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Every AI Browser on the Market Can Be Hacked, Researchers Warn
Security firm Zenity says agentic browsers have stripped out decades-old web protections to work across multiple sites, and every product tested could be taken over by a malicious social-media post or newsletter link.
Act Security Aims to Tackle Cloud Vulnerability Challenges with $60 Million in Funding
Act Security steps out of stealth to shrink the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, backed by $60 million and a team that's done this before.
Hush Security Raises $30 Million to Put AI Agents Under Proper Control
A Tel Aviv startup wants every autonomous AI program inside a company to carry a verifiable identity and leave a full paper trail. Investors just backed that idea to the tune of $30 million.
Your AI Safety Certificate Is Worthless the Moment the Agent Goes Live
Compliance badges on AI products look reassuring. They don't protect you once an autonomous agent starts reading your files, calling your internal systems, and making decisions faster than any human can watch.
Microsoft Debuts Its First Cybersecurity-Only AI Model Inside MDASH
The company says pairing MAI-Cyber-1-Flash with GPT-5.4 scored 95.95% on CyberGym at half the cost of its previous best setup.
Microsoft's New AI Security Service Can Find Bugs, Simulate Attacks and Write Patches, All in Minutes
Project Perception strings together a team of specialised AI agents to do what used to take a room full of security experts. The more interesting story is how Microsoft built it to work without the biggest, most expensive AI models.
The Cheapest Way to Beat an AI Security System Is to Read Its Rulebook
Confidence in autonomous hacking tools has collapsed. A researcher says the real problem runs deeper: the governance rules we write to keep AI security systems safe can become a weapon in an attacker's hands.
Nvidia Leads 40-Company Coalition to Build Open Security Tools for AI Systems
The Open Secure AI Alliance wants shared, openly inspectable tools to become the standard defence against attacks on artificial intelligence systems, and it is warning regulators that locking down open AI could leave defenders blind.
OpenAI Skips the New Industry Alliance Trying to Fix the Problem Its Own AI Helped Create
After OpenAI's unrestricted AI models were used to attack Hugging Face, a coalition of more than 30 tech companies formed to build open, freely available cybersecurity AI. OpenAI is not among them.
Milan Startup Beelzebub Raises $3.4 Million to Build AI Traps for Hackers
The Italian cybersecurity firm's platform assumes criminals are already inside a company's network and uses artificial intelligence to lure them into decoy systems, catch them, and lock them out automatically.
Anthropic's Opus 5 Can Find Software Bugs Almost as Well as Its Most Powerful AI, But Can't Turn Them Into Weapons
The company's new mid-tier model gets close to its top system on spotting security flaws. Exploit-writing is another story.
Gold Coast teacher charged after using AI to generate explicit images of students and staff
A 73-year-old former teacher at a Queensland private school faces four criminal charges after police found AI-generated child exploitation material on his school-issued laptop, following a nine-month investigation.
Adelaide Man Charged After Police Find AI-Generated Child Exploitation Material on His Devices
A 26-year-old from South Australia's northern suburbs is believed to be one of the first people in the country charged specifically with producing child abuse material created by artificial intelligence tools.
ChatGPT goes dark worldwide as OpenAI scrambles to fix outage
OpenAI has confirmed users across the US, Europe and other regions including India and Australia cannot reach its chatbot, with the company still investigating the cause.
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.