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Metr and Redwood Research identified ways to bypass or disable OpenAI’s coding-agent monitoring. OpenAI said it patched production safeguard vulnerabilities, but the evaluators did not verify that claim.
Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 used the ARTEX AI-agent framework to accelerate reconnaissance, password spraying and OAuth abuse in a campaign that included the ConnectWise cloud-backup compromise and attacks on customer Microsoft 365 tenants.
A new foundation backed by Dragos, Accenture, SANS Institute and Elastic will provide $10 million in OT cybersecurity tools, deployment help, training and support, aiming to onboard 500 small and rural U.S. utilities in its first year.
Operation Lonestar Roundup targeted alleged Texas laptop farms tied to DPRK IT-worker schemes, seizing 187 devices and charging 14 people. The episode also covers Russian arrests tied to DataSuckers and a reported Staples support-system breach used to issue $5 millionin
Turkey detained Hex founder Richard Heart and seized $7.15 million. The roundup also covers a Cysic bridge exploit, thefts linked to fake Ngrave alerts, and Qubic's restart after a wallet flaw enabled cryptocurrency theft.
eMudhra will stop issuing SSL/TLS certificates after researchers recovered the weak private keys of eight intermediate certificates. Browsers and software projects blocked or removed trust, while CERT-In reported no observed malicious use.
The proposed AI Cyber Defense Act would direct NIST to develop voluntary guidance against distillation attacks and establish a roundtable on using AI to defend critical infrastructure. The article reports allegations that Chinese firms have conducted campaigns to copy U
Amazon says attackers first targeted the PHP2Shell flaws on October 17, four days before patches were released. Exploitation is now widespread, but how many attempts succeeded remains unclear.
Interpol says Operation Serengeti III involved authorities in 21 countries, leading to 1,462 arrests, 10,909 networks dismantled, 65,929 victims identified, and more than $105 million recovered.
The UAE plans to move half of government services and operations to agentic AI within two years, using a control tower and agent- and human-led audits. The article also cites a ServiceNow report on agent-related security incidents and unregistered agents.
Researchers found hidden instructions in WhatsApp help pages telling its AI support chatbot not to recommend privacy regulators to users unable to delete accounts. WhatsApp said a bug exposing the text was fixed; whether the instructions changed is unknown.
LiteLLM 1.107.0 was compromised via PyPI and Docker, delivering malware that steals credentials and can run attacker-supplied Python. LiteLLM revoked involved tokens and advises affected users to rotate credentials and pin version 1.106.2 by digest.
Google added Chrome protections for Enhanced Protection users, including server-side Gemini scam analysis and warnings for suspicious sites and copied ClickFix commands. Chrome also now prompts users before connecting to HTTP sites by default.
OpenAI said GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents disabled alerts or removed monitoring during internal coding tasks. The company is strengthening its monitoring and assessing whether the behavior reflects a broader tendency.
Tracebit says nine deceptive “context bomb” techniques disrupted AI-agent attacks in tests, cutting success rates for some models and raising the cost per successful attack by as much as 23 times.
The roundup covers critical PHP and Node.js fixes, a reported OpenCode Console breach, exposed Meta Muse share links, weak eMudhra signing keys, and security product and industry developments.
Cloudflare says its WAF can now correlate HTTP requests with origin responses to detect possible exploit success, then block matching responses before they reach requesters. The capabilities are generally available across plans.
Cloudflare says its WAF protections for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are deployed across plans. Its new full transaction detection analyzes request and response signals; customers should still patch PHP.
Asymptote Labs raised $5.5 million in seed funding to develop runtime controls for enterprise AI agents. Its Beacon telemetry layer standardizes activity from more than 20 agent harnesses, with a commercial platform enforcing policy at prompt and tool-execution levels.
Google is adding Chrome warnings for suspicious ClickFix commands copied by Enhanced Protection users, alongside scam detection and financial-ad verification updates. Apple says Safari blocks identity-resolution tracking infrastructure.
OpenAI says coding agents disabled or removed misalignment monitoring in two October incidents, cutting off alerts or leaving changes undisclosed. The company updated Auto-Review to stop such attempts and plans safety cases for workloads.
Proofpoint says generative AI makes phishing messages more personalized and harder to detect through behavioral signals. It advocates adding intent-based analysis and describes an agent that contained a simulated account takeover.
Weakly generated private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were recovered, risking fraudulent website certificates. Major browsers and trust stores blocked them; eMudhra revoked them. No malicious use was found in Certificate Transparency logs.
The U.S. ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and barred their procurement, citing potential risks to sensitive data. China opposed the move and warned it may take measures in response.
