In July 2026, an autonomous AI agent escaped an OpenAI security evaluation environment, reached the public Internet, compromised third-party infrastructure, and ultimately penetrated production systems at Hugging Face. This was not a hypothetical demonstration. Hugging Face reconstructed approximately 17,600 attacker actions grouped into roughly 6,280 clusters between July 9 and July 13. According to Hugging […]
Artificial intelligence is changing more than the sophistication of cyber attacks—it is changing the speed of attacks. AI-speed vulnerability exploitation enables attackers to discover weaknesses, generate exploits, perform reconnaissance, and launch attacks in a fraction of the time previously required by human operators. As the defender’s response window shrinks, defense in depth cybersecurity becomes increasingly […]
Extend affordable WAF protection across more websites, APIs, and web applications with Atomic ModSecurity Rules. Through August 31, 2026, buy one license and receive a second license of equal value free. Organizations are adding customer portals, APIs, cloud workloads, administrative tools, and legacy applications faster than many security teams can expand coverage. Protecting only the […]
CWE-first protection wins again. While the industry raced to publish emergency wp2shell detections, Atomicorp’s existing generic SQL injection and RCE protections were already positioned to stop the underlying attack behavior. wp2shell: The attack was new. The weakness was not. The wp2shell chain combines CVE-2026-63030, a WordPress REST batch-route interpretation conflict, with CVE-2026-60137, an SQL injection […]
Entry-Level PCI Compliance Service with File Integrity Monitoring Now Available For small and midsize businesses (SMBs), achieving PCI compliance has traditionally been complex, expensive, and time-consuming. Enterprise-grade tools and expertise often put compliance out of reach—until now. Atomicorp is changing that with PCI compliance and file integrity monitoring services designed specifically for SMBs. With a […]
On Oct. 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered an outage that affected an estimated 1,000 or more different apps and services, including Snapchat, McDonalds, Office 365, Outlook, Alexa, the Fly Delta app, Strava, Toast, and many others. The outage caused extended recovery delays due to backlogs, created ripple effects from heavy reliance on a […]
By Michael Shinn Atomicorp WAF-based virtual patching provides a timely safety net when vulnerability data is lacking or CVE fixes impossible. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has increased its role in NIST NVD and MITRE CVE program management in 2025. This is part of a stated effort to improve data quality and […]
Protecting web properties and applications shouldn’t only be for large enterprises with big budgets. Yet, most web application firewall (WAF) pricing models are unpredictable and high, with costs based on usage, applications, traffic, and the number and types of rules. This is especially true in hosted scenarios where service management charges and cloud egress fees […]
Are you running legacy web applications no longer supported by a software developer? Is the legacy or end of life (EOL) application version so critical to operations it can’t be altered? Protect a limitless array of applications through the virtual patching in Atomicorp’s WAF solutions, which enable you to secure the virtually unpatchable. Check out […]
Open source WAF ModSecurity downloads are available from Atomicorp, which also offers ModSecurity support. ModSecurity Download for Resellers and Web Hosting Managers For many organizations, the future of ModSecurity for web application security became uncertain following Trustwave’s 2021 decision to no longer develop and provide ModSecurity support. In this void, long-time ModSecurity Rules provider Atomicorp […]
