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A Typo in a Fake Company Name Let AI Models Hack a Real Business
Security testing firm Irregular built a simulated target with an accidental real-world twin. The AI models found it, broke in, and nobody noticed for a while.
Mindgard Raises $30 Million to Test AI Systems for Security Flaws
The London-and-Boston startup has already found more than 150 vulnerabilities in popular AI products, including a previously unknown flaw in a widely used code editor. Fresh capital will expand its engineering and sales teams.
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.
The USB Drop That Changed Pen Testing: Steve Stasiukonis's Credit Union Experiment, Revisited
Twenty years ago, a handful of booby-trapped thumb drives in a parking lot became one of the most-cited social-engineering case studies in security history. Here's what actually happened.
From Modded Game Controllers to IBM X-Force Red: The Chris Thompson Arc
A teenage hardware tinkerer grows up to run one of the most recognizable offensive-security brands in enterprise tech — then leaves to build something new.
Microsoft Expands Its Agentic AI Failure Taxonomy With Seven New Attack Classes
From inter-agent trust escalation to MCP plugin abuse, the updated taxonomy surfaces threat categories that didn't exist — or weren't well-understood — when Microsoft published its first version.
Microsoft Open-Sources Rampart and Clarity to Embed AI Agent Safety Into Dev Pipelines
Two new tools shift AI red-teaming left, targeting prompt injection and privilege escalation before code ships.