Cybersecurity Headlines The Department of Know: Mythos Mayhem, critical infrastructure targeted, NVD changes
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Apr 17, 2026 
Eduardo Ortiz-Romeu, VP and global head of cybersecurity at Techtronic Industries, offers enterprise and OT/ICS perspective. Andrew Storms, security engineer and incident responder, brings hands-on technical analysis. They debate AI-driven vulnerability discovery, NVD risk-based prioritization, AI agent and prompt manipulation, critical infrastructure compromises, and open source supply chain infections.
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Open Source Transparency Faces New Risk
- Cal.com moved its core from open source to proprietary because AI makes public code easier to scan for vulnerabilities.
- Eduardo and Andrew warned this shifts vendor risk calculations and may fragment access to software signals for defenders.
National Guard As Cyber Backup Is Real
- Minnesota called the National Guard to assist a city cyber incident when local IT was overwhelmed.
- Eduardo noted many governments have cyber teams as an escalation path similar to private incident response retainers.
AI Agents Have New Manipulation Surfaces
- Researchers found new attack classes that manipulate autonomous AI agents via web content and metadata.
- Manifold Security showed AI-assisted code review can be tricked by fake Git author metadata to approve malicious commits.