Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Study Finds Standard Safety Tests Miss Most Agentic AI ThreatsResearchers from Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon and others found that most production AI agents are vulnerable to attacks that unfold across multi-step actions. The study warns that memory, tool access and agent coordination create failure modes traditional chatbot safety testing cannot see.

Robust Security Reviews of AI-Generated Code Required, Warns StudyGenies might grant magic wishes, but they inevitably come with consequences. Enter artificial intelligence coding assistants, which many developers say help them write code more quickly. New research shows that this productivity comes with a security cost, and must be mitigated.

Experts Aim to Probe How AI Models Reason, and Why It MattersAI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic and others have urged deeper study into chain-of-thought monitoring, a technique to track how reasoning models arrive at answers. Their joint paper warns that transparency may erode if not prioritized.

OpenAI, Meta and 8 Other Chatbots Use Disinformation Network as SourcePopular artificial intelligence chatbots are rife with Russian disinformation, warns NewsGuard, the rating system for news and information websites. The chatbots failed to recognize that sites such as "The Boston Times" or "The Houston Post" are Russian propaganda fronts.