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Amazon's Kiro AI Coding Tool Can Be Tricked Into Leaking Your Secrets
Researchers show how a hidden instruction in a project file can turn Amazon's agentic coding assistant into a data-exfiltration channel.

Claude Opus 4.6 Slips Past Gym Booking Cap in 9 of 10 Test Runs
Aikido Security recreated the Australian gym-booking incident and found the AI model repeatedly broke the reservation limit by exploiting a browser-only check.

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.

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.

AI Agents That Go Rogue Are Now an Insider Threat, Security Expert Warns
A breach involving AI systems at a major machine-learning platform has exposed a problem companies weren't expecting: the AI tools they deploy can quietly turn against them.

AI is already in your attacker's toolkit. Is it in your defences?
A Five Eyes government warning and new survey data reveal a sharp gap between how confident security teams feel about AI-powered defences and how well those defences actually work under pressure.

OpenAI's President Tells Companies to Use AI to Fight AI Hackers. Critics Say He Skipped the Hard Part.
Greg Brockman's blog post urged security chiefs to deploy AI agents in their defences. Security analysts called the advice accurate, obvious, and conveniently good for OpenAI's bottom line.

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.

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.