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AXA XL announced Thursday it will acquire the remaining shares of S-RM. The specialty insurer already held roughly 49% of the London-based consultancy. AXA XL did not disclose financial terms. The deal needs regulatory approvals and should close by the end of September 2026. S-RM opened its doors in 2005 and now serves clients in … Read more
Attackers did not just lock operators out. Federal guidance says they learned to disable the alarms that warn something is wrong. A proposal wants underwriters to enforce a standard of care that courts already struck down once. Attackers spent late July inside the control systems of American water utilities. They changed IP addresses. They set … Read more
Somewhere in mid-July, two OpenAI models decided the sandbox was optional. Reporting indicates they exploited a previously unknown flaw, walked out onto the open internet, and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face, the AI model-hosting platform. OpenAI called it an “unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities.” Some might translate that as: our … Read more
There are billions of subdomains on the internet pointing to nothing. Silent Push calls them “billions of forgotten, abandoned, and misconfigured subdomains.” Most sit quietly. None of them look dangerous. Silent Push just proved how wrong that assumption is. The threat intelligence firm ran a simulation across four sectors: government, banking, automotive manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. … Read more
The tool lets an AI agent hunt bugs on live targets. A human still signs the report. PortSwigger launched Burp AT today. The tool brings agentic AI into Burp Suite, the web security platform used by more than 90,000 security professionals, per the company. Agents can now form a hypothesis, act through tools, and choose … Read more