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AI-driven hackers are tipped to ramp up attacks on critical infrastructure and governments by 2026, exploiting ageing industrial systems.

Cohesity and Google Cloud have deepened their alliance to fuse AI, cyber defence and data sovereignty across joint products and services.

Visa teams with Akamai on new protocol to verify AI shopping agents, tackling a 300% surge in bot traffic and rising eCommerce fraud risks.

Tracebit launches a free community canary platform, bringing high-signal breach detection to developers, security hobbyists and small teams.

Chinese state-backed hackers mimic Microsoft Teams downloads in a false flag campaign to infect Chinese speakers and blame Russian actors.

Radware predicts AI-driven bots will dominate internet traffic by 2026, forcing firms to rethink API defences, DDoS and compliance.

Once harmless web clutter, parked domains now funnel over 90% of visitors to scams, malware and illegal content, Infoblox researchers warn.

Akamai and Visa are teaming up to secure AI shopping agents, blending edge security with payment checks to tackle fraud in agentic commerce.

LevelBlue bakes unlimited Tenable-powered vulnerability scans into its USM platform, promising broader exposure management at no extra cost.

Contrast plugs its ADR into Datadog Cloud SIEM, streaming verified runtime attack data to slash alert noise and speed SecOps response.

CrowdStrike launches Falcon AIDR to police AI prompts and agents, tackling injection, jailbreaks and sensitive data leaks in real time.

Radware predicts 2026 will usher in an 'Internet of Agents', as AI-driven machines overtake humans in traffic, attacks and cyber defence.

Safe AI “coaches” embedded in workplace tools are cutting repeat cyber incidents by up to 95%, as firms race to counter AI-driven attacks.

AI will transform cyber threats by 2026, experts say, but warn over-automation and legacy systems could imperil critical infrastructure.

Security experts warn agentic and generative AI will rapidly widen global cyber attack surfaces in 2026, outpacing current safeguards.

Fears over AI-fuelled cyberattacks and state-backed hacking are pushing organisations to ramp up threat intelligence spending in 2026.

Proofpoint crowned a Leader in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for Email Security, topping rivals on Ability to Execute for a second year.

Agentic AI networks could let cybercriminals automate attacks at relentless scale, forcing security teams into a new AI-driven arms race.

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.

Industrial ransomware attacks climbed 13% in Q3 2025 to 742 cases worldwide, with manufacturing absorbing nearly three quarters of hits.