News for today:
- Restoring Trust in Business Communications. IRONSCALES released its latest report – on the impact of AI on trust in business communications. Even ‘solved’ attack types like phishing and business email compromise have become immature again. BEC attacks from 2025 bear little resemblance to those from 2020—they’re now hyper-personalized, multi-channel, and can be launched autonomously at scale. Osterman Research (that’s us) carried out the research. BusinessWire
- Wallarm adds API protections. Wallarm added new capabilities for protecting APIs against attacks, including session blocking and security testing. On session blocking: security teams [can] surgically block malicious API sessions while allowing legitimate users and applications to continue uninterrupted. This capability represents a shift away from blunt, IP-based controls toward behavior-aware, session-level enforcement designed for high-volume, machine-to-machine traffic. Wallarm also added new members to its executive leadership team, released a new open-source tool, and created a university. Wallarm
- OpenText Cybersecurity on security in 2026. Several members of the OpenText Cybersecurity team provide their POV on cybersecurity in 2026, including identity threats from agentic AI, the return of in-person communication to defend against impersonation, the cost of human’s trusting gen AI too much (data leaks), and voice cloning attacks, among others. SecurityBrief