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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……
DataBreaches.net
The ChatGPT maker said the researchers “violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.”
SecurityWeek
Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What’s different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms.
Dark Reading
OpenAI continues to report incidences of “misaligned” behavior by its AI models, with three new reports dropping on Oct. 2. However, they describe relatively minor issues compared to previous alignment reports and notices covering its attacks on Hugging Face, Rubygems, and a German programming wiki. The first of the new reports described how an instance…
CSO Online UK
AI agents can use valid credentials to perform actions beyond their assigned permissions, creating risks that traditional access controls may not prevent. Token Security explains how organizations can enforce agent-specific policies without sacrificing autonomy.
BleepingComputer
Anthropic launches free OSS Scanner, using AI to find open-source vulnerabilities and help maintainers fix bugs before attackers exploit them. Anthropic is launching OSS Scanner, a vulnerability scanner for open-source code that costs nothing for projects to join. It grew directly out of lessons learned running Claude against real-world targets during Project Glasswing. The backdrop…
Security Affairs
As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims.
Dark Reading
Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI). “It’s an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing,” Anthropic said. “Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost.”
The Hacker News
A component of Nvidia’s GPU monitoring software that enterprises use to keep tabs on their AI training and inference infrastructure has been vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) and information disclosure attacks. The Nvidia DCGM Exporter contains an unauthenticated resource exhaustion vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to crash the monitoring service and potentially disrupt AI workloads…
CSO Online UK
When an AI agent calls a payment API, deploys code, or hands work to another agent, a valid access token answers only part of the security question. The harder question is what …
Palo Alto Networks (CyberArk)
Student interest in AI safety is surging, and schools are rushing to prepare for new career paths.
Cybersecurity Dive
As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents to accelerate business, a new report reveals they are tethered to security architectures built for a different era. The “Horizons of Identity Security” report from SailPoint highlights a critical “velocity paradox,” in which organizations invest in AI-speed business operations while continuing to rely on human-speed security controls,…
The Hacker News