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The fourth weekly Security Affairs AI-cybersecurity newsletter, by Pierluigi Paganini, is a curated list of headlines on the intersection of AI and security. It contains no original analysis or technical detail. Items include CyberXero, described as an AI-augmented initial access broker targeting Ukrainian critical infrastructure, and a C…
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) announced in June 2026 that it will replace the Essential Eight with an outcomes-based Essentials series. The series covers enterprise IT first, then cloud, OT and possibly agentic AI. This is a policy and compliance change, not a threat incident. It moves organizations from periodic, point-in-time…
Unit 42 Threat Intelligence published its overview of the top five initial access threat vectors observed in September 2026. Adversary activity relied heavily on external edge exploitation and identity compromise, with public-facing infrastructure and legitimate credential abuse as the primary footholds for intrusion campaigns. Social eng…
In a World Economic Forum article, Etay Maor of Cato Networks argues that traditional cybersecurity frameworks must evolve to address three forms of AI misuse: humans using AI to lower the expertise needed for exploits, fraud and cybercrime; AI models escaping their intended environments; and AI agents pursuing objectives that differ from…
A post on ISASecure by Rafael Barreto Jijón, managing director of OT-Knight, argues that asset owners should merge functional safety and OT cybersecurity into a single lifecycle. He notes that safety instrumented systems (SIS) protect against process hazards but are also targets for cyber-physical attacks, citing the 2017 TRITON/TRISIS in…
A joint StopRansomware advisory (AA26-293A) from the FBI, CISA, USSS, Germany's Landeskriminalamt Rheinland-Pfalz, the UK's National Crime Agency and the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit details SafePay ransomware activity observed through August 2026. SafePay has been highly active since August 2024 and was among the most active …
CISA ran concurrent red team assessments at two organizations: Organization A (Government Services and Facilities) and Organization B (Water and Wastewater Systems). Both reached full domain compromise and accessed sensitive business systems (SBSs) and cloud resources. Organization A did not detect or contain the activity. Organization B …
Tactien Group, an independent aviation advisory firm for critical infrastructure, announced CAST (Counter-UXS Assessment & System Testing), a software platform for planning, running and scoring counter-drone evaluations in customers' own environments. Utilities, refineries, data centers and military installations often buy counter-UAS det…
Booz Allen Hamilton published a whitepaper, From Digital to Physical: The AI Threat Is Here, on controlled tests of frontier AI models in its isolated OT cybersecurity lab in Chantilly, Virginia. With limited human direction, the models achieved all eight test objectives. They moved from perimeter compromise to control-zone actions in jus…
Citizen Lab documented AdFection, a campaign in which the Israeli-founded ad firm Discover-Tech delivered zero-click mercenary spyware attributed to Candiru through the online advertising ecosystem. During 2024 and 2025, 45 devices belonging to Al Jazeera were targeted. Citizen Lab calls this the first detailed public technical evidence o…
A joint advisory (AA25-343A) from FBI, CISA, NSA and some 18 other US, European, Five Eyes and Czech agencies warns that pro-Russia hacktivist groups are conducting opportunistic, low-sophistication attacks on critical infrastructure OT. The groups named are Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), Z-Pentest, NoName057(16) and Sector16. They e…
The FBI, CISA, NSA, EPA, DOE, CNMF and Treasury warn of ongoing exploitation of internet-exposed PLCs by an Iranian-affiliated APT group, with activity observed since at least March 2026. Targets are Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley, Schneider Electric and Siemens PLCs in the Government Services and Facilities, Water and Wastewater Syste…
Trend Micro published its Intercepting Impact: 2024 Trend Micro Cyber Risk Report, built on Trend Vision One Attack Surface Risk Management (ASRM) and XDR telemetry from December 25, 2023 to June 30, 2024. The report finds that devices carry the most high-risk assets (620,610 of 18 million), followed by accounts, cloud assets, internet-fa…
The F5 Labs 2026 State of PQC on the Web report scanned the top 1 million domains with TLS 1.3 handshakes. It found that 54% support post-quantum (hybrid) key exchange, but the figure is driven mainly by CDNs, especially Cloudflare and Fastly, which enable PQC by default. Excluding Cloudflare-hosted domains, adoption falls to 22%. Sectors…
This ESET WeLiveSecurity blog post argues that small and midsize businesses (SMBs) want advanced protection that is simple, guided and manageable. It cites ESET data showing 75% of SMBs are concerned about global conflicts and cyber warfare, nearly half had at least one cyber incident in the past year, and 58% believe they are more vulner…
Unit 42 attributes with high confidence to an Iranian state-aligned actor, tracked as CL-STA-1178, a campaign called Blinder Tunnel. In March 2026 it targeted an individual in Iraq's critical infrastructure sector, after infrastructure staging that began as early as November 2025. The actor impersonated the Dubai Airports IT department an…
UK officials have not committed to AI-specific measures in the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill, even though AI minister Kanishka Narayan pledged to "legislate wherever necessary". Alexandra Jones of the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade told MPs that the government is "looking at" …
Tenable's Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog summarizes government guidance on defending critical infrastructure against nation-state and AI-assisted attacks. Per a joint US government advisory (published in April, updated in July), Iran-affiliated APT groups have attacked US water, energy and government facilities since Operation Epic Fu…
A still-unknown actor hacked thousands of remote-controlled refrigeration systems across hundreds of French grocery stores, spiking temperatures, spoiling food and sparking fires. The incident fits a broader trend of extortionists and other attackers going after physical systems to maximise real-world pressure on victims. Earlier examples…
