How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI

Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR-coded ballots, and AI-driven influence campaigns leave US elections short of secure.
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Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps

Cisco open sourced Project Quarry, a rule language for detecting AI agent attacks that only emerge across sequences of benign actions.
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Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave

Founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni, Tel Aviv-based Mave uses AI agents to investigate alerts across existing security stacks.
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‘Context Bombs’ Cut AI Attack Success by Misleading Agents With Fake Targets

Deceptive prompts lure AI agents into decoys and dead ends, cutting attack success by up to 91% in tests and raising the cost of a successful attack 23-fold.
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High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7

Rapid7’s Q3 analysis finds high-severity flaws exploited within three days on average, while AI appeared in just 8% of tracked incidents.
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US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars

CyberSN’s Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It’s a mixed bag.
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Novel Android RAT ‘Hirudo’ Replaces Banking Apps With Trojanized Copies

The Hirudo malware combines elements of a traditional banking trojan and a full-featured RAT.
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