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Scytale expands vendor risk management with AI-powered TPRM tools

Scytale launched AI-powered third-party risk management in its Vendors module, automating vendor discovery, risk scoring, and continuous vendor posture monitoring.

Scytale added AI-driven TPRM capabilities to its Vendors module, combining automatic vendor discovery from SSO providers and integrations with AI enrichment and dynamic risk scoring. The platform now continuously monitors vendors for breaches, data exposures, and vulnerabilities via third-party intelligence APIs, with proactive email notifications and auto-generated audit-ready security reports. It integrates with cross-framework control mapping for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX ITGC. Scytale cites Verizon's 2026 DBIR, which found 48% of breaches involved a third party, up 60% year over year.

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Attack Chains, Not Just Attack Surfaces: Why Testing Individual Techniques Misses the Point

Filigran introduces Attack Chaining in OpenAEV to continuously simulate multi-stage attack paths, exposing gaps that isolated MITRE ATT&CK technique testing misses.

Filigran announced Attack Chaining, a new scenario type in its OpenAEV platform that links individual techniques into automated, continuously-run multi-stage attack paths, using each step's real output (credentials, tokens, open ports) to branch dynamically toward a final objective. The article cites Filigran's State of Threat Management report, in which 93% of security leaders reported a business-impacting cyberattack in the past 12 months, 88% said AI accelerates attackers, and 84% blamed siloed tools and disconnected testing. The 2025 DGFiP breach is cited as an example where individually survivable weaknesses chained into a major intrusion. The feature includes conditional chaining logic, live attack path mapping, structured findings for identifying chokepoints, and predefined scope and safety guardrails.

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LastPass enhancements improve visibility, governance, and control

LastPass releases SaaS monitoring enhancements, Mobile Smart Scanner, and auto-enrolled dark web monitoring across its password management products.

LastPass announced enhancements to SaaS Monitoring and SaaS Protect in its Business Max offering, including Persistent Monitoring that keeps visibility active through the browser extension even when users are signed out, fully released as of July. It launched Mobile Smart Scanner to convert printed, handwritten, or screenshot passwords into vault credentials, and began phasing in automatic enrollment of all consumer accounts in dark web monitoring. The company also completed its transition to a Unified Admin Console, added company-wide onboarding links, and passed SOC 2 and ISO 27001/27701 audits with zero findings for the second consecutive year.

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Bitsight connects threat intelligence and exposure monitoring across the supply chain

Bitsight made Beacon generally available, combining supply-chain exposure monitoring with MCP support to feed threat intelligence into AI workflows.

Bitsight announced general availability of Beacon, which continuously monitors critical vendors for exposure, vulnerabilities, malicious activity, intrusion, stolen credentials and compromise. New Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic capabilities push Bitsight intelligence into AI-enabled workflows, with over 400 customers signing up for early access in one month. The company cites data that third parties now account for almost half of enterprise breaches, up over 60% year over year.

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Keepnet launches free SMS/Call Reporter for iOS

Keepnet launched a free iOS app, SMS/Call Reporter, letting users one-tap report smishing and vishing into corporate incident response pipelines.

Keepnet released the free SMS/Call Reporter app for iOS, letting users report suspicious SMS and voice phishing with one tap. For enterprise customers, reports flow into Keepnet Incident Responder alongside email phishing reports. The company cites Verizon 2026 DBIR data showing mobile phishing simulations achieve a 40% higher median click rate than email, and FBI IC3 2025 counted $798 million in smishing and vishing losses. An Android version is planned.

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CBTS brings continuous penetration testing to enterprise security

CBTS launched Penetration Testing as a Service built on Horizon3.ai's NodeZero, combining autonomous pentesting with expert review for continuous validation.

CBTS announced PTaaS, a service that runs recurring autonomous penetration tests powered by Horizon3.ai's NodeZero across cloud, SaaS, identity, and AI environments, with CBTS experts reviewing findings for exploitability and remediation guidance. The service supports daily-to-quarterly cadences and aims to support Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) programs. It cites Verizon's 2026 DBIR finding that re-exploitation likelihood drops roughly 30 days after last observed exploitation.

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WordPress Blocks High-Risk Plugin Releases With New AI-Powered Automated Security Review

WordPress.org now runs AI-powered automated security reviews on every plugin release, automatically blocking high-risk updates before distribution to millions of sites.

WordPress launched an automated security review that combines multiple AI models and Jetpack Scan during a six-hour cooldown to score each plugin release; updates above the blocking threshold are automatically held back from the WordPress.org update API. The change follows a July 28 incident where a backdoor added to a plugin with roughly 20,000 active installations was detected during cooldown and never delivered; the Plugins Team removed it 26 minutes after a Wordfence notification. Blocked developers receive an email with findings and are advised to publish a corrected version rather than await manual appeal.

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Claude Mythos 5 is coming to Tenable One, powering the new “Adversary View”

Tenable will integrate Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 into Tenable One, launching Adversary View to surface exploitable vulnerability chains from scan data.

Tenable announced it is bringing Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 into the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, extending its Project Glasswing research work with Anthropic. The first capability, Tenable One Adversary View, will use the model's adversarial reasoning over raw scanner evidence, plugin output, live connections and low-confidence signals to identify viable vulnerability chains and ranked defensive actions. Customers will act on results through Tenable Hexa AI. Availability details for Adversary View are expected in the coming weeks; no customer deployment exists yet.

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Fideo Lens reveals connections across identities, accounts and devices

Fideo Intelligence launched Fideo Lens, an investigative platform mapping relationships across identities, accounts, devices and behaviors for fraud and AML teams.

Fideo Intelligence introduced Fideo Lens, an investigative intelligence platform that helps fraud, financial crime, and AML teams discover hidden relationships among identities, accounts, devices, and behaviors. The tool draws on the company's Identity Fraud Intelligence Network (iFIN) and offers interactive relationship mapping, entity resolution, explainable reason codes, and continuously refreshed data. It is designed to complement existing fraud, AML, and case management systems rather than replace them.

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Product showcase: ScamNet looks for warning signs in suspicious calls and shady links

Synaptrex's ScamNet app filters scam calls, messages and websites on Apple devices using on-device AI and reputation checks.

ScamNet: Anti-Scam Suite from Synaptrex Technologies is a free consumer app (with ScamNet+ subscription) for iPhone, iPad and Mac that blocks robocalls and spam via iOS Call Blocking & Identification, filters unknown senders with an offline detection engine, and provides a Safari extension that analyzes and blocks suspicious websites. A Check/Report tool accepts phone numbers, websites, crypto addresses, text, images and audio, and a Device Shield verifies passcode, OS updates and screen-recording status.

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Crytica's RDAi detects OT device tampering from within

Crytica Security announces RDAi, a deterministic in-device integrity monitoring system detecting unauthorized tampering of OT and IoT devices.

Crytica Security's Rapid Detection, Alert and isolation (RDAi) system installs a sub-100 KB Probe agent inside each protected OT or IoT device to monitor instruction set integrity and provide deterministic evidence of unauthorized changes. The high-fidelity alerts augment SOC, SIEM, XDR and AI-assisted workflows without replacing existing security investments. The company targets critical infrastructure, utility, healthcare and federal environments, with additional integrations and collaborations planned.

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