In February 2026, researchers uncovered a shift that completely changed the game: threat actors are now using custom AI setups to automate attacks directly into the kill chain.
We aren’t just talking about AI writing better phishing emails anymore. We’re talking about autonomous agents mapping Active Directory and seizing Domain Admin credentials in minutes.
The problem? Most defensive workflows
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Webinar: How to Automate Exposure Validation to Match the Speed of AI Attacks
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What to Look for in an Exposure Management Platform (And What Most of Them Get Wrong)
Every security team has a version of the same story. The quarter ends with hundreds of vulnerabilities closed. The dashboards are bursting with green. Then someone in a leadership meeting asks: “So, are we actually safer now?”
Crickets.
The room goes quiet because an honest answer requires context – which is something that patch counts and CVSS scores were never designed to provide. Exposure -

Critical cPanel Authentication Vulnerability Identified — Update Your Server Immediately
cPanel has released security updates to address a security issue impacting various authentication paths that could allow an attacker to obtain access to the control panel software.
The problem affects all currently supported versions, according to an alert released by cPanel on Tuesday. The issue has been addressed in the following versions –11.110.0.97
11.118.0.63
11.126.0.54
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CISA Adds Actively Exploited ConnectWise and Windows Flaws to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting ConnectWise ScreenConnect and Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerabilities are listed below –CVE-2024-1708 (CVSS score: 8.4) – A path traversal vulnerability in ConnectWise ScreenConnect
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LiteLLM CVE-2026-42208 SQL Injection Exploited within 36 Hours of Disclosure
In yet another instance of threat actors quickly jumping on the exploitation bandwagon, a newly disclosed critical security flaw in BerriAI’s LiteLLM Python package has come under active exploitation in the wild within 36 hours of the bug becoming public knowledge.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42208 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an SQL injection that could be exploited to modify the underlying -

Why Secure Data Movement Is the Zero Trust Bottleneck Nobody Talks About
Every security program is betting on the same assumption: once a system is connected, the problem is solved. Open a ticket, stand up a gateway, push the data through. Done.
That assumption is wrong. It is also a major reason Zero Trust programs stall.
New research my team just published puts numbers on it. The Cyber360: Defending the Digital Battlespace report, based on a survey of 500 security -

Critical Unpatched Flaw Leaves Hugging Face LeRobot Open to Unauthenticated RCE
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open-source robotics platform with nearly 24,000 GitHub stars, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS score: 9.3), which has been described as a case of untrusted data deserialization stemming from the use of the -

After Mythos: New Playbooks For a Zero-Window Era
When patching isn’t fast enough, NDR helps contain the next era of threats.
If you’ve been tracking advancements in AI, you know the exploit window, the short buffer that organizations relied on to patch and protect after a vulnerability disclosure, is closing fast.
Anthropic’s new model, Claude Mythos, and its Project Glasswing, showed that finding exploitable vulnerabilities and subtle cracks -

Chinese Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over COVID Research Cyberattacks
A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy.
Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese state-sponsored threat group and for orchestrating cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies between February 2020 and June 2021, including -

Microsoft Patches Entra ID Role Flaw That Enabled Service Principal Takeover
An administrative role meant for artificial intelligence (AI) agents within Microsoft Entra ID could enable privilege escalation and identity takeover attacks, according to new findings from Silverfort.
Agent ID Administrator is a privileged built-in role introduced by Microsoft as part of its agent identity platform to handle all aspects of an AI agent’s identity lifecycle operations in a