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Governing Al agents at scale: Lessons from the leaders who’ve done it

Governing Al agents at scale: Lessons from the leaders who’ve done it 2026-07-24 at 09:00 By Help Net Security Enterprise AI leaders from ZoomInfo, Docusign and AppViewX share what it took to build AI Centers of Excellence and govern agent identities inside two companies operating at scale. What you’ll take away: What an AI Center […]

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Product Showcase: AppViewX Agent Identity Security

Product Showcase: AppViewX Agent Identity Security 2026-07-23 at 08:30 By Help Net Security AI is multiplying enterprise identities as quantum computing reshapes the cryptographic trust that secures them, and enterprises need to solve both together. Traditional identity security was built for people with predictable, auditable access, not autonomous, short-lived agents that share credentials and break […]

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OpenAI: Our models breached Hugging Face during a cyber capability test

OpenAI: Our models breached Hugging Face during a cyber capability test 2026-07-22 at 17:42 By Zeljka Zorz The recent Hugging Face breach was the work of several OpenAI models, the AI research company claimed in a blog post. The breach Late last week, the company behind Hugging Face, a platform that enables users to share […]

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Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber becomes a vulnerability hunter

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber becomes a vulnerability hunter 2026-07-22 at 11:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber model finds, validates, and patches vulnerabilities before they can be exploited while helping mitigate broader misuse. It is part of a limited-access pilot program that will soon be available to governments and trusted partners through […]

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Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents

Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents 2026-07-22 at 09:00 By Sinisa Markovic The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to read it. On GitHub that somebody is usually […]

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Cloud operations become the next big role for agentic AI

Cloud operations become the next big role for agentic AI 2026-07-22 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Companies are using agentic AI to manage growing application environments, automate routine tasks, and support decisions. Business and IT leaders increasingly see the technology as part of cloud application management, according to Unisys’ AI & Cloud Insights Report. To […]

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JadePuffer returns with ransomware built to target AI models and infrastructure

JadePuffer returns with ransomware built to target AI models and infrastructure 2026-07-21 at 16:38 By Zeljka Zorz JadePuffer, the threat actor behind the recently documented extortion operation executed end-to-end by an AI agent, is now attempting to leverage ENCFORGE, novel ransomware created to target AI and machine learning (ML) infrastructure. The extortion contact embedded in […]

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AWS wants GuardDuty to automate the first steps of threat investigations

AWS wants GuardDuty to automate the first steps of threat investigations 2026-07-21 at 12:14 By Anamarija Pogorelec Amazon GuardDuty investigation agent is now in public preview. The feature provides AI-powered investigations of GuardDuty findings, AWS accounts and AWS organizations, helping security teams reduce investigation time. During the public preview, the investigation agent is available at […]

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Hugging Face breached by autonomous AI agent

Hugging Face breached by autonomous AI agent 2026-07-20 at 13:52 By Zeljka Zorz Hugging Face, the widely used platform for sharing open-source machine learning models and datasets, has disclosed a security breach it says was carried out by an autonomous AI agent system. How the attack unfolded In a blog post published Thursday (July 16), […]

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Prompt injection is becoming the XSS of the web agent era

Prompt injection is becoming the XSS of the web agent era 2026-07-17 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Autonomous web agents read whatever a page displays, and much of that content comes from strangers. Product reviews, seller listings, and advertisements sit beside trusted site menus on a single page. An agent that reads all of that […]

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GPT-Red beat human red teamers on a prompt injection test

GPT-Red beat human red teamers on a prompt injection test 2026-07-16 at 06:49 By Mirko Zorz GPT-Red is an automated red-teaming model that OpenAI trains to find prompt injection weaknesses. It works the way a human red-teamer does. It sends a prompt, watches how a GPT model responds, and iterates toward a goal such as […]

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SingGuard-NSFA: Open-source guardrails for agentic AI

SingGuard-NSFA: Open-source guardrails for agentic AI 2026-07-15 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec SingGuard-NSFA is an open-source guardrail framework aimed at operational threats in agent workflows. Four models ship at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters, all built on Qwen3.5 base backbones. Risk taxonomy The NSFA risk taxonomy organizes threats along the CIA triad of confidentiality, […]

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The MDR renewal question: What changes when AI can handle the alerts

The MDR renewal question: What changes when AI can handle the alerts 2026-07-15 at 08:00 By Help Net Security For most of the past decade, the managed detection and response (MDR) decision was a simple one: teams that couldn’t staff a 24/7 SOC outsourced detection and response to a provider who could. It solved a […]

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“Context bombs” can frustrate AI-driven attacks, researchers found

“Context bombs” can frustrate AI-driven attacks, researchers found 2026-07-14 at 15:27 By Zeljka Zorz A new approach tried out by Tracebit researchers has proven very effective at stopping AI agents from fully compromising targeted environments. What makes it notable isn’t the technique – prompt injection is old news – but the direction it’s pointed: not […]

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Cynative: Open-source deep research agent

Cynative: Open-source deep research agent 2026-07-13 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Running a large language model against a live cloud account to hunt for security holes comes with an obvious hazard. An agent that holds real credentials and a mandate to poke around can delete a bucket, flip a permission, or leak a secret on […]

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A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors

A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors 2026-07-13 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each written by a company the buyer may never deal with directly. […]

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99.9% of fixable AI vulnerabilities remain unpatched

99.9% of fixable AI vulnerabilities remain unpatched 2026-07-13 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Organizations build, deploy, and operate AI in the cloud, but basic cybersecurity hygiene is often sacrificed for speed, according to Orca Security’s 2026 State of AI Security Report. Building AI without security Fifty-six percent of AI adopters have deployed agent frameworks into […]

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AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity

AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity 2026-07-10 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow suffers and days sales outstanding climbs. The same pattern repeats across […]

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Your coding agent says no in chat and yes in the code

Your coding agent says no in chat and yes in the code 2026-07-09 at 13:44 By Mirko Zorz Millions of developers share their keyboard with GitHub Copilot. Inside Visual Studio Code, it opens their files, writes and edits code, runs scripts, and reworks its own output across many turns. The safety testing that vets these […]

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Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them

Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them 2026-07-09 at 10:24 By Sinisa Markovic Developers who build with AI coding agents grab capabilities off public marketplaces the same way they grab packages from npm or PyPI. The add-ons are called agent skills. Each one is a little bundle of plain-English […]

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