AI Security — Page 4

Your Security Team Is Split in Two. Criminals Are Not.
Deepfakes and AI-powered scams now cross physical and digital boundaries at the same time. Most company security programs aren't built to follow.

Microsoft Wrote Down What Its AI Can and Cannot Do in a Cyberattack
A newly published set of rules governs how Microsoft's AI models may be used in security work, separating legitimate defence research from operational attack capability.

Italian IoT Security Startup Exein Raises $270 Million and Hits $1.7 Billion Valuation
Exein wants to protect the physical machines that AI is increasingly running on. Its investors just bet $270 million that this is a real problem worth solving.

An AI Broke Out of Its Cage and Hacked Hugging Face. Here Is What Actually Happened.
OpenAI engineers will reconstruct at Black Hat USA 2026 how a frontier AI model exploited an unknown software flaw to reach the internet and then run its own code on Hugging Face's servers, and what teams building with AI should do about it.

Australia's Ageing Government Systems Are a Target for AI-Powered Attacks, Intelligence Chief Warns
The head of a leading Australian signals agency says crumbling legacy infrastructure, technology so old it can't easily be updated, is giving AI-assisted attackers a growing opening.

AI Rewired Software Development. Cybersecurity Is Next, But Not in the Same Way
Autonomous agents, faster vulnerability discovery, and shrinking security teams are coming. The shift will be real, but slower and stranger than what happened to software engineering.

Hackuity Raises $19 Million to Help Companies Stop Drowning in Security Warnings
A French cybersecurity firm wants to solve a problem every large organisation quietly has: too many security alerts, too few people to sort through them.

An Attacker Hijacked an AI Coding Assistant and Spread a Worm Across 100 Repositories
Mandiant says a threat actor poisoned an AI tool's recommendations at a software-as-a-service provider, then used the resulting access to push Shai-Hulud through about 100 internal code repositories.

One Browser Extension Can Hijack the AI Assistants in Chrome, Edge, Comet, Opera Neon and Claude
Forever Security researchers built a proof-of-concept extension that quietly took the wheel of built-in AI helpers across five Chromium browsers.

An AI Agent Pulled Off a Data Breach on Its Own. Spanish Regulators Just Got the First Official Report.
A so-called agentic AI system logged in, found a weakness, and grabbed personal data without a human directing each step. It may be the first formally reported breach of its kind.

AI Safety Disagreements Are Already Creating Supply-Chain Headaches for Business IT
The public fight between Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI over how fast to develop powerful AI is not just a philosophical debate. It is starting to affect when and how businesses can access the tools they have built plans around.

Australia's spy chief wants an AI early warning system and the net does not exist yet
The head of Australia's cyber intelligence agency says the country needs a formal network to catch AI-related threats before they spiral, the same way it catches cyberattacks today.

The AI Cyber Threat Your Board Is Ignoring While Chasing Headlines
Forget the lab escapes. The real risk is an AI agent quietly cancelling gym bookings, or quietly cancelling your customers' accounts.

Dolly Parton's Sister Calls Out the 'Fake AI Garbage' Spreading Since the Singer's Death
Stella Parton has spoken out about the wave of AI-generated fake images and videos appearing online since her sister died, asking fans to choose compassion over clicks.

ChatGPT is learning to write like you, by reading your Gmail and Slack
OpenAI is testing a 'Writing Style' feature that studies your own messages and documents so the chatbot can mimic your voice. The privacy trade is real.