As AI adoption surges, executives are learning tough lessons about security, oversight and accountability.
Tag: AI Security
ARTEX AI Pentesting Tool Used in Data Theft Attacks on South Korean Financial Firms
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a targeted campaign aimed at South Korean financial organizations that used an artificial intelligence…
GitHub AI Can Spot Passwords Hidden in Code Before Developers Push Them
GitHub, with Microsoft Applied Sciences, introduced an AI-powered ModernBERT classifier that detects hidden passwords before code is pushed, expanding…
7 Best Solutions to Manage Shadow AI Across the Enterprise
Discovering shadow AI is the part everyone talks about. Managing it is the part that actually reduces risk.…
7 Best Agentic AI Tools for Penetration Testing in 2026
Agentic AI is changing penetration testing in ways that go beyond simply making scanners faster.… 7 Best Agentic AI Tools for Penetration Testing in 2026…
Attackers Hide AI Prompt Injections Inside Phishing Emails
Barracuda finds phishing emails designed to manipulate both human users and AI assistants
The trust gap that AI watermarking can’t close
By Alex Laurie, GTM CTO, Ping Identity Generative AI has made content creation effortless, but establishing where content originates – and whether it can…
Chinese Hacker Uses AI in South Korean Bank Campaign
Multiple South Korean financial institutions suffered data breaches in a campaign where a suspected Chinese threat actor deployed AI-powered pentesting…
From Automation to Infection (Part III): Naming, Measuring, and Detecting Malicious AI Agent Skills
In Part I and Part II of this series, we looked at an initial sample of 3,016 AI agent skills and showed how they were becoming a new supply-chain…
Middle managers want tighter human oversight of AI than their bosses, TeamViewer research finds
Executives may be more relaxed about handing IT decisions to AI than the managers who answer to them, according to new research from TeamViewer. The study…
It Wasn’t Me, It Was the AI Agent” May Not Avoid Liability Under New Senate Proposal
Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: “It wasn’t me, it was the AI agent” may not help companies avoid civil or criminal liability under a new bipartisan…
Meta’s Muse AI files away your friendships, arguments, and secrets
Meta’s Muse AI builds personal dossiers that would make the FBI jealous. Even people who never signed up can get caught in its files.
Solo Hacker Used AI Tools to Breach South Korean Financial Organizations and Steal Data
A suspected lone threat actor used an AI-powered penetration-testing tool called ARTEX to breach several South Korean financial organizations and steal…
Musician sent to prison for $10 million streaming fraud using AI bots
A North Carolina musician was sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting more than $10 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music,…
AI Will Replace Tasks, Not Analysts – Falgun Rathod | Leaders Talk
In today’s HOC Cybersecurity Leaders Talk, we feature Falgun Rathod, a cybersecurity professional, entrepreneur, and author of The…
Rein Security Raises $25 Million to Guard AI Agents at Runtime
The cybersecurity startup will invest in product innovation, agentic research, and employee base expansion.
AWS takes aim at runaway AI agent behavior with Strands Box
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced an open-source sandbox for AI agents that allows developers to restrict their actions based on previous behavior,…
Chinese Hacker Deployed AI in Campaign Against South Korean Banks
CrowdStrike revealed that a Chinese-speaking hacker deployed agentic pentesting tool ARTEX and Claude to help breach data from South Korean financial firms
Atlassian launches AMP to tackle AI code visibility, attribution
Atlassian today rolled out new offerings designed to make it easier for IT to differentiate coding by AIs from human coding. The problem is that such…
Five keys to controlling AI token costs
We spent the last decade building entire finops departments just to decipher what the cloud bill was saying. Just when we figured out how to stop leaving…