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This Week in Cybersecurity #60
AI Crossed the Threshold: When 89% of an Attack Is Automated and the Gap Between Patch and Exploit Disappears
2 hrs ago • James Azar
SharePoint Under Active Attack, Zoom Faces Critical Account Takeover Flaw, and AI Builds a Live Botnet in Six Minutes
Why AI is no longer just helping attackers write code, it's helping them run cyber operations faster than defenders can respond.
Jul 16 • James Azar
20:16
Record Patch Tuesday Delivers 570 Fixes, SonicWall Zero-Days Under Active Attack, and ShareFile's Emergency Shutdown Finally Explained
Why the most dangerous vulnerability isn't the one vendors disclose, it's the one still waiting for approval to be patched.
Jul 15 • James Azar
21:25
CISA Orders Immediate Joomla Patching, Allied Governments Warn of Russian Router Campaigns, and AI-Generated Attack Scripts Enter the Wild
Why cybersecurity's biggest failures still begin with forgotten fundamentals and why attackers know it.
Jul 14 • James Azar
19:27
ShareFile Emergency Shutdown, AI Supply Chain Attacks Escalate, and Microsoft's Passkey Enrollment Becomes the New Phishing Battleground
Why automation not infrastructure has become the fastest-growing attack surface in enterprise cybersecurity.
Jul 13 • James Azar
19:25
This Week in Cybersecurity #59
Machine Speed, Machine Threats: The First AI Ransomware Attack,4 KEVs in One Day, and the Week Defenders Were Asked to Match Attacker Tempo, Your…
Jul 10 • James Azar
CISA Accelerates Emergency Patching, 6.99 Million Driver's Licenses Exposed, and Chinese Hackers Expand Espionage Against Universities
Why today's cybersecurity battle is no longer about discovering vulnerabilities, it's about whether defenders can move as fast as attackers.
Jul 9 • James Azar
18:42
BeyondTrust Patches Critical Authentication Flaws, Accenture Confirms Breach, and Nearly 5,000 Security Issues Discovered Across Public AI…
Why privileged trust not zero-days has become the most valuable target in modern cybersecurity.
Jul 8 • James Azar
17:22
ColdFusion CVSS 10 Exploited Within Hours, Canada's Cyber Command Takes Down Ransomware Infrastructure, and Iran's New Cavern C2 Targets…
Why the fastest attackers aren't inventing new techniques, they're perfecting the old ones faster than defenders can respond.
Jul 7 • James Azar
16:51
The First AI-Driven Ransomware Attack Is Here, Cisco Confirms Active Exploitation, and Medtronic's 3.8 Million Record Breach Expands the…
Why the first autonomous AI-powered ransomware attack signals a fundamental shift in how defenders must think about cybersecurity.
Jul 6 • James Azar
18:27
Inherited Risk: The New Reality of Cybersecurity Leadership
Why supply chain security is no longer about protecting your vendors—it’s about operating a business built on technology you don’t control.
Jul 4 • James Azar
This Week in Cybersecurity #58
Trust Without Verification: How Forgotten Credentials, Legacy Auth Flows, and AI Agents Became the Largest Attack Surface of 2026, Your weekend catch-up…
Jul 3 • James Azar
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