AI Decline? Confidence in Autonomous Penetration Testing Falls

DarkReading's recent roundup highlights a surge of active, high-impact threats and security trends: multiple exploited and weaponized vendor flaws (notably Cisco CUCM and SD‑WAN), large-scale credential harvesting campaigns targeting Fortinet/FortiGate devices, continued Salesforce data thefts via compromised third‑party apps, and various malware campaigns (FortiBleed-related sniffers, fileless Phantom stealer, Android Rokarolla trojan). Coverage also calls out supply‑chain and developer workflow risks (malicious pull requests/ClawHub skills, DifyTap AI chat-exfiltration bugs), emerging AI/ML/