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Prompt injection still drives most agentic AI security failures in production

A backdoor sat on PyPI for three hours in March 2026. Nearly 47,000 downloads occurred during the window. The compromised package, LiteLLM, serves as the language-model …

Robot
X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework

Companies building robots for physical work spend large amounts of time and money operating machines by hand to gather training examples. Each session with a physical robot …

smartphone
Organizations can’t see much of their mobile AI activity

Organizations have limited visibility into AI activity on mobile devices despite security leaders expressing confidence in their AI governance, according to Lookout’s …

identity
Identity theft is turning into a chain reaction for victims

For a growing number of victims, identity theft no longer ends with a fraudulent charge or a compromised account. More than one in four people who contacted the Identity Theft …

Ivanti
Critical Ivanti Sentry flaw allows root-level remote code execution (CVE-2026-10520)

Ivanti has patched two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-10520 and CVE-2026-10523) in Ivanti Sentry and has urged customers to implement the fix right away. Though the …

phishing
New Browser-in-the-Browser phishing uses fake login popups to steal Microsoft 365 credentials

A new Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) phishing campaign is targeting Microsoft 365 users with fake login popups designed to closely mimic legitimate browser authentication …

GitHub
Building reusable workflows with custom agents in Copilot CLI

Developers spend much of their working time in the terminal, generating commands, debugging issues, and running scripts close to their systems. Repeated terminal work tends to …

patch tuesday
Record Microsoft Patch Tuesday, fresh zero-day

Microsoft marked its largest-ever Patch Tuesday this month, by shipping fixes for nearly 200 vulnerabilities. Within hours, “Nightmare Eclipse”, the researcher …

cloud
Apple extends Private Cloud Compute to third-party data centers

Apple is bringing its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) platform to Google Cloud, expanding the infrastructure behind Apple Intelligence to third-party data centers. Introduced in …

Anthropic
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is out for public use, with safeguards for high-risk requests

Days after publishing research on how advanced AI systems could amplify cyber operations in the wrong hands, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model for …

AI
Every set of AI guardrails can be broken by the right prompt

Companies that build AI systems wrap them in guardrails meant to block harmful output, including deepfakes, malware, and instructions for making biological weapons or illicit …

mobile
The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills

Billions of working smartphones reach the end of their service lives each year and move into drawers, recycling streams, and waste piles. The WEEE Forum estimated that 5.3 …

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