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The market for AI in the SOC has moved faster than the methods for evaluating it. Just last year, Gartner placed AI SOC Agents at the Innovation Trigger stage with single-digit adoption. As of a few weeks ago, Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2026” put them at the Peak of Inflated Expectations. Most AI

A malicious component dubbed HollowGraph uses the calendar feature in compromised Microsoft 365 mailboxes as a command-and-control channel to receive attacker commands and exfiltrate stolen data. Researchers analysing the module believe it is part of the Cavern command-and-control framework that has been previously linked to an Iranian threat actor targeting entities in Israel. At least

The JadePuffer autonomous AI agent has upgraded with custom malware called EncForge that focuses on encrypting AI assets, such as training datasets, vector databases, and model checkpoints. JadePuffer was disclosed earlier this month as an agentic threat actor (ATA) capable of running autonomously through the stages of a ransomware attack, from initial access to data

Security researchers broke out of the sandboxes in four widely used AI coding agents, including Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI and Antigravity, without attacking the sandbox head-on. The agent stays inside the box and follows every rule. It just writes a file that a trusted tool outside the box later runs, loads, or scans,

The Ostium trading platform announced that an attacker stole $23.75 million from its liquidity provider vault last week, after compromising off-chain infrastructure used to feed prices into the protocol. According to an update from the platform yesterday, the attacker submitted illegitimate price reports disguised as valid ones, then rapidly opened and closed large positions to

Two recently disclosed SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities were exploited in zero-day attacks for weeks, allowing threat actors to install custom malware on vulnerable VPN appliances. Last week, SonicWall warned that threat actors were actively exploiting two previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in an exploit chain that affected SMA1000 Secure Mobile Access appliances. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-15409, a

Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying customers of a data breach after hackers exploited a flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite that the company used for human resources (HR) operations. The company says that last month it identified an intrusion that had occurred on August 9, 2025, which led to the threat actor obtaining ” personal