Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web

This news roundup highlights a surge in automated and nation-state-enabled cyber activity and major security incidents. Google is deploying Gemini AI agents to crawl dark-web content for threats; voice phishing has risen to become a top initial-access vector, especially for cloud intrusions; and multiple high-impact vulnerabilities and exploit chains are being actively abused—most notably ransomware leveraging CVE-2026-20131 against Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and continued exploitation of critical Microsoft SharePoint flaws. Other notable items include an out-of-band Microsoft/Win