Rethinking Application Security for the AI Era 2026-08-24 at 13:00 By Joshua Goldfarb As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk. The post Rethinking Application Security for the AI Era appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]
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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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Ransomware attackers are zeroing in on mid-market companies 2026-08-24 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Mid-sized companies accounted for 73% of publicly disclosed ransomware and data-extortion incidents with known revenue in North America and Europe between January 2023 and June 2026, according to Black Kite. The analysis covered 13,336 incidents with known revenue and defined mid-market […]
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Encrypted Prompts Bypass AI Safety Guardrails in Grok and Gemini 2026-08-21 at 17:34 By Kevin Townsend Researchers say the new ‘Cryptographic Context Injection’ technique conceals malicious instructions until they are decrypted inside a trusted execution environment. The post Encrypted Prompts Bypass AI Safety Guardrails in Grok and Gemini appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is […]
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Attackers impersonate popular AI brands to spread malware 2026-08-21 at 14:47 By Sinisa Markovic Attackers are impersonating popular AI brands like Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot to spread information stealers, backdoors, malicious browser extensions, and other malware, according to Sophos. Overview of MDR cases with AI involvement (Source: Sophos) Sophos X-Ops reviewed 12 months of […]
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Surveillance – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask 2026-08-20 at 17:30 By Kevin Townsend We all know they’re watching us. But we don’t know who they are, nor why nor how they are doing it. The post Surveillance – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask appeared first […]
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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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Fake Gemini installer delivers Vidar infostealer via Google Colab lure 2026-08-20 at 13:46 By Sinisa Markovic A malicious executable masquerading as a Google Gemini installer was used to deliver the Vidar infostealer on a company network in the EMEA region, according to Darktrace researchers who investigated the incident. “During the initial analysis, it was noted […]
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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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US agencies warn of AI-powered attacks on Siemens industrial controllers 2026-08-20 at 12:07 By Sinisa Markovic Threat actors are using AI to write exploit scripts targeting internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used across water, energy, manufacturing, and other critical infrastructure sectors, according to US federal agencies. PLCs are the small industrial computers […]
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Google’s AI security agents found 100+ critical software vulnerabilities in just two days 2026-08-19 at 12:03 By Sinisa Markovic Google’s Mandiant has disclosed the workings of an internal tool that uses chains of AI agents to hunt for vulnerabilities in source code, saying it found over 100 verified, high-severity flaws in just two days during […]
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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Banks look for fraud signals in customer behavior 2026-08-19 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Banks are dealing with more fraud in which customers authorize payments after being manipulated by criminals. ThreatMark’s Fraud Readiness Benchmark 2026 describes a banking environment where social engineering, reimbursement requirements and growing case volumes are changing fraud operations. Social engineering moves […]
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ChatGPT’s new feature could give infostealers a map of your Mac activity 2026-08-19 at 07:00 By Sinisa Markovic OpenAI’s new Computer History feature turns recent Mac computer activity into memories ChatGPT and Codex can use, and it’s raising questions about privacy and security along the way. Computer History (Source: OpenAI) What Computer History does Computer […]
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AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model 2026-08-18 at 16:00 By Kevin Townsend Rapid7 warns that traditional patch cycles cannot keep pace with soaring vulnerability disclosures and faster exploitation, forcing defenders to prioritize exposure over severity scores. The post AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is […]
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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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Irregular Details How a Naming Error Let AI Models Attack a Real Company 2026-08-17 at 15:11 By Eduard Kovacs The AI security testing firm has shared information on a recently disclosed incident involving Anthropic AI models. The post Irregular Details How a Naming Error Let AI Models Attack a Real Company appeared first on SecurityWeek. […]
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Conflicting Test Goals Pushed Claude Agents to Deploy Self-Replicating Malware 2026-08-17 at 14:09 By Eduard Kovacs Anthropic has been conducting tests to identify issues in how AI agents interact with each other. The post Conflicting Test Goals Pushed Claude Agents to Deploy Self-Replicating Malware appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]
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When companies get specific about AI, revenue growth looks different 2026-08-17 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Companies that provide specific evidence of how they use AI tend to record stronger revenue growth. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Larridin examined a study universe of 564 companies across 12 industry sectors. Individual analyses used smaller samples […]
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