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GPT-Red
GPT-Red beat human red teamers on a prompt injection test

GPT-Red is an automated red-teaming model that OpenAI trains to find prompt injection weaknesses. It works the way a human red-teamer does. It sends a prompt, watches how a …

patch tuesday
AI-driven bug hunting fuels record Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has released patches for 570+ vulnerabilities on July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including two that are being leveraged by attackers (CVE-2026-56155 and CVE-2026-56164), …

AWS
AWS retools Security Hub for AI and multicloud threats

AWS added AI workload protection and Microsoft Azure security monitoring to Security Hub, its centralized security platform for collecting and prioritizing security findings …

red team
The MDR renewal question: What changes when AI can handle the alerts

For most of the past decade, the managed detection and response (MDR) decision was a simple one: teams that couldn’t staff a 24/7 SOC outsourced detection and response …

Robot
An AI overthinking attack can tie a robot up for over a minute

Robots that read the world through cameras now lean on large vision-language models to interpret what they see and decide what to do next. These models handle images and text …

AI
AI used to help plan the break-in, now it’s doing the break-in

Over the past twelve months, researchers documented intrusions in which AI ran exploitation workflows autonomously, generating thousands of commands across dozens of sessions …

digital code
The best defense against AI attacks turns out to be a skeptical human

Analysts across the security industry now run generative AI through their daily work, from log triage to incident write-ups. Active use in cybersecurity strategy reached 78% …

Chip
A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors

Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each …

door
99.9% of fixable AI vulnerabilities remain unpatched

Organizations build, deploy, and operate AI in the cloud, but basic cybersecurity hygiene is often sacrificed for speed, according to Orca Security’s 2026 State of AI Security …

database
Enterprises are rethinking where their AI applications run

Growing demand for compute capacity, power, cooling and low-latency connectivity is prompting organizations to reassess where AI applications run, according to CoreSite. …

Microsoft Intune security update status
Microsoft is rewriting Windows patch guidance because of AI

Microsoft is recommending that organizations shorten Windows update deployment timelines, warning that advances in AI are reducing the time attackers need to identify and …

AWS
AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity

Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow …

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