The Hacker News (Security) Sep 5, 7:55 AM

Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel

A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-...

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The Hacker News (Security) Sep 4, 6:47 AM

GPT-6 Astra Scores 100% on ExploitBench as OpenAI Blocks PoC Exploit Requests

OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model." The development comes days after ...

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The Hacker News (Security) Sep 2, 6:27 PM

Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI Unveil Cyber AI Models, Safeguards, and Access Programs

Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trust...

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The Hacker News (Security) Sep 2, 2:06 PM

Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code

Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command...

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The Hacker News (Security) Sep 2, 7:47 AM

Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another

Forescout Research - Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic's Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO progr...

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The Hacker News (Security) Sep 1, 9:05 AM

Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) mode...

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The Hacker News (Security) Sep 1, 8:26 AM

Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 agains...

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The Hacker News (Security) Aug 31, 1:50 PM

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More

The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected tra...

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The Hacker News (Security) Aug 31, 11:47 AM

Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor t...

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