OpenAI announces five-fold increase in bug bounty reward
New maximum reward reflects commitment to high-impact security, says company
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Microsoft Teams is getting a suite new AI features to crack down on phishing attacksNews A sharp rise in phishing attacks against Microsoft Teams has prompted a raft of new features
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UK police and fire services urged to bolster cyber capabilitiesNews From legacy systems and poor training to third-party risks, more needs to be done to protect sensitive data
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88% of UK firms have had an “agentic security incident” in the last year – ServiceNow warns more will comeNews Concerns are growing over the scale of adoption and an inability to match “machine-speed” capabilities
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AI agents have a mind of their own – and that’s a problem for businessesNew research shows that half of organizations are having to deal with agent behaviour that hasn't been authorized or approved.
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‘Rising threats and under-resourcing for cybersecurity is taking a toll on the people tasked with managing it’: Cyber teams are being pushed to breaking point – and AI is doing little to alleviate strainNews An increasingly perilous threat landscape and lack of funding means cyber teams are being stretched too thin
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OpenAI and Anthropic admit rogue AI agents did more than first thoughtNews The two companies have shared additional details on agent misbehavior
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‘We can assume that all threat actors are using AI in some capacity’: Cyber researchers warn hackers are ramping up automated attacksNews Google Threat Intelligence Group has issued a warning over the increased threats posed by hackers using agentic AI tools
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OpenAI has paused work on its Astra AI model after it passed a 'critical threshold' in cyber capability – but it’s not the one that breached Hugging FaceNews The firm said it's Astra model can "develop functional zero-day exploits of all severity levels"
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Trust your AI agents? New research shows ‘memory poisoning’ can dupe them into ‘remembering’ fake information – and it’s a huge security riskNews Memory poisoning allows hidden text on a webpage to be treated as fact and used to make harmful decisions
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Anthropic’s Mythos AI tried to dupe devs in social engineering attack, collaborated with other agentsInter-agent collaboration is a serious cause for concern, says security expert
