The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a preliminary draft of its Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence which provides guidance for the secure adoption of AI. The draft takes the existing NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 structure that helps organizations manage and communicate cybersecurity risk and adapts it to AI use. CSF ...

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the theft of a large dataset tied to Pornhub Premium users, threatening to leak or sell the information unless the company pays a ransom. The hack of PornHub was first revealed by the adult video website on Dec. 12. It was described as a cybersecurity incident involving ...

A new report out today from information assurance firm NCC Group PLC finds that global ransomware activity plateaued in November even as attackers continued to refine their tactics and collaboration models. The findings come from the NCC Group November 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Report. It found that ransomware incidents dipped slightly month-over-month but remained elevated, ...

Managed cybersecurity services company Cyderes LLC today announced that it has acquired security data fabric and entity intelligence firm Lucidum Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020, Lucidum offers a security data fabric platform that is designed to give organizations a comprehensive, real-time view of their digital environment. The company has an aim to ...

Google LLC, through its Google Labs division, today rolled out a new artificial intelligence agent that is designed to help users manage daily tasks by summarizing information across email, calendars, documents and the web. Called CC, the new tool, is built on Google’s Gemini AI models. Google calls it an early look at how agent-based ...

Social engineering defense startup Adaptive Security Inc. today revealed that it has raised $81 million in new funding to expand its platform and accelerate product development. Founded in 2024, Adaptive is taking on the threat of artificial intelligence-powered social engineering with a mission to protect organizations from next-generation threats that exploit human trust rather than ...

Code quality testing startup SonarSource Sàrl today introduced a major expansion of SonarQube that brings full software architecture management into its code quality and security platform for the first time. The new capability helps development teams keep their code clean and prevents structural erosion that often occurs as systems evolve. The issue the expansion is seeking to ...

Cybersecurity company Fortinet Inc. today announced an integrated solution featuring FortiGate-VM, its virtual cloud firewall, running directly on the Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing unit. The integration embeds networking and brings isolated infrastructure acceleration into the AI factory, allowing core security functions to run on BlueField instead of the host. An AI factory is a data center environment purpose-built to develop, ...

Threat detection and response firm Vectra AI Inc. today outlined a new platform-wide approach to hybrid security that unifies prevention, detection, response and resilience reporting across the full attack lifecycle. The updates to the Vectra AI Platform introduce a lifecycle-wide control model designed to give security teams consistent, measurable control before, during and after cyberattacks. Vectra AI ...

Cybersecurity company Human Security Inc. today announced support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore browser in its AgenticTrust service to ensure that artificial intelligence-powered agents built on Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure are cryptographically signed and secure. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a platform for building and deploying agents securely at scale. The AgentCore browser tool allows agents to interact ...