Agentic AI’s impact on ransomware—it’s execution, its success and even who gets to play, is being widely felt. And we’re just getting started. 

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I skipped last week's roundup. Holiday weekend, family stuff, the usual. So this is a two-week-ish view of what we've published in the Threat Intelligence series since Edition 03 dropped on April 13.

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Discover the 9 most dangerous identity-based threats in 2026, from AI phishing attacks and deepfake authentication bypass to MFA fatigue and harvest-now-decrypt-later quantum threats. Learn why legacy authentication fails against each one and how phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication changes the equation.

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High turnover and burnout are reshaping the 2026 cybersecurity landscape, forcing leaders to prioritize compensation, AI integration, and mental health to retain top talent.

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There is a certain irony in watching a statute designed to prevent clandestine eavesdropping on telephone calls become one of the most aggressively deployed tools against ordinary website functionality. The federal Wiretap Act—codified as part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510–2522—was never intended to regulate marketing pixels, session replay scripts,..

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Discover how AI is weaponizing executive data for hyper-personalized phishing and learn how security teams can use defensive AI to flip the script on attackers.

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This month’s Patch Tuesday addresses 167 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days that could lead to system compromise, data exposure, and privilege escalation.

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How many browsers extensions do you have running? Most enterprise users have at least one and seven out of ten have seen an extension expand its permissions over the last 12 months—with AI extensions being the worst offenders…by sixfold. 

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No one seems to know what AI agents are doing, even the companies that keep them. MIND research underscores that AI Agents have gotten away from security teams and getting a fix on their identities and activities requires operational and cultural shifts. 

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AI supply chain security: Explore the risks of poisoned datasets, compromised open-source libraries, and AI-powered phishing.

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Agentic AI is scaling faster than security can keep up. Discover why treating identity as a first-class prerequisite is the only way to contain non-deterministic AI risk in production.

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The Anthropic–DoD preliminary injunction exposes the "race to the bottom" in AI governance. Explore why White House policies and corporate terms of service cannot withstand the pressures of global AI dominance.

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California’s privacy regime has evolved. As of January 1, 2026, the CCPA/CPRA now mandates risk assessments, automated decision-making (AI) oversight, and independent cybersecurity audits.

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Scammers are already gearing up for the FIFA World Cup 2026 with phishing attacks, online scams and a whole lot of social engineering as emotions and reckless behavior runs high among fans. 

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Anthropic's leaked model made headlines this week. But the real story is what current AI models can already do to your inbox.

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Ridge Security released PurpleRidge 3.0 at RSAC 2026, a self-service penetration testing platform that uses agentic AI to give small and mid-sized businesses the kind of offensive security validation that has traditionally required dedicated teams and six-figure budgets. The upgrade marks a shift from the platform’s earlier machine-learning architecture to one built on agentic AI,..

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RSA opened RSAC 2026 with a new deployment model for its ID Plus identity platform, aimed squarely at government agencies, financial services firms, and critical infrastructure operators that need identity security to work even when everything else fails. RSA ID Plus Sovereign Deployment is a “deploy anywhere” identity and access management solution that gives organizations..

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Cisco today at the RSA Conference (RSAC) extended its cybersecurity portfolio to secure artificial intelligence (AI) agents while at the same time employing AI to automate security operations. At the core of that effort are extensions to the Cisco Duo identity and access management (IAM) platform that make it possible to discover them and apply..

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Bindplane, the OpenTelemetry-based telemetry pipeline company, is bringing two new capabilities to RSAC 2026: Global Intelligence for autonomous pipeline management and Threat Intel Enrichment for real-time threat detection at the data layer. Global Intelligence monitors security data pipelines around the clock and surfaces recommendations to optimize their configuration. The long-term plan is for it to..

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CTG, now operating under the Cegeka Group, is rolling out a cyber resilience scoring dashboard at RSAC 2026 that boils an organization’s security posture down to one number. The dashboard consolidates results from multiple security assessments into a single view. It produces an overall resilience score, domain-level maturity indicators, and progress tracking mapped to NIST,..

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