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In this week's edition of our Beacon newsletter, we look at OpenAI's decision to pause internal activities on its upcoming Astra model after internal evaluations revealed it possesses critical cybersecurity capabilities, including the potential to autonomously exploit real-world zero-day vulnerabilities.

For years, security teams reported on volume: how many vulnerabilities were found, how many alerts were triaged, how many tickets were closed. None of those numbers tell you whether your organization is actually safer today than it was yesterday.

This week’s cybersecurity and dark web news stories discuss a social engineering attack on UK DfE, cyberattack disrupting water utilities in Minnesota, and Bank of Baroda data leak.

Most security teams aren’t short on data. They’re short on time and confidence in what to do with it.

This week’s cybersecurity and dark web news stories discuss Russian state actors conducting digital espionage, Hugging Face compromise, and the Hermes AI agent used to automate attack on Thai finance ministry.

Frequently asked questions about Preemptive Threat Exposure Management (PTEM), Searchlight Cyber’s approach to preemptive cybersecurity.