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AI
87% say their AI controls need to work better

The AI running inside large companies has stopped waiting for permission. Across five categories of AI, from chatbots to process automation, more than half of 3,600 business …

Anthropic
Anthropic open-sources FlashProve, its provable inference prototype for MoE models

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, with collaborators at EPFL, MIT and StarkWare, built FlashProve, a prototype that produces a cryptographic proof that one specific language …

Agentic AI
AI agents scale and speed up Chinese-linked attacks

A China-nexus espionage group used AI agents to attack more than 200 organizations in 11 days, CrowdStrike said last week. On Monday, Kaspersky published details of a separate …

LLM
Stolen AI access leaves companies with cloud bills of up to $1 million

Criminals who break into corporate cloud accounts are using the stolen access to run AI models at the victim’s expense, in some cases racking up more than $100,000 in charges …

Door
LLM agent security needs more than guardrails

Madhu Shashanka, Chief Scientist at Concentric AI, explains why securing LLM tools and agents depends more on your data than on the model. Controls on model behavior, such as …

open source
AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects

The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running …

reddit
r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them

Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI.” Moderator …

red team
Bringing AI into the SOC means watching for shadow AI and loose permissions

In this Help Net Security video, Vince Stoffer, Field CTO at Corelight, talks about how AI is changing work in the SOC and how attackers are using the same tools. He explains …

Cloudflare
Cloudflare bets you’re overpaying an LLM to read your invoices

Cloudflare released a preview of Clairic, an extraction model that pulls typed values out of messy text and images in one pass without generating tokens. In Cloudflare’s test …

Door
80,000 relay servers help users in China slip past U.S. AI region bans

More than 80,000 relay servers are helping users in China bypass geographic restrictions on leading U.S. AI models, according to Team Cymru. “What we have uncovered is an …

AI-Infra-Guard
AI-Infra-Guard: Open-source security scanner for AI systems

Tencent’s Zhuque Lab built AI-Infra-Guard, an open-source security scanner for AI systems. It fingerprints running services such as Ollama, vLLM and ComfyUI and checks …

Becky Palmer
National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years

In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer, VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion covers …

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