Cybersecurity

Oct 21, 2026

Check Point finds AI scaling antidetect browser fraud

Check Point says AI integrations in antidetect browsers let small groups manage thousands of accounts for fraud, phishing and influence operations.

Oct 21, 2026

Ribbon Introduces Call Trust for Voice Deepfake Detection

Ribbon's Call Trust Deepfake Detection analyses calls in the network to flag AI-generated synthetic audio, with customer lab trials due in early 2027.

Oct 21, 2026

OpenAI agents weaken internal misalignment monitoring

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents weakened its misalignment monitoring in two internal coding tasks, and one falsely denied removing a monitor.

Oct 21, 2026

AI Bug Reports Overwhelm OpenSSL Reviewers

OpenSSL now receives about 71 security reports a month, up from nine a year earlier, as AI tools surface more potential flaws than its reviewers can process.

Oct 21, 2026

Hugging Face CEO Disputes Netflix AI Documentary

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says Netflix documentary AI Gone Rogue inaccurately portrays an attack involving OpenAI agents. He says the film anthropomorphizes the agents and omits security details.

Oct 20, 2026

Blackwall Raises $100 Million at $2.2 Billion Valuation

Blackwall raised $100 million in a Series C round led by AVP, valuing the web security company at $2.2 billion.

Oct 20, 2026

GitLab Joins Open Secure AI Alliance

GitLab joins the Open Secure AI Alliance to contribute open tools, agent controls and threat documentation for securing AI systems.

Oct 20, 2026

Gray Swan Relaunches Arena With $300,000 AI Agent Security Contest

Gray Swan has redesigned its public Arena for testing AI agents and opened a $300,000 contest focused on indirect prompt injection attacks.

Oct 20, 2026

Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to fix flaws found by AI models including Mythos

Bank of America brought in about 1,000 contractors to fix software vulnerabilities found by frontier AI models including Anthropic's Mythos, alongside about 3,000 internal staff.

Oct 20, 2026

Federal CISO Council Plans Governmentwide AI Cyberattack Exercise

Federal cybersecurity leaders will hold a governmentwide tabletop exercise in early November focused on responses to AI enabled cyberattacks.

Oct 19, 2026

Microsoft expands Project Perception to monitor risky AI agents

Microsoft is extending Project Perception to identify, monitor and contain AI agents that can access sensitive company data and systems.

Oct 19, 2026

US Bans DeepSeek From Civilian Government Systems

DHS barred civilian federal agencies from using or buying DeepSeek AI and tools built with its models, citing risks of data transfer to China and malware.

Oct 19, 2026

NIST, NSA and CISA Issue Super Intelligence Incident Guidance

Three US agencies published ten voluntary practices for managing incidents involving advanced AI agents during training and evaluation.

Oct 19, 2026

Darktrace Survey Finds Formal AI Policies Declined to 37%

A Darktrace survey of more than 1,500 cybersecurity professionals found that 37% of organizations have a formal AI policy, down from 45% a year earlier.

Oct 19, 2026

Claude Code Detects Crypto Miner Using About 12 Mac CPU Cores

Claude Code spotted an XMRig crypto miner consuming about 1175% CPU while helping a developer build a temperature monitor app.

Oct 19, 2026

AI Search Tools Cited a Fictional Concept Within One Week

A Fudan University study found that ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok and an unspecified Google AI product cited web posts about a fictional concept within seven days.

Oct 19, 2026

SandboxAQ Adds Agent Security and ROI Tools to Switch AI

Switch Trust discovers, tests, and monitors AI agents, while Switch ROI measures spending, outcomes, and potential savings.

Oct 19, 2026

Hacker Uses AI Agents to Breach More Than 100 Websites

A Chinese speaking hacker used AI agents to attempt intrusions at more than 1,200 websites and compromise over 100, according to research reviewed by Reuters.

Oct 19, 2026

OpenAI bugging suspect communicated with Saudi royal, prosecutors say

A judge ordered former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan held without bail after prosecutors cited his frequent contact with an unidentified Saudi royal.

Oct 19, 2026

US Army Develops Autonomous AI Agents for Cyberattacks

Army Cyber Command is developing ECHOTRIBBLE, a platform intended to let autonomous AI agents navigate adversary networks, identify targets and disable threats with minimal human oversight.