Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new large language model aimed at cybersecurity professionals for detecting and patching software vulnerabilities, which it says outperforms its own Gemini 4 Argon and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on benchmarks. The company also released Genie 4, a world model that simulates physical environments and now supports audio like background noise and dialogue. Both models remain restricted: Gemini 4 Carbon is limited to select cybersecurity experts while Genie 4 has a waitlist, with no public release date confirmed.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-28
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new AI model it says delivers major improvements in coding, long-running agentic tasks, and cybersecurity defense compared to its predecessor Argon, released earlier this month. The model tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 and leads rival models from Anthropic and OpenAI on two security-focused benchmarks, SEC-bench Pro and ExploitGym. Access is currently limited to select cybersecurity defense firms through Google's Fairwind Program, with wider partner access planned later.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
Healthcare providers are deploying artificial intelligence across a widening range of functions, including patient intake and cancer screening. Reports indicate that in some cases these AI deployments are advancing faster than the cybersecurity measures needed to protect them.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-28
Check Point has introduced a subscription-based firewall service called Firewall-as-a-Subscription, built on its R82.20 platform. The offering removes the need to buy hardware upfront but requires customers to commit to monthly or annual payments for at least three years. It bundles Check Point Force hardware firewalls, SandBlast AI-powered threat prevention, an 'agentic console' for managing bots and AI agents, live security updates, and premium support.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-28
AT&T agreed to pay $177 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over 2019 and 2024 data breaches that exposed personal information of more than 110 million customers. More than 4.9 million people filed claims before the December deadline, and the company could still appeal the settlement until November 2.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-27
Cathedral, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Department of Government Efficiency staffers with ties to Trump, says it gained access to Anthropic's internal data and Slack messages. The firm claims it exploited vulnerabilities in third-party business software used by Anthropic, and says the intrusion took less than 12 hours.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-27
At Black Hat India, Nathan Hamiel, senior director of research at Kudelski Security, said increasing reliance on AI-driven automation in cybersecurity could weaken professionals' grasp of core technical skills. He traced this concern back to 2005-2006, when he first observed practitioners becoming 'hands-off' monitors of dashboards rather than hands-on investigators, and said generative AI is now accelerating that shift.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-27
Dream Group trained an 8-billion-parameter model, called MiST, on 220,000 vulnerability records, threat reports and detection rules, and reported improved average performance across 13 cybersecurity tasks such as vulnerability analysis questions. Anthropic separately said its Opus 5.5 model, released in September, cut costs 40% versus Opus 5 on typical workloads while maintaining performance.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-27
Mark Weatherford, a security executive at Nvidia, says chief information security officers need to actively help business leaders evaluate the benefits and risks of deploying AI systems. He argues that the teams and leaders who choose to deploy AI should also be accountable for managing the risks that come with it.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-26
The New York Knicks sent staff an email offering free NBA championship rings, which turned out to be a simulated phishing test tied to owner James Dolan's cybersecurity push. Employees who clicked the link were required to attend mandatory cybersecurity training, according to The New York Times. Separately, The Athletic reported that many Knicks assistant coaches and longtime Madison Square Garden staff did not actually receive championship rings during the team's banner-raising ceremony.
it.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-23
Madison Square Garden employees received a late-September email claiming 'your Employee Championship Ring is here,' asking them to click a link and pick from two ring designs, according to The New York Times. Employees who clicked were required to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class, team sources told the Times, as owner James Dolan has grown increasingly concerned about cybersecurity.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-23
On July 24, 2025, Curaçao's Tax and Customs Administration detected ransomware that knocked out counter services, its call center and internal operations for over a week, requiring Dutch specialists to help restore systems. A day earlier, the Joint Court of Justice serving Curaçao, Aruba, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius was also taken offline, meaning one intrusion disrupted judicial functions across six jurisdictions simultaneously.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-23
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