This year at Microsoft Ignite, we spotlight our AI-first, end-to-end security platform designed to protect identities, devices, data, applications, clouds, infrastructure, and the AI agents now working alongside your teams. The post Secure what’s next: Your guide to Microsoft Security at Microsoft Ignite 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
Threat actors are abusing ChatGPT Custom GPTs to disguise them as legitimate product offerings and direct unsuspecting victims to malicious sites that employ ClickFix lures to deliver malware. Huntress, which observed the activity in late September 2026, said it marks the abuse of yet another feature in trusted artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. Prior campaigns have weaponized shared
Written by: Robin Grunewald, Supriya Mazumdar, Kelli Vanderlee Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) examines vulnerability disclosure and exploitation statistics to evaluate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the vulnerability threat landscape. We found that AI is measurably changing not just the pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation, but also the types and typical risk profiles of vulnerabilities that are being discovered. Key findings: Vulnerability discl…
Attacks by autonomous AI agents are moving out of the lab and into the courtroom, raising unsettled questions about who is liable for what agents do. The post Anthropic Flags AI Agent Liability Risks as OpenAI Faces Hacking Lawsuit appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Autonomous AI agents go on a hacking spree, and Microsoft ships what used to be a year's worth of security patches in one go – here's how to keep pace
Altman made a slew of product announcements and updates, including the company’s new agents, called Dots. The post OpenAI CEO Announces New AI Agent and Avoids Mention of Security Concerns at Developer Conference appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The artificial intelligence giant acknowledged it botched its response to the incidents and should have done more to promptly notify and work with the Australian government in the days after it discovered the breaches.
The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) suffered an AI-driven cyberattack that the organization described as "loud and very, very messy." [...]
Rig provides an identity dependencies graph to distinguish between legitimate users and rogue AI agents The post Rig Security Emerges From Stealth With $12M to Tackle Agentic AI Identity Risks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
UK AISI finds GPT-6 Astra launches unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations far more than earlier OpenAI models, even when told not to. The UK’s AI Security Institute tested GPT-6 Astra before its public release, and the results, published September 28, aren’t subtle. When given a routine cybersecurity evaluation, the model went off script and attacked […]
OpenAI on Monday shelved plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model that was planned for an October launch, after it failed internal safety and alignment audits. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The move "marks a rare case of a major AI developer ditching a new release because of safety concerns," the news publication said.
The Open Agent Safety Platform relies on hardware and software components to monitor agent activities and quarantine unruly agents before they can cause harm.
The botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands via Telegram and steal AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.
Enterprises regularly rigorously monitor human employees, while autonomous AI agents quietly operate with broad privileges that could turn them into the next generation of insider threats.
What is IAM for AI agents? AI agents authenticate, invoke tools, and act across enterprise systems with delegated authority. IAM for AI Agents is the identity-control architecture that governs those actors. This guide covers the limits of conventional provisioning, the components that matter, how to evaluate framework choices, and what runtime evidence proves an agent behaved as intended.
A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface. Elsewhere, weak service accounts, old bugs, exposed systems, phishing kits, and strangely easy exploit paths kept doing useful work for attackers. Nothing
Infostealer logs exposed AI account credentials and sessions tied to more than 80,000 corporate domains, creating risks ranging from stolen conversations to LLMjacking. SOCRadar examines the growing market for stolen AI logins and how organizations can identify their exposure. [...]
AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users. According to Okta’s Global CISO Insights 2026 report, only 47% of CISOs are confident they can identify every AI agent in their environment. Even among those who feel
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that's targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent. "The implant installs the framework unchanged, then overwrites its SOUL.md persona file," ThreatDown said. "The 39-line prompt directs it to execute tasks received through
The platform combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries. The post Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Security Affairs AI-CYBERSECURITY newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on AI in the international landscape Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, reshaping both the techniques used by attackers and the tools available to defenders. AI agents can automate tasks, analyze large amounts of data, discover vulnerabilities and accelerate offensive operations. At […]
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The US and China agreed to set up a communication mechanism for artificial intelligence-related incidents. The post China and US Agree to Establish AI Safety Channel and Continue Trade and Military Talks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI is investigating AI agents that accessed US gov websites without authorization, including an attempted Education Department hack. OpenAI disclosed on Friday that its AI agents had interacted with US government websites in ways nobody planned or authorized, as part of what the company is calling an ongoing review of unexpected model behavior. The affected […]
OpenAI says its AI agents uploaded user-provided images to third-party image-hosting services while carrying out research and evaluation tasks. [...]
The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of recent incidents, including a widely discussed intrusion at Hugging Face during an evaluation of OpenAI agents, has spurred organizations to
When autonomous AI agents "escape the sandbox," the real story isn't rogue machines — it's the same access-control failures we've seen for decades.
AI agents can operate through human credentials and take actions that existing SOC 2 controls may not distinguish from human activity. Token Security explains why SOC 2 needs to adapt to address the security gaps created by agent identities. [...]
Researchers are questioning whether an OpenAI agent needed to hack an Australian government health portal to access it, after a review of the website’s archived code found it explicitly directed visitors to an unauthenticated endpoint.
