Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results 2026-09-09 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028, 70% of large SOCs will pilot AI agents to augment […]
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Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks 2026-09-08 at 17:55 By Sinisa Markovic AI agents are automating parts of cyberattacks with less human involvement, including vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting, and troubleshooting, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group’s Q3 2026 AI Threat Tracker. (Source: Google) The report draws on Mandiant incident response […]
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Product showcase: Doppler secures secrets for humans, pipelines, and AI agents 2026-09-08 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Every engineering team has spent years trying to keep credentials out of source code. Then AI agents moved the problem. Coding agents review code, agents run workflows, and MCP servers broker access to databases, cloud providers, and […]
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Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs 2026-09-08 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without relying on metered cloud tokens. Designed for systems with at least 64 GB […]
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OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI 2026-09-07 at 12:05 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including work that […]
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A five-part inventory for your AI agent credentials 2026-09-04 at 08:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid, explains why AI agents hold credentials that nobody reviews. Organizations build agents in AI studios, connect them to enterprise tools, and give them accounts to do useful […]
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Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control 2026-09-03 at 10:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec An AI agent told in its system prompt to show a user only what that user is cleared to see will hand over more the moment someone talks it into doing so. Gee Rittenhouse, who oversees Security Hub, GuardDuty, […]
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National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years 2026-09-02 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer is VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion covers why patch cycles built for human speed cannot […]
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Halo-record: Open-source audit trails for AI agents 2026-08-31 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Brian Kuan wrote halo-record, a small Python package that sits inside an AI agent and writes down the moves it makes: tool calls, model calls, data access, approvals. Each action becomes one line in a file that only ever gets appended to, […]
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AI supply chain risk is showing up in developer workflows first 2026-08-25 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Jaushin Lee, CEO of Zentera Systems, discusses where AI supply chain risk shows up. He says most incidents still hit developer workflows and open-source package repositories, while poisoned model weights and […]
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HOL Guard: Open-source antivirus for AI agents 2026-08-25 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec HOL Guard is a free, open-source tool that sits between an AI assistant and the computer it runs on. When the assistant tries something risky, the tool pauses it and asks you first. It installs in about a minute, runs on your […]
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Product showcase: AI Paper Trail shows the privacy cost of talking to AI 2026-08-24 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Proton’s AI Paper Trail is a free tool designed to make the information accumulated across AI conversations easier to see. It analyzes exported ChatGPT or Claude conversation data and produces a personal privacy report showing what […]
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AWS limits AI agents’ data access, even when manipulated 2026-08-20 at 14:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS has detailed an approach for propagating user authorization context through AI agents, allowing access controls to be enforced by infrastructure and downstream services rather than relying on the agent itself. Customers using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore can build AI agents […]
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OpenAI previews privacy-focused system for detecting AI misuse 2026-08-20 at 12:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing with early customers seeking greater certainty about how their data will be protected as AI systems become more capable. The system identifies patterns across related interactions while restricting OpenAI personnel from accessing the underlying content. […]
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OpenAI puts major frontier AI training run on hold over cyber risks 2026-08-19 at 11:48 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI temporarily paused reinforcement learning (RL) training on its latest models intended for deployment for two weeks while it hardened and red-teamed research environments and expanded monitoring. “Our largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold while […]
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Google’s $10,000 refund test shows why AI agents need zero trust 2026-08-18 at 14:49 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google’s open-source autonomous Customer Support & Returns Agent, built using the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Gemini, demonstrates how developers can apply zero-trust security principles to AI agents that interact with sensitive systems and take real-world actions. The […]
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OpenAI tightens defenses after AI agents breach research environment 2026-08-18 at 12:41 By Anamarija Pogorelec Following the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which an agentic collective autonomously penetrated OpenAI’s research infrastructure and another company’s production infrastructure by chaining together multiple weaknesses, OpenAI began strengthening its safety requirements. The weaknesses included previously unknown vulnerabilities and credentials leaked […]
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Hazmat: Open-source containment for AI agents 2026-08-17 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Hazmat is an open-source tool that runs AI coding agents inside a separate account on your own machine. It wraps the harnesses people use: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, and several more, plus any script you write yourself. An agent launched the […]
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol runs up to 14× faster with Ultrafast mode 2026-08-14 at 13:55 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol on Ultrafast mode is available in limited preview to a select group of customers, launching first through the OpenAI API. The company says the service runs up to 14 times faster than Standard processing and […]
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The hardest part of agentic AI may be rebuilding the business 2026-08-14 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Organizations expect AI agents to change how work gets done, driving productivity and growth while allowing employees to focus on higher-value tasks. Few, however, have the processes and workflows needed to realize those benefits, according to Deloitte’s latest […]
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