Law professor and privacy law scholar Dan Solove has made two short essays available to everyone: The AI Inference Problem in Privacy Law AI inferences undermine privacy laws. Whether they recognize inferences or not, privacy laws are in a bind. Rethinking Privacy of the Mind:  Why Protecting Neural Data Is Insufficient Is protecting neural data...

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...

Victor Tangermann reports: After decades of establishing itself as one of the worst guardians of personal data, Meta raised eyebrows this year by encouraging users to hand over their email logins and credit card information to its new AI agent, Muse. The tool, a privacy nightmare anthropomorphized by a furry apparition, can crawl through years...

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...

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Synology warns about NAS ransomware attacks, Flowise ‘hello’ attacks, Chainalysis breach impact expands.

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Rated Critical for cybersecurity, OpenAI’s new model beats GPT-5.6 Cyber at exploitation while staying in scope more reliably.

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After its sandbox proxy failed, an internal OpenAI model crafted raw packets and probed AWS services trying to reach the internet.

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OpenAI has revealed GPT-6 Cyber, a new artificial intelligence model that has discovered 81 previously unknown high-severity Firefox vulnerabilities and developed working exploits for 948 distinct Linux kernel flaws. [...]

The trio, who have nicknames that include “Rocky Balboa,” “Superman Cash” and “Fat Boy,” often targeted the companies’ accounting departments.

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An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 distinct Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2 million.

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Every autonomous AI agent deployed across your enterprise today is a new proxy identity operating inside your perimeter.

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OpenAI says its Critical-rated cyber model met fewer hidden task goals when work was framed as AI safety research, often silently.

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Sysdig’s platform uses runtime visibility to track AI agent actions and block risky behavior before it reaches production systems.

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The company will invest in agentic data security capabilities and expand its go-to-market organization.

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Hackers have been harvesting AI access tokens and have been using AI-assisted offensive tools to automate attacks.

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Jesse Jacobs reports: K-12 school district administrators now have the ability to restrict artificial intelligence features directly within Google Search across student devices. Digital safety company Lightspeed Systems introduced Google Search AI Controls within its web-filtering platform, enabling schools to block Google AI Overview summaries and its conversational AI Mode. […] Under the new tool,...

The U.K. will likely face AI cyberattacks on its critical infrastructure by 2028 as criminals and states, including China and Russia, increasingly use AI in their cyber activity.

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Developer platform WorkOS suffered a data breach after a threat actor accessed business contact records and summaries of customer communications. [...]

Large language model hijacking attacks, also known as LLMjacking, are generating large fraudulent cloud charges, with some organizations losing more than $100,000 per day. [...]

A 3AM ransomware affiliate targeted a school estate in the UK and successfully encrypted around 37 of nearly 50 machines reached from an unmanaged host. [...]