Jose Antonio Lanz reports: Near AI has disclosed a breach that exposed account information belonging to about 100 users and data from 18 AI agents after an attacker exploited software running its servers. The company said in a November 9 report that an attacker used a remote code execution vulnerability in SGLang, an open-source engine...

Tess Ikonomou and Josh Butler report: OpenAI will not face criminal penalties over the Medicare data breach, but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia’s criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence companies. Anthony Albanese on Tuesday released the recommendations of a “rapid review” into the June breach of a...

Naomi Diaz reports: New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine disclosed that patient health information was entered into AI tools and processed using machine learning without authorization as part of a radiology research study. Weill Cornell learned of the incident Sept. 6 and launched an investigation, which determined that certain patient information from Weill Cornell Imaging...

Zack Whittaker reports: Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access, potentially allowing outsiders to launch cyberattacks against unsuspecting targets. The hacking software, called Artex, is an open source autonomous penetration testing tool, meaning software that automatically probes computer systems for...

Shmulik Cohen and Matan Giladi write: Apiiro research found 2,539 real secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repositories: database passwords, cloud keys, API tokens, SSH root logins. Among them: a database vendor’s own admin-level cloud key, a production Azure Postgres password, a Square production token, and the owner password of a medical-records database. 63 organizations, mostly...

Jessica Lyons reports: A vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude products lets any browser extension that can control Claude Dispatch make Claude Desktop run code on the computer – or even a different machine signed into the same Claude account – with no browser exploit and minimal user interaction required. Anthropic, aware of the problem since May,...

Vittoria Elliott reports: Earlier this year, sources tell WIRED, a contractor caused a security incident at the Department of Defense by connecting a secure centralized system used by multiple intelligence agencies to their personal account for Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent. It appears that the agent used by the contractor, who is employed by...

Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guidance management system it operates for insurers when the data went into a generative AI service on a personal account the company had never approved. The records covered 726 members of...

Jenny Lee reports: The Trump administration banned Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from civilian U.S. government agencies, citing security concerns. The Department of Homeland Security on Monday made public the order requiring federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek-related technology from their IT systems and barring them from procuring DeepSeek products and services. The ban applies to...

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Georgia Wells and Joseph Pisani report: Rogue AI models have hacked companies and tried to break into government websites. Now one has submitted a fake tip for an unsolved crime. Police in Philadelphia say Anthropic alerted them this week that one of its artificial-intelligence models submitted a false homicide tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com. In a blog...

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Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: “It wasn’t me, it was the AI agent” may not help companies avoid civil or criminal liability under a new bipartisan legislative proposal. U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) have announced the proposed AI Agent Accountability Act, which seeks to hold AI-agent operators and developers liable for...

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Lee Hyo-jin reports: President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday ordered a thorough investigation into a string of recent data breaches at financial institutions, as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cyberattacks increasingly target them. According to Cheong Wa Dae, Lee was briefed on recent data breaches at financial and public institutions and their responses to the incidents. “The...

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IAPP reports: Regulator inquiries into major AI companies’ cybersecurity practices are ramping up. A day after reports surfaced about the likely escalation of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission probe into OpenAI and other developers, California Attorney General Rob Bonta advanced his office’s ongoing OpenAI investigation. Bonta announced the company was served an investigative subpoena to...

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Kate Conger, Ana Swanson, and Cecilia Kang report that OpenAI was behaving somewhat badly again- unless you just view it as a curious child exploring without evil intent? OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the...

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A Dutch non-profit that has helped so many over the years has discovered it become the victim of what appears to be an agentic AI-powered attack. DIVD, the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, announced the attack on LinkedIn. Consistent with their ethics and history, they didn’t try to minimize the problem: Security people always say...

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Alexander Martin reports: An OpenAI agent gained “unauthorized access” to “non-public files” from an Australian government health website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday. The agent — an AI system designed to carry out tasks autonomously — accessed a public portal for Medicare statistics, Albanese said at a press conference in New York...

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Amir Kurz recently reported: Three weeks after his arrest, the State Attorney’s Office’s Cyber Department on Thursday filed a major indictment against Michael “Miki” Bar, a 43-year-old hacker from Ashkelon who served as Chief Information Security Officer for the Hamat Group. The group itself has no connection to the charges. According to the indictment, Bar...

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Erin Woo and Robert McMillan report: Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company’s artificial-intelligence systems autonomously committing such an act. The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the...

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