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SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers stay well-informed about the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights:  Microsoft threat report sees phishing triple as exploit windows shrink Microsoft’s 2026 Digital…

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Is zero trust still effective in the AI era? A new book from John Kindervag says yes, but that assumes it is correctly implemented. John Kindervag introduced the concept of zero trust in a Forrester Research report titled No More Chewy Centers: Introducing the Zero Trust Model of Information Security published in 2010. Since then, the concept has become a foundational precept within cybersecurity. Fifteen years later, he was asked to write a new book…

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The number of vulnerabilities disclosed each month doubled in 2026, and the monthly average of vulnerabilities exploited in the wild nearly doubled, according to a new report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). Analyzing disclosures from January 2025 through August 2026, GTIG found that monthly disclosures rose from 5,045 in January 2026 to 10,477 in July, peaking at 10,740 in August. “We found that AI is measurably changing not just the pace of vulnerability discovery…

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Xint to research the use of autonomous AI application security for deep analyses of internally and externally developed messaging applications that are used throughout the Department of War. DARPA was established in 1958 following the USSR’s launch of Sputnik in 1957. The purpose was to ensure the US would never again be surprised by the technological achievements of foreign countries. DARPA consequently partners with and supports private…

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Frontier AI firm Modulate has raised an additional $25 million funding from Future Ventures, with participation from Hyperplane and Lakestar, bringing its total funding to $60 million. Modulate builds audio-native AI models that enable machines to understand the nuances in human conversation, whether natural or fake.  It uses a proprietary Ensemble Listening Model (ELM) architecture to generate the individual AI models that power its Velma platform. Velma brings together more than 100 of these specialized…

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A Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-65660 is now being exploited in attacks, roughly six weeks after Microsoft announced patches and a couple of days after researchers disclosed technical details. CVE-2026-65660 is a remote code execution vulnerability fixed by Microsoft with its August 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. The company’s advisory describes it as a code injection issue that lets an authenticated attacker with low-level access to an affected server execute arbitrary code without user interaction. …

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