Cybercrime's Human Trafficking Problem

Maryam Shoraka • May 8, 2026

Fraud operations in Southeast Asia increasingly rely on trafficked workers forced into scams. This reality challenges assumptions about threat actor behavior, complicates attribution and negotiation, and demands that enterprises rethink fraud prevention and disruption strategies.

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Banks Are Feeling the Heat as Fraud Becomes Industrialized

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Fraud Management & Cybercrime

Freight Hacker Wields Code-Signing Service to Evade Defenses

Mathew J. Schwartz • April 16, 2026

Cargo-stealing hackers have a new trick up their sleeve: using a third-party code-signing service makes their remote management and monitoring software installers appear to be legitimate. Who's providing this signing service isn't clear. It's probably distributed by word of mouth.

Bug Management in the Mythos Era: 'Assume You're Unpatched'

Mathew J. Schwartz • April 9, 2026

Thanks to Anthropic's Mythos presaging a world in which zero-day exploits are common, one cybersecurity expert says the new mantra is this: "assume you are unpatched." Vendors and customers must focus more than ever on strong monitoring, behavior-based controls and virtual patching.

France Limits Chinese-Made Solar Energy Components

David Meyer • April 8, 2026

France is saying "non" to Chinese photovoltaic components through a mix of protectionism and cybersecurity requirements as it readies a government-backed program of new solar energy projects. Chinese cybersecurity laws require firms to share key information and generally cooperate with Beijing.

3rd Party Risk Management

ISMG Editors: Vendor Breaches Expose Healthcare Risk

Anna Delaney • April 3, 2026

In this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed growing cyber risks in healthcare following recent vendor breaches, key takeaways from RSAC Conference and whether the Pentagon's zero trust push is delivering real security benefits or just checking off boxes.

Agentic AI

Speed, Judgment and Behavior: AI's Defense Mandate

Tom Field • March 31, 2026

Cybersecurity can no longer stop at the system boundary. Organizations must understand how humans and AI agents behave, and intervene before attackers exploit that behavior, says Niloofar Razi, operating partner at Capitol Meridian Partners.

Agentic AI

How AI Agents Are Redrawing Enterprise Security Models

Michael Novinson • March 28, 2026

Perimeter defense has become obsolete, and as AI agents operate across enterprises with unconstrained access, securing the full data-to-model continuum is the only viable path, says Abhishek Shukla, managing director at Prosperity7 Ventures.

Agentic AI

AI-Based Coding Redefines Software Development

Michael Novinson • March 25, 2026

Coding agents that once struggled below the surface level of basic web development can now refactor decades-old enterprise code at a speed and scale far beyond traditional teams, says Cisco's Jeetu Patel. He explains how AI-built software and machine-scale defense redefine competitive advantage.

AI-Based Attacks

AI Redefines Trust in Global Payments

Mathew J. Schwartz • March 23, 2026

AI is transforming trust in global payments as attackers scale faster and agents automate decisions. CISO Subra Kumaraswamy explains how Visa uses AI to combat fraud, secure transactions and build trust across consumers, merchants and a rapidly evolving digital ecosystem.

Agentic AI

The AI Dilemma: Leadership in the Age of Intelligent Threats

Uma Ramani • March 20, 2026

Artificial intelligence now drives both defense and deception. Deepfakes, adaptive malware and AI-assisted reconnaissance are no longer theoretical. The real challenge for 2026 is governance maturity and ethical clarity, balancing innovation, oversight and human judgment to match machine speed.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks

Stryker Wiper Attack: Hackers Boast as Lawsuits Pile Up

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • March 18, 2026

As medtech maker Stryker continues working to restore global IT systems brought offline by a cyberattack last week, class action lawsuits against the company are piling up in federal court and the Iranian hackers claiming credit for the attack are warning of more assaults to come on other victims.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

House Panel Warns of Chinese AI Robotics Threat

Chris Riotta • March 17, 2026

Witnesses told a U.S. House Homeland Security panel that Chinese-developed AI robotics platforms could give Beijing new avenues for surveillance, disruption and physical harm across critical sectors, and urged restrictions on federal use as China expands its industrial dominance.

Agentic AI

Surf Raises $57M to Automate Security Hygiene With AI Agents

Michael Novinson • March 17, 2026

Surf AI launched an AI-driven platform designed to automate security hygiene tasks across enterprise environments. Backed by $57 million in funding, the company uses AI agents and contextual asset analysis to identify and remediate risks across identities, cloud assets and sensitive data.