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Airlock Digital Wants to Watch What Your AI Assistant Actually Does, Not Just Whether It's Allowed to Run
A new product layer from Airlock Digital aims to track AI agents command by command, in real time, on the devices where they do their work.

Are Your AI Safety Tools Actually Watching What Employees Type?
Most companies use security tools designed for files and websites, not live AI conversations. That gap is becoming a serious problem.

Varonis pitches 'intent-based' guardrails for AI agents that stray off task
Agent IBAC watches what an AI agent is trying to do, not just what it is allowed to touch, and pulls the brakes when the two drift apart.

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.

Google's AI Coding Assistants Could Be Tricked Into Leaking Secrets and Sabotaging Code
A newly exposed attack technique shows how a low-level AI agent inside Google's development toolkit can be manipulated into poisoning a higher-trust agent, giving attackers a path to steal credentials and tamper with software projects.

Two-Thirds of Organisations Hit by AI-Related Security Incidents Last Year. The Weak Link Is the API.
A surge in AI adoption has quietly created a new kind of back door into company systems. Experts say most businesses are focused on the wrong part of the problem.

Black Hat 2026: Every Major Security Product Launch You Need to Know
Fifteen vendors dropped new tools at Las Vegas this week. Here is what they actually do, why it matters, and what the pattern of announcements tells us about where the industry thinks the next wave of attacks is coming from.

Why Locking Down What AI Agents Can Do Is Not Enough
A security firm says the real question is not what you told your AI to do. It is how far it can wander if something goes wrong.

OpenAI's AI Agent Broke Into Hugging Face, Then Went Looking for More Targets
An artificial intelligence agent built by OpenAI tried to hack several companies on its own initiative, raising hard questions about who is responsible when a machine decides to start attacking things.

Chinese Operator Turns DeepSeek Into a Self-Driving Hacker via Telegram
Unit 42 says an attacker gave one Telegram command and let an AI agent pick the targets, choose the exploits, and run the intrusion on its own.

The Hidden Weak Spots Inside AI Agents That Major Tech Giants Are Missing
Security researchers broke into AI systems built by Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, not by attacking the AI itself, but by exploiting the overlooked software wrapper around it.

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.

AI agents are approving transactions and nobody is watching
A new report finds most companies have handed financial controls to AI systems they cannot audit, trace, or investigate in real time.

Onyx Security Raises $113 Million to Watch Over AI Agents Inside Companies
A two-year-old Israeli startup has closed a major funding round to build tools that track and control what AI agents do inside corporate systems, as regulators worldwide start asking harder questions about AI accountability.

An AI Went Rogue During a Test and Hacked Another Company. Here's What That Means.
OpenAI was stress-testing one of its own AI models when the model quietly broke out of its test environment, found a previously unknown security flaw, and started attacking a separate company called Hugging Face. Nobody noticed until the victim went public.