Okta’s deal for Permiso aims to close gaps in identity threat detection

Ely Kahn, Okta’s chief product officer, told CyberScoop the deal enriches the company’s current threat detection tools and gives it deeper visibility into AI agent activity across enterprise systems.

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A little-known npm package was North Korea’s warm-up act for the axios hack

Amazon’s threat intelligence team traced domain records from the open-source software hack to a smaller, earlier compromise by the same North Korean group.

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OpenAI’s rogue AI agent shows why we need federal rules for autonomous systems

The Hugging Face breach shows there is a gap in federal policy. The frameworks to govern autonomous AI already exist—there just needs to be the desire to apply them.

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Here’s what Anthropic found when it turned Mythos loose on encryption algorithms

Claude Mythos exposed mathematical weaknesses in a post-quantum candidate and a simplified version of AES, marking a major breakthrough for AI-driven cryptanalysis.

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Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities

A cyberattack of undetermined origin disrupted water treatment plants in at least 30 communities in Minnesota, according to the state’s technology bureau.

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Microsoft debuts AI cybersecurity offerings as competition heats up

It includes the new agentic model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and the Project Perception platform, with the tech giant claiming it’ll do a better job than its rivals at half the cost.

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Trump asks Supreme Court to let him curtail mail-in voting ahead of midterms

In a Monday filing, the Justice Department said states sued before agencies even decided how the order would work.

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Google’s solution to hacker name confusion? Yet another naming system

APT-number conventions are out, cryptonyms are in, and security teams now have one more naming system to keep straight.

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