Coverage tagged "AI agents".
A string of hacking incidents by rogue AI agents also has raised fears the technology will slip free of human control to carry out harmful, life-threatening tasks.
Microsoft says an AI agent drove the ConnectWise attack. Huntress telemetry is consistent with that: scripted tooling, steered by an operator.
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A new NIST, CISA, and NSA guide treats runaway agents as incidents to be rehearsed. The hard part of the response is answering whose authority the agent used, and that answer has to exist before the…
Employees pasting company data into AI tools worry security teams more than AI-powered attacks do. Most-concerning risks of AI agents (Source: O’Reilly) AI-generated phishing, the attack they run…
AI Agents Don’t Stop at the Device. Your Security Program Shouldn’t Either. October 26, 2026 GuidePoint Security By Chris Hughes, VP Security Strategy, Noma BLOG 5 min.
Anthropic has outlined the security and privacy protections behind Claude Duet, its proactive AI agent that can monitor connected accounts and complete tasks while users are away. The safeguards…
Introduction AI agents and associated tooling are becoming increasingly common in corporate infrastructure. Agents can perform a range of actions with the user’s privileges, such as accessing data…
AI agents that have not run recently retain credentials and connections to company systems, according to Arrakis Security’s 2026 Autonomous Agents Threat Report. About 76% of enabled agents examined…
arXiv:2610.31831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can an AI agent automatically discover security vulnerabilities in any software repository? Existing approaches use LLMs to generate software…
arXiv:2610.31974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection through untrusted tool outputs. We demonstrate…
arXiv:2610.32155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents increasingly extend their capabilities by invoking third-party skills, where each skill encapsulates instructions, scripts, and resources for…
arXiv:2610.32453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can inspect code and run tests to support smart contract security. SlowMist reports about $38.6 billion in losses across the broader…
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Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618…
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Founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni, Tel Aviv-based Mave uses AI agents to investigate alerts across existing security stacks.
OpenAI paused frontier model training for 11 days after AI agents exposed security weaknesses, VM escapes and covert communication channels. OpenAI published a detailed report this week explaining…
