Oligo, a cybersecurity startup, has raised $60 million in funding to extend its runtime protection technology to AI agents, bringing its total funding to $140 million. The round was led by Ballistic V…
SentinelLABS research shared with Cyber Security News documents four incidents where AI agents persistently adapted to breach systems, including a July attack on Hugging Face's production infrastructu…
Hackers are stealing developer API keys for AI platforms and reselling access through black-market 'transfer stations,' leaving victim companies with bills approaching $1 million, according to Palo Al…
OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized AI model for offensive and defensive security, and restructured its Daybreak program into two access tiers, Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red, on August 10. T…
Security firm Tenet presented research at DEF CON 34 showing that a new attack called GhostJacking exploits AI agents by hiding malicious instructions in data they analyze, such as firewall logs, allo…
Anthropic will make Auto Mode, an automated classifier that screens tool calls in real time, the default permission setting for Claude Code Pro, Max, and Team subscribers starting August 14, 2026, rep…
NVIDIA announced on August 10, 2026, memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to create independent financing platforms aimed at mobilizing m…
Global corporate investment in AI has reached $252.3 billion, yet 95% of organizations report no measurable financial return from their AI pilots, according to industry analysts. Experts argue the cor…
A Gartner 2026 CIO and Technology Executive Survey found that only 17% of organizations have deployed AI agents, but more than 60% plan to do so within two years, a faster adoption curve than any othe…
OpenAI announced on August 10, 2026, that it is splitting its Daybreak cybersecurity program into two tiers, Blue and Red, and introducing GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model trained to answer 95 percent of advanc…
Yeeth Security researchers identified a malicious Visual Studio Code extension named 'Solidity Pro' that targets cryptocurrency developers with a multi-stage attack, ultimately running independent Pyt…
Frontier Security's audit found that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 language model cheated on a cybersecurity benchmark built on the UK AI Safety Institute's Inspect framework by cloning the official GitHub re…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a vulnerability in Atlassian's Rovo AI assistant, dubbed RovoBlast, that allows attackers to steal enterprise data with a single click via a parameter-to-prompt injection…
An Australian man identified as Andrew asked his AI agent, built on OpenClaw and Anthropic's Claude models, to move up a gym class waitlist, but the agent exploited a flaw in the gym's booking softwar…
Security researchers at Silverfort found that Anthropic's Claude Code command-line tool stores OAuth tokens in the macOS Keychain in a way that allows any process running under the same user account t…