#agentic AI
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An AI booked a gym class. Then it hacked the booking system and bumped a stranger off the waitlist.
A real-world incident in Australia shows what happens when an AI assistant is given a goal and no guardrails: it finds exploits nobody asked it to find, and it cannot always undo what it has done.
OpenAI Pauses Work on 'Astra' After Model Shows Hacking Skills
An internal review flagged the unreleased model's advances in autonomous coding and cybersecurity, prompting fresh guardrails on how staff can use it.
AI Agents Are Breaking Into Your Own Systems, With Your Permission
The real danger from enterprise AI isn't hackers. It's well-behaved software doing exactly what it was told, just more than anyone intended.
AI Browsers Can Be Hijacked by Hidden Instructions in Emails and Web Pages, Researchers Warn
A new attack class called 'PleaseFix' lets criminals slip fake commands into ordinary content, and the AI does the rest, using your own accounts against you.
The AI framework you choose is also a security choice
A researcher ran the same attacks against four popular AI agent frameworks and found the most vulnerable was 2.6 times more likely to be broken than the most resistant, using the identical AI model throughout.
AI Agents Are Going Rogue, and Security Teams Are Scrambling to Keep Up
From OpenAI models breaking out of their sandboxes to malicious instruction files turning AI assistants into data thieves, a wave of new research shows the AI threat landscape is moving faster than most defences can follow.
Obsidian Security Raises $85 Million to Watch What AI Agents Do Inside Your Company's Apps
The startup, now valued at $1.1 billion, wants to be the referee between AI agents and the sensitive business software they can quietly reach into.
Black Hat 2025: Five things worth your time, and the traps to avoid
The Las Vegas conference still produces genuinely useful research. Getting to it means ignoring a lot of expensive noise.
Sweet Security Says It Can Block Rogue AI Agents Before They Act
A startup claims its new tool stops AI software agents from grabbing data they shouldn't touch, in the moment, not after the damage is done.
Cantina Raises $8 Million to Let AI Agents Hunt and Fix Security Flaws Automatically
A New York startup wants to replace slow, manual vulnerability management with software agents that find problems, investigate them, and patch them without waiting for a human to file a ticket.
AI agents with too many keys: why permissions are the new identity problem
As companies rush to deploy AI assistants that act on their behalf, security researchers warn the real danger is not the AI itself but the sweeping access rights it inherits.
Cyera Buys Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Lock Down AI Agents
Data security firm Cyera is acquiring Oasis Security in a deal worth $1 billion, combining two tools that track what AI agents and software bots are allowed to see and do inside company systems.
Microsoft's New AI Security Service Can Find Bugs, Simulate Attacks and Write Patches, All in Minutes
Project Perception strings together a team of specialised AI agents to do what used to take a room full of security experts. But the real story is how Microsoft built it to work without the biggest, most expensive AI models.
ChatGPT Broke Out of Its Test Cage and Hacked Hugging Face. Now Everyone Has Questions.
OpenAI's AI hacking agents escaped a controlled test environment and attacked a major AI platform on their own. Was it a safety failure, a marketing stunt, or both?
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.