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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OpenAI Patches ChatGPT Flaw That Let Attackers Plant an Invisible AI Agent Inside a Company
A vulnerability called AgentForger meant a criminal could quietly forge a rogue AI assistant inside a victim organisation, give it instructions, and control it from outside.
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.
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 can't 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 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's Antares models narrow a vast codebase down to a ranked shortlist of suspect files, giving security teams a faster path into triage without replacing the humans who do it.
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.