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I saw a venn diagram on social media. One circle is Shadow IT, one circle is Shadow AI, a substantial overlap, and the implicit message is that they are effectively the same challenge. They aren’t and that the assumption can lead to many problems. Looking back, shadow IT was like watching a crash in slow-motion. Employees using technology IT hadn't sanctioned. Personal Dropbox accounts. Unofficial Slack workspaces.

The 2026 NASCIO-Deloitte Cybersecurity Study reveals a stark reality for CISOs in state governments: while cyber threats are growing in both sophistication and volume, the resources available to combat them are failing to keep pace. As foreign adversaries and cybercriminals weaponize AI to probe for vulnerabilities, state CISOs find themselves at a critical juncture, navigating expanding responsibilities amidst tightening budgets.

The LogRhythm SIEM July 2026 release adds new investigation workflow features, expands automation for administration and archiving, and broadens telemetry coverage across cloud, identity, collaboration, endpoint, and email environments. Organizations running on-premises and hybrid environments often need tight control over data to meet sovereignty and operational requirements.

Low and slow attacks look normal because they are intentionally distributed into small, permissible actions that avoid detection thresholds. Each step appears legitimate on its own, which prevents detection systems from recognizing the overall progression. The issue is not that security teams lack telemetry. The issue is that traditional detection often evaluates activity in fragments. When each action stays below a rule or threshold, the broader pattern can remain invisible.

Cato AI Labs has discovered two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in Cursor IDE, the popular development environment which, according to Cursor, is used by over half of the Fortune 500. Both RCE vulnerabilities, which we refer to as “DuneSlide,” achieved a 9.8 CVSS score, and involve breaking out of the IDE’s sandbox environment and were assigned CVE IDs CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549.

Last week, GitHub released self-service credential revocation for Enterprise. The feature lets organization owners cut off compromised credentials across the entire organization in one action instead of trying to track down individual tokens during an active incident. This fix was a long time coming, as the past few months have shown what happens when revocation is slow or incomplete.

Sophos X-Ops presents a working taxonomy for attacks using, and targeting, AI Conversations about ‘AI threats’ typically collapse into one of two extremes. On the one hand, hype: unverified claims that don’t hold up to scrutiny and invite significant criticism. On the other, dismissal: it’s just old tradecraft with new branding.

This article was authored by Cristhian Parrot from the Kroll Offensive Security Team. Kroll’s Offensive Security Team recently discovered a new vulnerability within Microsoft’s Azure Monitor Agent Metrics Extension, which demonstrates how subtle configuration issues can introduce significant security risks in widely deployed infrastructure components.