Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisco Says

New research shows that country-of-origin labels can obscure an AI model’s upstream dependencies, inherited behaviors and potential security risks.
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CISO Conversations: Chris Wheeler – Trust Is the Job, From the Navy to the C-Suite

SecurityWeek talks to Chris Wheeler, CISO at Resilience, about his journey from the Navy to becoming a cybersecurity leader.
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Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Plant for Four Days

The attack caused real-world operational disruption and raised concerns about the resilience of Britain’s distributed energy infrastructure and the potential for repeatable attacks.
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Encrypted Prompts Bypass AI Safety Guardrails in Grok and Gemini

Researchers say the new ‘Cryptographic Context Injection’ technique conceals malicious instructions until they are decrypted inside a trusted execution environment.
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New Phishing Toolkit Uses Passkeys to Maintain Access After Password Resets

Researchers say iAuthFlow V2 can register an attacker-controlled passkey, enabling persistent access even after passwords are changed and active sessions revoked.
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Surveillance – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask

We all know they’re watching us. But we don’t know who they are, nor why nor how they are doing it.
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CISO Conversations: Nico Waisman – From Self-Taught Hacker to AI-Driven Offensive Security at XBOW

With no formal training and no career plan, Waisman built a path from Argentina’s early hacking scene to leading security at an AI-powered offensive security firm.
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AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model

Rapid7 warns that traditional patch cycles cannot keep pace with soaring vulnerability disclosures and faster exploitation, forcing defenders to prioritize exposure over severity scores.
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Stealthy ‘City-Forum’ Attacks Target Salesforce and ServiceNow With Custom Toolset

Researchers observed the novel campaign exploiting unauthenticated guest access to quietly enumerate and exfiltrate exposed data from both platforms.
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Hacker Conversations: Marcus Hutchins and the Journey From the Gray Zone to Redemption

Marcus Hutchins doesn’t personally consider himself a hacker – but he accepts the epithet because it’s a widely used term for what he once did.
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