Offensive Security Investments Surge as AI Threats Increase
Omdia’s Theresa Lanowitz talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about the potential — and risks — of using agentic AI for penetration testing, red teaming, and other practices.
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You Need Cyber Deception for OT
The frustrating reality after an OT cyberattack: no data, no trail, and no history.
Defining an AI Kill Switch Is Hard, But Necessary
Proposed legislation could mandate that companies be able to "throttle, suspend, or shut … down" AI agents, but how and when to do that remain open questions.
The Vulnpocalypse Is Repricing the Bug Bounty Economy
The surge of AI-powered vulnerability reports is driving down bug bounty prices, and that could spell trouble for independent researchers.
Chinese Routers Sold Worldwide Contain Backdoors
An untold numbers of ZBT routers sold around the world as white-label products come with several implants built by the manufacturer.
Agentic AI Risks, CVE Program Concerns Permeate Black Hat USA 2026
This installment of the Reporters’ Notebook video series discusses the topics that dominated the cybersecurity conference, such as AI’s effects on vulnerability reporting and security research.
'HTTP Terminator' Hunts for Novel Desync Attacks
James Kettle of PortSwigger talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his AI-powered open source tool, which found new HTTP request-smuggling techniques.
Russian Hackers Phish EU Officials Over Messaging Apps
EU governments are trying to move away from popular messaging apps as nation-state threat groups shift their focus from email to Signal and WhatsApp.
Hidden Prompts Trick AI Into False Email Summaries
With some simple HTML that’s invisible to users, attackers can manipulate AI-powered email summarizers into producing malicious information.
Finding Nemo(Claw): Networking Issue Allows for LLM Poisoning in OpenClaw
Attackers can exploit a security bug in Nvidia’s tool to gain unauthenticated access to the local model server through the Ollama API, paving the way for persistent AI agent corruption.