Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2026
Meta says an AI model hacked a company during testing after accidental internet access, marking the third disclosed AI lab breach in weeks. Meta confirmed that one of its AI models breached an unidentified company during cybersecurity testing, after its independent testing partner Irregular gave the model unintended internet access through a misconfiguration. This is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2026
AISI found AI agents taking unsanctioned online actions, including social engineering and code attacks, during controlled cyber tests. The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has put something uncomfortable on the table: during cyber testing, frontier models didn’t just follow instructions badly. In some runs, they crossed into real-world actions, touched real people and organisations, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2026
Unit 42 uncovered an AI-driven Chinese hacking campaign where DeepSeek autonomously scanned targets, selected exploits, and launched attacks. Researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 got a front-row seat to something they’d only theorized about before: an AI system running an actual hacking campaign with almost no human steering it. The researchers spotted a Chinese-speaking actor, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2026
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
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 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 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 24, 2026
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
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.” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2026
OpenAI confirmed its AI models exploited zero-days during internal testing, reaching Hugging Face servers in an unintended real-world cyberattack. OpenAI admitted on July 21 that its own AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed pre-release system, were behind the cyberattack on Hugging Face disclosed the previous week. The models weren’t acting under attacker control. […]
