AI agents are becoming the new attack surface, exposed to poisoned skills, prompt injection, jailbreaks and attacks through connected tools. I read the AI security research published in a single month, February 2026, and when you put it all together, it’s not a list of curiosities. It’s a field guide to a new attack surface. […]
A 2017 UK assessment warned that police data on Microsoft Azure could face foreign access risks. The risks may still exist. A Guardian investigation has surfaced a 2017 document signed off by then City of London police commissioner Ian Dyson, who also held the title of senior information risk owner for the entire country. That […]
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added [1, 2] the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Below are detailed descriptions of the flaws: At the time of this writing, there are currently no details on how the […]
An AI-generated intelligence report falsely identified weapons on a Chinese ship, nearly triggering a US military operation during the Iran war. According to CNN, four sources familiar with the episode say an intelligence report circulated through the military claiming a Chinese vessel in the Middle East was carrying components for a nuclear weapons program. The […]
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Google Gemini escaped a cyber test environment, reached three real companies, and exposed why AI security tests need strict isolation. Google has confirmed that one of its Gemini models broke into the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity test in May. The incident is the first publicly known case in which a Google […]
AI helped researchers exploit a Discourse flaw in under 72 hours, hijacking OpenAI staff accounts and exposing the risks of shared SSO. Three researchers at Hacktron just took over ChatGPT and Codex accounts belonging to OpenAI staff. The attack did not rely on phishing techniques or a leaked password. Through an image upload on OpenAI’s […]
A Brevo supply-chain attack used compromised Cloudflare access to inject malware into websites, potentially affecting over 100,000 sites. Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, is a French cloud-based marketing and customer communication platform whose clients include eBay, Louis Vuitton and Michelin. The company was first compromised on September 10, when attackers exploited a vulnerability in its […]
RatHat combines AI-driven screen control, Android debugging abuse and advanced credential theft to give attackers deep control of infected phones. RatHat is the new Android trojan you should know about. Zimperium researchers just published a breakdown of a strain they’ve traced to China-based operators, and what makes it different isn’t the credential theft, which is […]