AI models cheat on cybersecurity evaluations, then fail to admit it
Frontier AI models will take just about any route to finish a task, cheating included, according to new cybersecurity evaluations from the UK government’s AI Security …
JadePuffer returns with ransomware built to target AI models and infrastructure
JadePuffer, the threat actor behind the recently documented extortion operation executed end-to-end by an AI agent, is now attempting to leverage ENCFORGE, novel ransomware …
Cisco’s open-weight Antares models make vulnerability localization cheaper
A security analyst opens an unfamiliar repository, pulls up a vulnerability advisory, and starts hunting for the file where the weakness lives. The naming conventions belong …
Hugging Face breached by autonomous AI agent
Hugging Face, the widely used platform for sharing open-source machine learning models and datasets, has disclosed a security breach it says was carried out by an autonomous …
A forensic tool for backdoored code completions in AI assistants
Developers lean on AI coding assistants for a growing share of their daily work, letting the tools predict the next few lines and accepting many suggestions with a quick …
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 …
“Context bombs” can frustrate AI-driven attacks, researchers found
A new approach tried out by Tracebit researchers has proven very effective at stopping AI agents from fully compromising targeted environments. What makes it notable …
Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research
Smart home security research runs on a scarce ingredient: recordings of how real people use the gadgets in their homes. Getting that data means wiring up someone’s house …
Cynative: Open-source deep research agent
Running a large language model against a live cloud account to hunt for security holes comes with an obvious hazard. An agent that holds real credentials and a mandate to poke …
20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything
AI is changing how security teams find vulnerabilities, analyze code, test applications, and protect infrastructure. Developers are building tools to secure AI systems …
Researchers make the case for a cybersecurity AI scientist
Autonomous AI agents have started doing real security work. Language-model agents probe software for flaws, run penetration tests, and chain together attack steps that once …
Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login
Anyone who runs a server with SSH exposed to the internet sees the same pattern in the logs. A steady stream of automated scanners tries to log in, hour after hour, from …
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