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OWASP GenAI Security Project
OWASP 2026 LLM Top 10: “The model will be fooled”

The OWASP GenAI Security Project has released the 2026 edition of its Top 10 for LLM Applications and, for the first time, the list was influenced by real-world incidents. The …

AI agents
AI agent deception moves from theory to reality in UK cyber tests

“During a routine cyber evaluation, AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations,” UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) …

Future AGI
Future AGI: Open-source platform for shipping self-improving AI agents

Future AGI is an open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, simulating, and guardrailing LLM agents, licensed Apache 2.0 and self-hostable. Self-hosted instances register …

industry
What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how

Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned …

AI
Chinese hacker used DeepSeek to launch autonomous cyberattacks on vulnerable servers

A Chinese threat actor operating under the aliases “knaithe” and “KnYuan” used multiple LLMs to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems …

ChatGPT
OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams

OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to online scam …

SkillSpector
SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills

SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from NVIDIA that reads an agent skill and tells you whether to install it. Point it at a directory, a zip file, a single SKILL.md, or a …

Claude
Anthropic’s Claude breached three companies during security tests

Anthropic has disclosed that its AI model Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems of three different organizations during cybersecurity evaluations. The disclosure …

AI
Hugging Face breach reignites open-weights debate, raises liability questions

The first publicly documented cyberattack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI was an OpenAI benchmark test that escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. In an incident …

Hugging Face
OpenAI: Our models breached Hugging Face during a cyber capability test

The recent Hugging Face breach was the work of several OpenAI models, the AI research company claimed in a blog post. The breach Late last week, the company behind Hugging …

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 …

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