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AI reverse engineering let researchers add a new feature to Slack

AI reverse engineering let researchers add a new feature to Slack 2026-11-10 at 16:45 By Mirko Zorz Intezer researchers used AI agents to rebuild source code for Slack, Apple’s Finder and a TinyTurla-NG sample, from a backdoor family Cisco Talos attributes to the Turla group. They worked from the shipped programs and vendor documentation. The […]

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99% of repository access tokens never expire

99% of repository access tokens never expire 2026-11-06 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Developers, automated tools and AI coding agents hold permissions that can outlast the work they were granted for. Without access reviews, organizations can leave accounts able to copy or change company code after the work ends, according to BlueFlag Security’s The State […]

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What AI-generated malware looks like under the microscope

What AI-generated malware looks like under the microscope 2026-11-04 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Lindsay Kaye, VP of Threat Intelligence at HUMAN Security, talks about what AI-generated malware looks like on the bench. She points to tidy comments, uniform logging messages, and emojis as signs a script came from […]

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AI coding agents leaked 13,000 internal company screenshots to public GitHub repos

AI coding agents leaked 13,000 internal company screenshots to public GitHub repos 2026-09-30 at 14:52 By Sinisa Markovic When developers ask AI coding agents to prove that a user interface fix works, some agents have been posting the evidence where anyone can find it, according to Glow Labs. Diagram showing how AI agents leak screenshots […]

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OWASP Noir: Open-source static analysis tool

OWASP Noir: Open-source static analysis tool 2026-09-30 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec OWASP Noir is an open-source static analysis tool that reads an application’s source code and lists the endpoints it exposes: paths, HTTP methods, parameters, headers, and cookies, each tied to the file and line it came from. Here’s where it gets useful. Shadow […]

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The AI code vulnerabilities that grow with your app

The AI code vulnerabilities that grow with your app 2026-07-23 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Theori built 28 apps with AI coding agents and scanned each one through its pentesting platform. Five models did the building, split between Anthropic and OpenAI, across apps written from a spec, thrown together from a casual prompt, and rewritten […]

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Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber becomes a vulnerability hunter

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber becomes a vulnerability hunter 2026-07-22 at 11:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber model finds, validates, and patches vulnerabilities before they can be exploited while helping mitigate broader misuse. It is part of a limited-access pilot program that will soon be available to governments and trusted partners through […]

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A forensic tool for backdoored code completions in AI assistants

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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Nika: Open-source code analysis tool

Nika: Open-source code analysis tool 2026-07-01 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Many serious security bugs in web applications sit across several files at once. Request data enters through a controller, moves through data objects and service layers, and turns dangerous only when it reaches a sensitive operation such as a database query or a file […]

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Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code

Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code 2026-06-15 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec At most U.S. technology companies, machines now write the bulk of the code that ships each week. The engineer’s job has shifted toward reviewing what the AI produces, and that review gives the code high marks. Leaders rate AI-generated […]

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The security questions around Chinese AI coding models in U.S. software

The security questions around Chinese AI coding models in U.S. software 2026-06-09 at 08:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec Software developers across the United States are using AI models built in China to write, debug, and review code, drawn by prices below those of American alternatives. These models carry risks for the security of American software, according […]

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What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox

What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox 2026-05-08 at 01:14 By Mirko Zorz Over the past several months, Mozilla ran an agentic harness powered by Claude Mythos Preview across Firefox’s source code, identifying 271 security bugs that were fixed in Firefox 150, with additional fixes shipped in versions 149.0.2 and […]

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Can your coding style predict whether your code is vulnerable?

Can your coding style predict whether your code is vulnerable? 2026-05-05 at 13:21 By Sinisa Markovic Developers leave fingerprints in the code they write. Naming choices, indentation patterns, preferred APIs, and the way someone structures a loop or handles a pointer all carry traces of individual habit. Researchers have used these stylistic signals for years […]

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Claude Security enters public beta with Opus 4.7 vulnerability scanning and patching

Claude Security enters public beta with Opus 4.7 vulnerability scanning and patching 2026-05-04 at 13:11 By Anamarija Pogorelec Claude Security, previously called Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers. Available in Claude.ai, the capability scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted patches for review, helping teams identify and fix issues […]

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AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet

AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet 2026-03-26 at 12:32 By Mirko Zorz Vendors selling AI-powered security operations platforms have built their pitches around a consistent set of promises: autonomous threat investigation, dramatic reductions in analyst workload, and an accelerating path toward humanless operations. Practitioners buying and deploying those […]

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Anthropic cuts action approval loop, lets Claude Code make the call

Anthropic cuts action approval loop, lets Claude Code make the call 2026-03-25 at 11:06 By Sinisa Markovic Auto mode is a new permissions feature in the Claude Code system that allows the AI to make approval decisions on a user’s behalf while safeguards review actions before execution. The feature is available on Team plans and […]

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Bandit: Open-source tool designed to find security issues in Python code

Bandit: Open-source tool designed to find security issues in Python code 2026-01-21 at 08:04 By Sinisa Markovic Bandit is an open-source tool that scans Python source code for security issues that show up in everyday development. Many security teams and developers use it as a quick way to spot risky coding patterns early in the […]

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BlueCodeAgent helps developers secure AI-generated code

BlueCodeAgent helps developers secure AI-generated code 2025-11-20 at 08:05 By Sinisa Markovic When AI models generate code, they deliver power and risk at the same time for security teams. That tension is at the heart of the new tool called BlueCodeAgent, designed to help developers and security engineers defend against code-generation threats. Why code generation […]

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Metis: Open-source, AI-driven tool for deep security code review

Metis: Open-source, AI-driven tool for deep security code review 2025-11-19 at 08:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec Metis is an open source tool that uses AI to help engineers run deep security reviews on code. Arm’s product security team built Metis to spot subtle flaws that are often buried in large or aging codebases where traditional tools […]

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Chekov: Open-source static code analysis tool

Chekov: Open-source static code analysis tool 2025-10-02 at 09:18 By Sinisa Markovic Checkov is an open-source tool designed to help teams secure their cloud infrastructure and code. At its core, it’s a static code analysis tool for infrastructure as code (IaC), but it also goes a step further by providing software composition analysis (SCA) for […]

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