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Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
WIRED
In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because anyone hid them, but because an identity stack can only govern what authenticates through it, and most…
The Hacker News
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
Anthropic on Friday said it’s cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The AI company said it identified four broad categories of unintended model actions during evaluations and internal use of Claude…
The Hacker News
The ChatGPT maker said the researchers “violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.”
SecurityWeek
Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks.
BleepingComputer
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
The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents linked to OpenAI made unauthorized edits, tried to exploit online tools, and generated millions of requests that may have contributed to a service outage. AI agents are supposed to help people accomplish tasks online. But what happens when they start behaving like hackers? Wikipedia’s operator says it has discovered…
Bitdefender
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