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Kevin Townsend

Senior Contributor at SecurityWeek

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Recent Articles

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Pre-Baked Firmware Malware Hits Budget Android Devices in 150+ Countries

Midnight Mimosa is the name given to a malware campaign primarily running preinstalled on low-cost Android devices.
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Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says

PwC’s survey found that only 22% of leaders would use fully autonomous AI for cyber defense, while just 21% are implementing quantum-resistant security measures.
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Ransomware Attacks on Manufacturers Surge as Supply Chain Risk Grows

Ransomware Attacks on Manufacturers Surge as Supply Chain Risk Grows
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First Agentic AI Data Breach Reported to Spanish Regulator

Spanish regulators say an AI agent chained together a successful login, vulnerability discovery, and access to personal data in a potential milestone for autonomous cyberattacks.
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New Phishing Attack Creates Malicious Pages Inside the Victim’s Bro...

Attackers are using trusted Microsoft services and blob URLs to generate stealthy phishing pages that leave defenders with no static website to detect or block.
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New Phishing Attack Creates Malicious Pages Inside the Victim’s Bro...

Attackers are using trusted Microsoft services and blob URLs to generate stealthy phishing pages that leave defenders with no static website to detect or block.
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The Hidden Instructions That Can Hijack AI Agents

Malicious prompts concealed in documents, metadata, emails, images and code can manipulate autonomous agents into taking dangerous actions.
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AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $5...

The startup’s firewall evaluates AI skills, plugins and MCP servers for malicious instructions, excessive permissions and software supply chain risks.
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Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents

New models, trained using NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, aim to catch rogue agent behavior before it executes, without the latency of large-model review.
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UK Moves to Block High-Risk Tech Suppliers From Critical Infrastruc...

UK Moves to Block High-Risk Tech Suppliers From Critical Infrastructure
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Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisc...

New research shows that country-of-origin labels can obscure an AI model’s upstream dependencies, inherited behaviors and potential security risks.