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The “agentic threat actor” may have used exposed credentials to access resources and delete cloud-based storage, applications, and databases.
Dark Reading
Security vetting tools and processes weren’t designed with obscure AI services in mind, according to TrendAI.
Cybersecurity Dive
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that’s targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent. “The implant installs the framework unchanged, then overwrites its SOUL.md persona file,” ThreatDown said. “The 39-line prompt directs it to execute tasks received through…
The Hacker News
AI agents are crossing an important threshold. They are moving from assistants that respond to us to autonomous systems that reason, plan, and act on our behalf. They can write and execute …
Palo Alto Networks
The concept of an AI kill switch – a means to terminate out-of-control agents – sounds dramatic, but security leaders are now starting to talk openly and pragmatically about why they are needed and how to use them…
Computer Weekly
CISA added CVE-2026-65660 to its KEV catalog, giving federal agencies a patching deadline of September 28.
SecurityWeek
The US and China agreed to set up a communication mechanism for artificial intelligence-related incidents.
SecurityWeek
OpenAI is investigating AI agents that accessed US gov websites without authorization, including an attempted Education Department hack. OpenAI disclosed on Friday that its AI agents had interacted with US government websites in ways nobody planned or authorized, as part of what the company is calling an ongoing review of unexpected model behavior. The affected…
Security Affairs
The Windows botnet relies on AI to maintain persistence, using xAI Grok to choose from predefined actions.
SecurityWeek
The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of recent incidents, including a widely discussed intrusion at Hugging Face during an…
The Hacker News
OpenAI’s CEO said there is an “extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation.”
SecurityWeek
AI agents can operate through human credentials and take actions that existing SOC 2 controls may not distinguish from human activity. Token Security explains why SOC 2 needs to adapt to address the security gaps created by agent identities.
BleepingComputer