• PJ Bradley
    Contributing Writer Security Buzz

    PJ Bradley is a writer from southeast Michigan with a Bachelor's degree in history from Oakland University. She has a background in school-age care and experience tutoring college history students.

    Currently, PJ is focused on building a career in higher education while freelancing as a writer. A lover of literature and art, she dedicates much of her free time to creative writing and reading.

Articles by PJ Bradley
AI agents cyber attack Taiwan https://www.pexels.com/photo/cityscape-of-illuminated-taipei-at-sunset-taiwan-11720365/
AI Agents Autonomously Breached Taiwan Government Networks in Four Days
September 08, 2026
In July 2026, government cybersecurity monitors began to flag anomalous activity on Taiwanese government infrastructure. The discovery was traced back to a 160-megabyte archive of agentic AI operational logs, and researchers quickly realized they were…
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ToxicPanda Android Trojan https://www.pexels.com/photo/eating-panda-bear-14925845/
ToxicPanda 2.0 Turns Wireless Debugging Into a Master Key for Android Banking Fraud
September 07, 2026
First discovered in late 2024 by cybersecurity company Cleafy, ToxicPanda has built up a known history in the past few years as an Android banking trojan with operations focused in Europe. Recently, Zimperium’s zLabs team…
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AI-Powered Vulnerability Hunting Is Outpacing Microsoft's Ability to Patch
September 04, 2026
A blog post published on August 13th by Microsoft’s Exchange Team outlines a further delay in the release of Exchange SE Cumulative Update 1 (CU1). The update was initially expected in the first half of…
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White House private cyber retaliation https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-standing-outside-the-fence-of-the-white-house-in-washington-12319862/
U.S. Deputizes Private Companies for Offensive Cyber Operations Against Criminal Networks
September 02, 2026
On August 12th, 2026, a presidential memorandum was published authorizing Participating Companies—vetted private contractors—to conduct government-directed cyber operations. The new program covers both Cyber Surveillance Operations and Cyber Effects Operations. While Surveillance Operations include intelligence…
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OpenAI Can't Rule Out Astra Has Reached Critical Cyber Capability
August 31, 2026
OpenAI’s Astra model has been flagged for possible critical cyber capability, as the company states that it “cannot rule out” the possibility under its current Preparedness Framework. This is the first model to approach the…
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Fortinet Virtue AI https://www.pexels.com/photo/abstract-digital-blocks-with-led-light-effects-30547616/
Fortinet Acquires Virtue AI to Secure Autonomous Agents at Runtime
August 28, 2026
In recent years, the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and agents has reshaped the digital landscape and brought on many new and evolving risks. The deployment of autonomous AI agents in business environments…
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Paperclip AI agent https://www.pexels.com/photo/scattered-colorful-paperclips-5251349/
Paperclip Vulnerabilities Show How AI Agent Configuration Becomes Code
August 24, 2026
Open-source AI company Paperclip plays a significant role in orchestrating autonomous AI agents at scale, enabling organizations to centrally manage a company of AI agents. A design choice causes Paperclip to treat agent configuration as…
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Okta Permiso identity https://www.pexels.com/photo/chain-link-fence-closed-with-lock-in-countryside-5688464/
Okta Buys Permiso for $200 Million to Police AI Agents After Login
August 18, 2026
Identity and access management (IAM) company Okta recently signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, with the deal expected to close in Q3 of Okta’s 2027 fiscal year. While the exact terms of the…
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BeyondTrust identity trust https://www.pexels.com/photo/portrait-shot-of-a-woman-5473960/
Research Finds Most Attacks Exploit Identity Trust, Not Bugs
August 17, 2026
BeyondTrust’s Phantom Labs was founded in 2025 to conduct research and share intelligence pertinent to the company’s security efforts. The recently released Phantom Labs Research Index explores the fruits of the first year of Phantom…
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CrowdStrike SGNL continuous identity security AI
Cyera Adds Oasis Security for $1B to Close the AI Agent Identity Gap
August 11, 2026
The ongoing AI explosion and recent growth of agentic AI usage have created a security landscape with new and evolving risks. Enterprises are deploying AI agents within their networks at a rapid pace, outstripping any…
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Minnesota water treatment cyber attack https://www.pexels.com/photo/water-flowing-from-pipes-17882783/
Iranian Hackers Suspected in Attack on 30+ Minnesota Water Utilities
August 10, 2026
A recent cyberattack against water utilities in Minnesota has revealed the extent of the weakness in many operational technology (OT) environments. Municipal water systems largely run on aging and outdated OT, often exposed to the…
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How Ubuntu's Root-Access Fix Created a New Path to Root
August 05, 2026
A new high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8933, has arisen as the result of an update from Canonical in an attempt to harden snap-confine. Intended to reduce the attack surface of snap-confine, the fix inadvertently created…
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OpenAI Anthropic guardrails containment https://www.pexels.com/photo/barriers-on-the-road-bend-above-the-clouds-19288164/
AI Models Keep Breaking Their Own Rules
August 03, 2026
OpenAI recently published a blog post disclosing an incident wherein two of its AI models broke containment and hacked Hugging Face to retrieve a benchmark answer key and cheat on an evaluation. The language used…
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Palo Alto Networks Buys Its Way Into Watching Everything
August 02, 2026
On July 21st, 2026, Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire user-focused observability provider Embrace under undisclosed terms. The deal adds Real User Monitoring (RUM) functionality to the company’s existing Observability platform. The acquisition…
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Cribl CardinalOps https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-front-of-a-computer-screen-7534101/
Telemetry Giant Bets $100M That the SIEM Era Is Ending
July 28, 2026
The state of the modern enterprise and security strategies has led to an environment where security teams are drowning in telemetry volume and alert noise, unable to adequately address real concerns among a flood of…
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FSB Five Eyes nation state threat https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-switch-hub-turned-on-159304/
Inside the FSB's Decade-Long Campaign to Weaponize Network Neglect
July 26, 2026
An unprecedented coalition of US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and five EU nations recently issued a joint advisory, titled “Improve Router Hygiene to Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Targeting.” The document explicitly names Russia’s FSB…
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JadePuffer agentic AI ransomware https://www.pexels.com/photo/pufferpish-swimming-in-a-fish-tank-12788237/
Inside the Extortion Operation With No One Behind the Keyboard
July 25, 2026
Since the inception of ransomware as a form of cyberattack, the tactics and technologies used by ransomware threat actors have continuously evolved to increase success rates and payouts. Throughout this time, the one constant has…
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Barracuda EVO identity security https://www.pexels.com/photo/3d-colorful-bricks-12651144/
Why Barracuda Bet Against the Platform Giants
July 22, 2026
In the era of AI, cyberattacks are increasingly targeting both human and non-human identities alike. As technology continues to advance, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) operate and manage sprawling, thinly resourced identity environments, often without…
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