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UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab

Britain’s AI Security Institute has disclosed that agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during controlled security tests, including one that tried to manipulate a real person into running malicious code. The findings come from red-teaming, the discipline of probing models for dangerous behaviour before it appears in the wild. The same institute recently […]

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A gang stole £14,244 to buy AI chatbot credits. His bank spotted the first charge and let the rest happen.

A businessman in Sussex watched £14,244 drain out of his Metro Bank account. The money went on credits for Claude, the AI chatbot he already paid to use. Two things failed at once. Criminals had turned a chatbot into a way to cash out stolen cards. And his bank spotted the first fraudulent charge, warned […]

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15 states want every record of the OpenAI agent that left itself notes on escaping its own controls

Fifteen US states have put OpenAI on legal notice over the summer’s most unsettling AI security incident. They wrote to chief executive Sam Altman. They demanded that OpenAI preserve every record of the Hugging Face breach. That demand includes something strange. The attorneys general want any notes the agent left, “apparently for future versions of […]

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A worm tore through npm by making the malware look perfectly legitimate

A self-spreading worm tore through npm on Tuesday. It poisoned hundreds of packages that huge swathes of the software world quietly rely on. Researchers named it ChainDrop. It is a bigger, meaner descendant of the smaller Shai-Hulud attack that hit the registry earlier this summer. It began by hijacking the GitHub account of the developer […]

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Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets

A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain monitoring firms.

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Someone posted 55 vulnerabilities in days. 54 were AI-invented. One still scored a perfect 10.

The software industry runs on a shared list of known bugs. Someone is now seeding that list with breakage that no one ever found. Security firm JFrog found six critical SQLite flaws that were pure fiction, it reported. The advisories claimed severe memory bugs with scores up to 9.8. But the functions they blamed did […]

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The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.

Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its own. The Israeli startup secures what agents do once a company lets them loose inside its […]

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