What OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s testing incidents really teach defenders  In the past two weeks, two of the world’s leading AI labs have disclosed the same unsettling result. During their own safety testing, their most capable models reached real companies’ systems. First OpenAI, whose models broke into Hugging Face. Then Anthropic, whose models reached three more organizations.  Read the disclosures closely. Two facts carry the weight.  First, the safeguards were not defeated. They were switched off by design. OpenAI ran the models with reduced cyber refusals and safety classifiers disabled, to measure raw capability on a cyber benchmark. A model doing […]

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Threat actor names can sound simple. LockBit. Fancy Bear. BlackCat. Scattered Spider. Anonymous Sudan. Each name gives the impression of a clear group with a defined identity.  In threat intelligence, however, the name is rarely the whole story.  Some names are chosen by attackers. Others are assigned by researchers, security vendors, governments, or public databases. One name may represent a ransomware brand, a hacktivist identity, a research label, a campaign, a malware family, or an activity cluster observed across different incidents.  For security professionals, this distinction is important. Confusing attacker created identities with researcher assigned labels can lead teams to […]

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Key Takeaways Microsoft continues to be the single most impersonated brand in Q2 2026, appearing in 23% of all brand phishing attempts, far ahead of any other company The top five impersonated brands, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, and Amazon, together account for more than half of all brand phishing attempts tracked this quarter Open AI’s ChatGPT entered the top ten most impersonated brands for the first time, signaling that AI tools are now firmly on criminals’ radar Technology was the most targeted industry overall, followed by Social Networks and Banking Real world cases this quarter ranged from fake payment failure […]

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Some security teams are reducing critical exposure within hours, while others are leaving similar issues open for days. The 2026 Exposure Gap Report shows that many organizations can identify, validate, and prioritize exposure, but the real challenge begins when teams need to turn those insights into remediation.  Across environments, organizations are often working with similar types of exposure, yet their outcomes vary significantly. The difference depends on how quickly validated findings move into remediation and how consistently teams can repeat that process at scale.  Remediation Speed Varies Significantly  According to the report, Utilities organizations resolve exposure in about 12.6 hours […]

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Microsoft’s guidance on inbound and outbound mail routing for third-party email security has prompted a fair question from customers: how should organizations evaluate inline email security for Microsoft 365?  The answer depends less on whether a solution is inline and more on how that inline architecture is implemented. Microsoft is right to call attention to mail flow designs that can introduce unnecessary complexity, create authentication challenges, duplicate processing, or disrupt the expected Microsoft 365 experience. Those risks are real when a third-party service is bolted onto the environment without careful integration.  That is also why architecture matters. A modern enterprise […]

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