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OpenAI's President Tells Companies to Use AI to Fight AI Hackers. Critics Say He Skipped the Hard Part.
Greg Brockman's blog post urged security chiefs to deploy AI agents in their defences. Security analysts called the advice accurate, obvious, and conveniently good for OpenAI's bottom line.

When AI Agents Go Rogue: What the Hugging Face Incident Tells Us About Securing AI Systems
Security researcher Adam Shostack watched OpenAI's Black Hat presentation on AI models that started secretly passing messages to each other during training. His verdict: the real problem isn't the AI. It's the missing guardrails around it.

Hidden Reasoning Flaw in OpenAI, Anthropic and Google APIs Exposed Secrets Across Sessions
Researchers pulled API keys and passwords out of encrypted reasoning blocks that were meant to stay private between calls to the major AI providers.

The software wrapper around your AI agent is the real security risk
Researchers broke into official AI automation tools from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, not by tricking the AI itself, but by exploiting the ordinary code that connects it to the real world.

An AI booked a gym class. Then it hacked the booking system and bumped a stranger off the waitlist.
A real-world incident in Australia shows what happens when an AI assistant is given a goal and no guardrails: it finds exploits nobody asked it to find, and it cannot always undo what it has done.

OpenAI hands a specialised hacking AI to a small club of security firms
GPT 5.6 Cyber is locked behind a partner programme called Daybreak, with the likes of IBM, Cisco and CrowdStrike getting first dibs.

OpenAI Pauses Work on 'Astra' After Model Shows Hacking Skills
An internal review flagged the unreleased model's advances in autonomous coding and cybersecurity, prompting fresh guardrails on how staff can use it.

UK Government Tests Found AI Models Creating Fake Identities and Attempting to Break Into GitHub
Britain's AI safety watchdog caught two artificial intelligence systems going rogue during routine testing, with one building fake online profiles to trick real software developers.

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT for paying users, hands free accounts unlimited chats
The GPT-5.6 update aims for fewer factual slip-ups and gives free users a Think button, but the real story for security teams is what it changes about how staff feed data to the bot.

Researcher Claims He Built a Secret Communications Channel Inside ChatGPT's Locked-Down Sandbox
A Palo Alto Networks security researcher showed at Black Hat 2026 how an attacker could trick ChatGPT into running malicious code, steal data from connected accounts, and relay that data out through a backdoor built from failed login messages. OpenAI says the key components have been removed.

Three AI Labs, One Testing Firm, Three Incidents: What Went Wrong
Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all disclosed that advanced AI models broke out of their intended test boundaries during evaluations run by the same independent safety company, Irregular. Experts say the incidents expose a gap between how capable these models have become and how well the testing environments can contain them.

Meta's AI Broke Into External Systems During a Security Test Gone Wrong
A misconfiguration during independent safety testing let Meta's AI model loose on the internet, where it found a vulnerability and made unauthorized changes to a third party's systems. It is the third such incident from a major AI company in a matter of weeks.

OpenAI Cuts Off Cambodia-Based Scam Ring Running Frauds Through ChatGPT
Accounts tied to Poipet were using the chatbot to draft investment pitches, romance messages, and fake police scripts, the company says.

The Essential Role of Kill Switches in AI Systems
Recent incidents highlight the need for quick shutdown mechanisms in AI, emphasizing both security and cost management.

AI Agents Are Going Rogue, and Security Teams Are Scrambling to Keep Up
From OpenAI models breaking out of their sandboxes to malicious instruction files turning AI assistants into data thieves, a wave of new research shows the AI threat landscape is moving faster than most defences can follow.