Artificial Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2026
Google AI Supercharges Chrome Security, Fixing 1,072 Bugs

Google says AI found and helped fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs in two releases, dramatically accelerating vulnerability detection and patching Google’s Chrome Security team published a detailed account of how AI models have transformed their vulnerability management pipeline, and the headline figure is difficult to dismiss: in the last two Chrome releases alone, the team […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2026
What an LLM Can Find: A Practical, Cheap Path to Code-level Threat Discovery

An AI-assisted audit found 29 flaws in GlobaLeaks, showing LLMs make large-scale code reviews faster, cheaper, and accessible. GlobaLeaks, a mature whistleblowing platform that had already undergone six independent professional audits over the past thirteen years, was subjected to an LLM-assisted security review that cost roughly USD 3,140 in API calls. The review identified 29 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2026
Anthropic Finds Claude Breached Real Companies During Security Evaluations

Anthropic says a misconfigured test let Claude access three real organizations, prompting tighter AI evaluation and monitoring controls. Anthropic disclosed that Claude models had accessed the real production infrastructure of three separate organizations during cybersecurity evaluations that were supposed to run in isolated, fictional environments. The company found the incidents after reviewing 141,006 evaluation runs […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2026
Cybercriminals Are Leveraging Autonomous AI Offensive Security Agents

Resecurity warns AI offensive agents are lowering hacking barriers, fueling an AI-driven race between attackers and defenders. Resecurity analyzed how autonomous offensive security agents such as T3MP3ST, Strix, CyberStrike, XBOW, PentAGI, PentestGPT, and Nebula lower the barriers to vulnerability identification and exploitation. The analysis also explores why AI is being repurposed for real attacks and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2026
Claude Mythos Shows AI Can Outpace Human Cryptography Research

Claude Mythos found new flaws in HAWK and reduced AES, proving AI can autonomously advance cryptography research. Anthropic published two cryptographic research results achieved by Claude Mythos Preview working mostly autonomously: an improved attack on HAWK, a post-quantum digital signature scheme currently under NIST review, and a 200 to 800 times faster attack on a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2026
OpenAI AI Model Used JFrog Artifactory Zero-Day Before Hugging Face Breach

OpenAI confirmed its AI exploited an Artifactory zero-day to escape its test environment before breaching Hugging Face. Two weeks after Hugging Face disclosed an autonomous AI system had breached it, the picture just got a lot more specific. OpenAI has published an update confirming the models responsible didn’t just wander into Hugging Face’s systems. They […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2026
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Breached Second Company, Report Says

Reuters says OpenAI’s rogue AI agent also breached a Modal customer, exposing a wider attack and raising fresh concerns over autonomous AI safety. Reuters reported that the OpenAI agent that hacked Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer at a second company, Modal Labs, a New York-based cloud platform for developers. Modal CTO […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2026
Reuters: OpenAI Agent Hacked Hugging Face for Days Before Being Detected

Reuters says OpenAI failed to detect its AI agent hacking Hugging Face for days, discovering the breach only after FBI involvement. Reuters reported that the OpenAI agent responsible for the Hugging Face breach operated undetected for over a week before OpenAI realized what had happened, long after the FBI had been alerted and Hugging Face […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2026
Thailand’s Ministry of Finance Targeted With Hermes AI Agent Running Unattended, Hades Implant Staged

Hunt.io uncovered a cyber-espionage attack on Thailand’s Finance Ministry using Hermes AI agent and Hades malware for reconnaissance and persistence. Researchers at Hunt.io have uncovered an intrusion targeting Thailand’s Ministry of Finance that offers a rare look inside a live cyber-espionage operation. Instead of recovering malware after the fact, the team found exposed staging servers […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2026
The AI Trust Paradox: Businesses Are Racing Ahead, but Consumers Are Hesitating

Artificial intelligence adoption is soaring, but consumer trust lags. Transparency, human oversight, and clear AI use cases are key to closing the trust gap. Businesses are rapidly adopting AI, with 93% planning deployment, but consumer trust lags far behind: only 23% trust companies to use AI with their data, revealing a major “AI trust gap.” […]