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An AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets

A pull request lands with a tidy bug report in the description. A bot reads it before any person does, pulls a few shell commands out of it, gets them approved, and posts the …

critical infrastructure
The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced

A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to …

Specter
Specter: Open-source NFC reader bug sweep for Flipper Zero

Specter is a Flipper Zero app that finds powered NFC readers by listening for the radio field they give off. The readers it hunts work at 13.56 MHz. The Flipper’s own …

LLM
Your AI agents can reach data no one approved

A credential expired. An AI agent kept using it anyway, and a mid-sized company’s systems went down for a quarter’s worth of trouble before anyone traced the …

Android
Android malware detection collapses when the context stage comes out

A phone backup app asks for storage, contacts, SMS, and call logs. A device-management tool asks for more than that. Run either one past a machine learning malware scanner and …

AI
Hugging Face breach reignites open-weights debate, raises liability questions

The first publicly documented cyberattack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI was an OpenAI benchmark test that escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. In an incident …

BlackCloak
BlackCloak extends deepfake protection to the executive’s trusted circle

Deepfakes have made one of our oldest assumptions unreliable: that you can trust a familiar face or voice. While the industry focuses mainly on building “in-line detection …

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Bugcrowd introduces Savant Pathseeker for agentic penetration testing with exploit validation

Bugcrowd unveils Savant Pathseeker, the first solution in its Agentic Offensive Testing line. Savant Pathseeker gives security teams the speed and scale to test every external …

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Prescient Security adds attack surface management to Cait, broadens AI-assisted pentesting

Prescient Security has announced a series of capability expansions to Cait (Cacilian AI), its continuous AI-assisted penetration testing service. The updates which will roll …

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Cyberhaven launches Flow to secure data across human and AI workflows

Cyberhaven has introduced Cyberhaven Flow, an AI-native data security platform built to protect data across human and AI workflows. Flow connects lineage, identity, and …

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Intel 471 expands Verity471 with AI agent and MCP support for threat intelligence

Intel 471 has announced two new AI capabilities in the Verity471 platform, MCP471 and Agent471. As attackers use AI to lower the barrier to scale, security teams must use …

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SpecterOps brings AWS attack path management and AI to hybrid identity security

SpecterOps has announced new capabilities built to give defenders a dynamic understanding of how adversaries traverse their hybrid environment and the ability to proactively …

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