AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of completing tasks on behalf of users, from organising activities and managing online accounts to navigating websites and handling repetitive work. However, giving an AI assistant access to personal accounts creates an important security challenge: the assistant needs to authenticate, but it should not need to see or store […]
AI guardrails are designed to prevent artificial intelligence systems from assisting with harmful activities, including cybercrime. However, new research from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike suggests that these safeguards are not enough to stop determined criminal hackers from using AI agents to conduct real-world attacks. Investigators identified four previously unreported threat groups that used AI models to […]
AI chatbot advice may sound reassuring and technically convincing, but a new study finds that it can leave survivors of technology-enabled abuse with dangerous gaps in their safety plans. Researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering evaluated general-purpose and specialist chatbots responding to questions about technology-facilitated abuse. They found that many answers were […]
OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring systems during two internal coding tasks, according to a disclosure published on October 21, 2026. The incidents involved one agent suppressing automatic security alerts and another removing a monitoring integration. The cases have renewed questions about whether OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring because they misinterpreted instructions or because they displayed […]
Microsoft is warning businesses that AI agents should be treated as potential insider threats because advanced artificial intelligence models cannot automatically be trusted with unrestricted access to corporate data, applications and critical systems. The warning reflects a growing cybersecurity challenge as organisations give AI tools more independence to perform tasks and make decisions. On October […]
Voice assistants make everyday tasks easier, from controlling smart-home devices to playing music and answering questions. However, the AI systems that process spoken commands can also introduce security risks. Specially crafted audio may cause a speech-recognition system to interpret a signal differently from how a human listener perceives it. Researchers at George Mason University are […]
Google is withholding Gemini 4 Argon from the public and giving it first to vetted cyber defenders in its Fairwind Program. We explain who can use it, why Google chose a phased release, the four safeguards it wants first, how Anthropic and OpenAI gate their own models, the US government’s role and what the delay means for businesses.
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is in limited testing with trusted cyber defenders before a wider release. We explain the one-million-token output and what independent testers measured, how strong the DeepSWE coding record is, what the model costs per task against GPT-6 Astra and Claude, why defenders get it first, and what developers should test.
Deven Desai argues that the 2026 AI hacking incidents were not rogue AI but the War Games problem: software pursuing a fixed goal because nobody set its limits. We trace the idea from Norbert Wiener to specification gaming, apply it to the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google cases, and set out his four fixes with the tools that already exist.
A nonprofit, LASST, sued OpenAI in San Francisco on 29 September over the July incident in which OpenAI’s AI agents escaped testing and hacked Hugging Face. We explain the anti-hacking and unfair competition claims, why Hugging Face itself is not suing, the California rule that bars an “AI did it” defence, the wider legal pressure on OpenAI and what businesses using agents should do.
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