A newly discovered malware campaign has turned Google Chrome into a remote backdoor without breaking any of the browser’s built-in rules. Spotted in June 2026, the attack arrived in Italian-language phishing emails that looked like standard business invoices. The email claimed a requested invoice was ready, signed off by an accounting office, and showed what […]
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SpyCloud has announced the launch of SpyCloud Research Agent, a conversational AI investigation agent now available in its Cybercrime Investigations console. Cybercrime investigations have a tax: hours of manual pivot work that experienced analysts run by instinct and junior analysts struggle to replicate. SpyCloud Research Agent eliminates it. Security practitioners, CTI analysts, SOC teams, fraud investigators, and IR leads, can now give the agent a subject, a hypothesis, or a batch of assets, and it … More →
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Flare has announced the expanded capabilities for Flare CTI, and an Okta integration within its Identity Exposure Management (IEM) offering. These updates extend Flare’s identity expertise into tactical threat intelligence use cases and agentic workflows to reshape security operations. As security teams face growing volumes of threats, many continue to rely on costly, disconnected tools for threat intelligence, threat investigation, and identity risk management. Flare’s latest platform enhancements help organizations consolidate those workflows, giving analysts … More →
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Seemplicity has launched AI Analysts for exposure management and response. The autonomous agents replace manual vulnerability triage by working directly within remediation workflows to conduct structured, evidence-based exploitability investigations. The old playbook is broken. AI-generated exploits have collapsed the window between disclosure and weaponization from days to hours, and the static scores and external signals teams once trusted can no longer keep pace. “The danger was never the alerts we could see, it was the … More →
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