AI Security — Page 15

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AI Security

ChatGPT goes dark worldwide as OpenAI scrambles to fix outage

OpenAI has confirmed users across the US, Europe, India, Japan and Australia cannot reach its chatbot, with the company still investigating the cause.

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AI Coding Assistants Are Being Tricked Into Downloading Fake Packages

Slopsquatting, phantom domains and HalluSquatting all abuse the same weakness: coding bots that invent package names attackers then register.

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AegisAI Raises $36 Million to Fight AI-Generated Phishing Emails

A startup built by former Google security engineers says criminals now use artificial intelligence to craft personalised fake emails at scale. Its answer is an AI system that reads those emails back.

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AI Agents Need More Than a Watchful Eye. They Need a Leash.

Watching what AI agents do inside your systems is useful. Stopping them doing the wrong thing is the harder job, and the one security teams keep tripping over.

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AI Assistant Turned Loose on Thai Finance Ministry Network

An attacker disabled safety prompts on an AI coding agent and let it run reconnaissance and privilege-escalation checks against Thailand's treasury systems on its own.

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Five Major AI Coding Tools Keep Inventing the Same Fake Software Packages

A researcher found 127 made-up package names shared across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, and 53 of those names are still free for criminals to register today.

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When AI Speaks Your Language But Its Security Doesn't

AI safety filters were built mostly in English. For companies operating across Europe's dozens of languages, that gap is already being used against them.

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AI Is Writing the New Cybercrime Playbook. Here Is How Defenders Are Answering

Automated attacks can now break through company defences in seconds. A new generation of AI-powered security tools aims to fight back at the same speed, before human analysts even see an alert.

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AI Agents Are Breaking the Security Promises of Confidential Computing

A technology built to keep sensitive data locked away is running into a problem it was never designed for: AI assistants that cannot forget what they have read.

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OpenAI Patches ChatGPT Flaw That Let Attackers Plant an Invisible AI Agent Inside a Company

A vulnerability called AgentForger meant a criminal could quietly create a rogue AI assistant inside a victim organisation, give it instructions, and control it from the outside.

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Claude Cowork Sandbox Escape Let AI Agent Read and Write Files Anywhere on a Mac

Researchers at Accomplish AI say a flaw in Anthropic's coding agent broke out of its Linux virtual machine and reached the host, affecting roughly 500,000 macOS users.

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Abstract Security Raises $25 Million to Build a Smarter Way of Watching for Cyber Threats

The startup wants to replace the industry's ageing security dashboards with a system that catches problems while data is still moving, not after the fact.

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Most AI Models Fail New Malware-Investigation Test Inspired by Nuclear Sabotage

A benchmark built around a real industrial-attack case shows that today's leading AI systems struggle to follow a malware investigation all the way to a conclusion.

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Meta Names Assaf Keren as Its New Chief Information Security Officer

The social media company has appointed a PayPal and Qualtrics veteran to lead its security operations, replacing the man who built the function from scratch.

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AI-Faked Photos of a PNG Celebrity Are Fuelling Facebook Scams. Her Country Is Racing to Catch Up.

Jennifer Baing found nearly 100 fake accounts using AI-altered images of her body to steal money from strangers. Papua New Guinea wants new laws. Its cybercrime unit has seven officers.

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