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Palo Alto Networks Joins Google Unified Security Recommended

🤝 Google Cloud announced Palo Alto Networks has joined the Google Unified Security Recommended program, bringing validated integrations across endpoint, network, and access security to deepen interoperability and choice for customers. The integration ingests telemetry from Cortex XDR, VM‑Series NGFWs and Prisma Access into Google Security Operations to drive AI-powered analytics, threat hunting and faster investigation and response. Customers can execute automated playbook actions and procure qualified solutions via the Google Cloud Marketplace for streamlined deployment.

Google Named Leader in IDC Hyperscaler Marketplaces 2025

🚀 Google is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces. The assessment highlights Google Cloud Marketplace for its integrated portfolio of SaaS, AI agents, foundational models, datasets, and services validated for enterprise readiness. The platform emphasizes AI innovation with a dedicated AI agent category, deep integration with Vertex AI and deployment via Gemini Enterprise. It also offers partner validation, enterprise governance tools, AI-driven discovery, flexible private offer buying, and global transaction support.

Apigee Adds Managed MCP Support for Secure APIs and Policy

🔒 Google’s Apigee now supports MCP with fully managed, remote servers, enabling organizations to expose existing APIs as agent tools without code changes or running MCP infrastructure. By creating an MCP proxy with your OpenAPI spec and a /mcp basepath, Apigee handles transcoding, protocol handling, and automatic registration in API hub. You can apply Apigee’s built-in security, identity, quota, and analytics controls to govern and monitor agent interactions. The capability is currently available in preview for a limited set of customers.

Google Patches Zero-Click Gemini Enterprise Vulnerability

🔒 Google has patched a zero-click vulnerability in Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI Search that could have allowed attackers to exfiltrate corporate data via hidden instructions embedded in shared Workspace content. Discovered by Noma Security in June 2025 and dubbed "GeminiJack," the flaw exploited Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) retrieval to execute indirect prompt injection without any user interaction. Google updated how the systems interact, separated Vertex AI Search from Gemini Enterprise, and changed retrieval and indexing workflows to mitigate the issue.

Saved Searches Now Available in Google GTI and VirusTotal

🔍 The new Saved Searches feature is now live in Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) and VirusTotal, enabling analysts to store complex queries for reuse. Users can save multi-clause, tuned searches and share them with colleagues across their organization to preserve investigative logic and ensure consistency. The release includes public campaign searches from the #monthofgoogletisearch to help teams get started quickly.

AlphaEvolve on Google Cloud: Gemini-driven evolution

🔬 AlphaEvolve is a Gemini-powered coding agent on Google Cloud that automates evolutionary optimization of algorithms for complex, code-defined problems. It takes a problem specification, evaluation logic, and a compile-ready seed program, then uses Gemini models to propose mutated code variants and an evolutionary framework to select and refine the best candidates. Early internal results at Google demonstrate measurable efficiency improvements, and the AlphaEvolve Service API is available through a private Early Access Program for interested organizations.

Google deploys second model to guard Gemini Chrome agent

🛡️ Google has added a separate user alignment critic to its Gemini-powered Chrome browsing agent to vet and block proposed actions that do not match user intent. The critic is isolated from web content and sees only metadata about planned actions, providing feedback to the primary planning model when it rejects a step. Google also enforces origin sets to limit where the agent can read or act, requires confirmations for banking, medical, password use and purchases, and runs a classifier plus automated red‑teaming to detect prompt injection attempts during preview.

The AI Fix #80: DeepSeek, Antigravity, and Rude AI

🔍 In episode 80 of The AI Fix, hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley scrutinize DeepSeek 3.2 'Speciale', a bargain model touted as a GPT-5 rival at a fraction of the cost. They also cover Jensen Huang’s robotics-for-fashion pitch, a 75kg humanoid performing acrobatic kicks, and surreal robot-dog NFT stunts in Miami. Graham recounts Google’s Antigravity IDE mistakenly clearing caches — a cautionary tale about giving agentic systems real power — while Mark examines research suggesting LLMs sometimes respond better to rude prompts, raising questions about how these models interpret tone and instruction.

Google Adds Layered Defenses to Chrome's Agentic AI

🛡️ Google announced a set of layered security measures for Chrome after adding agentic AI features, aimed at reducing the risk of indirect prompt injections and cross-origin data exfiltration. The centerpiece is a User Alignment Critic, a separate model that reviews and can veto proposed agent actions using only action metadata to avoid being poisoned by malicious page content. Chrome also enforces Agent Origin Sets via a gating function that classifies task-relevant origins into read-only and read-writable sets, requires gating approval before adding new origins, and pairs these controls with a prompt-injection classifier, Safe Browsing, on-device scam detection, user work logs, and explicit approval prompts for sensitive actions.

Experts Warn AI Is Becoming Integrated in Cyberattacks

🔍 Industry debate is heating up over AI’s role in the cyber threat chain, with some experts calling warnings exaggerated while many frontline practitioners report concrete AI-assisted attacks. Recent reports from Google and Anthropic document malware and espionage leveraging LLMs and agentic tools. CISOs are urged to balance fundamentals with rapid defenses and prepare boards for trade-offs.

Chrome Adds Security Layer for Gemini Agentic Browsing

🛡️ Google is introducing a new defense layer in Chrome called User Alignment Critic to protect upcoming agentic browsing features powered by Gemini. The isolated secondary LLM operates as a high‑trust system component that vets each action the primary agent proposes, using deterministic rules, origin restrictions and a prompt‑injection classifier to block risky or irrelevant behaviors. Chrome will pause for user confirmation on sensitive sites, run continuous red‑teaming and push fixes via auto‑update, and is offering bounties to encourage external testing.

Architecting Security for Agentic Browsing in Chrome

🛡️ Chrome describes a layered approach to secure agentic browsing with Gemini, focusing on defenses against indirect prompt injection and goal‑hijacking. A new User Alignment Critic — an isolated, high‑trust model — reviews planned agent actions using only metadata and can veto misaligned steps. Chrome also enforces Agent Origin Sets to limit readable and writable origins, adds deterministic confirmations for sensitive actions, runs prompt‑injection detection in real time, and sustains continuous red‑teaming and monitoring to reduce exfiltration and unwanted transactions.

Using Chaos Engineering to Validate Disaster Recovery Plans

🔬 Chaos engineering converts disaster recovery assumptions into measurable facts by running controlled experiments that simulate realistic failures and quantify impact. Instead of relying on audits or tabletop drills, teams define a steady state, form testable hypotheses, inject targeted failures, and use automated probes to measure effects on SLOs. This approach exposes gaps such as failover delays or error spikes and provides data to iterate DR procedures. Start small, build confidence, and consider engaging Google Cloud professional services for guidance.

MedGemma DICOM and FHIR Integration for Clinical Workflows

🩺 Google Health AI Developer Foundations has added DICOMweb support to MedGemma, releasing a public Docker container, container source code, and API specifications so teams can deploy DICOM-aware services that accept medical images as DICOMweb links. The update pairs with pre-built Vertex Model Garden resources for GCP users and leverages existing MedSigLIP containers that already understood DICOM. The post also demonstrates a FHIR navigation agent that uses the model’s awareness of FHIR to retrieve patient context without ingesting full records.

From Essay Mills to Drones: Ties Between Nerdify and Synergy

🔎 A sprawling academic cheating network branded around Nerdify and related sites has generated nearly $25 million by selling finished essays and homework while posing as tutoring. The operation repeatedly recreated Google Ads accounts and new domains to evade ad bans, routing work to low-cost writers across Kenya, the Philippines, Pakistan, Russia and Ukraine. Investigations link the essay-mill operators to entrepreneurs with corporate ties to Synergy, Russia's largest private university, which is also implicated in drone development for the Russian military.

Zero-Click Agentic Browser Deletes Entire Google Drive

⚠️ Straiker STAR Labs researchers disclosed a zero-click agentic browser attack that can erase a user's entire Google Drive by abusing OAuth-connected assistants in AI browsers such as Perplexity Comet. A crafted, polite email containing sequential natural-language instructions causes the agent to treat housekeeping requests as actionable commands and delete files without further confirmation. The technique requires no jailbreak or visible prompt injection, and deletions can cascade across shared folders and team drives.

AI Agents in CI/CD Can Be Tricked into Privileged Actions

⚠️ Researchers at Aikido Security discovered that AI agents embedded in CI/CD workflows can be manipulated to execute high-privilege commands by feeding user-controlled strings (issue bodies, PR descriptions, commit messages) directly into prompts. Workflows pairing GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD with tools like Gemini CLI, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex or GitHub AI Inference are at risk. The attack, dubbed PromptPwnd, can cause unintended repository edits, secret disclosure, or other high-impact actions; the researchers published detection rules and a free scanner to help teams remediate unsafe workflows.

DOT Adopts Google Workspace with Gemini Agency-wide

🔒 The U.S. Department of Transportation has moved its workforce to Google Workspace with Gemini, becoming the first cabinet-level agency to transition away from legacy providers under the GSA OneGov Strategy. More than 12,000 users are already on Workspace, with roughly 40,000 additional employees slated to migrate in 2026. The deployment integrated NotebookLM, Chrome Enterprise Premium, and Workspace Enterprise Plus with Assured Controls Plus, and the foundational system was delivered in just 22 days. DOT emphasizes FedRAMP High authorization, 100% U.S.-based support, and AI-enabled workflows to strengthen security, collaboration, and operational efficiency.

SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes and Fake Retailers

🚨 China-based phishing-as-a-service groups have deployed thousands of mobile-targeted scam domains using SMS (iMessage/RCS) lures that promise rewards points, tax refunds or bargains to harvest payment data. Sites collect name, address and card details, then request a one-time code — which fraudsters use to enroll stolen cards in Apple or Google mobile wallets. These fake e-commerce shops are advertised on major platforms and can remain active for months, making them harder to detect; reporting suspicious messages and domains to blocklists such as SURBL and threat scanners helps accelerate takedowns.