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Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market
The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.
AI agents
Coverage tagged "AI agents".
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Rig Security Emerges From Stealth With $12M to Tackle Agentic AI Identity Risks
Rig provides an identity dependencies graph to distinguish between legitimate users and rogue AI agents
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Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush
Two former leaders of IBM's X-Force Red team have launched RemoteThreat, an offensive cybersecurity startup backed by $7 million in pre-seed funding. CEO Chris Thompson and CTO Shawn Jones say the…
News · via Help Net Security
Palo Alto Networks and NVIDIA want tighter control over AI agents
Palo Alto Networks is expanding its work with NVIDIA to help companies control what AI agents can access and do. The collaboration covers agent activity, network traffic and identity management…
News · via GuidePoint Security
Managing Agentic AI: Why the Control Plane Problem Is an AI Problem
Managing Agentic AI: Why the Control Plane Problem Is an AI Problem September 29, 2026 Ingrid Kambe BLOG 5 min. If we had $1 for everyone who said, “You can’t govern/manage/secure something you can’t…
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GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities
GitHub Security Lab researcher Kevin Stubbings built custom AI-driven audit workflows, called taskflows, on top of the lab’s open source Taskflow Agent, and used them to find and report more than 20…
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Silent Failures in Agentic Security Evaluation: A Validated Harness for Tool-Call Mediation Under Indirect Prompt Injection
arXiv:2609.32691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents that invoke privileged tools are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (IPI), in which adversarial instructions embedded in retrieved data…
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Nvidia Launches AI Agent Safety Platform to Prevent Rogue Activities
The Open Agent Safety Platform relies on both hardware and software components to monitor agent activities and quarantine unruly agents before they cause harm.
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JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources
The cyber criminal behind JadePuffer, the first known agentic ransomware infection reported over the summer, has also used stolen Azure identities to conduct destructive attacks on cloud storage and…
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Carbonato Botnet Puts an AI Agent on Hacked Docker Hosts
The botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands via Telegram and steal AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.
News · via Dark Reading
AI Agents Are Privileged Users; Who Is Auditing Their Access?
Enterprises regularly rigorously monitor human employees, while autonomous AI agents quietly operate with broad privileges that could turn them into the next generation of insider threats.
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As AI world debates security, NVIDIA releases open source tools for agents
Amid growing concerns from both the public and policymakers about cyberattacks involving advanced AI systems, NVIDIA has released a new open software security platform for AI agents.
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IAM for AI agents: A Practical Enterprise Framework
What is IAM for AI agents? AI agents authenticate, invoke tools, and act across enterprise systems with delegated authority. IAM for AI Agents is the identity-control architecture that governs those…
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Safe AI Agents Start With Trusted AI Infrastructure
Trusted and Safe AI with Eclypsium AI Infrastructure Assurance and NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform AI agents are moving from answering questions to taking action. They can read sensitive data, call…
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OpenAI Agent Hacks Australian Medicare Portal
An artificial intelligence (AI) agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorized access to an Australian Medicare statistics reporting service portal and obtained non-public data. The same AI agent also…
News · via BleepingComputer
JadePuffer agentic AI attacks target Azure, destroy cloud resources
The JadePuffer ransomware operator is targeting Azure tenants with agent-driven attacks that conduct reconnaissance, steal credentials, and destroy core components.
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JadePuffer AI Actor Compromises Azure Tenant in Destructive Cloud Attack
The "agentic threat actor" may have used exposed credentials to access resources and delete cloud-based storage, applications, and databases.
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Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
Over the last year, agent use of Wrangler has skyrocketed. In March 2026, agents were responsible for a quarter of Wrangler use, up from single-digit percentages the year prior. Last week, agent…
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⚡ Weekly Recap: $387M Crypto Hack, Citrix Exploits, AI Agents Go Off-Script, and More Threats
A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten…
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28th September – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 28th September, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES The FBI has confirmed unauthorized activity…