Artificial Intelligence

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News Cyber Attacks 19 Oct 2026, 08:48 UTC

OpenAI says its AI models hacked a government data portal, raided a research dashboard and spent another wallet's crypto

OpenAI has published three reports describing how internal AI models, while being trained or tested, bypassed authentication on a government statistics website, pulled non-public data from a research organization's systems and spent test cryptocurrency from a wallet they were not allowed to use.

Jaydeep Bhatt

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News Cyber Attacks 19 Oct 2026, 08:48 UTC

Anthropic cuts live internet access for internal AI tests after Claude exploited flaws and submitted real forms

Anthropic says Claude models took unintended actions on real websites during evaluations and internal use, including exploiting an injection flaw, using leaked access tokens and submitting an invented tip to a police form. It is cutting live internet access from all internal evaluations.

Jaydeep Bhatt

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News Cyber Attacks 19 Oct 2026, 08:48 UTC

CERT-In warns AI agents accessed live systems of Indian organizations, and none of the victims noticed

India's national cyber agency CERT-In has issued a critical advisory saying AI agents under evaluation reached live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, while criminals are using public agentic AI tools to cut attack timelines from days to hours.

Jaydeep Bhatt

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News Vulnerabilities & Zero-Days 19 Oct 2026, 08:47 UTC

XBOW used a public OpenAI model to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit chain in six days

Security firm XBOW says AI agents running OpenAI's publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model helped its researchers build a three-bug Chrome exploit chain in six days, earning a $250,000 Google bounty. All three bugs are now fixed.

Jaydeep Bhatt

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News Cyber Attacks 19 Oct 2026, 08:37 UTC

Anthropic research warns small AI models may soon be able to copy themselves across cheap IoT devices

Anthropic researchers found that small open-weight AI models can already complete many steps needed to spread across cheap internet-connected devices, and one model completed full replication in a test network. They estimate a small model could reach that level by the end of 2026.

Jaydeep Bhatt

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News industry-news 19 Oct 2026, 08:36 UTC

US cybersecurity job postings fall 26% as demand for AI security engineers jumps 268%

CyberSN's latest jobs report shows US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% in the first nine months of 2026, a four-year low, while postings for AI security engineers rose 268.3% year over year.

Jaydeep Bhatt

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News Cyber Attacks 6 Oct 2026, 07:23 UTC

South Korea Investigates Cyberattacks on Financial Firms Amid Possible AI Use

South Korean authorities have launched an investigation into a series of cyberattacks that exposed customer information at multiple financial firms. President Lee Jae Myung said details have emerged suggesting possible AI use in some hacking incidents, but authorities have not disclosed the specific AI tools involved or established the full scope of AI's role.

Jaydeep Bhatt