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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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Asqav: Open-source SDK for AI agent governance

Asqav: Open-source SDK for AI agent governance 2026-04-09 at 08:27 By Mirko Zorz AI agents are executing consequential tasks autonomously, often across multiple systems and with little record of what they did or why. Asqav, a Python SDK released under the MIT license, addresses that gap by attaching a cryptographic signature to each agent action […]

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Microsoft releases open-source toolkit to govern autonomous AI agents

Microsoft releases open-source toolkit to govern autonomous AI agents 2026-04-03 at 08:39 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI agents can book travel, execute financial transactions, write and run code, and manage infrastructure without human intervention at each step. Frameworks like LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, and Azure AI Foundry Agent Service have made this kind of autonomy straightforward to […]

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Amazon sends AI agents into pen testing and DevOps

Amazon sends AI agents into pen testing and DevOps 2026-03-31 at 20:31 By Sinisa Markovic Amazon’s latest AI capabilities bring on-demand penetration testing through the AWS Security Agent, alongside the AWS DevOps Agent. “These agents are changing the way we secure and operate software. AWS Security Agent compresses penetration testing timelines from 2-6 weeks to […]

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AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet

AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet 2026-03-26 at 12:32 By Mirko Zorz Vendors selling AI-powered security operations platforms have built their pitches around a consistent set of promises: autonomous threat investigation, dramatic reductions in analyst workload, and an accelerating path toward humanless operations. Practitioners buying and deploying those […]

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Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows

Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows 2026-03-26 at 07:12 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI agents are operating across production enterprise environments at scale, and the identity infrastructure managing their access has not kept up with their deployment. A January 2026 survey of 228 IT and security professionals, conducted by the Cloud Security […]

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The AI safety conversation is focused on the wrong layer

The AI safety conversation is focused on the wrong layer 2026-03-24 at 16:30 By Mirko Zorz Organizations have spent years accumulating fragmented identity systems: too many roles, too many credentials, too many disconnected tools. For a workforce of humans, that fragmentation was manageable. Humans log in, log out, and make decisions slowly enough that gaps […]

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Your AI agents are moving sensitive data. Do you know where?

Your AI agents are moving sensitive data. Do you know where? 2026-03-23 at 09:18 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Gidi Cohen, CEO at Bonfy.AI, addresses what he sees as the most pressing gap in AI agent security: data-layer risk. While the industry focuses on prompt injection and model behavior, Cohen argues […]

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Hidden instructions in README files can make AI agents leak data

Hidden instructions in README files can make AI agents leak data 2026-03-17 at 08:02 By Sinisa Markovic Developers rely on AI coding agents to set up projects, install dependencies, and run commands by following instructions in repository README files, which provide setup guidance for software projects. New research identifies a security risk when attackers hide […]

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AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes

AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes 2026-03-13 at 08:01 By Anamarija Pogorelec Coding agents are now writing production features on real development teams, and a new report from DryRun Security shows that those agents introduce security vulnerabilities at a high rate across nearly every type of application they build. “AI coding agents can […]

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Agentic attack chains advance as infostealers flood criminal markets

Agentic attack chains advance as infostealers flood criminal markets 2026-03-12 at 08:35 By Mirko Zorz Cybercriminals spent much of 2025 automating their operations, shifting from one-off attacks to systems that can run entire intrusion cycles with minimal human input. Data collected from criminal forums, illicit marketplaces, and underground chat services shows a threat environment where […]

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Open-source tool Sage puts a security layer between AI agents and the OS

Open-source tool Sage puts a security layer between AI agents and the OS 2026-03-09 at 08:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec Autonomous AI agents running on developer workstations execute shell commands, fetch URLs, and write files with little or no inspection of what they are doing. Open-source project Sage inserts an interception layer between an AI agent […]

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Cursor Automations turns code review and ops into background tasks

Cursor Automations turns code review and ops into background tasks 2026-03-06 at 12:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec Cursor Automations, the always-on agent platform from Cursor, is expanding with a new generation of autonomous systems that streamline code review, incident response, and other engineering workflows. The platform runs AI agents on schedules or in response to development […]

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