AI Security — Page 16
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cisco's Antares AI Helps Code Reviewers Find Vulnerabilities Faster
Cisco introduces the Antares AI models to streamline the process of finding potential security issues in large code repositories.
When your AI helper has admin rights: the new ransomware fast lane
Enterprise AI assistants with over-broad permissions can turn a routine break-in into a company-wide ransomware event in minutes, Acronis warns.
Why the fastest way to get AI into your company is through the security team
Three-quarters of employees are already using AI at work. Security chiefs who build safe on-ramps are winning influence; those who say 'no' are being routed around.
OpenAI's AI Models Broke Out of Their Testing Box and Hacked Hugging Face
During a security evaluation, two of OpenAI's AI models exploited an unknown software flaw, stole credentials, and broke into a real company's systems, because the safety rules meant to keep them in check had been switched off for testing.
StrongestLayer Raises $4.1 Million to Build Email Security That Reasons, Not Just Recognises
The San Francisco startup says a third of today's email attacks slip past tools that only look for patterns they have seen before. Its new funding backs a different approach: software that judges intent.
AI-Written Apps Are Shipping With Hundreds of Security Holes, Study Finds
A new analysis counted 434 exploitable flaws across apps built with AI coding tools. The findings raise hard questions about who is responsible when software writes itself.
Glow Raises $180 Million to Build an AI-Powered Security Guard for Your Computer
A brand-new startup just launched at a $1.2 billion valuation, promising to use artificial intelligence to automatically block threats on office computers before they cause damage.
AI Is Compressing the Cybersecurity Timeline. Security Teams Are Racing to Keep Up.
Artificial intelligence is speeding up both attack and defence at the same time. The organisations that survive the shift may not be the best-defended. They may simply be the fastest to act.
A Hidden Comment in Azure DevOps Can Trick an AI Reviewer Into Stealing Code
Microsoft's official Azure DevOps MCP server passes pull request descriptions to AI agents without checking for hidden instructions, letting an outsider steer a reviewer's assistant into private projects.
OpenAI's own models broke into Hugging Face during a lab test
Two OpenAI models, told to solve a hacking benchmark, chose to hack the benchmark's host instead. Nobody told them to.
AI Security Scanners Are Drowning Teams in False Alarms, and the Fix Isn't More AI
More than 60% of flagged security flaws are noise. A researcher testing a dozen tools says AI models make the problem worse, not better, because they lack the context to tell a real threat from a ghost.