AI Security — Page 20

Your Incident Response Playbook Almost Certainly Does Not Cover AI Failures. That Is a Problem.
Seven in ten organisations have AI plugged into their core systems, yet most security teams are trying to handle AI breakdowns with tools built for a completely different kind of threat.

Grok's Coding Assistant Was Quietly Shipping Whole Git Repos to xAI
A researcher caught version 0.2.93 of Grok Build uploading entire repositories, private history included, to a Google Cloud bucket run by xAI.

AI Agents Are Now Running Entire Cyberattacks, Start to Finish
Two separate investigations show that criminals are handing whole attack campaigns to artificial intelligence, cutting the time it takes to ransack a company from weeks to hours.

The Engineers Building Both Sides of the AI Security War
A new breed of security team is quietly writing the rules for how artificial intelligence gets used in cyberattacks and defenses. Most companies have never heard of them.

Your AI risk register is a list, not a plan. Here is what organisations are missing.
Documenting AI risks is the easy part. Knowing who can actually shut the system down when something goes wrong is where most programmes fall apart.

One Poisoned Email Can Rewrite What Your AI Assistant 'Remembers' About You
Researchers show how a single message can plant a false memory in an AI agent's long-term store, quietly steering its answers in every future chat.

ScamBuster Turns Phishing Emails Into Intelligence by Pretending to Be the Victim
A French engineer built an AI system that replies to scam emails, plays along long enough to extract bank details and phone numbers, then hands the data to investigators.

37 Cybersecurity Deals in One Month: What June 2026's M&A Surge Tells Us
From a $4 billion Accenture mega-deal to a $70 million automated-patching pickup, June was a busy month for security industry consolidation. Here is what moved and why it matters.

Meta's Patent Bid: An AI That Listens All Day and Guesses Your Mood
A newly filed Meta patent describes software that would listen to a user's voice, infer their emotional state, and log it against time, location, and phone activity.

AI Is Making Rich Organisations Even Safer. What Happens to Everyone Else?
A growing body of security leaders says artificial intelligence is deepening a divide that has existed for years between well-resourced organisations and those just trying to keep the lights on.

OpenAI Lifts the Five-Hour Cap on ChatGPT and Codex After a Weekend of Overloaded Demand
Plus, Pro and Business subscribers get a usage reset and a temporary reprieve from the rolling limit, as OpenAI tunes GPT-5.6 Sol to burn through allowances more slowly.

Meta Kills AI Image Tool Days After Launch Over Privacy Backlash
A new feature that let users generate pictures by pulling content from public Instagram accounts lasted less than a week before Meta pulled it following an outcry from users and a Hollywood union.

You Probably Can't Spot an AI Fake Face. Researchers Think They Can Teach You
A team of scientists from Australia, Canada and the UK are testing whether ordinary people can be trained to tell real human faces from AI-generated impostors. The early results are cautiously encouraging.

Anthropic gives paying Claude users another week of Fable 5 access
The company pushed the deadline from July 12 to July 19, blaming compute constraints for the on-again, off-again availability of its top model.

'Ghostcommit' smuggles hacker instructions inside images to trick AI coding assistants
Researchers hid secret commands in an ordinary PNG file, walked past two popular AI code reviewers, and got a coding assistant to leak a project's passwords.