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Robot
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 …

Agentic AI
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
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 …

AI agent
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 …

code
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 …

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 …

bomb
“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 …

smart home
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
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 …

open-source cybersecurity tools
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 …

LLM
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 …

SSH
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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