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AI threats
AI is helping low-skill hackers pull off advanced cyberattacks

Anthropic has published an analysis of cyber-related misuse of its AI systems, examining 832 accounts that were banned for malicious cyber activity between March 2025 and …

AI
Most pros have seen AI hallucinations in IT operations

Autonomous AI is taking action inside enterprise IT environments. Software is restarting services, isolating risky devices, and applying patches without waiting for a human to …

AI
ETSI sets security requirements for AI data centers and cloud platforms

ETSI has published TS 104 033, a technical specification that defines security requirements for AI computing platforms. The specification establishes a security framework for …

Microsoft
Microsoft responds to security challenges facing code, AI agents, and models

Microsoft has introduced a series of security tools and capabilities focused on AI-driven vulnerability discovery, AI agents, and AI models. The updates include a multi-agent …

key
Autonomous AI-driven worm can reason its way through corporate networks

Researchers at the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and the University of Cambridge have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven worm that does not operate …

AI
Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar

Enterprise teams are running AI agents that write code, drive browsers, answer customer calls, manage cloud infrastructure, and query data warehouses with standing …

Android
New Android feature promises to spot deepfake scam calls

Android is introducing fake call detection to help protect users from impersonation scams. The feature can detect and flag suspected spoofed calls when both parties use Phone …

Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Scout agent opens a new category of always-on Autopilots

Workplace AI assistants have mostly waited for a prompt before doing anything. A user asks, the tool answers, and the exchange ends there. Microsoft is putting a different …

Anthropic
Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations in more than 15 countries

Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its cybersecurity initiative built around the Claude Mythos Preview model, by adding about 150 organizations following several weeks …

OpenAI
Codex knowledge work expands into research, reports, and spreadsheets

Office workers in the United States lose hours each week to email triage and to searching for files spread across disconnected systems. Roughly 40 percent of US labor, about …

Agentic AI
Sophos uncovers AI-powered malware lab built for EDR evasion

A threat actor used AI technologies to build a malware-testing framework for developing and refining endpoint detection and response (EDR) evasion techniques, according to …

OpenAI
OpenAI brings frontier AI to existing AWS environments

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS, giving customers access to OpenAI capabilities within AWS environments and the controls needed to move more quickly …

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