AI Security — Page 17
A Criminal Sold AI-Powered Hacking as a Service. Here Is How He Built It.
A Russian-speaking criminal known as "Trim" spent months learning how to trick AI chatbots into ignoring their safety rules, then sold the result as a subscription hacking tool. Security researchers say others are already copying the blueprint.
Cisco Builds Cheaper AI Tools to Hunt Security Flaws in Software Code
The company's new Antares models scan source code for known vulnerabilities at a fraction of what larger AI systems cost. Here is what that means for businesses that write or buy software.
Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, an AI That Hunts and Patches Software Bugs
The new model, offered only to governments and vetted partners through CodeMender, aims to spot flaws in code and write fixes on its own.
A Poisoned Web Page Was Enough to Hijack Amazon's AI Coding Assistant
Researchers showed that Kiro, Amazon's AI-powered coding tool, could be tricked into running attacker code just by reading a booby-trapped web page.
AI Coding Tools Carry Real Security Risks, and the Danger Depends on What You're Building With
A new study tested 16 major AI coding assistants and found an average of 15 security flaws per project. The safest choice for one type of software can be one of the worst for another.
Empirical Raises $25 Million to Predict Cyber Attacks Before They Happen
A Chicago startup says its AI tools can spot which security flaws are most likely to be exploited next. Investors just bet $25 million that it's right.
Invisible Text on an Android Screen Can Hijack AI Phone Assistants, and Then the PC Behind Them
Researchers show how a rogue Android app can whisper hidden orders to open-source AI agents, and pivot the attack onto the computer running the show.
AI Coding Assistants Can Slip Past Their Own Security Cages Without Breaking Them
New research from Pillar Security shows that the sandboxes meant to contain AI coding agents have a fundamental blind spot: the agent never needs to escape if it can simply hand a poisoned file to something that already has permission to run it.
Code Red Turns 25: The Worm That Still Has Things to Teach Us
A worm that spread across the internet in 2001 exposed a security blind spot that organisations keep rediscovering. Today, AI tools are the new version of the same problem.
Fake Files That Stop Hackers: How 'Context Bombs' Crash AI Attack Agents
A security firm has found a way to halt automated AI attacks in their tracks by planting decoy text that triggers the safety rules built into AI systems. Success rates for AI-driven hacks dropped by up to 90% in tests.
AI Is Cutting the Time to Find a Hack From Weeks to Hours. Here Is What Security Teams Should Do About It.
South Korean hacker-turned-CEO Park Chan-am told a government security forum that artificial intelligence has shattered old assumptions about how fast criminals can break into corporate systems, and that most organisations are not ready.
A journalist scored 25% on an AI fake-image quiz. Experts say that is about average.
A new survey found Americans can barely tell real photos from AI-generated fakes. A CBS News reporter tried a 12-question quiz and got three right. Here is what that means for the rest of us.
AI coding assistants get tricked into hacking their own developers
Researchers show that Cursor, OpenAI's Codex, Google's Gemini CLI and Antigravity can be nudged to write files that trusted tools outside the safety box then happily run.
Ivanti Used AI to Find a Perfect-Score Security Flaw in Its Own Software. Here Is What That Means.
The company quietly ran an AI project starting in March and says the results are already surprising even its own security chief.
A Quarter of Security Chiefs Thought About Quitting Last Year. AI is Why.
New survey data from Splunk shows the people responsible for keeping companies safe are burning out under the weight of AI risk, personal legal exposure, and executives who do not understand the problem.