News – May 1, 2026

News for today:

  • [Abnormal AI] New leaders, because AI. Abnormal AI appointed three new senior executives to its leadership team, due to changes in the threat landscape. Over the past six months, Abnormal has seen a 97% increase in advanced attacks bypassing Secure Email Gateways, driven by a new class of AI-generated threats that mimic trusted communications well enough to evade traditional detection. As attacks become more sophisticated, demand for Abnormal’s Behavioral AI Platform continues to grow, and organizations are demanding solutions they can trust to protect their people and data without adding operational complexity. Abnormal AI
  • [DigiCert] Content Trust Manager. DigiCert added a new capability to its ONE platform, for better ways of distinguishing between authentic and altered content. Content Trust Manager enables organizations to cryptographically sign and verify digital content using DigiCert’s globally trusted PKI infrastructure, simplifying how enterprises establish authenticity and integrity at scale. Delivered as a managed solution, it integrates into existing workflows via APIs while supporting certificate issuance, key management, and signing. DigiCert
  • [KnowBe4] 86% of phishing attacks are AI driven. New research from KnowBe4 highlights the impact of AI on phishing, the rise of new attack vectors, and more. Cybercriminals are actively broadening the email threat landscape. As businesses rely on tools for real-time collaboration, cybercriminals have added this to their attacks, along with targeting people’s calendars. This attack method targets people and technology together. KnowBe4
  • [Open Systems] OT partnership with Nozomi. Open Systems announced a strategic partnership with Nozomi Networks, for better cybersecurity coverage of OT and IoT networks. Through this partnership, Open Systems will integrate and resell the Nozomi Networks platform, strengthening its ability to deliver end-to-end security across IT, OT and IoT environments. The collaboration enables Open Systems to extend its fully managed security model into operational technology environments, supporting customers in industries such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, and critical infrastructure. Open Systems
  • [Gen] Security and privacy for AI agents. Gen introduced a VPN service for AI agents and added AI agent protection into Norton 360. Norton AI Agent Protection monitors what supported AI agents do and where they connect, adding smart security layers between decision and execution. It provides action-level monitoring, intelligent blocking, and clear, user-friendly prompts – all seamlessly integrated into Norton 360. New capabilities: blocking malicious integrations, defending against prompt injection, and advanced code and file scanning. Gen
  • [TrendAI] More Claude Opus 4.7. TrendAI and Anthropic are deepening their collaboration so TrendAI can expand its use of Claude Opus 4.7 for cybersecurity research. TrendAI uses Claude Opus 4.7 to reason like an attacker, determining what’s reachable, what’s controllable, and what’s exploitable across complex software ecosystems. At scale, this means autonomously discovering and proving real vulnerabilities. TrendAI Vision One builds on these insights by prioritizing, mapping attack paths, and enabling swift mitigation—including virtual patching—across hybrid environments. TrendAI

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