A Cisco blog post by Renato Morais compares past landmark threats with the emerging risk from autonomous AI agents, then presents Cisco's agentic security reference architecture. It recounts the ILOVEYOU worm (2000), a social-engineering email worm, and WannaCry (2017), a ransomware worm using EternalBlue against unpatched Windows systems…
A Cisco blog post by Kajal Sharma promotes the Cisco Secure Firewall 200 Series as a branch-office firewall for AI-enabled applications, cloud services and hybrid work. It is vendor product marketing and reports no incident, vulnerability or threat activity. The post argues that branches are attractive targets because they have limited on…
At Splunk .conf26, Cisco, Splunk and Endace ran a live Agentic Security Operations Center (SOC) built around the Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) AI Triage Agent. The agent prepared findings, with a suggested disposition, rationale and next steps, and human analysts validated the evidence and made the decisions. No threat activity or incid…
Cisco and Splunk ran a live Agentic SOC at Splunk .conf26, combining Cisco Cloud Control, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), Cisco Talos intelligence and Endace continuous packet capture, with Jamf engineers also on the team. The article is largely a product and event retrospective. Its one security incident was a fake-Corepack npm credenti…
Cisco's Agentic SOC team at Splunk .conf26 showed how retrospective packet replay can check for past zero-day exploitation. They used full line-rate packet capture from Endace, intrusion detection on Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD), and rule updates from Cisco Talos. The scenario was Talos releasing new rules for CVE-2026-82329…
Cisco described how its team ran the live Security Operations Center at Splunk .conf26 in Denver, protecting more than 5,145 attendees from 70 countries. The SOC used a multi-stage agentic pipeline: live telemetry feeds Splunk Enterprise Security, autonomous triage agents accelerate Tier 1 analysis, Cisco Cloud Control enforces confidence…
During the Splunk .conf conference, Cisco's Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) in Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) produced a previously unseen detection of Flawed AMMYY, a RAT built from leaked AMMYY source code, alongside the usual detections of Upatre, Xpiro and Quasar. Detections arrived in HTTP/HTTPS pairs with identical timestamps from …
Cisco describes how it is adapting its Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (CSDL), built on more than 400 software security requirements, to AI-assisted and agentic software engineering. The security bar is unchanged, but requirements become atomic, machine-readable and contextual so that engineers and AI agents can act on them directly. C…
A Cisco security blog post by Jonathan Felten argues that cryptographic failures rarely come from broken algorithms. They come from the gap between a fix being available and a fix being deployed, which he calls the "last mile of trust". He says AI-driven vulnerability discovery is widening this gap because discovery scales with compute wh…
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Chromium-based AI browser that lets an attacker monitor all open tabs and capture OAuth authorization codes for any site, effectively breaking the same-origin policy. Atlas exposes Mojo IPC bindings to all .chatgpt.com and .openai.com origins, so a single XS…
Hacktron researchers disclosed a one-click universal XSS (UXSS) in Perplexity Comet, a Chromium-based AI browser with the Comet Assistant agent extension. The extension's manifest trusts the wildcard https://.perplexity.ai/ in externallyconnectable, so a single XSS on any perplexity.ai subdomain can reach privileged extension message hand…
Researcher Harsh Jaiswal of Hacktron describes using the AI-assisted Hacktron CLI with a custom "JDBC driver pack" to audit decompiled JDBC drivers during a bug bounty event. The audit surfaced multiple vulnerabilities across vendor drivers, earning $85,000 in bounties. The headline finding is in the Databricks JDBC driver, where an attac…
Hacktron, a security software vendor, announced that it achieved SOC 2 Type 1 compliance against the Security trust services criteria. The audit was performed by Insight Assurance, with the Vanta platform supporting the compliance process. This is vendor business and compliance news and does not describe an incident, vulnerability or thre…
TLDR: I pointed Claude Opus at Discord’s bundled Chrome (version 138, nine major versions behind upstream) and asked it to build a full V8 exploit chain. The V8 OOB we used was from Chrome 146, the same version Anthropic’s own Claude Desktop is running. A week of back and forth, 2.3 billion tokens, $2,283 in API costs, and about ~20 hours…
Researcher Mohan Pedhapati of Hacktron ran an AI-driven audit against vinext, Cloudflare's Next.js reimplementation reportedly built in a week with AI assistance. The scan produced 45 findings, of which 24 were manually validated, including several Critical issues. The most serious bugs allow cross-user session data leakage, shared cache …
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in Cluely, an Electron-based AI assistant that reads the user's screen and microphone. They found it in July 2025 and published in February 2026. The main window had no will-navigate handler, so a link in the AI's markdown response could navigate the whole app to an attacker-controll…
Hacktron researcher sudi disclosed a vulnerability in the browser extension bundled with Google's AI IDE Antigravity, which is built on the same internals as Windsurf. The extension's externallyconnectable setting allows any web page to send messages to it. The SaveScreenRecording action forwards attacker-controlled filename and L fields …
Hacktron AI disclosed CVE-2026-1731, a critical (CVSS 9.9) pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and older versions of Privileged Remote Access (PRA). An unauthenticated remote attacker could run operating system commands in the context of the site user. Hacktron found the flaw through A…
Hacktron AI researchers disclosed CVE-2026-33439 (CVSS 9.8, CWE-502), an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in OpenIdentityPlatform OpenAM 16.0.5 and earlier. It is a variant of CVE-2021-35464: the earlier fix whitelisted deserialization for the jato.pageSession parameter but left the sibling jato.clientSession parameter unfiltere…
Hacktron published a vendor blog post arguing that frontier models such as Anthropic's Mythos are unnecessary for most vulnerability discovery work. To support this, it benchmarked its scanning pipeline across several LLMs against two zero-day authentication bypasses it found in oauth2-proxy v7.15.0: CVE-2026-34457 and CVE-2026-40575. Its…