poles. One camp treats it as an entirely new threat category that makes everything we know obsolete. The other dismisses it as marketing noise layered over the same old attacks. The data from the past year points to a more precise, and more actionable,…