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identity
Machine identities outnumber humans 109 to 1

Organizations manage an average of 109 machine identities for every human identity. AI agents account for a growing share of those identities, with companies expecting AI …

Microsoft
Microsoft’s agentic security system found four critical Windows RCE flaws

Microsoft responded to growing competition in AI security by announcing that its new agentic security system helped researchers discover 16 new vulnerabilities in the Windows …

Delinea AI identities
The hidden risk of non-human identities in AI adoption

An employee with persistent, unsupervised admin access across critical systems, with no audit trail, no clear owner, and no regular access reviews, would raise immediate …

Amazon Quick
Amazon Quick authorization bypass let users reach blocked AI chat agents

Enterprises running Amazon Quick, the AWS business intelligence and agentic AI service, rely on a feature called custom permissions to restrict who inside an account can use …

OpenAI
OpenAI’s Daybreak uses Codex Security to identify risky attack paths

OpenAI Daybreak is the company’s cybersecurity initiative focused on building AI-assisted software defense into the development process from the start. It combines OpenAI …

Google AI
Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI

Google’s threat intelligence researchers have linked a zero-day exploit to AI-assisted development by a criminal group. The exploit targeted a popular open-source …

user
The scam economy has found its AI upgrade

Scam attempts continue to reach consumers via email, text messages, social media, online advertising, and phone calls. The volume of exposure has remained stable over the past …

AI
Security teams are turning to AI to survive alert overload

The World Economic Forum white paper “Empowering Defenders: AI for Cybersecurity” identified AI as the biggest driver of change in cybersecurity for 94% of survey respondents. …

OpenAI
OpenAI tunes GPT-5.5-Cyber for more permissive security workflows

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a variant of its latest AI model, in limited preview for verified cybersecurity professionals and organizations through its Trusted Access …

Claude Firefox
What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox

Over the past several months, Mozilla ran an agentic harness powered by Claude Mythos Preview across Firefox’s source code, identifying 271 security bugs that were fixed …

button
One keypress is all it takes to compromise four AI coding tools

Developers clone unfamiliar repositories all the time. Open-source projects, work from teammates, sample code from a tutorial, a library someone recommended on a forum. The …

AI
Multi-model AI is creating a routing headache for enterprises

Application teams are moving AI inference into production systems that support business operations. Enterprises are expanding traffic management, identity controls, …

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