Governments and industry race to harness AI for vulnerability discovery.

Executive summary: This report covers several high-impact cybersecurity developments: a state-sponsored backdoor named FIRESTARTER that persists on Cisco security appliances even after patches were applied; a confirmed Vercel breach originating from a compromised third-party AI tool that may have exposed employee credentials and API/GitHub/NPM tokens; long-running, commercial-grade surveillance campaigns abusing SS7 and Diameter to track high-profile targets across multiple countries; and industry and government efforts to use advanced AI models for vulnerability discovery.