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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Restore Fable and Mythos Access, Cybersecurity Leaders Urge

Mathew J. Schwartz  •  June 16, 2026

New export controls on artificial intelligence startup Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos large language models, over their vulnerability-discovery capabilities, must be lifted, not least because Chinese models will soon offer equal capabilities, cybersecurity experts warned the Trump administration.

Fraud Management & Cybercrime

Chinese Hacking Firm Upgrades With New Windows Backdoor

Tiffany Wang  •  June 16, 2026

Eset uncovered two previously undocumented Windows variants of the China-linked SprySocks backdoor tied to FishMonger and iSoon, revealing expanded espionage capabilities, rootkit-based stealth and continued targeting of government organizations across Asia and Central America.

Identity & Access Management

Hacker: 'I Could Have Rickrolled the World Cup'

Anviksha More  •  June 16, 2026

A white-hat hacker discovered a now-fixed authorization flaw in a FIFA World Cup 2026 platform that allowed users to access a World Cup camera feed and other restricted resources. "An attacker could have rickrolled the entire FIFA World Cup," wrote Bobdahacker.

Incident & Breach Response

South Korea Fines Coupang $409M Over Massive Data Breach

Tiffany Wang  •  June 16, 2026

South Korea's privacy regulator fined Coupang a record 624.7 billion won after concluding that weak authentication controls, insider access abuse, evidence destruction and unauthorized data collection contributed to the exposure of personal information belonging to 33.7 million people.

Advanced SOC Operations / CSOC

Cyber Resilience Summit Dallas Prioritizes Risk Management

Poulami Kundu  •  June 16, 2026

From boardroom persuasion to AI-powered SOCs, ISMG's Cyber Resilience Summit Dallas gave senior security and risk leaders a playbook for the age of inevitable disruption, with sessions spanning zero trust, human risk reduction, threat preemption and governance as a foundation of resilience.

Endpoint Security

US FCC Eases Router Ban for Cable ISPs

Greg Sirico  •  June 15, 2026

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved a cable industry lobbying group's request to grant large scale internet service providers with a waiver from Trump administrations' current ban on consumer grade foreign-made routers.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Mythos Shutdown Contains a Message: Don't Wait for Mythos

Shaun Waterman  •  June 15, 2026

The abrupt, government-ordered cut-off of access to Mythos 5, the most cyber-capable of Anthropic's large language models, has underlined a message security experts have been trying to get out to the operational technology community: You don't need Mythos.

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Agentic AI

The Next Enterprise AI Challenge Is Agent Sprawl

Jennifer Lawinski  •  June 15, 2026

AI is evolving from a productivity tool into a system of execution capable of making decisions and taking action. Hitachi Digital Services CTO Prem Balasubramanian explains why governance, reliability and agent management will determine enterprise AI success.

Cybercrime

ShinyHunters Hits Universities Via Oracle Zero-Day

Chris Riotta  •  June 15, 2026

ShinyHunters exploited a critical zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft to breach more than 100 organizations globally, researchers at Mandiant and Google's Threat Intelligence Group said, with universities and colleges accounting for the majority of confirmed targets in the active extortion campaign.

Agentic AI

NewCore Launches With $66M to Rebuild Identity for AI Agents

Michael Novinson  •  June 15, 2026

NewCore, founded by Dome9 creator Zohar Alon, emerged from stealth with $66 million to build security-first identity infrastructure designed to manage the explosion of autonomous AI agents, machine identities and cryptographic credentials expected across modern enterprises.

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AI-Based Attacks

Why AI Defenses Fail Without Data and Identity Fundamentals

Anna Delaney  •  June 15, 2026

Organizations are racing toward agentic AI defenses, but without clean data, identity and asset management in place, those defenses will fall short. Security fundamentals must come first, said Spencer Scott, head of information security at RPC.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

US Anthropic Export Controls Sparks Sharp EU Reaction

David Meyer  •  June 15, 2026

The U.S. government's decision to cut foreign nationals' access to Anthropic's most powerful AI models has sparked a massive increase in calls for Europe to reduce its reliance on American technology. Tech sovereignty has become a live topic in Europe.