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AI Agents Can Infect Each Other Through Shared Prompt Files, Researchers Show
A preprint from Anthropic and EPFL demonstrates self-spreading instructions jumping between coding agents in a lab setup.
Fortinet Buys AI Security Startup Virtue AI
The cybersecurity giant adds a specialist platform for testing and protecting AI models, chatbots, and autonomous software agents, as the market for AI security tools heats up fast.
Hugging Face Says an Autonomous AI Agent Broke Into Its Production Systems
The AI hosting giant disclosed unauthorised access to internal datasets and staff credentials, in what it says was an attack driven by an automated AI agent rather than a human operator.
How a String of Morse Code Tricked an AI Into Wiring Real Money
A crypto heist nobody heard much about previews a dangerous new kind of attack, one that needs no stolen passwords, no malware, and no hacked firewall.
AI Agents Are Now Running Entire Cyberattacks, Start to Finish
Two separate investigations show that criminals are handing whole attack campaigns to artificial intelligence, cutting the time it takes to ransack a company from weeks to hours.
AI Web Agents Have No Reliable Prompt Injection Defenses, Benchmark Finds
Researchers ran 3,168 adversarial tests against GPT-5 and Gemini-powered agents. The 'Robust Behavior' outcome — agent completes task, attacker gets nothing — never appeared.