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Google Cloud has published an updated roadmap for migrating its infrastructure to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), targeting full readiness by 2029, with some work expected to continue into the next decade. In March, Google announced it was moving up its timeline for transitioning to PQC, setting a 2029 target after faster-than-expected advances in quantum hardware and error correction. The tech giant announced this week that the plan, built around its own Quantum Threat Model, organizes work…

Twenty-one cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in July 2026. For a detailed view of the more than 420 acquisitions announced in 2025, check out SecurityWeek’s annual M&A report. Here are some of the most important cybersecurity M&A deals announced in July 2026:    Bank of America to acquire MDSec Bank of America announced plans to acquire UK-based information security consultancy MDSec Consulting Limited. MDSec provides technical information security consulting services and employs roughly…

A SharePoint vulnerability patched last month is now being exploited in the wild, with the attacks starting shortly after the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-55040, was fixed by Microsoft with its July Patch Tuesday updates. Microsoft described it as a weak authentication issue that allows an attacker to bypass a security feature over a network. “Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to disclose files and modify data,” Microsoft…

Adobe on Tuesday rolled out patches for over 50 vulnerabilities across its products, including critical-severity bugs in ColdFusion, Campaign Classic, and Commerce. With a priority 1 rating, the ColdFusion update fixes 15 security defects, including three flagged as critical that could lead to arbitrary code execution and application denial-of-service (DoS). These include an OS command injection tracked as CVE-2026-48362 (CVSS score of 10/10), an eval injection tracked as CVE-2026-48273 (CVSS score of 9.9/10), and an…

OpenAI has flagged its upcoming AI model, Astra, for potentially reaching a ‘critical’ cybersecurity risk threshold, prompting the company to suspend internal development activities that lack newly mandated security controls. Recent internal evaluations of Astra revealed massive leaps in its agentic coding and cybersecurity abilities.  Under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, a model hits the ‘critical’ tier if it can autonomously build zero-day exploits against hardened, real-world systems. It also qualifies if the AI can independently design…

DEF CON — Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed a one-click vulnerability in Rovo, Atlassian’s enterprise AI assistant, that let a specially crafted link seed attacker-controlled instructions directly into a user’s live AI session.  Dubbed RovoBlast, the flaw required no jailbreak and no permission bypass, relying on the fact that the assistant simply treated externally supplied parameters as trusted input. Rovo functions as an AI layer spanning Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and third-party tools such as Slack,…