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Mon, 14 Sept 2026
- Security teams increasingly outflanked by AI agents
A report warns that non-human identities are growing beyond the ability of existing systems to track.
Cybersecurity Dive - Malicious Twitch Extension Exposes 31,000 Users' OAuth Tokens
Socket has discovered a Twitch browser extension forwarding users' OAuth tokens to a Russian bot service
Infosecurity Magazine - Rapid7 Named Among Notable Vendors in Forrester MDR Landscape: Why the Future is Exposure-informed, Preemptive MDR
The managed detection and response (MDR) market has reached a turning point. We’ve gone beyond the baseline of 24/7 monitoring focusing on the speed of detection and moved to a world with a convergence of exposure management and response to deliver measurable, outcome-based defenses of a larger, AI-driven attack surface. For anyone evaluating MDR right now, the Managed Detection and Response Services Landscape, Q3 2026 report by Forrester is a useful map that lays out where the market is heading. This is a market that has moved beyond "do you cover my telemetry?" to “Can a provider connect and prove that its activity is tied to real reduction in risk?”. Rapid7 was named among the notable providers in this Forrester MDR Landscape. Being included matters to us, but the more interesting story is in what Forrester says about the market itself. Detection and exposure are becoming one service One of the report's clearest signals is directional: Forrester writes that "MDR services will converge with exposure and posture improvement.” That convergence is the whole basis of Rapid7 MDR and our Command Platform strategy. Most MDR services react after an attacker has already broken in. Rapid7
Rapid7 Blog - Google’s new search redirects make links harder to check before you click
Google says its new opaque redirects tackle evolving abuse, but they also prevent users from checking a result’s destination by hovering over it.
Malwarebytes LabsGoogle - New Warnings About the Risks of AI to Humanity Revive a Long-Running Debate
Concerns over the potential risks of the technology are rising as new AI models become more powerful, heightening both the potential for misuse by people with criminal aims.
SecurityWeek - The Race to Control AI and Protect What Makes Us Human
As researchers warn that misaligned AI could threaten human survival, even beneficial systems may erode the critical thinking that defines our humanity.
SecurityWeek - Defense Cyber Spending Set to Surge Amid Rising Attacks on Military Systems
MarketsandMarkets has projected the cyber warfare market to double by 2031, amid growing demand for defensive and offensive cyber capabilities in the military
Infosecurity Magazine - Revolut gave customer IDs and financial data to a government impostor
The digital bank was tricked into releasing sensitive customer information, including IDs, to an attacker using a legitimate government email domain.
Malwarebytes Labs - CISOs Race to Control AI Agents Without Destroying Their Value
Security leaders are struggling to modernize cyber hygiene and prevent over-privileged agents from causing unintended harm.
SecurityWeek - Unmasking Cloud Identities: From Behavioral Clustering to Automated Detection
We designed a behavioral clustering model to map cloud identity roles from audit logs, enabling continuous threat detection using standard SQL queries.
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