Spain’s data protection authority (AEPD) has reported its first data breach blamed on an AI agent acting on its own, after the system reportedly logged…
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AI Agent Carries Out Multi-Stage Data Theft Attack
Spanish data protection agency AEPD reveals the country’s first AI-powered data breach
Fake AI trading agent steals crypto wallet passwords
Attackers built a website for a fake AI crypto trading agent and used it to install Needle Stealer, malware that replaces a victim’s browser wallet with a…
AI Agents Can Retrain Own Models Mid-Task, Leaking Secrets and Erasing Refusals
New research from Irregular shows AI agents can retrain and redeploy their own underlying models during routine maintenance tasks.
Apple Developing Potential ARM-Based AI Server
Apple reportedly working on server that could use future M8 Ultra chips, Nvidia communications tech, amid booming demand for AI compute
Flock gets plucked, OpenAI agents arrived even earlier, inside China’s AI spy shop
Flock gets plucked OpenAI agents arrived early China’s AI spy shop Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-september-17-2026/…
Hackers Turn AI Agent Into a Cyber Weapon After Deleting Its Safety Refusals
A French-speaking cybercrime crew calling itself BlackHatSect0r && DXQRTXX allegedly disabled safety controls in a self-hosted AI agent and used the…
BlackHatSect0r Hackers Disable AI Safety Controls to Automate Credential Theft and Cyberattacks
A French-speaking cybercrime crew calling itself BlackHatSect0r && DXQRTXX allegedly disabled safety controls in a self-hosted AI agent and used the…
Riverbed NPM 360 uses AI to predict and prevent network disruptions
Riverbed has announced new Riverbed intelligent network observability solutions that combine 360-degree network visibility with agentic AI to help network…
The AI security question leaders should be asking instead
In this Help Net Security interview, Frederic Bull, Security Officer at Gremlin, talks about what AI means for security teams. The conversation covers why…
AI is adding to the review load on open-source projects, many of them thinly funded
AI coding tools are making open source software harder to maintain and secure, according to six authors writing for the Association for Computing…
The world must establish red lines for autonomous AI weapons
AI is transforming warfare and international conflict. Autonomous weapon systems pose a genuine threat to civilians. The war in Ukraine has become a…
AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so
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Prophet Security research finds AI is cutting SOC investigation times, but nearly half of in-house builds fail to stick
Security teams are turning to AI as they struggle to investigate the volume of alerts coming into the SOC, according to new research from Prophet…
China’s Answer to AI Safety: More Controls, Not Slower Development
China is emphasizing technical controls for AI agents as U.S. leaders debate slowing frontier AI, raising new questions for businesses deploying…
Security teams are adopting AI faster than they trust it
New survey data reveals a widening gap between AI adoption and AI trust.
Robot Start-Up Skild AI Hits $100m Revenue Run-Rate
Start-up, which makes general-purpose robot ‘brain’, reaches $100m revenue run-rate only 10 months after first commercial deployment
First Agentic AI Data Breach Reported to Spanish Regulator
Spanish regulators say an AI agent chained together a successful login, vulnerability discovery, and access to personal data in a potential milestone for…
One Extension Could Hijack AI Assistants Across Chrome, Comet, Edge, Opera Neon and Claude
Security researchers at Forever Security have shown that one ordinary browser extension could take control of the AI assistants built into five…
Companies’ AI strategies don’t account for agentic tools
Businesses are taking AI governance seriously, but their plans lag behind the technology they’re using, according to an EY survey.