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Anthropic Fast-Tracks AI Bug Reports to OSS Maintainers, Taps 11 Firms for OT Security

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Anthropic Fast-Tracks AI Bug Reports to OSS Maintainers, Taps 11 Firms for OT Security 2026-10-09 at 11:19 By Eduard Kovacs OSS Scanner sends unreviewed, model-generated vulnerability reports to open source maintainers that opt in. The post Anthropic Fast-Tracks AI Bug Reports to OSS Maintainers, Taps 11 Firms for OT Security appeared first on SecurityWeek. This […]

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PCI SSC calls for human approval of AI agent actions involving cardholder data

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PCI SSC calls for human approval of AI agent actions involving cardholder data 2026-10-09 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published Security Considerations for AI Systems, guidance covering the protection of data supplied to AI systems in payment environments and defenses against AI-assisted attacks. Developed with industry stakeholders, […]

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Companies want autonomous IT operations but hesitate to let AI act alone

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Companies want autonomous IT operations but hesitate to let AI act alone 2026-10-09 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Ninety percent of companies want to move toward autonomous IT operations over the next two years, with agentic AI, software that plans and carries out multi-step tasks on its own, doing the work. Yet 77 percent say […]

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Formula Predicts When AI Chatbots Are at Risk of Turning Bad

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Formula Predicts When AI Chatbots Are at Risk of Turning Bad 2026-10-09 at 07:12 By Kevin Townsend Researchers from George Washington University have published a paper examining whether the time and cause of AI going rogue can be predicted. The post Formula Predicts When AI Chatbots Are at Risk of Turning Bad appeared first on […]

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Anthropic’s new budget model gets much better at ignoring hidden commands

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Anthropic’s new budget model gets much better at ignoring hidden commands 2026-10-08 at 14:24 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 model, designed for quick, repetitive workloads and speed-sensitive tasks, is now better at finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits than its predecessor. The company has given it stricter cybersecurity safeguards than Haiku 4.5, though lighter […]

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Cryptomining botnet hides C2 addresses in GitHub poem, infects over 3,400 servers

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Cryptomining botnet hides C2 addresses in GitHub poem, infects over 3,400 servers 2026-10-08 at 13:24 By Sinisa Markovic Thousands of hijacked servers have been looking up their command and control (C2) server in a poem posted on GitHub, according to Black Lotus Labs. The malware reading it, dubbed PoeLLM, breaks into exposed AI services and […]

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GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push

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GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push 2026-10-08 at 12:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitHub has announced an AI detector, developed with Microsoft Applied Sciences, to help prevent developers from uploading passwords and other credentials to code repositories. The ModernBERT-based classifier will expand GitHub’s push protection, which checks code for secrets and can […]

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Who watches the AI watching your street?

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Who watches the AI watching your street? 2026-10-08 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Yusaku Fujii, a professor at Gunma University in Japan, has designed audits and penalties to stop operators from misusing AI that analyzes street camera footage. His system adds an independent record-keeper and unannounced spot checks to the AI’s outputs. Fujii’s test setting […]

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How AI can fix cybersecurity compliance: From dashboards to continuous execution

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How AI can fix cybersecurity compliance: From dashboards to continuous execution 2026-10-08 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Most compliance work goes into proving security, not improving it. That isn’t because the rules are unreasonable. Regulators, customers, and cyber insurers are right to expect organizations to implement hundreds of technical and administrative controls, monitor their […]

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Anthropic Introduces 3-Tier Cyber Verification Program for AI Access

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Anthropic Introduces 3-Tier Cyber Verification Program for AI Access 2026-10-07 at 13:07 By Eduard Kovacs Anthropic is integrating the CVP and Project Glasswing into a single offering, with three levels of access to its most capable AI models. The post Anthropic Introduces 3-Tier Cyber Verification Program for AI Access appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article […]

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Anthropic loosens Claude’s cyber restrictions for verified defenders

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Anthropic loosens Claude’s cyber restrictions for verified defenders 2026-10-07 at 12:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic expanded its Cyber Verification Program (CVP), giving approved security professionals access to advanced Claude capabilities with fewer automated blocks on work such as malware analysis and vulnerability testing. Three tiers for cybersecurity work The program now has three tiers based […]

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Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies

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Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies 2026-10-07 at 10:58 By Eduard Kovacs Wikimedia looked into whether its own websites had seen activity like that disclosed by other organizations The post Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is […]

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AI endpoint management: Visibility, compliance, and remediation

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AI endpoint management: Visibility, compliance, and remediation 2026-10-07 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Endpoint estates are growing faster than the teams that look after them. Hybrid work, cloud adoption, contractor laptops, a steady stream of new CVEs, and rising compliance pressure mean security teams manage more devices, more software, and more exceptions than a […]

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Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and millions of requests to Wikimedia

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Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and millions of requests to Wikimedia 2026-10-06 at 16:49 By Sinisa Markovic Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on Wikimedia wikis and sent millions of automated requests to Wikimedia’s public APIs, traffic that may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May, the […]

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Reflection’s Beam trails top open models on coding tests but claims lower inference compute

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Reflection’s Beam trails top open models on coding tests but claims lower inference compute 2026-10-06 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Reflection AI has built Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model for coding and agent tasks, and plans to publish the weights under an Apache 2.0 license later this month. Open-weight means developers can download the trained […]

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Google Narrows Open Source Bug Bounty Amid Wave of Invalid Automated Reports

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Google Narrows Open Source Bug Bounty Amid Wave of Invalid Automated Reports 2026-10-05 at 17:26 By Eduard Kovacs Google has temporarily stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP). The post Google Narrows Open Source Bug Bounty Amid Wave of Invalid Automated Reports appeared first on SecurityWeek. This […]

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Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerful

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Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerful 2026-10-05 at 11:11 By Anamarija Pogorelec Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Users will need to take explicit action to grant apps this permission. The company […]

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AI slop submissions force Google to freeze its open-source bug bounty

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AI slop submissions force Google to freeze its open-source bug bounty 2026-10-05 at 10:37 By Sinisa Markovic Google has stopped accepting new product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP), after a wave of invalid, AI-generated submissions swamped the engineers and open source maintainers who review them. The rules page […]

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Trump Names National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to Lead a New Federal AI Task Force

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Trump Names National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to Lead a New Federal AI Task Force 2026-10-04 at 17:57 By Associated Press The announcement comes after Trump hosted top executives of AI companies at the White House last week. The post Trump Names National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to Lead a New Federal AI Task Force […]

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doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures

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doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures 2026-10-03 at 14:45 By Kevin Townsend doxx.net’s new ADN platform prevents agentic misadventure while the agent is operating under the user’s authority. The post doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]

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