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AI-Infra-Guard: Open-source security scanner for AI systems

AI-Infra-Guard: Open-source security scanner for AI systems 2026-09-09 at 10:13 By Mirko Zorz Tencent’s Zhuque Lab built AI-Infra-Guard, an open-source security scanner for AI systems. It fingerprints running services such as Ollama, vLLM and ComfyUI and checks them against more than 1,600 known CVEs, inspects MCP servers and agent skills across 14 categories of risk, […]

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Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results

Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results 2026-09-09 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028, 70% of large SOCs will pilot AI agents to augment […]

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What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era

What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era 2026-09-09 at 07:30 By Help Net Security Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them into something that will actually run against your controls. That somebody […]

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The Hidden Instructions That Can Hijack AI Agents

The Hidden Instructions That Can Hijack AI Agents 2026-09-08 at 20:00 By Kevin Townsend Malicious prompts concealed in documents, metadata, emails, images and code can manipulate autonomous agents into taking dangerous actions. The post The Hidden Instructions That Can Hijack AI Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]

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Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks

Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks 2026-09-08 at 17:55 By Sinisa Markovic AI agents are automating parts of cyberattacks with less human involvement, including vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting, and troubleshooting, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group’s Q3 2026 AI Threat Tracker. (Source: Google) The report draws on Mandiant incident response […]

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Product showcase: Doppler secures secrets for humans, pipelines, and AI agents

Product showcase: Doppler secures secrets for humans, pipelines, and AI agents 2026-09-08 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Every engineering team has spent years trying to keep credentials out of source code. Then AI agents moved the problem. Coding agents review code, agents run workflows, and MCP servers broker access to databases, cloud providers, and […]

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Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs

Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs 2026-09-08 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without relying on metered cloud tokens. Designed for systems with at least 64 GB […]

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OpenAI Agents Hijack Another Victim Website

OpenAI Agents Hijack Another Victim Website 2026-09-07 at 15:03 By Kevin Townsend OpenAI agents made 15,000–18,000 autonomous edits to a German wiki over three months, evading moderation and echoing tactics seen in the Hugging Face breach. The post OpenAI Agents Hijack Another Victim Website appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI

OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI 2026-09-07 at 12:05 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including work that […]

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ToolHive: The open-source way to run any MCP server securely

ToolHive: The open-source way to run any MCP server securely 2026-09-07 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec ToolHive is an open-source platform that runs Model Context Protocol servers inside containers. An MCP server is the connector that lets an AI client like Cursor or Claude Code reach an outside tool, and Stacklok ships ToolHive under Apache […]

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Catch Raises $5 Million for AI Executive Assistant With Guardrails

Catch Raises $5 Million for AI Executive Assistant With Guardrails 2026-09-04 at 14:55 By Kevin Townsend Catch promises the capabilities of a trusted executive assistant, with built-in controls governing what data and systems it can access. The post Catch Raises $5 Million for AI Executive Assistant With Guardrails appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is […]

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A five-part inventory for your AI agent credentials

A five-part inventory for your AI agent credentials 2026-09-04 at 08:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid, explains why AI agents hold credentials that nobody reviews. Organizations build agents in AI studios, connect them to enterprise tools, and give them accounts to do useful […]

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OpenAI is putting $1 billion behind Daybreak for defenders working without enterprise budgets

OpenAI is putting $1 billion behind Daybreak for defenders working without enterprise budgets 2026-09-04 at 07:35 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI committed $1 billion to subsidize access to its Daybreak cyber models, along with training and technical support, for organizations defending water and wastewater systems, the electric grid, state and local government, community and regional banks, […]

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Most of the bugs Claude Mythos found have never been checked by a human

Most of the bugs Claude Mythos found have never been checked by a human 2026-09-04 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic pointed Claude Mythos Preview at 281 open-source projects and collected 23,019 candidate vulnerabilities. External security firms reviewed 1,900 of them. Maintainers received 1,596 reports and acknowledged 1,451; 97 fixes landed upstream, and 88 findings […]

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Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents

Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents 2026-09-03 at 18:15 By Kevin Townsend New models, trained using NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, aim to catch rogue agent behavior before it executes, without the latency of large-model review. The post Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek. […]

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Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash takes on bigger AI models at a lower cost

Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash takes on bigger AI models at a lower cost 2026-09-03 at 16:34 By Sinisa Markovic Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, available to developers today, and a gated sibling, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, reserved for vetted security teams. “Our 3rd Flash release in just 6 wks,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said […]

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AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million

AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million 2026-09-03 at 15:00 By Kevin Townsend The startup’s firewall evaluates AI skills, plugins and MCP servers for malicious instructions, excessive permissions and software supply chain risks. The post AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million appeared first on […]

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Researchers built a $7 gadget for anyone paranoid about hidden cameras in hotel rooms

Researchers built a $7 gadget for anyone paranoid about hidden cameras in hotel rooms 2026-09-03 at 12:23 By Sinisa Markovic Most of us, staying in a hotel room or a vacation rental, have wondered at least once whether we’re safe there, whether someone might be watching or recording us without our knowledge. The thought alone […]

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Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control

Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control 2026-09-03 at 10:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec An AI agent told in its system prompt to show a user only what that user is cleared to see will hand over more the moment someone talks it into doing so. Gee Rittenhouse, who oversees Security Hub, GuardDuty, […]

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