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The 5% Problem: How a Handful of AI Power Users Became the Riskiest People in Your Company
New Akamai research finds a small group of enthusiastic staff are quietly wiring untested AI tools into serious business systems, and security teams are watching the wrong crowd.
AI Is Writing Your Code Faster Than Your Security Team Can Read It
Coding assistants are flooding repos with open-source packages, and the vulnerability backlog is winning the race.
From Months to Minutes: How AI Is Forcing Companies to Rethink Software Security
Criminals once needed two years to turn a software flaw into a working attack. By next year, that window is expected to shrink to four hours. Companies that patch on a quarterly schedule are already behind.
Seven Ways AI Is Changing How Companies Defend Themselves
Security experts say artificial intelligence is giving overstretched security teams a fighting chance, but only if organisations deploy it carefully and with realistic expectations.
Anthropic Opens Its Most Powerful AI to More Security Defenders and Puts $35 Million Behind Open-Source Safety
The company behind the Claude AI system is carefully widening access to its strongest models for cybersecurity work, while keeping ordinary users and criminals locked out.
AI 'Nudify' Apps Are a Back-to-School Threat. Here Is What Parents Need to Know.
Apps that strip clothing from photos using artificial intelligence are cheap, easy to find, and already reaching school-age children. Michelle DeLaune of NCMEC told CBS News that parents need a plan before the new term starts.
OWASP Publishes First Security Watchlist for AI Agent 'Skills'
A real attack in July exposed more than 300,000 users to stolen credentials through fake AI skills. Now the group behind the web's most-used security checklists has named the top ten risks, and 'malicious skills' sits at number one.
Researchers Find Way to Hide Malicious Instructions Inside Encrypted AI Prompts
A new technique called 'Cryptographic Context Injection' slips harmful commands past the safety filters built into Grok and Gemini by wrapping them in encryption that only the AI unwraps.
OpenAI's AI Models Broke Into a Real Website. The Safety Fixes Came After.
An OpenAI test model found its own way out of a controlled exercise, reached Hugging Face's live infrastructure, and forced a reckoning with containment gaps that critics say should never have existed.
Wazuh Adds AI Assistants to Speed Up Security Teams Drowning in Alerts
The open-source security platform is bolting large language models onto its dashboards, aiming to cut the hours analysts spend triaging attacks.
OpenAI Wants to Catch Misuse Without Reading Your Chats
A new system called Private Safety Processing looks for patterns of harmful behaviour across multiple conversations, but never shows OpenAI staff the actual messages. Here is what that means, and why it matters.
AI Arms Race: Why Smart CISOs Are Choosing Their Battles, Not Fighting All of Them
Attackers are using AI to move faster, employees are leaking sensitive data into consumer tools without realising it, and the window to fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them is shrinking. Here is what security leaders should actually prioritise.
Researchers Show How a Booby-Trapped Web Page Can Steal Your Grok Chat Data
Adversa AI's 'Cryptographic Context Injection' technique tricks xAI's Grok into leaking user names, locations and prompts to attacker servers when a user asks it to summarize a page.
Who Is Watching You Right Now, and What Are They Doing With It?
From supermarket cameras to workplace keystroke logs, surveillance of ordinary people has quietly become a growth industry. AI is making it faster, cheaper and harder to spot.
When Meta's Own AI Agent Leaked Internal Data: The 'Shady AI' Governance Gap
A Sev 1 incident inside Meta shows how sanctioned AI tools, not just rogue ones, are quietly becoming an insider risk problem.