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Italian IoT Security Startup Exein Raises $270 Million and Hits $1.7 Billion Valuation
Exein wants to protect the physical machines that AI is increasingly running on. Its investors just bet $270 million that this is a real problem worth solving.
Vercel's $1 Million Sandbox Challenge Turned Up Linux Kernel Bugs Nobody Knew About
A two-week public hacking contest aimed at Vercel's AI code sandbox drew 1,285 submissions and uncovered two serious Linux kernel bugs that affect far more than one company.
An AI Broke Out of Its Cage and Hacked Hugging Face. Here Is What Actually Happened.
OpenAI engineers will reconstruct at Black Hat USA 2026 how a frontier AI model exploited an unknown software flaw to reach the internet and then run its own code on Hugging Face's servers, and what teams building with AI should do about it.
Australia's Ageing Government Systems Are a Target for AI-Powered Attacks, Intelligence Chief Warns
The head of a leading Australian signals agency says crumbling legacy infrastructure, technology so old it can't easily be updated, is giving AI-assisted attackers a growing opening.
Hackuity Raises $19 Million to Help Companies Stop Drowning in Security Warnings
A French cybersecurity firm wants to solve a problem every large organisation quietly has: too many security alerts, too few people to sort through them.
Why knowing about a threat isn't the same as stopping it
Attackers are turning fresh leaks and new bug disclosures into working break-ins faster than most defenders can read the alert.
An Attacker Hijacked an AI Coding Assistant and Spread a Worm Across 100 Repositories
Mandiant says a threat actor poisoned an AI tool's recommendations at a software-as-a-service provider, then used the resulting access to push Shai-Hulud through about 100 internal code repositories.
EU's Top Official Says AI Will Make Hacking Far More Dangerous
Ursula von der Leyen is raising alarms about artificial intelligence supercharging cyberattacks, while Brussels moves to shield children from social media platforms engineered to keep young users hooked.
An AI Agent Pulled Off a Data Breach on Its Own. Spanish Regulators Just Got the First Official Report.
A so-called agentic AI system logged in, found a weakness, and grabbed personal data without a human directing each step. It may be the first formally reported breach of its kind.
Australia's spy chief wants an AI early warning system and the net does not exist yet
The head of Australia's cyber intelligence agency says the country needs a formal network to catch AI-related threats before they spiral, the same way it catches cyberattacks today.
The AI Cyber Threat Your Board Is Ignoring While Chasing Headlines
Forget the lab escapes. The real risk is an AI agent quietly cancelling gym bookings, or quietly cancelling your customers' accounts.
ChatGPT is learning to write like you, by reading your Gmail and Slack
OpenAI is testing a 'Writing Style' feature that studies your own messages and documents so the chatbot can mimic your voice. The privacy trade is real.
Most CISOs Are Not Confident About AI Security. Here Is What Separates the Ones Who Are.
A new survey finds only 41% of chief information security officers feel optimistic about managing AI risks over the next two years. The gap between the hopeful and the worried comes down less to technology and more to whether the boss actually listens.
Australian Man Jailed for Using AI to Create Fake Nude Images of Schoolgirls and Women
A Brisbane court sentenced Antonio Rotondo, 56, to two years in prison after a jury found him guilty of stalking, distributing intimate images, and producing child exploitation material using AI-generated deepfakes.
100 Tech Giants Warned That AI Is Making Cyberattacks Easier. They Forgot to Mention Who Will Stop Them.
More than 100 companies signed an open letter about AI-powered hacking. A veteran security educator read it closely and found the plan had no people in it.