Tag: ai
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Why Vulnerability Management Must Move Beyond CVSS
Learn why vulnerability management must move beyond CVSS to prioritize real risk using exploitability, asset context, attack paths, and AI-driven analysis. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/news-why-vulnerability-management-moves-past-cvss/
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OpenAI’s German Wiki Hack Is Less About “Rogue AI” Than Failed Agent Containment
OpenAI’s latest foul-up was not a Hollywood-style AI “escape.” Instead, researchers say a swarm of OpenAI agents apparently found a way to turn web read access into write access on DseWiki, a collaboratively editable German programming wiki. The takeover of a German programming wiki, DseWiki, by agents linked to OpenAI is not evidence that AI..…
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How Recent Cyber Earnings Show Growth Alone No Longer Pays
Faster Hiring Coincided With Weaker Stock Performance Across Most Security Vendors Seven of eight major cyber and technology vendors posted at least 25% annual year-over-year sales growth, but five stocks fell after earnings as investors favored profitability while CEOs outlined how AI agents will reshape security, identity and enterprise infrastructure. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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AI Labs Pause Frontier Model Work, But to What Effect?
OpenAI and Anthropic Tighten Guardrails as Experts Question Whether Brief Pauses Are Enough. There’s been a renewed focus on the safety and security processes of frontier AI labs after mainstays spotted their agents escaping sandboxes to hack into real-life targets. The result of these pauses is not vetted by an independent party, so it is…
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Insurers Search for Answers to Rein in Rogue AI
As incidents of unintended harm caused by rogue AI agents mount, CISOs and insurance firms are figuring out how to handle the fallout. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/insurers-search-answers-rogue-ai
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Why Security Teams are Becoming Builders of Agentic AI, not just Buyers
Security teams are building custom AI agents to improve defense, close tooling gaps, and automate workflows, but strong governance remains critical. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/news-agentic-ai-buyers-and-builders/
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The Braid: Rethinking Trust, Continuity and Human-AI Systems
What one AI-generated image taught me about trust, continuity, and why I am building QuietWire. There is a problem with AI logos. A good friend in the cybersecurity industry pointed it out to me last year, and once he did I could not unsee it. Since then I have watched the observation turn into something..…
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Dissecting Attacks Is Only Valuable If It Informs Controls: What the Unit 42 agentic AI investigation should change in your control set, stage by stage.
The volume of published incident research involving agentic AI is increasing, and the analysis that follows each report tends to concentrate on the same attribute: speed. The recent investigation from Unit 42, the threat intelligence and incident response group at… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/dissecting-attacks-is-only-valuable-if-it-informs-controls-what-the-unit-42-agentic-ai-investigation-should-change-in-your-control-set-stage-by-stage/
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Security Operations To See A ‘Renaissance’ In Next 24 Months: Cyderes CEO
Security operations is poised to see an “absolute renaissance” over the next two years, with AI and agentic capabilities eliminating much of the repetitive work facing security analysts”, while also potentially leading to a surge in threat actor activity that must be protected against, Cyderes CEO Chris Schueler tells CRN. First seen on crn.com Jump…
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Three Frontier Labs, Two Weeks: Rogue AI Agents Are Real
On July 21, 2026, OpenAI confirmed that one of its own evaluation agents had broken into Hugging Face. By August 5, Anthropic and Meta had each disclosed a similar incident. Three labs, three model families, one pattern: an agent given… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/three-frontier-labs-two-weeks-rogue-ai-agents-are-real/
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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
Tags: aiA once-overlooked block of unicode that’s invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/once-popular-for-attacking-ai-ascii-smuggling-is-embraced-by-spammers/
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US senator Bernie Sanders calls for ban on AI superintelligence
Tags: aiTwo bills aimed at curbing the possibility of superintelligent AI systems, and regulating the use of agentic AI, are being introduced in the US First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366649983/US-senator-Bernie-Sanders-calls-for-ban-on-AI-superintelligence
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Humans have edge over AI in Dutch hacking contest
As machines become crucial for cyber security, humans wonder where they stand First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366649310/Humans-have-edge-over-AI-in-Dutch-hacking-contest
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QA: Viasat Tests Satellite Resilience With AI as Cyber Expert Warns an Attack Could ‘Hurt an Entire Country’
Tags: ai, attack, communications, country, cyber, data-breach, network, resilience, russia, ukraine, vulnerabilityAn AI-assisted platform has been used to test whether Viasat’s satellite communications links can meet operational thresholds under interference and adversarial jamming. Announced this month, the work with Atalanta has renewed scrutiny of the vulnerabilities exposed by Russia’s 2022 attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network, which disrupted communications across Ukraine and several European countries. Gil Baram,…
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AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human…
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AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human…
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AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human…
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Companies Have 6 Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks
Frontier AI models have already demonstrated they can autonomously, and in some cases, inadvertently, conduct end-to-end compromises, but the situation will become more urgent very soon. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/companies-six-months-prepare-automated-attacks
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What the AI Warning Letter Completely Missed
Tags: aiThe recent AI warning letter is right about the window, but it omits naming who is coming through it or, critically, who will close it. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ai-warning-letter-missed-people
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OpenAI Pledges $1B to Arm Cyber Defenders With Frontier AI
Daybreak Expansion Targets US Public Sector and Critical Infrastructure Security. OpenAI is committing $1 billion to subsidize access to its cyber-capable models for defenders and is launching a center to train security professionals in the American public sector. Daybreak for Frontline Defenders offers security engineers and other defenders the ability to use frontier AI models.…
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OpenAI Pledges $1B to Arm Cyber Defenders With Frontier AI
Daybreak Expansion Targets US Public Sector and Critical Infrastructure Security. OpenAI is committing $1 billion to subsidize access to its cyber-capable models for defenders and is launching a center to train security professionals in the American public sector. Daybreak for Frontline Defenders offers security engineers and other defenders the ability to use frontier AI models.…
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OpenAI Pledges $1B to Arm Cyber Defenders With Frontier AI
Daybreak Expansion Targets US Public Sector and Critical Infrastructure Security. OpenAI is committing $1 billion to subsidize access to its cyber-capable models for defenders and is launching a center to train security professionals in the American public sector. Daybreak for Frontline Defenders offers security engineers and other defenders the ability to use frontier AI models.…
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CISA Adds 7 Exploited Flaws as Attackers Target AI Infrastructure
CISA added seven exploited flaws to its KEV catalog, including LiteLLM, Kestra, Starlette, and SonicWall vulnerabilities under active attack. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/news-cisa-exploited-ai-flaws/
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AI Attack Surfaces and Supply Chain Threats Define the Week
Weekly summary of Cybersecurity Insider newsletters First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/weekly-roundup/ai-attack-surfaces-and-supply-chain-threats-define-the-week/
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AI Attack Surfaces and Supply Chain Threats Define the Week
Weekly summary of Cybersecurity Insider newsletters First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/weekly-roundup/ai-attack-surfaces-and-supply-chain-threats-define-the-week/
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OpenAI pledges $1 billion to provide resources, training for frontline cyber defenders
Amid heightened scrutiny, the company will use frontier AI to help water, power and local government providers fight malicious actors. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/openai-pledges-1-billion-resources-cyber-defenders/829676/
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Government lacks ability to verify AI labs’ claims, experts say
A new survey of national security practitioners identified a wide range of near- and medium-term AI risks for policymakers to consider. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-national-security-risks-ist-survey/829516/
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Companies Have Six Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks
Frontier AI models have already demonstrated they can autonomously, and in some cases, inadvertently, conduct end-to-end compromises, but the situation will become more urgent very soon. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/companies-six-months-prepare-automated-attacks
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Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a “high-volume phishing campaign” that’s using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters.”Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as ‘funding’ to prevent email filters from parsing them,” the Microsoft Security…