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For four decades, U.S. law drew a hard line around private-sector cybersecurity. Companies could detect, respond to, and report attacks. They could not fight back. On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, that line moved. President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build a program letting vetted private companies conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal groups.

Since June, developers have created thousands of third-party OAuth apps on Cloudflare, with more than a million authorizations since. OAuth makes delegated access possible. It lets applications act on a user’s behalf without asking them to handle long-lived credentials or hand over a password. That model works well when an application can describe its access needs with a small set of scopes. Developers use OAuth for SaaS integrations, internal tools, CLIs, and agents.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! Got’a catch them crims…

Endpoint detection, cloud security posture management, email security, identity and access management, network segmentation. Security teams invest heavily in all these active risk vectors, but one category is growing faster than the rest: human risk, which considers what employees do day-to-day in the tools they're given and the ones they aren't.

A vendor sends over a SOC 2 report. It lands in the queue, someone reads the cover page, sees the auditor's name and a clean-looking opinion letter, and marks the assessment complete. The reviewer moves on to the next vendor. Multiply that by a few hundred vendors a year, and it becomes less of a decision and more of a reflex.

A new report commissioned by IBM has found that one in four breaches is now AI-enabled, up 56% from last year. “Most AI-driven attacks reported in the study targeted critical infrastructure sectors (62%), with financial services and energy organizations experiencing the highest concentration, raising the risk of broader systemic disruption,” the report says. “Financial services breaches were reported to cost on average $6.3 million, while energy breaches cost on average $5.2 million.

Phishing is a form of social engineering that has evolved beyond simple lures into complex, multi-stage attacks exploiting trusted software, cloud identities and business platforms to bypass traditional security. Attackers leverage these campaigns to deliver trojans capable of stealing credentials and also establishing remote code execution, which might serve as a gateway for lateral movement.

For years, cybersecurity has had a familiar villain: the external attacker. The hacker breaking through the firewall, stealing credentials or exploiting an unpatched vulnerability. It is the scenario we have trained for, built defenses around and spent decades trying to prevent. But the next major breach may not begin with someone breaking into your environment at all, it may begin with an AI agent that already has access.

How Kroll transformed its global Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service to Kroll Responder MDR by utilizing CrowdStrike Falcon to deliver faster onboarding, deeper expertise and proactive resilience on a global scale. In December 2025, Kroll and CrowdStrike announced a multiyear strategic partnership to elevate MDR services worldwide.

Modern organizations don't operate from a single server room anymore. Today's enterprise environment spans dozens of cloud services, SaaS applications, APIs, AI agents, and non-human identities, all of which are continuously changing. A quarterly security audit is no longer a safety net, but now considered a gap.