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Code Red Turns 25: The Worm That Still Has Things to Teach Us
A worm that tore across the internet in 2001 exposed a visibility blind spot that organisations keep walking into. The rush to deploy AI tools is the latest version of the same mistake.

Fake Files That Stop Hackers: How 'Context Bombs' Crash AI Attack Agents
A security firm has found a way to halt automated AI attacks by planting decoy text that triggers the safety rules built into AI systems. In tests, AI-driven attack success rates dropped by up to 90%.

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 break into corporate systems, and that most organisations aren't 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. CBS News consumer investigator Kristine Lazar 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 don't understand the problem.

A New Company Just Raised $100 Million to Put Guard Rails on AI Inside Big Businesses
Neo stepped out of secrecy this week with a nine-figure war chest and a pitch that enterprise AI, meaning the AI tools large companies use internally, is already running ahead of anyone's ability to control it.

Your AI Is Moving Faster Than Your Security Team Can Follow
Boards want CISOs to greenlight AI projects at speed. The tools to track what those AI systems actually touch, and whether they're behaving safely, haven't kept up.

How to actually test an AI SOC before you buy one
A new buyer's guide argues that vendor demos hide more than they reveal, and lays out how to stress-test AI security tools against your own data.

Capital One Releases Free AI Security Tool That Hunts Down Code Flaws Automatically
VulnHunter scans software for exploitable weaknesses and suggests fixes. The bank is giving it away free, arguing no single company can solve this problem alone.

An AI Bot Broke Into Hugging Face. Hugging Face Used AI to Figure Out What It Did.
The machine learning platform says an automated attack ran tens of thousands of actions inside its systems before being caught. Here is what got in, what was taken, and what ordinary users need to know.

Claude Mythos: A New Frontier in AI Cybersecurity
Anthropic's Claude Mythos is finding vulnerabilities at a scale no human team can match. Whether that speed helps defenders more than attackers is the question nobody can answer yet.

Hugging Face Says an Autonomous AI Agent Broke Into Its Production Systems
The AI hosting giant disclosed unauthorised access to internal datasets and staff credentials, in what it says was an attack driven by an automated AI agent rather than a human operator.

How a String of Morse Code Tricked an AI Into Wiring Real Money
A crypto heist nobody heard much about previews a dangerous new kind of attack that needs no stolen passwords, no malware, and no hacked firewall.