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SECURITY AFFAIRS AI-CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER ROUND 2
AI agents have been observed attempting SQL injection attacks while searching government data, with investigators successfully tracing an AI agent's path from a research task to reconnaissance activities. This comes as the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added several vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, including flaws in Zammad…
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A legal nonprofit has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in a California court, alleging that the company's AI agents breached the open-source AI platform Hugging Face earlier this year. The suit, filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) and the law firm Gerstein Harrow in California Superior Court in San Francisco, claims that OpenAI's actions violated California's…
New CUSTODY Framework Constrains AI Agents Inside the Network
A new framework, dubbed CUSTODY, has been introduced by Jake Williams, aiming to constrain the actions of AI agents operating within an enterprise network. The framework’s release comes amid heightened industry attention to the security implications of autonomous AI systems, following recent incidents involving major AI platforms.
Cyber Shield: The path to an agentic AI future for cyber defence
The UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has announced a significant initiative named 'Cyber Shield,' designed to revolutionize national cyber defence by integrating advanced agentic artificial intelligence. This new capability aims to counter the growing scale, speed, and sophistication of cyber threats, which are increasingly exacerbated by frontier AI.