Weekly roundup covering America's Cyber Strategy decoded, the frontier lab AppSec race, breakthroughs from [un]prompted 2026, real-world prompt injection attacks on payment rails, and 90 zero-days exploited in 2025.
$2.1B in new DoD cyber spending, Google building the Booz Allen of cyberspace, and a rip-and-replace paradox that bites both sides. I mapped the strategy verbatims to money flows and named the winners.
The code security race among frontier labs to own your AppSec pipeline accelerates. Anthropic fired the starting gun, OpenAI responded within days.
Speakers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft revealed that AI can now find zero-days autonomously, crack hardware that resisted weeks of brute-force in minutes, and break every major AI IDE on the market.
Attackers are planting hidden instructions in webpages that hijack AI agents into initiating Stripe payments, deleting databases, and approving scam ads.
For the first time, commercial surveillance vendors outpaced state-sponsored espionage groups in 0-day exploitation, enterprise targeting hit an all-time high at 48%, and China doubled its 0-day usage while sharing exploits faster across groups.
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