Cisco Launches Low-Cost AI Models for Source Code Security 2026-07-21 at 20:44 By Kevin Townsend The open-weight Antares models are designed to pinpoint known vulnerabilities in codebases faster and at a fraction of the cost of larger AI models. The post Cisco Launches Low-Cost AI Models for Source Code Security appeared first on SecurityWeek. This […]
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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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Cisco’s open-weight Antares models make vulnerability localization cheaper 2026-07-21 at 16:01 By Mirko Zorz A security analyst opens an unfamiliar repository, pulls up a vulnerability advisory, and starts hunting for the file where the weakness lives. The naming conventions belong to someone else. Evidence sits in scattered corners of a codebase that runs to thousands
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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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Neo Emerges From Stealth With $100M to Control and Secure Enterprise AI Software 2026-07-20 at 17:54 By SecurityWeek News Neo raised money across seed and Series A funding rounds from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, and others. The post Neo Emerges From Stealth With $100M to Control and Secure Enterprise AI Software appeared first on
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A forensic tool for backdoored code completions in AI assistants 2026-07-20 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Developers lean on AI coding assistants for a growing share of their daily work, letting the tools predict the next few lines and accepting many suggestions with a quick glance. Those tools learn from large collections of code, and
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Nearly half of open-source AI projects never reach production 2026-07-20 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Open models are moving into production across more organizations, and the work of securing those deployments increasingly extends beyond the model weights. Mozilla’s The State of Open Source AI 2026 identifies deployment, governance and operational tooling as persistent obstacles as
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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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AI Data Centers Are Being Built Faster Than They Can Be Secured 2026-07-16 at 16:00 By Kevin Townsend AI infrastructure introduces new security risks that traditional data center designs were never built to handle. The post AI Data Centers Are Being Built Faster Than They Can Be Secured appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is
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Russian cybercriminal used jailbroken Gemini CLI to rebuild botnet infrastructure in six minutes 2026-07-16 at 15:08 By Sinisa Markovic A Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” used a jailbroken Gemini CLI, Google’s open-source terminal-based AI agent, to deploy and operate a small command-and-control (C2) botnet, according to Trend Micro. Operational overview (Source: Trend Micro) In
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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Unpatched Cursor Vulnerability Exposes Users to Code Execution 2026-07-15 at 17:37 By Ionut Arghire An attacker can create a malicious repository containing a git.exe in the project root, and Cursor executes it automatically. The post Unpatched Cursor Vulnerability Exposes Users to Code Execution appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View
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White House Launches AI-Driven ‘Gold Eagle’ Vulnerability Coordination Initiative 2026-07-15 at 13:18 By Eduard Kovacs The new program stems from an AI-focused Executive Order signed by President Trump on June 2. The post White House Launches AI-Driven ‘Gold Eagle’ Vulnerability Coordination Initiative appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original
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AWS retools Security Hub for AI and multicloud threats 2026-07-15 at 11:56 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS added AI workload protection and Microsoft Azure security monitoring to Security Hub, its centralized security platform for collecting and prioritizing security findings across cloud environments. Support for additional cloud platforms will follow. “Collecting findings was never the hard part.
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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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An AI overthinking attack can tie a robot up for over a minute 2026-07-15 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Robots that read the world through cameras now lean on large vision-language models to interpret what they see and decide what to do next. These models handle images and text together, so any words that fall
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Unpatched Claude for Chrome Flaw Lets Extensions Read Gmail, Calendar 2026-07-14 at 16:00 By Eduard Kovacs A ClaudeBleed-linked vulnerability reportedly persists across eight patches, exposing potentially sensitive data to other extensions. The post Unpatched Claude for Chrome Flaw Lets Extensions Read Gmail, Calendar appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View
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The best defense against AI attacks turns out to be a skeptical human 2026-07-14 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Analysts across the security industry now run generative AI through their daily work, from log triage to incident write-ups. Active use in cybersecurity strategy reached 78% of practitioners in 2026, up from half the field a
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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 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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