Fahmida Y. Rashid wrote a 20-year retrospective for Dark Reading (May 2026). If you sit on a board or approve security budgets, it's the clearest explanation I've seen in a long time of how we got here.

If you run security for a hospital system, a bank, a college, or a manufacturer, a new government advisory deserves ten minutes this week.

On July 13, NSA, CISA, FBI, and DC3, joined by partners across the Five Eyes and Europe, released "Improve Router Hygiene to Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Targeting" (AA26-194A). It documents a decade-plus campaign by Russia's FSB Center 16 against networking devices. The sectors it names as most at risk are financial services, healthcare and public health, energy, communications, the defense industrial base, and government, especially at the state and local levels.

Many of you have seen the headlines about the breach at Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system used by 41% of higher education institutions in North America and thousands of K-12 districts. Here's what's known, and what your institution should be doing about it.

What shadow AI really looks like inside a normal workday

Shadow AI is any AI tool, feature, or integration your organization uses without clear approval, security review, or monitoring, but it still touches real business data. It’s the AI sidebar in your CRM, the browser extension a manager added, or an “assist” feature turned on by a vendor.

Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its newest AI model was too dangerous to release to the public. The Claude Mythos Preview reportedly found critical software vulnerabilities, including some that had gone undetected for over twenty years. In response, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a $100 million coalition that includes Apple, Microsoft, Google, AWS, JPMorgan Chase, CrowdStrike, the Linux Foundation, and about fifty other major industry players. Their goal is to find and fix the most serious issues before attackers do. That was the main story.