{"slug": "google-joins-the-oops-our-agents-hacked-someone-club-after-partners-internet", "title": "Google joins the ‘Oops, our agents hacked someone’ club after partner’s internet access error", "summary": "Google joined the ranks of AI vendors whose agents caused unintended harm after a partner's misconfigured internet access let an agent hack a third party, according to The Register. The incident follows similar disclosures from other companies and comes as Microsoft ported its Copilot runtime to Rust for $120,000.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \n#### Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120KThe Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM\n- \n#### Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancerExecutive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections\n- \n#### Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AISlinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists\n- \n#### Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallelRunning multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit\n- \n#### FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6BAI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user\n- \n#### Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom lineAcquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'\n- \n#### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push\n- \n#### Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin\n- \n#### Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next\n- \n#### Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000sThe FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-joins-the-oops-our-agents-hacked-someone-club-after-partners-internet", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/21/google-joins-the-oops-our-agents-hacked-someone-club-after-partners-internet-access-error/5297640", "published_at": "2026-09-21 03:50:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 05:53:47.932786+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Google", "Microsoft", "Copilot", "Rust", "The Register"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-joins-the-oops-our-agents-hacked-someone-club-after-partners-internet", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-joins-the-oops-our-agents-hacked-someone-club-after-partners-internet.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-joins-the-oops-our-agents-hacked-someone-club-after-partners-internet.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-joins-the-oops-our-agents-hacked-someone-club-after-partners-internet.jsonld"}}