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Google AI Threat Defense targets attackers using AI to find flaws faster

Google AI Threat Defense targets attackers using AI to find flaws faster 2026-05-27 at 17:23 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google Cloud introduced AI Threat Defense, an automated cybersecurity platform that combines several of the company’s security assets to find, prioritize, and patch software vulnerabilities at machine speed. The product is aimed at enterprises contending with attackers […]

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Microsoft open-sources tools for designing and testing AI agents

Microsoft open-sources tools for designing and testing AI agents 2026-05-21 at 19:15 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has open-sourced two tools aimed at bringing security discipline to AI agent development: Clarity, a structured design review tool, and RAMPART, a continuous testing framework. The release comes from Microsoft’s AI Red Team, the company’s internal unit that stress-tests

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AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested

AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested 2026-05-21 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Adversarial probing of LLMs has piled up a sprawling toolkit over the past three years. Attack techniques with names like Tree of Attacks with Pruning, Crescendo, and Skeleton Key sit alongside hundreds of prompt transforms and scoring methods across open-source

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When your AI assistant has the keys to production

When your AI assistant has the keys to production 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Sinisa Markovic Large language models in operational roles query telemetry, propose configuration changes, and in some deployments execute those changes against live infrastructure. Ticket drafting and alert summarization were the starting point. Vendors describe this work as autonomous remediation or self-healing infrastructure.

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AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours

AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours 2026-05-18 at 09:42 By Anamarija Pogorelec Time has become organizations’ biggest vulnerability because the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has narrowed to hours, according to Synack’s 2026 State of Vulnerabilities Report. Total vulnerabilities by severity (2022-2025) (Source: Synack) AI expands the attack surface Agentic AI systems that

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Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent

Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent 2026-05-18 at 09:42 By Sinisa Markovic Penetration testing has usually required weeks of manual work, specialized tooling, and teams with narrow skill sets. Lyrie, an open-source autonomous security agent built by OTT Cybersecurity, compresses that process into a command line tool and publishes the entire codebase. The project reached version

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Microsoft turns Copilot Studio into an AI agent control center

Microsoft turns Copilot Studio into an AI agent control center 2026-05-14 at 18:25 By Anamarija Pogorelec The Microsoft Copilot Studio April 2026 updates improve visibility and governance for admins and expand workflow capabilities for managing agents. Copilot surfaces agent status in the authoring experience, giving admins insight into each agent’s security and protection posture. Customers

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One in four MCP servers opens AI agent security to code execution risk

One in four MCP servers opens AI agent security to code execution risk 2026-05-05 at 13:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprise deployments of AI agents lean on two extension mechanisms that introduce risk at different layers of the stack. MCP servers expose deterministic code functions with structured, loggable invocations. Skills load textual instruction sets directly into

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Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall

Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing API keys, and unrestricted internet connectivity, creating a single point of failure where one compromised tool call can leak credentials to an attacker-controlled domain. Pipelock, an open-source security harness developed by Joshua Waldrep under

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FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments

FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments 2026-04-29 at 05:30 By Sinisa Markovic AI agents are beginning to shop, log in, and complete tasks with little direct input. That shift is pushing the security industry to rethink how trust works when actions are carried out on a user’s behalf.

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The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms

The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms 2026-04-27 at 10:30 By Mirko Zorz Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card post a task and pay a stranger to complete it. The RentAHuman platform extends that model to AI agents through a Model Context Protocol server, allowing an agent to post gigs

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Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild

Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild 2026-04-24 at 23:26 By Zeljka Zorz The open web is slowly but surely filling up with “traps” designed for LLM-powered AI agents. The technique, known as indirect prompt injection (IPI), involves hiding (more or less) covert instructions inside ordinary web pages, waiting for an AI agent

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Why Cybersecurity Must Rethink Defense in the Age of Autonomous Agents

Why Cybersecurity Must Rethink Defense in the Age of Autonomous Agents 2026-04-24 at 16:23 By Torsten George From autonomous code generation to decision-making systems that initiate actions without human intervention, the industry is entering a new phase. The post Why Cybersecurity Must Rethink Defense in the Age of Autonomous Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming

Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming 2026-04-23 at 09:47 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises running customer service bots, data analytics agents, and other AI-driven applications in production handle sensitive records and connect to core business systems every day. LangWatch has released Scenario, an open-source framework that runs automated red-team exercises against AI agents using

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Tencent’s QClaw AI agent app arrives on Windows and macOS

Tencent’s QClaw AI agent app arrives on Windows and macOS 2026-04-22 at 13:48 By Sinisa Markovic Tencent has opened an international beta of QClaw, an AI agent application aimed at consumers in Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. The first wave is capped at 20,000 users. Additional markets are scheduled to follow.

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with automated cybersecurity safeguards

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with automated cybersecurity safeguards 2026-04-16 at 18:06 By Sinisa Markovic Software teams building agentic AI workflows have been pushing frontier models toward longer, unsupervised task runs. Claude Opus 4.7, now generally available from Anthropic, is aimed squarely at that demand, with particular gains in software engineering, multimodal processing, and the

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Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready

Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready 2026-04-14 at 09:15 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Idan Habler, AI Security Researcher at Cisco, breaks down a threat most security teams haven’t named yet: agentic memory as an attack surface. Habler walks through MemoryTrap, a disclosed

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ZeroID: Open-source identity platform for autonomous AI agents

ZeroID: Open-source identity platform for autonomous AI agents 2026-04-13 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz ZeroID is an open-source identity platform that implements an identity and credentialing layer specifically for autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The attribution problem The core issue ZeroID targets is attribution in agentic workflows. When an orchestrator agent spawns sub-agents to carry

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Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows

Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows 2026-04-09 at 17:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions, and end-to-end tracing for you. Developers can define tasks, tools, and

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AI agent intent is a starting point, not a security strategy

AI agent intent is a starting point, not a security strategy 2026-04-09 at 08:53 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security video, Itamar Apelblat, CEO of Token Security, walks through findings from the company’s research, which shows that 65% of agentic chatbots have never been used yet still hold live access credentials. He explains

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