Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Attacker First Compromised AI Tool Used by Vercel Employee, Platform Provider FindsCloud platform provider Vercel said an attacker breached its systems and stole customer data after compromising a third-party agentic artificial intelligence tool used by an employee, called Context.ai, and stealing from it credentials and OAuth tokens tied to multiple services and customers.

Lawsuit Claims SonicWall Cloud Backup Flaw Led to Ransomware Attack Against MarquisMarquis Software Solutions has sued SonicWall alleging a cloud backup data breach exposed firewall configuration files, including credentials and multifactor authentication scratch codes. The firm says the breach enabled an August 2025 ransomware attack and triggered dozens of class action lawsuits.

ShinyHunters Campaign Uses Voice Phishing to Bypass MFA and Steal Corporate DataSecurity experts warn that "an active and ongoing campaign" being waged by ShinyHunters extortionists has at least 150 organizations in its sights across a range of sectors, with attackers using live voice phishing to bypass multifactor authentication, steal cloud data and hold it to ransom.

CyberArk's Matt Cohen: AI Agents Add New Category to Exploding Identity LandscapeMatt Cohen, CEO of CyberArk, explains how cloud-native applications have exponentially increased machine identities, with AI agents now creating an entirely new identity type requiring similar authentication and life cycle management approaches.

PureID Passwordless Authentication Tool Will Boost ColorTokens MicrosegmentationColorTokens purchased PureID, expanding its zero trust framework with identity-based segmentation for cloud and hybrid environments. The acquisition focuses on securing cloud applications, microservices and APIs through advanced identity-based authentication.

Payments Expert Troy Leach Joins the Panel to Cover AI, Zero Trust and IoT SecurityIn the latest weekly update, Troy Leach, CSO at Cloud Security Alliance, joins three editors at ISMG to discuss important cybersecurity issues, including how generative AI is enhancing multi-cloud security, AI's influence on authentication processes, and the state of zero trust and IoT security.

All Organizations That Use X Should Review Their Two-Factor Authentication SettingsGoogle Cloud's Mandiant says its account at X, formerly Twitter, was hijacked and used to link to cryptocurrency phishing pages after an attacker guessed the account password, apparently after Twitter last year deactivated the account's SMS-based two-factor authentication, leaving it unprotected.