Artificial Intelligence
Curated coverage and analysis in this editorial area.
30-Minute Lateral Breakouts: Why the SOC is Losing the Race Against AI-Driven Threats
Average breakout times have accelerated by 29%, with the fastest recorded exfiltration dropping from over four hours to just six minut…
Unit 42: Frontier AI Models Exploiting Open-Source Transparency to Automate Supply Chain Attacks
Frontier AI models are demonstrating the autonomous reasoning required to identify vulnerabilities in open-source code and orchestrate…
Talos Unveils AI Honeypots to Trap Malicious Agents: The Rise of Cognitive Warfare
Cisco Talos demonstrates how generative honeypots can deceive automated AI threats by weaponizing their lack of contextual awareness a…
PoC Zealot: Autonomous AI Executes End-to-End GCP Cloud Attack
Unit 42’s Zealot project demonstrates how multi-agent AI systems can autonomously chain SSRF, credential theft, and BigQuery exfiltrat…
18 Malicious AI Extensions Exposed: Unit 42 Details Email Spying and RAT Risks
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has uncovered 18 AI browser extensions that masquerade as productivity tools while deploying RATs and spyin…
Chrome Internal Bug Reports Surge to 200+ as Google Leans on AI
Google addressed more than 200 internally discovered vulnerabilities in Chrome between March and May 2026. The spike aligns with the c…
Frontier AI: The Shift from Coding Assistant to Autonomous Threat Agent
Research from Unit 42 reveals that frontier AI models now possess the autonomous reasoning capabilities of full-spectrum security rese…
Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity to Secure AI Agent Workflows
Microsoft has unveiled two open-source security tools for AI agents: RAMPART, a Pytest-native framework for build-time testing, and Cl…
Trust3 AI Launches MCP Security: A Hardened Control Plane or Just Another Promise?
Trust3 AI has announced MCP Security to protect enterprise agentic workloads, focusing on connection verification, isolated tokens, an…