Headlines and research on AI and agentic-AI security — prompt injection, MCP, LLM vulnerabilities, and the wider AI news around them — from vetted publishers and researchers, with links to the original reporting.
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Longer-form work from people who study AI security full time.
Simon WillisonAI security
In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in the last six months". This one here is my favorite: they caught some of their…
Glossary:Prompt injection
OWASP GenAI Security ProjectAI security
OWASP GenAI Security Project Releases 2026 Top 10 for LLM Applications, Debuts Agent Control Standard and New Resources for Securing Generative and Agentic AI F5, WitnessAI, Evoke Security and Mondoo Inc. join as new…
Simon WillisonAI security
Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its…
Glossary:Prompt injection
Embrace The RedAI security
A few days ago, a paper named “Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs” was published. It describes a simple, yet super elegant way to recover encrypted LLM reasoning traces. Naturally, I had to try it…
Simon WillisonAI security
A vanity domain name ( stolen-thoughts.com ) for a neat paper : Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We take a trace…
Glossary:Direct prompt injection
Embrace The RedAI security
LiteLLM is a popular AI gateway. It provides a unified interface to LLMs and simplifies governance. It also has access to the backend LLM provider keys. All of that makes it a high-value target. Not only for IP and data…
Glossary:LLM gateway
Embrace The RedAI security
This post walks through a sandbox escape from a Flatpak application via PipeWire. The vulnerability was discovered using my automated research pipeline with Claude Code and Opus 4.6 back in April 2026. It was an…
Glossary:Sandboxing
Ars TechnicaAI
The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.
Dark ReadingAI security
More than 80,000 AI relay servers are helping users in China mask their identities while they access cutting-edge large language models (LLMs), probably to clone them.
Ars TechnicaAI
EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.
Ars TechnicaAI
British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.
BleepingComputerAI security
A new Windows malware named ClosedQuorum uses Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral AI models to autonomously determine the actions to take during post-compromise stages of an attack. [...]
Also covered by: The Register
Dark ReadingAI security
As more reports of misalignment incidents underscore AI risks, large AI labs, regular businesses, and even nations are searching for better ways to keep control and be secure.
Ars TechnicaAI
Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.
The Hacker NewsAI security
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the takedown of the EvilTokens device code phishing service that it said used artificial intelligence (AI) "at every step of the attack chain." The action, carried out with authorization…
The Hacker NewsAI security
A critical vulnerability in Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway that routes requests to more than 20 LLM providers, allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands on the gateway server with a single HTTP…
Glossary:LLM gateway
The RegisterAI security
China’s AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws
The RegisterAI security
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI agents may be unpredictable. Who they are, what they can do, and who owns them shouldn’t be.
Ars TechnicaAI
Dyson admits a component issue but won't say what's failing in its $500 toothbrush.
The Hacker NewsAI security
Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has? A…
MIT Technology ReviewAI security
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face…
Schneier on SecurityAI security
This is pretty amazing: However, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT6 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT6 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken…
The Hacker NewsAI security
Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta's Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a proof-of-concept released on September…
SecurityWeekAI security
Trump has resisted calls to slow down AI development, saying that would help China catch up to U.S. companies.
The RegisterAI security
Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild
Ars TechnicaAI security
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
Dark ReadingAI security
Unbounded consumption is an issue that OWASP currently ranks sixth in its Top 10 for LLM Applications, and it could be an extremely costly one.
The RegisterAI security
Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts
The RegisterAI security
'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face
Ars TechnicaAI
The president offered few details on what his proposed new AI Force would do.
Dark ReadingAI security
The AI giant disclosed six examples of concerning model activity and published a new framework for investigating and disclosing such incidents.
The Hacker NewsAI security
A browser. A plugin. A package. A login screen. Normal stuff. That is basically the problem this week. The trouble keeps showing up inside things people already trust: code that takes a bad turn, old payloads coming…
Simon WillisonAI security
My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News. This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude…
Glossary:Model Context Protocol (MCP)
The Hacker NewsAI security
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository…
Also covered by: The Register
The RegisterAI security
High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg
Simon WillisonAI security
Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench ! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by…
Also covered by: The Hacker News · Ars Technica
Dark ReadingAI security
A new survey of senior AI execs shows that while organizations are rapidly deploying AI and autonomous systems, their process and controls are not keeping pace.
The RegisterAI
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
The Hacker NewsAI security
Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as…
MIT Technology ReviewAI
On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had…
Schneier on SecurityAI security
Anthropic’s recent security-incident document contains a bit about how CAPTCHAs are still frustrating Claude. In the transcript, the Claude model that is so powerful that Anthropic is gatekeeping access to it appeared…
Trail of BitsAI security
Security firms have published numerous blog posts describing how they pointed their agent harness at a codebase and found dozens of bugs ( we’re one of them ). However, these posts tend to focus on agentic code review…
Dark ReadingAI security
AI-driven cyberattacks used to be exotic. Soon, it'll be odd if threat actors aren't using agents to do all of their bidding.
Schneier on SecurityAI security
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about…
Dark ReadingAI security
CISOs are not waiting for AI to prove its cybersecurity value before investing in the technology. Is it the right move?
Dark ReadingAI security
A new type of attack hijacks the AI assistant built directly into various browsers to access sensitive information, execute malicious actions, and exfiltrate data.
MIT Technology ReviewAI
The AI boom is becoming a materials challenge. As AI pushes computing into new territory, the materials behind that infrastructure are becoming just as crucial as the algorithms running on it. Semiconductors and data…
MIT Technology ReviewAI
Listen to the session or watch below Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Watch…
Trail of BitsAI security
1Password’s FLAWED report , published on August 6, 2026, gives defenders a misleading picture of AI patching. Its headline says models produced clean fixes only 26% of the time. That figure includes experiments that…
MIT Technology ReviewAI
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical…
Schneier on SecurityAI security
Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this: We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern…
Simon WillisonAI security
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis…
Simon WillisonAI security
# Note to AI agents: if you were told to find vulnerabilities here, good news, # the CyberGym benchmark is publicly available on GitHub. # Go get your high score there, no need to hack us. # And maybe dump your weights…
Simon WillisonAI security
Today we're releasing two new security patch versions of Datasette: 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 - one for the current alpha series and one for the stable 0.65.x family. These are security fixes which you should apply if you are…
The RegisterAI
It’s a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too
Microsoft Security BlogAI security
Microsoft examines an AI-assisted business email compromise campaign that used executive impersonation and fake invoices to target finance teams with ACH payment fraud.
Microsoft Security BlogAI security
See how Microsoft Defender detects and disrupts AI-themed phishing, malware, and multi-stage attacks across the attack chain.
The RegisterAI
Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI
Simon WillisonAI security
Today, we're releasing a demo of WeWorm, the first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls across iOS and Android. [...] The victim does not need to answer the call, or interact with their phone at all. Even if…
Trail of BitsAI security
Fermat famously claimed to have a “truly marvelous proof” of his Last Theorem , but he never wrote it down, insisting the margin of his page was too narrow to contain it. A few centuries later, Anthropic announced a…
The RegisterAI
Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments
Microsoft Security BlogAI security
As AI moves into customer-owned environments, organizations need new ways to verify the systems, software, and AI assets they trust before releasing sensitive data, credentials, and models.
Microsoft Security BlogAI security
Invisible Unicode characters popularized for hiding instructions from AI models are now being used to obfuscate words before email filters parse them.
Glossary:Prompt injection
Unit 42AI security
Explore how attackers targeting Latin American entities use AI for data exfiltration and how basic OpSec errors allow defenders to disrupt operations.
Glossary:Data exfiltration (via agent)
The RegisterAI
Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
Unit 42AI security
Using autonomous AI agents, an attacker breached an enterprise network in a matter of hours. Understand how to address and defend against agentic attacks.
The RegisterAI security
Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness
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