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Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisco Says

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Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisco Says 2026-08-28 at 13:30 By Kevin Townsend New research shows that country-of-origin labels can obscure an AI model’s upstream dependencies, inherited behaviors and potential security risks. The post Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisco Says appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article […]

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OpenAI Agents Coordinated via Makeshift Message Board Ahead of Hugging Face Hack

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OpenAI Agents Coordinated via Makeshift Message Board Ahead of Hugging Face Hack 2026-08-27 at 14:58 By Eduard Kovacs New training environments will teach AI models to distrust instructions arriving from other agents outside sanctioned channels. The post OpenAI Agents Coordinated via Makeshift Message Board Ahead of Hugging Face Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article […]

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The Future of AI-Driven Security Depends on Complete Data

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The Future of AI-Driven Security Depends on Complete Data 2026-08-27 at 13:00 By Danelle Au For twenty-five years, “data” in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality. The post The Future of AI-Driven Security Depends on Complete Data appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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The best human hacking team still out-solved the best AI team

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The best human hacking team still out-solved the best AI team 2026-08-27 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Bring an AI agent to a hacking competition and you would expect to find it propping up the teams who were struggling. In the 2026 Global Cyber Skills Benchmark, agents showed up in 17 of the Top 25 […]

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AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis

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AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis 2026-08-26 at 18:23 By Eduard Kovacs Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 analyzed 405 AI-linked malware samples and found only 12 reached production endpoints. The post AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from […]

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Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone

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Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone 2026-08-26 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Erika Dean, CISO at Tricentis, talks about keeping production data out of test environments and why she thinks the alternatives are good enough now. She explains how her team caught […]

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AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks

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AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks 2026-08-26 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Risk managers, auditors and senior executives at 316 companies spent April and May ranking 20 threats they have not yet felt. AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities came back first, according to Gartner. Three months earlier the same quarterly […]

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: August 2026

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: August 2026 2026-08-26 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from […]

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Linux Foundation to Govern TRACE, an Open Standard for AI Runtime Attestation

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Linux Foundation to Govern TRACE, an Open Standard for AI Runtime Attestation 2026-08-25 at 19:23 By Eduard Kovacs TRACE was developed by AMD, Intel, Microsoft, OPAQUE, and TII and contributed to the Linux Foundation. The post Linux Foundation to Govern TRACE, an Open Standard for AI Runtime Attestation appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is […]

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Alice Raises $140M to Expand AI Model Defenses and Enterprise Guardrails

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Alice Raises $140M to Expand AI Model Defenses and Enterprise Guardrails 2026-08-25 at 17:11 By SecurityWeek News The company, previously known as ActiveFence, has raised a total of $280 million from investors. The post Alice Raises $140M to Expand AI Model Defenses and Enterprise Guardrails appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from […]

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AI supply chain risk is showing up in developer workflows first

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AI supply chain risk is showing up in developer workflows first 2026-08-25 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Jaushin Lee, CEO of Zentera Systems, discusses where AI supply chain risk shows up. He says most incidents still hit developer workflows and open-source package repositories, while poisoned model weights and […]

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HOL Guard: Open-source antivirus for AI agents

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HOL Guard: Open-source antivirus for AI agents 2026-08-25 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec HOL Guard is a free, open-source tool that sits between an AI assistant and the computer it runs on. When the assistant tries something risky, the tool pauses it and asks you first. It installs in about a minute, runs on your […]

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Cybersecurity job ads demanding AI skills double in a year

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Cybersecurity job ads demanding AI skills double in a year 2026-08-24 at 14:53 By Sinisa Markovic Job postings asking for AI skills in cybersecurity have doubled in a single year in G7 countries according to new research from the Cisco-founded AI Workforce Consortium. Analysis from recruitment firms Cornerstone and Indeed covering 24 months, from April […]

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Rethinking Application Security for the AI Era

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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