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AI Security

Who Is Running Up Your AI Bill at 3am

Security researchers have mapped an ecosystem of more than 80,000 proxy servers quietly routing stolen AI credentials to frontier models, and companies are footing bills they never ran up.

5 min read
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Identity & Access

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.

4 min read
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AI Security

One in Ten Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Still Use the Demo Admin Key 'sk-1234'

Wiz Research found thousands of AI gateways sitting on the public internet with the example password from the setup guide still in place.

4 min read
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Identity & Access

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.

4 min read
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AI Security

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.

3 min read
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AI Security

Two-Thirds of iPhone AI Chatbot Apps Are Bleeding API Keys

A study of 444 iOS chatbot apps found 282 exposing paid model access in plaintext network traffic, sometimes with no authentication at all.

3 min read
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