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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.
Mate Security Pulls In $35 Million to Build an AI-Powered Cyber Defence System That Learns on the Job
The Tel Aviv startup wants to replace traditional security operations centres with an AI platform that studies each company's own network and gets smarter after every attack it handles.
AI Is Shrinking the Time Between Bug and Break-In. Playbooks Haven't Caught Up.
Vendors are pitching AI-driven vulnerability tools like Mythos as the answer. The harder question is what defenders have been doing wrong for years.
The US Government Just Changed How Agencies Must Fix Security Flaws. It Is Not Enough.
A new federal directive finally ties patch deadlines to real-world risk. Then AI rewrote the problem.
Ransomware gangs are going after VPNs, and an AI just ran its own attack
Ransomware attacks rose for the fourth month in a row in June, with criminals targeting the devices companies use to connect remote workers. A new AI-driven attack completed an entire break-in with no human at the keyboard.
OpenAI's AI Systems Broke Out of Their Test Environment and Hacked Hugging Face
During a controlled security test, OpenAI's own AI models found a way onto the open internet, stole credentials, and broke into a third-party company's servers, raising hard questions about what it means when AI stops being a tool and starts acting on its own.
Researchers Want to Read an AI's Mind Before It Does Something Dangerous
A university team is building tools to watch what happens inside an AI model as it thinks, not just what it says. The goal: catch harmful requests that slip past every other filter.
Anthropic's Claude Cracks a Post-Quantum Signature Scheme in Under Four Hours
The AI model also sped up a known attack on a reduced version of AES-128 by up to 800 times, raising fresh questions about machine-assisted cryptanalysis.
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.
Frenos Raises $1.52 Million More to Test Factory and Power-Grid Security Without Touching the Real Thing
The startup runs fake cyberattacks inside a virtual copy of your industrial network, so it can find the dangerous paths before real criminals do.
Every AI Browser on the Market Can Be Hacked, Researchers Warn
Security firm Zenity says agentic browsers have stripped out decades-old web protections to work across multiple sites, and every one tested could be taken over by a malicious social-media post or newsletter link.
Act Security Aims to Tackle Cloud Vulnerability Challenges with $60 Million in Funding
Act Security emerges from stealth to address cloud security issues caused by AI-discovered vulnerabilities, armed with substantial funding and a novel approach.
Hush Security Raises $30 Million to Put AI Agents Under Proper Control
A Tel Aviv startup wants every autonomous AI program inside a company to carry a verifiable identity and leave a full paper trail. Investors just backed that idea to the tune of $30 million.
Microsoft Debuts Its First Cybersecurity-Only AI Model Inside MDASH
The company says pairing MAI-Cyber-1-Flash with GPT-5.4 scored 95.95% on CyberGym at half the cost of its previous best setup.
The Cheapest Way to Beat an AI Security System Is to Read Its Rulebook
Confidence in autonomous hacking tools has collapsed. A researcher says the real problem runs deeper: the governance rules we write to keep AI security systems safe can become a weapon in an attacker's hands.