Tag: ai
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The Elephants in the Technology Room – Part 5
Why Enterprise’s Fastest-Growing Risk Has No Owner, No Identity and No Audit Trail As autonomous AI agents move into production, organizations face a new insider threat they were never built to govern. Shared credentials, weak oversight and limited audit trails leave agents without clear identities or accountability, creating security blind spots that can quickly become…
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ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n WorkflowRCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More
A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do.Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and AI-assisted exploit research keep lowering the effort…
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ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n WorkflowRCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More
A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do.Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and AI-assisted exploit research keep lowering the effort…
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Palo Alto Launches Frontier AI Critical Defense Program to Scale Virtual Patching
Frontier AI’s ability to find vast numbers of previously unknown vulnerabilities has created a timing problem for defenders. How can they protect vulnerable software and devices when discovery is accelerating but permanent patching can still take hours, days or weeks? Palo Alto Networks is now betting on virtual patching as a way to cut that..…
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NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA Warn of Active AI-Assisted Attacks on Siemens S7 PLCs
NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA warn of active AI-assisted attacks against Siemens S7 PLCs across US critical infrastructure sectors. Five U.S. federal agencies issued a joint advisory this week warning of an active hacking campaign against Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers. The advisory, CISA AA26-231A, is co-signed by NSA, FBI, DOE, and EPA…
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OpenAI Unveils Private Safety Processing to Detect AI Misuse Without Storing Enterprise Data
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it is testing a new security protocol designed to protect enterprise privacy without compromising system safety. The feature, Private Safety Processing, would allow businesses to deploy highly advanced frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models while maintaining a policy of Zero Data Retention (ZDR). The move highlights a growing rift between Silicon Valley’s..…
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AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure
The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an “active threat” targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts.The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. That First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/08/ai-generated-exploit-scripts-target.html
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Cribl Acquires AI Assets from Radiant Security to Further SOC Ambitions
Cribl this week revealed it has acquired technology assets from Radiant Security that will provide the foundation for building a security operations center (SOC) based on artificial intelligence (AI). The AI technologies acquired from Radiant Security enable AI agents to autonomously triage, investigate, and resolve security alerts. Cribl, via the acquisition of this intellectual property,..…
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BSidesSF 2026 From Noise To Notes: Orchestrating SAST With Developers Through AI-Driven Remediation
Tags: aiPresenter: Adrián Puente Z. Our thanks to Security BSides San Francisco for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s outstanding BSidesSF 2026 content on the Organizations’ YouTube Channel. Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/bsidessf-2026-from-noise-to-notes-orchestrating-sast-with-developers-through-ai-driven-remediation/
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Horizon3.ai alternatives in 2026: Escape vs NodeZero and 4 more tools
Escape is the best Horizon3.ai alternative for continuous AI pentesting across APIs, web apps, and complex authentication, including regression testing, developer-ready remediation, and platform pricing suited for rapidly scaling orgs. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/horizon3-ai-alternatives-in-2026-escape-vs-nodezero-and-4-more-tools/
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Horizon3.ai alternatives in 2026: Escape vs NodeZero and 4 more tools
Escape is the best Horizon3.ai alternative for continuous AI pentesting across APIs, web apps, and complex authentication, including regression testing, developer-ready remediation, and platform pricing suited for rapidly scaling orgs. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/horizon3-ai-alternatives-in-2026-escape-vs-nodezero-and-4-more-tools/
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What Belongs Inside the Company AI Operating System?
In the last post, I argued that AI maturity is not about tool count. The real question is whether AI is changing how the company works. That leads to the next question: if AI is becoming a company operating system layer, what actually belongs inside that layer? The answer is not “a chatbot for every……
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Machine-Speed Credential Abuse: What the ChainDrop npm Worm Changes
ChainDrop hijacked 444 npm packages and 2B monthly downloads via a Claude Code hook. AI agents have collapsed the gap between credential theft and abuse First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/machine-speed-credential-abuse-what-the-chaindrop-npm-worm-changes/
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Why MSPs Need Visibility Across ‘Every AI Surface’: KIPIO CEO
Amid the AI adoption rush, the usage of LLM-powered tools in unsanctioned or insecure ways poses a massive risk for MSPs and their clients, according to KIPIO co-founder and CEO Emily Hock. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/why-msps-need-visibility-across-every-ai-surface-kipio-ceo
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Hackers Actively Target Siemens PLCs With AI Cyberattacks
‘We Are Crossing a Threshold’ Warns Critical Infrastructure Security Expert. An artificial intelligence-assisted cyberattack campaign is targeting widely used online operational technology devices made by Siemens, the U.S. cyber defense agency warned Wednesday – the first time it’s called out an AI-assisted cyber campaign against OT. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/hackers-actively-target-siemens-plcs-ai-cyberattacks-a-32616
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New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data
Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI’s Grok chatbot to send a user’s name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user asks it to summarize an ordinary web page.The AI security company, which has codenamed the technique “Cryptographic…
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Was Unternehmen von der Formel 1 über Echtzeit-KI lernen können
Tags: aiDie Formel 1 gilt als eine der datenintensivsten Sportarten der Welt. Während eines Rennens überwachen Teams kontinuierlich Daten zu Reifenverschleiß, Fahrzeugleistung, Wetterentwicklung und der Position der Konkurrenz. Auf dieser Grundlage treffen sie strategische Entscheidungen, beispielsweise über den richtigen Zeitpunkt für einen Boxenstopp. Der entscheidende Wettbewerbsvorteil entsteht dabei nicht durch die Daten selbst, sondern durch die…
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How MSPs can catch phishing attacks email filters miss
AI is making phishing attacks more personalized, convincing, and difficult for traditional email filters to detect. Kaseya explains how MSPs can monitor identity, email, and endpoint activity to detect and contain attacks that make it past the inbox. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-msps-can-catch-phishing-attacks-email-filters-miss/
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Twitch wants your content for Amazon AI training. Here’s how to opt out
Twitch added an option to opt out of training Amazon AI with your content”, two years after it confirmed that training had begun. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/twitch-wants-your-content-for-amazon-ai-training-heres-how-to-opt-out/
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CAPTCHA Has Fallen Behind Biometric Check is Built for Today’s Traffic
Key Takeaways Most bot management vendors still fall back on CAPTCHA or SMS codes when traffic looks suspicious, friction that AI now defeats more reliably than the humans it was built to test. A 2023 UC Irvine study found bots solving CAPTCHA at 99.8% accuracy against a 5084% human range. CAPTCHA is a browser… First…
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US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI
Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/us-says-hackers-are-targeting-vulnerable-water-systems-with-the-help-of-ai/
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Why “Shady AI” is Security’s Next Big Governance Problem
In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it. The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on an internal forum. An engineer used an approved AI agent to analyze it,…