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Vulnerabilities by the minute: TrendAI’s UAE debut and the race to secure agentic AI
Trend Micro’s enterprise security business has launched in the UAE as TrendAI, warning that frontier models will soon surface vulnerabilities at machine speed and pairing the rebrand with an Anthropic partnership and an unresolved agentic governance challenge.
The Deepfake Wire Transfer Has Become Routine, and Most Finance Functions Are Defending the Wrong Perimeter
Fraud attempts using synthetic voice and video have surged by over 2,000% in three years, billions in deepfake losses were absorbed in 2025 alone, and nearly half of Indian adults have been touched by AI voice-cloning scams. Security leaders nonetheless continue to treat weaponised human trust as a communications glitch, and the organisations paying for it rarely discover their exposure until the money has already moved.
Who Controls the Proof Now Controls the Internet
Six separate announcements in one week converged on a single argument about power, that whoever issues the proof holds the leverage.
Media groups and exiled journalists bear the heaviest concentration of cyberattacks against civil society, Cloudflare data shows
New research drawn from more than 3,400 protected domains reveals DDoS campaigns lasting days rather than minutes, vulnerability probing at more than seven times the rate of other customers, and phishing emails that slip past standard authentication before being caught.
The Velocity Gap: Why Record Middle East Cyber Spending Is Losing to AI Attackers
Investment in regional cyber defence is climbing toward record levels, yet Help AG’s State of the Market Report 2026 shows attackers are pulling ahead — compressing time-to-impact by 65% as AI rewrites the relationship between security and time.
A 500 billion query problem hiding inside the enterprise network
Infoblox Threat Intel research finds residential proxies embedded across two-thirds of its cloud customers, putting corporate reputation and IP space at risk without security teams ever seeing it
Business as Usual: How Attackers Are Turning IT Tools Into Backdoors
HP threat researchers found criminals using LogMeIn and ScreenConnect, tax-themed phishing, and AI-assisted scripts to take over PCs without triggering alarms that detect conventional malware.
BeyondTrust Gains Access to Anthropic's Restricted Frontier Model to Hunt Flaws in Its Own Code
The identity security vendor joins Project Glasswing, turning a model Anthropic withholds from the public against the vulnerabilities in software that underpins governments and essential services.
AI security has a detection problem, and Check Point’s 2026 report puts a number on it
Only 13% of organisations can block a malicious prompt and just 5% can stop unsafe AI outputs, according to Check Point’s 2026 Cloud Security Report. Why detection has outpaced prevention.
The 2026 World Cup Is the Most Predictable Cyberattack Window Ever Handed to Adversaries
A Palo Alto Networks assessment finds disruptive intrusions, fraud at scale and hacktivist operations against the tournament are highly likely, with an active Iran-nexus campaign already targeting the municipal infrastructure 16 host cities will run under tournament load.
The 1% Problem: Inside Qualys’s bet that most of cybersecurity has been chasing the wrong list
This article is part of an editorial series produced in partnership with Qualys, exploring how the Risk Operations Center, is reshaping the way enterprises think about cyber risk. The reporting, interviews, and views are The Source Code’s own.
The biggest AI risk inside enterprises is the person at the keyboard, not the model, Optro report
With 82% of organisations reporting more AI-enabled attacks in the past year, new Optro research argues the dominant threat is no longer technical model failure but everyday human decisions made inside ungoverned AI tools.
From Backup to AI Trust: What Veeam Announced at VeeamON New York and Why It Matters
Three announcements in three days: a new platform built from the Securiti AI acquisition, a preview of Data Platform v13.1, and a governance framework exposing the gap between AI confidence and AI readiness.
Why Acronis Is Betting That the Next Decade of Managed Services Gets Built at the Infrastructure Layer, Not Bolted On to It
Cyber Frame, Cyber Console, Cyber Intelligence, Cyber Studio, and a rebuilt partner programme announced in a single broadcast signal that Acronis is no longer positioning itself as a backup and security vendor. It is positioning itself as the platform MSPs run their entire business on.
The AI Labs Built the Threat. Now They Are Selling the Defence
OpenAI's Daybreak launch brings a second AI lab into a cybersecurity race that Anthropic opened with Claude Mythos five weeks ago. For the security industry, the contest raises questions that go well beyond which model performs better.
275 Million Students, One Point of Failure, and No Way Out
The Canvas ransomware attack exposed what happens when a platform becomes too dominant to avoid and too architecturally fragile to trust — and students had no choice about being in either position.
AI security auditors can be fooled by code they cannot see past
Cloudflare’s threat research unit finds that volume, not deception, is the most reliable way to defeat an AI-powered security auditor.
1,200 arrests, 11,400 takedowns, one report: what Fortinet's 2025 sustainability disclosure actually says
From dismantling criminal networks across 18 nations to training nearly a million people in cybersecurity, Fortinet's 2025 Sustainability Report makes the case that protecting critical digital infrastructure is a public obligation — not just a product category.
China-aligned hackers exposed after leaving Slack and Discord logs intact during Mongolia espionage campaign
Cybersecurity firm ESET recovered thousands of attacker messages and draft emails after the previously undocumented GopherWhisper group used legitimate workplace tools as command-and-control infrastructure, then failed to clear its tracks.
Why Real-Time Cybersecurity Is Now the Operating System of Global Commercial Trust
An audit report ages the moment it is issued. A certificate begins decaying before it leaves the printer. In a market where AI agents act in milliseconds and insurers price detection time to the second, the periodic mechanisms that once produced trust have stopped working. The companies winning in the next decade are the ones rebuilding their security stacks to continuously demonstrate trust to audiences that never stop watching.