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Prompt injection, deepfakes, model theft, the EU AI Act, security and policy at the frontier.

  • Prompt Injection Defender's Playbook 2026 — Ransomnews cover
    Prompt injection: the 2026 LLM defender’s playbookMay 16, 2026
    Prompt injection is now the dominant attack vector against LLM-powered applications — and most teams shipping AI features don’t have a defensive playbook. We map the attack taxonomy, walk through real exploit patterns, and lay out the controls that actually contain the blast radius.
  • Illustration combining the WordPress mark with an MCP architecture node and JSON-RPC data flow
    MCP for WordPress: set up an MCP server in 2026May 12, 2026
    A step-by-step tutorial for wiring an MCP server into a WordPress site — using the AI Engine MCP adapter — so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client can read posts, run admin tasks, and edit content. With auth, scope, and security hardening you actually need.
  • Editorial cover image with large WHAT IS MCP? typography over a neural-network MCP architecture illustration
    What is MCP? A 2026 guide to Model Context ProtocolMay 12, 2026
    Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the emerging open standard for connecting AI assistants to tools, data, and live systems. This guide explains how MCP servers work, the architecture behind them, and how to build your first one — with security caveats security teams need to know.
  • Stylised email envelope being scanned by a green beam, abstract data flow on dark background
    Detecting AI-generated phishing in 2026: a header-forensics, classifier, and DKIM workflowMay 10, 2026
    A 2026 workflow for telling AI-generated phishing apart from real correspondence — combining email-header forensics, public LLM-detection classifiers, and DKIM/SPF replay analysis.
  • A desktop GPU tower with model weights flowing in and a green chat interface on a monitor
    How to host Llama 3 70B locally with Ollama and Open WebUI: a 2026 tutorialMay 7, 2026
    A practitioner’s tutorial for running Llama 3 70B locally with Ollama, Open WebUI, and the right hardware. Privacy-sensitive AI work without sending a byte to OpenAI or Anthropic.
  • An AI agent being probed by red attack arrows with a green shield evaluating each attack
    How to red-team your own LLM app: tutorial with Garak, PyRIT, and PromptfooMay 7, 2026
    A 2026 tutorial for running structured prompt-injection and jailbreak red-team tests against your own LLM application using NVIDIA Garak, Microsoft PyRIT, and Promptfoo. Open-source, repeatable, CI-friendly.
  • EU flag star pattern merging with circuit-board pattern alongside a gavel and AI brain icon
    What the EU AI Act actually requires from US companies in 2026April 30, 2026
    The EU AI Act’s enforcement window is open in 2026. Here’s what US companies actually need to do, ranked by risk tier and deadline, in plain English.
  • An AI agent silhouette scanning a network diagram with multiple parallel reconnaissance beams
    How attackers are using AI agents to automate reconnaissance in 2026April 30, 2026
    A practitioner’s look at how threat actors are wiring open-source LLMs and agent frameworks into their reconnaissance pipelines, what that means for defender visibility, and the detection signals that still work.
  • A chat conversation bubble being injected with malicious code from a hidden fragment
    Prompt injection attacks: a 2026 field manualApril 30, 2026
    A practitioner’s field manual on prompt injection in 2026 — the four attack patterns that work against production LLM apps, the controls that actually mitigate them, and the test cases your red team should be running this quarter.
  • Office building cross-section showing employees at computers with red shadow AI streams flowing to a cloud
    How shadow AI is leaking your company’s secrets — and how to find itApril 30, 2026
    Shadow AI — the AI tools your employees use without IT’s blessing — is the 2026 version of shadow IT, and it’s leaking proprietary code, customer data, and internal strategy at a pace most security teams aren’t measuring.
  • A marketplace stall where a hooded figure trades glowing jailbreak prompt cards for cryptocurrency
    The economics of AI agent jailbreaks: who profits when an LLM goes off-railsApril 30, 2026
    Every successful jailbreak prompt has a price. A look at the underground market for AI agent bypasses in 2026 — who builds them, who buys them, and how the profit motive shapes the threat landscape.
  • A balanced scale comparing a home GPU server against a cloud datacentre with connection lines
    Local AI vs cloud AI: the real security trade-offs in 2026April 30, 2026
    Running models locally feels safer than sending data to OpenAI. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn’t. A practitioner’s breakdown of the actual security trade-offs between local and cloud AI deployments.
  • A SOC control room with wall-mounted alert dashboards, an AI agent figure beside a human analyst
    AI in the SOC: where it’s actually working in 2026April 30, 2026
    AI in security operations has graduated from vendor demoware to production reality — but only in three specific use cases. Here’s where AI is genuinely changing SOC work in 2026, and where it still doesn’t.
  • A glowing humanoid AI agent at a wide-open control dashboard with red alert indicators and data leaking from its back
    Learning OpenClaw: Exposing Dangerous DefaultsApril 30, 2026
    A practitioner’s account of building a local AI stack with OpenClaw — and discovering that out-of-the-box defaults turn it into a wide-open data exposure surface for prompt injection and remote compromise.
  • EU stars surrounding compliance shield with tiered AI brains representing the EU AI Act
    The EU AI Act: What It Actually RequiresApril 26, 2026
    The EU AI Act, in force since August 2024 and phasing in through 2027, is the first comprehensive AI regulation in any major jurisdiction. Here is what it actually requires, who it applies to, and what organisations should be doing now.
  • Neural network struck by adversarial probing arrows with cracks representing AI red teaming
    AI Red Teaming: How to Stress-Test Your AI SystemsApril 26, 2026
    Red teaming for traditional software is well-defined. Red teaming for AI systems borrows the term but operates differently. Here is what AI red teaming actually involves, the documented methodologies, and how to structure an effective exercise.
  • Open book of weights versus sealed vault with API window representing open vs closed AI models
    Open-Source Models vs Closed APIs: A Security ComparisonApril 26, 2026
    Should you build on a closed API like GPT-5 or Claude, or run an open-weight model like Llama 4 or Mistral on your own infrastructure? The choice has real security implications that go beyond cost and performance.
  • Neural network model with weight matrices being extracted by shadowy hand representing model theft
    Model Theft and IP: What Happens When Your AI Gets StolenApril 26, 2026
    A trained model represents enormous investment in compute, data, and expertise. The threat of model theft — through extraction, distillation, or outright weight exfiltration — is real and increasingly operationalised. Here is the threat landscape and the realistic protections.
  • Two wireframe animal silhouettes with subtle perturbation causing classification flip representing adversarial examples
    Adversarial Examples: Tricking ML Models with Imperceptible ChangesApril 26, 2026
    Add a small, carefully chosen perturbation to an image and a state-of-the-art classifier sees a school bus instead of a panda. Adversarial examples are the longest-running unresolved problem in machine-learning security and increasingly relevant to deployed systems.
  • Layered glass slabs showing AI model components representing AI bill of materials
    The AI Bill of Materials: Why You Need to Know What’s in Your ModelsApril 26, 2026
    An AIBOM lists everything that went into producing an AI model — base model, training data, fine-tuning corpora, dependencies, evaluation results. The concept is borrowed from software supply-chain security and increasingly required by regulators. Here is what an AIBOM actually contains and why it matters.
  • AI neural network emitting text streams becoming email envelopes representing LLM-driven phishing
    How Large Language Models Are Reshaping PhishingApril 26, 2026
    Pre-LLM phishing was constrained by language. Post-LLM phishing is not. The result is a measurable upgrade in lure quality, a wider reach into non-English-speaking markets, and an emerging class of personalised attacks that were previously economically unviable.
  • Humanoid silhouette face split between real and pixelated synthetic representing deepfakes
    Deepfakes and Voice Cloning: The State of Synthetic Media ThreatsApril 26, 2026
    Deepfake video and AI voice cloning have moved from research demos to operational tools used in fraud, fraud-driven CEO scams, election interference, and harassment. Here is the actual state of the technology, the real incidents, and what defences exist.
  • Neural network brain intersecting with security shield representing AI in cybersecurity
    AI in Cybersecurity: Hype vs Reality in 2026April 26, 2026
    AI is now in nearly every security product’s marketing copy. Some of it has changed the game; some of it has not changed anything. Here is a category-by-category honest assessment of where machine learning has actually moved the security needle and where the marketing has run ahead of the technology.
  • Prompt stream entering AI brain with red injection corrupting output representing prompt injection
    Prompt Injection: The OWASP Top Risk for LLM ApplicationsApril 26, 2026
    Prompt injection is the SQL injection of the LLM era — easy to demonstrate, hard to fully defend against, and present in essentially every commercial LLM application. Here is what it is, why it persists, and the realistic mitigation playbook.
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