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Artificial intelligence (AI) describes computer systems that perform tasks such as recognizing patterns, making predictions, understanding language, or generating content. In security reporting, the term commonly includes machine-learning models used for detection and analysis, as well as generative AI applications that produce text, code, images, or other outputs.
AI can help analyze security telemetry, prioritize vulnerabilities, and support investigations, but its outputs can be wrong or manipulated. Important attack surfaces include prompt injection that steers an application into unintended actions, sensitive data being exposed through prompts or model outputs, and excessive permissions granted to AI systems that use external tools. Models can also be degraded by poisoned training data or evaded with carefully crafted inputs. Practitioners should protect training and operational data, limit model access and tool permissions, test for adversarial behavior, and require appropriate human validation before high-impact decisions.
CIOs Say Stalled Pilots, Vendor Regret and Growing Fatigue Stifle AI AmbitionThese may be the halcyon days for enterprise artificial intelligence, where money and ambition are only hindered by imagination as tech vendors race to gain a competitive edge. But CIOs say they're feeling increasing pressure to show ROI - and the reckoning is coming soon.
Deal Targets GenAI Risks, Prompt Injection Attacks and Autonomous AgentsProofpoint has acquired AI security startup Acuvity to address fast-evolving risks tied to generative AI, prompt injection and autonomous agents. The company says intent-based guardrails and deep AI forensics will help enterprises secure tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and emerging agent frameworks.
Early-Stage Startup Acquisitions Add Agent Visibility, Asset Management, MSP ToolsCheck Point is accelerating its AI security and exposure management strategy with three acquisitions targeting agentic AI, internal asset attack surface management and MSP-focused unified management. The company says the deals strengthen platform consolidation and automated remediation.
OpenAI Tests Promos, Anthropic Rejects Them Amid Rising Compute CostsOpenAI has a problem: Most users don't pay for access to ChatGPT. The company is now doing what almost every Silicon Valley company before it has done and turning to digital advertising. Whether ads can bridge OpenAI's well-documented revenue gap without users fleeing is another question.
China, Iran, North Korea Hackers Exploit Gemini Across Attack Life CycleState-backed hackers weaponized Google's artificial intelligence model Gemini to accelerate cyberattacks, using the productivity tool as an offensive asset for reconnaissance, social engineering and malware development. Google said it has disabled accounts and strengthened defenses.
Agentic AI Is Reshaping Security Faster Than Traditional Defenses Can Keep UpAgentic artificial intelligence is fundamentally altering organizational workflows and how risk materializes. In 2026, emerging cybersecurity trends will push organizations to move from deterministic, rule-based risk models toward adaptive models built for autonomous, non-deterministic systems.
As AI deployments scale and start to include packs of agents autonomously working in concert, organizations face a naturally amplified attack surface.
AI Agents Target Anti-Money Laundering at Major Global Banks, Cut Manual ProbesBretton AI has raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Sapphire Ventures to scale AI agents for anti-money laundering sanctions and KYC compliance. CEO Will Lawrence says the company is targeting large banks with automation designed to reduce manual investigations and improve auditability.
Hundreds of thousands of users have downloaded malicious AI extensions masquerading as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and others, warn cybersecurity researchers at LayerX
CISA lost a third of its staff and its acting leader uploaded sensitive docs to public ChatGPT — while China sits inside U.S. critical infrastructure.
McKinsey Reveals How Top Performing Firms Are Redefining Tech LeadershipBefore artificial intelligence dominated every technology conversation, the successful CIO focused on keeping business systems up and running while keeping costs in line. But in 2026, the picture is changing, according to McKinsey's Global Tech Agenda 2026.
AI Agents Target Anti-Money Laundering at Major Global Banks, Cut Manual ProbesBretton AI has raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Sapphire Ventures to scale AI agents for anti-money laundering sanctions and KYC compliance. CEO Will Lawrence says the company is targeting large banks with automation designed to reduce manual investigations and improve auditability.
Are you a good bot or a bad bot? More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.…
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Microsoft uncovered AI recommendation poisoning in 31 companies across 14 industries, and turnkey tools make it trivially easy to pull off.
Google on Thursday said it observed the North Korea-linked threat actor known as UNC2970 using its generative artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini to conduct reconnaissance on its targets, as various hacking groups continue to weaponize the tool for accelerating various phases of the cyber attack life cycle, enabling information operations, and even conducting model extraction attacks
AMOS infostealer is targeting macOS users by abusing popular AI apps and extension marketplaces to harvest credentials. Flare examines how AMOS operates, spreads through AI-driven lures, and feeds the broader stealer-log cybercrime economy. [...]
A set of 30 malicious Chrome extensions that have been installed by more than 300,000 users are masquerading as AI assistants to steal credentials, email content, and browsing information. [...]
Google researchers found that government-backed hackers now use AI throughout the whole attack lifecycle
Threat activity this week shows one consistent signal — attackers are leaning harder on what already works. Instead of flashy new exploits, many operations are built around quiet misuse of trusted tools, familiar workflows, and overlooked exposures that sit in plain sight