Operation KillSwitch: Police Dismantle KillSec Ransomware Group

Operation KillSwitch: Europol says the KillSec ransomware group, allegedly led by a 16-year-old, was dismantled after attacks on about 1,000 victims. Law enforcement seized control of KillSec ‘s dark web leak site, the Tor website the group used to threaten v

Cybersecurity Jobs Are Projected to Grow 21%. At 62, a $125,000 Career Pivot Could Replace One of His 35 Social Security Years

Give yourself room to be human

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  Fall is officially here in Maryland, and I cant be more relieved. I flourish in 50 degree weather, where it feels natural to burrow un

Zero Trust Creator Says Model Holds Firm Against AI-Assisted Attacks

Fifteen years after coining the framework, John Kindervag insists zero trust still works in the AI era—if you get the implementation right.

Armadin Raises $255 Million to Scale Agentic Cybersecurity Platform

Cybersecurity firm Armadin says it has raised $255.5 million in new funding. The company’s Series B round, announced Thursday (Oct. 1), values Aramdin at more than $2.5 billion and will help it scale its agentic security platform, research, training and go-to

NetApp Novus Splits pNFS Metadata From AFF A90 Data Nodes for a 100 TB/s AI Factory Target, Orderable Now

NetApp used its INSIGHT 2026 conference in Las Vegas to announce NetApp Novus, a disaggregated storage architecture for AI factories that separates metadata from the data path and that the company says is designed to exceed 100 TB/s of aggregate throughput, k

Experts Urge Federal Lawmakers to Regulate AI. Will Anyone Heed Their Alarm?

AI researchers and safety advocates warned a group of  U.S. senators Wednesday that Silicon Valley developers are racing to build and release systems they dont fully understand or control.  The Sena

Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing

A suspected Chinese espionage group impersonated AI policy figures, including a senior Anthropic employee and a former White House official, in phishing campaigns targeting AI policy experts at US universities, think tanks, and law firms, security researchers

Osavul Lands $10 Million to Spot Hostile Intent Across Cyber, Physical Domains

Hybrid risk intelligence company Osavul has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by 33N Ventures.

How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain

Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out the regression testing. Somebody else raises

Scammers target new students by hijacking legitimate US university emails

Stolen .edu accounts spread fake job offers and gift card scamsVictims deposit fake $1,000 checks, then buy scammers gift cardsProofpoint linked operators to Nigeria through

Google Is Already Having Problems With Its Latest AI Model

If theres one company youd expect to be at the bleeding edge of the AI race, its Google. With its deep pockets, nearly three decades of hoovering up data from across the internet, and billions of use