Digital risk stories

Infoblox agrees to buy AI-driven threat hunter Axur, aiming to curb phishing and brand abuse beyond the traditional network perimeter.

Black Hat will premiere Semperis documentary Midnight in the War Room in Las Vegas, spotlighting the human cost of cyber conflict.

UK firms pour cash into cyber security yet neglect AI-specific threats, leaving new attack surfaces exposed despite rising confidence.

Nearly half of US small firms have suffered cyber attacks in five years as many still rely on untrained staff and weak defences to cope.

New Zealand firms plan bigger tech budgets as optimism grows, shifting AI from pilots to scaled deployments despite talent and cyber strains.

Keeper launches a zero-knowledge secrets manager extension for JetBrains IDEs, aiming to eliminate hardcoded credentials in codebases.

By 2026, CISOs will tame security noise, confront hidden AI risks and harness agentic AI to turn reactive defence into strategic action.

Hadrian rolls out AI “offensive” agents that mimic hackers, probing firms’ systems continuously to spot and fix cyber flaws first.

Keeper Security tops four million paid users as it expands its unified PAM platform globally and earns fresh analyst and industry recognition.

India’s enterprises are racing from AI pilots to full-scale deployment as boards demand hard returns, stronger governance and resilience.

NCC Group partners with Qualys to expand its managed ASM service, blending automated asset discovery with expert-led cyber risk analysis.

UK founders warn unclear AI rules and weak digital trust threaten competitiveness, as many eye EU markets despite backing Britain to start up.

Coalition launches deepfake response cover in key cyber markets, offering forensic, legal and PR support for AI-fuelled impersonation risks.

Autonomous ‘agentic’ AI fraud tools set to intensify cybercrime by 2026, forcing firms to fuse human judgment with smarter machine defences.

Quantum and AI advances will upend cyber defence by 2026, with autonomous attacks and post-quantum threats outpacing unprepared boards.

HCLSoftware has introduced a BigFix Secure Resilient Operations model with Agentic AI to unify IT and security on a single cloud-native platform.

AI takes centre stage in logistics as Infios predicts 2026 supply chains built for constant disruption, resilience and human‑machine teamwork.

AI rollout delays are stretching to a year as three-quarters of organisations report security incidents and governance gaps grow.

AI data leaks are helping drive a global cyber attack surge, with firms now hit by over 2,000 assaults a week and ransomware on the rise.

Intel 471 promotes Amy Minyard-Bishop to CRO and Steve Micallef to CTO as it scales cyber threat intelligence amid surging global demand.