Sophos, Thursday, October 15th, 2026
Sophos ITDR Expands Identity Protection for the AI Era
Sophos ITDR becomes a standalone offering with deeper AI identity visibility, expanded Microsoft support and faster response.
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Sophos, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Sophos AI Defense Is Now Generally Available
Sophos AI Defense is now GA, giving visibility and control over shadow AI and protecting sensitive data in AI use.
more → Sophos, Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
CISA's 17 Active Directory Attack Techniques: Detection and Defense with Sophos MDR
Sophos groups CISA's 17 Active Directory compromise techniques into four categories and explains how to defend against them with MDR.
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Sophos, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
Understanding Asymmetric Routing Risks
Sophos explains how asymmetric routing breaks stateful firewall inspection, raises adversary-in-the-middle risk and disrupts cutovers.
more → Sophos, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Sophos CISO Advantage Is Now Generally Available
Sophos CISO Advantage is now GA, giving organizations and MSPs framework-mapped control evidence, roadmaps and board reporting.
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Sophos, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
TerminalFix and Lorem Ipsum Loader Enable Covert Tunneling
Sophos details STAC4924, a campaign using TerminalFix lures and Lorem Ipsum Loader to deploy a Python tunneling implant.
more → Sophos, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Sophos Firewall v23 Is Now in Early Access
Sophos Firewall v23 enters early access with 30+ requested features, including a REST API and AI-powered firewall assistant.
more → Sophos, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Jev's Paradox: The Hidden Cost of Cheap AI Decisions
Sophos examines how cheap classifier-style AI decisions could multiply total errors if accuracy and calibration fall short.
more → Sophos, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
The Rising Threat of Deepfakes: Why Organizations Must Rethink Trust
Sophos warns deepfake attacks are up 2,100% and says organizations must move beyond trusting human judgment.
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Sophos, Thursday, September 17th, 2026
The Answer to AI Uncertainty Is Adaptability, Not Paralysis
Sophos argues security teams should build adaptable programs rather than wait out AI uncertainty.
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Sophos, Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
September Patch Tuesday Haul Includes 973 CVEs
Sophos breaks down an unusually large September Patch Tuesday covering 973 CVEs.
more → Sophos, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
The Industry Turned XDR and SIEM into Categories. Sophos Turned Them into Outcomes.
Sophos positions its next-generation SIEM around security outcomes rather than product category labels.
more → Sophos, Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Messageboards Are All They Need
Sophos research examines how threat actors coordinate via messageboards rather than sophisticated infrastructure.
more → Sophos, Monday, September 14th, 2026
Devil's Advocate? Uncensored Luciferus AI Service Advertised Underground
Sophos investigates Luciferus, an uncensored AI service marketed to criminals on underground forums.
more → Sophos, Friday, September 11th, 2026
"Eye" Spy: Cyclops Blink Returns With Extended Capabilities
Upgraded modular malware observed attacking Cisco Firewall Management Center devices.
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Sophos, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Ungentlemanly Behavior: Insights Into a Ransomware Operation
Sophos analyzes 15 intrusions by GOLD SHERWOOD affiliates running The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service scheme.
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Sophos, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
A Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense
Sophos has signed OpenAI's open letter urging coordinated global action on cyber defense as AI reshapes the threat landscape.
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Sophos, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Sophos Ranked #1 Overall in Endpoint, XDR, MDR and Firewall in the G2 Fall 2026 Reports
G2's Fall 2026 Reports rank Sophos #1 Overall across Endpoint Protection, MDR, XDR and Firewall Software.
more → Sophos, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Fake AI, Real Malware: Attackers Impersonating AI Brands
Sophos X-Ops reviewed a year of MDR cases and found attackers overwhelmingly faking AI sites and installers to spread malware.
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Sophos, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Sophos DNS Protection Update for GenAI
Sophos DNS Protection adds a Generative AI category for visibility and policy control over GenAI services.
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Sophos, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
N-Able N-Central Exploitation Results in RMM Tool Deployment
Sophos reports attackers exploiting N-able N-central to deploy AnyDesk, TeamViewer, and TacticalRMM.
more → Sophos, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Interlock Ransomware Gang Creates Volatile Situation
Sophos investigates Interlock ransomware abusing legitimate DFIR memory-analysis tools including Volatility3.
more → Sophos, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Three-Headed Dogs and Long Tails: Sophos at BSides LV
Sophos AI researchers preview BSides Las Vegas talks on a three-headed jailbreak detector and LLM-assisted data labeling.
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Sophos, Friday, July 31st, 2026
When AI Does Not Know the Target Is Real
Sophos reads Anthropic's disclosure of three sandbox-escape incidents as proof that security fundamentals still decide the outcome.
more → Sophos, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Secure by Design in Practice: A Year of Progress on Sophos Firewall
Sophos reports a year of firewall hardening and an internal AI vulnerability-hunting platform that outperformed pen testing on cost.
more → Sophos, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Chaos in Teams Vishing
Sophos tracks STAC4749 using Teams vishing and custom malware to deploy Chaos ransomware within 17 hours.
more → Sophos, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Why Sophos Has Become Its Own AI Test Lab
Sophos describes the risk compass and AI Safety Board it uses to govern aggressive internal AI adoption.
more → Sophos, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Turn Cybersecurity Into a High-Value Business Function With Sophos CISO Advantage
Sophos previews CISO Advantage, a cyber program management platform arriving in October to express security in business terms.
more → Sophos, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Introducing Sophos AI Defense
Sophos launches AI Defense to discover shadow AI, assess risk, and enforce policy inside the existing Fusion stack.
more → Sophos, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
When the Attacker Is an AI Agent
Sophos draws defensive lessons from the OpenAI test agent that breached Hugging Face infrastructure.
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Sophos, Monday, July 20th, 2026
In Code We Trust? Why the Most Trusted Software Receives the Least Scrutiny
Sophos shows why widely trusted software gets the least security scrutiny and how to review it.
more → Sophos, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Sophos Fusion Launches as an AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System
Sophos launched Fusion, an AI-native defense system unifying endpoint, firewall, email, cloud, identity and SecOps on one architecture.
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Sophos, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Sophos Firewall v22 MR2 Adds AI App Control, PQC Detection, and Enhanced Chromebook Support
Sophos Firewall v22 MR2 adds post-quantum cryptography detection, sharper generative AI app control and Manifest V3 Chromebook support.
more → Sophos, Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
Vect and TeamPCP Partner for Ransomware Campaigns
Sophos warns that Vect and TeamPCP have combined credential theft and ransomware into an industrialized attack model.
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Sophos, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
71% of Organizations Suffered At Least One Identity Breach in the Past Year
State of Identity Security 2026 report finds human error and poor non-human identity management are the root causes of most attacks, as agentic AI accelerates the risk
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Sophos, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
The State of Identity Security 2026: Identity is the new perimeter
Discover the causes and consequences of identity threats based on a survey of 5,000 organizations across 17 countries.
more → Sophos, Monday, May 11th, 2026
GPT-5.5-Cyber is here. What it means for defenders operating at the frontier.
OpenAI's May 7 release of GPT-5.5 and the limited preview of GPT-5.5-Cyber put frontier AI in verified defenders' hands.
more → Sophos, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Amazon GuardDuty Enhances Detection Efficacy With Sophos Threat Intelligence
Amazon has integrated Sophos threat intelligence into Amazon GuardDuty, expanding the breadth and accuracy of malicious threat detection for customers running workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Sophos, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
The Cybersecurity Trust Reality In 2026
New Sophos survey reveals only 5% of IT leaders say they fully trust their cybersecurity vendors
more → Sophos, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Where AI In The SOC Is Actually Delivering - And Where It Isn't
'We'll have a generation of security professionals who can supervise AI but can't function without it."
more → Sophos, March 23,2026
The Global CISO Landscape: A Leadership Gap Too Large To Ignore
Why the world needs scalable security leadership - and MSPs and MSSPs are key to delivery
more → Sophos, March 23,2026
NICKEL ALLEY Strategy: Fake iI 'Til You Make It
Victimizing software developers via fake companies, jobs, and code repositories to steal cryptocurrency
more → Sophos, Friday, March 13th, 2026
March Patch Tuesday visits 15 product families
Microsoft on Tuesday released 84 patches affecting 15 product families - including a few you've possibly never encountered. Eight of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity, though none of those affect Windows, nor are they expected to be exploited within the next 30 days.
more → Sophos, Friday, March 13th, 2026
Initial access techniques used by Iran-based threat actors
Analysis of attacks originating from Iran-linked threat groups reveals a preference for certain techniques
more → Sophos, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Optimize Your Sophos Firewall Security
If you're not one of the many customers that have already upgraded to Sophos Firewall v22, now is the perfect time. Optimize your Sophos Firewall security posture and take advantage of the many new Secure by Design capabilities in the release to strengthen your firewall and network security.
more → Sophos, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Hacktivist Campaigns Increase As United States, Iran, And Israel Conflict Intensifies
Rising tensions have sparked an increase in regional hacktivist activity, but impact has been minimal
more → Sophos, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Cyber Means Business: Ross Mckerchar On When Security Vendors Become The Risk
In this edition of Cyber Means Business, Ross McKerchar, chief information security officer at Sophos, explains how attacks against cybersecurity vendors themselves are reshaping how organizations think about risk, trust, and responsibility. Drawing on Sophos' experience responding to a long-running nation-state attack, McKerchar argues that security vendors must be evaluated not only on the protection they offer customers, but on the security and transparency of their own operations.
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Sophos, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
The Active Adversary Report: Safety In Numbers
In my nearly 30 years as a professional in information security, I find that we are often trying to solve the wrong problems. The security market can be a very noisy place, and while there is no lack of information to consume, we often struggle to find the right information.
more → Sophos, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Stopping Real-World Attacks: Lessons For Business Leaders From The 2026 Cyber Frontline
Practical steps to reduce business cyber risk based on analysis of 661 incidents remediated by Sophos X-Ops as detailed in the Sophos Active Adversary Report 2026
more → Sophos, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Nowhere, Man: The 2026 Active Adversary Report
AI headline hype didn't deliver a sea change for practical defense - but one below-the-radar development should
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