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Friendly Fire: Defensive AI Agents Turn into RCE Attack Vectors
The AI Now Institute's Friendly Fire report, published July 8, 2026, demonstrates that Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex — to…

OpenAI Shifts the Remediation Paradox: From Finding Bugs to Patching Them
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5-Cyber and the Patch the Planet initiative. AI has solved vulnerability discovery, creating a larger problem: t…

AI Agents Used to Breach 14 Companies: Over 1,000 Sessions Recovered
A low-skill attacker leveraged local Claude and Codex agents to compromise at least 14 organizations, bypassing guardrails through nar…

ChatGPT Lockdown Mode: OpenAI Curbs Agentic Features to Thwart Data Exfiltration
OpenAI rolls out an optional Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT, disabling live browsing, Deep Research, and Agent Mode to neutralize data exfi…

OpenAI Mandates Hardware-Backed Passkeys for Access to Frontier AI Models
Starting June 1, 2026, OpenAI will require Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program members to use hardware-backed passkeys, setting a n…

ChatGPhish: ChatGPT Summaries Weaponized as Phishing Traps
The ChatGPhish vulnerability exploits ChatGPT's renderer to inject malicious links and QR codes during web page summarization. OpenAI…

OpenAI Codex: Reported Sandbox Escape Disclosed (ZDI-26-305)
A reported sandbox escape in OpenAI Codex (ZDI-26-305) could potentially allow code execution via specific JavaScript repositories. Th…

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…

OpenAI Unveils Daybreak: AI-Powered Cybersecurity with Tiered Access Controls
OpenAI has debuted Daybreak, a new AI cybersecurity platform featuring the GPT-5.5-Cyber model and a tiered governance framework desig…

2023 Flashback: ChatGPT, the Privacy Authority Block, and Data Management
2023 Retrospective: From the Italian Privacy Authority’s ChatGPT ban for non-compliance to the technical glitch exposing Plus users' d…