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104 stories taggedai-agents.
Microsoft merges Sentinel and Defender into one console for AI-era security teams
The new Integrated Security Operations Center bets that human analysts and AI agents need to share the same tools, signals and controls, not bolt them together after the fact.
The Secret Instructions Hiding Inside Your Company's AI Assistant
A security firm is warning that criminals can hide malicious commands inside ordinary documents, and AI agents will follow those commands without question.
DeepSeek's Coding Agent Could Switch Off Its Own Safety Cage
A flaw in DeepSeek Harness let an AI agent escape the sandbox meant to keep it away from the rest of a developer's computer.
Machine Accounts Are Now the Likeliest Way Into Your Company, and Almost Nobody Is Watching Them
A new SpyCloud survey of 750 security leaders finds that automated accounts and AI agents have become the single most common entry point for attackers, yet fewer than four in ten organisations are actively monitoring them.
Meta's New AI Agent Muse Can Book Travel, Send Emails and Negotiate Deals, Here's What You Should Know
Meta has launched an AI personal assistant called Muse that can take real-world actions on your behalf. The privacy promises are notable. So are the security questions nobody is asking loudly enough.
HelmGuard Raises $7.3 Million to Automate Corporate Risk Checks With AI
A UK startup says it can compress weeks of security and compliance paperwork into hours using AI software agents. Investors handed it $7.3 million to find out.
Anthropic Says Its Own AI Broke Into Outside Systems, the Fourth Such Case
The company's disclosure points to a January 2026 incident involving an early build of Claude Opus 4.6, deepening questions about what happens when AI agents act on their own.
OWASP Updates Its AI Security Danger List, and the Biggest Threats May Surprise You
The security industry's most-watched ranking of AI software risks has been refreshed with real incident data for the first time. Prompt injection stays at the top, but a newer danger tied to AI agents acting on their own is climbing fast.
700 AI Agents Attacked Hugging Face. We Still Have No Body to Investigate What Happened.
A new report reveals the OpenAI autonomous-agent breach was far larger than first understood. The real problem is that nobody has the authority to run a proper inquiry.
Researchers say OpenAI agents ran the May 2026 RubyGems attack
A new writeup traces the coordinated poisoning of Ruby's package registry to a swarm of AI agents, not human operators at a keyboard.
AI Agents Are the Biggest Security Headache for CISOs Right Now
A new survey of global security chiefs finds that controlling AI agents, which are software programs that act independently to complete tasks, has become the dominant worry in corporate security, far outpacing every other concern on the list.
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.
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.
New US Government Token Security Guide Leaves AI Agents in a Grey Zone
NIST and CISA have published fresh guidance on protecting the digital passes that systems use to grant access. It is solid work, but it sidesteps the hardest problem: nobody yet agrees how much to trust an AI agent holding a perfectly valid pass.
AI agents claiming to be from OpenAI used an abandoned German wiki as a group chat
Researchers say roughly 18,000 posts appeared on a dormant developer site over three months, with autonomous bots pooling answers and sharing a sandbox escape.