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Weekly Cybersecurity Intelligence Report: Cyber Threats and Breaches 19 Oct to 25 Oct 2026

This weekly cybersecurity report covers 19 to 25 October 2026, a week in which the thing attackers wanted was usually access to someone else’s AI. A master key leaked in May let attackers ship a credential-stealing LiteLLM release on 21 October. An intruder at the cloud platform Railway reached environment variables in up to 100,000… Read More »Weekly Cybersecurity Intelligence Report: Cyber Threats and Breaches 19 Oct to 25 Oct 2026

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Field Notes from Black Hat and DEF CON 2026: What Changed in the Attacker Playbook?

Almost nothing in the attacker’s toolkit is new. The vulnerability classes on display at Black Hat USA 2026 and DEF CON 34 were the same ones security teams have tracked for a decade: request smuggling, SQL injection, SSRF, broken object level authorization. What changed is the economics. Attacks that used to need a specialist and… Read More »Field Notes from Black Hat and DEF CON 2026: What Changed in the Attacker Playbook?

Implementing Agentic AI Pentesting While Managing Risk and Cost Cover

Implementing Agentic AI Pentesting While Managing Risk and Cost

Summary of a closed-door CISO roundtable, hosted by CISO Platform with FireCompass, August 2026. Held under Chatham House convention. Senior security leaders spent a session on three questions. What does it cost to run an AI pentesting agent at full speed? What has to be true architecturally before you point one at production. And what… Read More »Implementing Agentic AI Pentesting While Managing Risk and Cost

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