Articles Tagged “AI Security”
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SkillDetonate Catches Malicious AI-Agent Skills That Slip Past Scanners
Researchers released SkillDetonate on July 6, 2026 — a runtime auditor that sandboxes AI-agent skills and caught 97% of malicious ones static scanners miss.
cURL 8.21.0 Ships a Record 18 Fixes, Including a 25-Year-Old Bug
cURL 8.21.0 patched a record 18 vulnerabilities on June 24, 2026, including a 25-year-old flaw surfaced by AI-assisted code analysis, before any exploitation.
New Open-Source Tools Give Defenders Guardrails for AI Agents
A June 2026 wave of free, open-source security tools — including OWASP Agent Memory Guard and DockSec — gives defenders practical guardrails for the AI-agent era.
DarkMoon Is a New Open-Source AI Pentesting Platform Built Around Evidence
Featured June 29, 2026, DarkMoon is a free, open-source AI security-testing platform that separates planning from action and only reports findings backed by real evidence.
Responsible Disclosure Helps Secure Dify, an AI Platform Powering 1M+ Apps
Security researchers responsibly disclosed the DifyTap flaws in the popular Dify AI platform on June 22, 2026 — and fixes shipped quickly, protecting more than a million AI apps.
Check Point Brings OpenAI's Frontier Cyber AI Into Customer Defenses
Check Point joined OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program on June 22, 2026, embedding frontier AI directly into its security products to sharpen threat prevention and speed up remediation.
AI-Assisted Research Helps Fix a 29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Flaw Before Attackers Found It
Researchers used AI to help uncover and responsibly disclose Squidbleed, a memory-leak flaw lurking in the Squid web proxy since 1997 — and the coordinated fix shipped before any known exploitation.
Google's New AI Agents Defend the Security Operations Center
Google added defensive AI agents to Security Operations that auto-write detection rules and triage alerts, cutting 30-minute reviews to about 60 seconds.
Microsoft Wires Defender Into GitHub to Secure AI-Generated Code
At Build 2026, Microsoft detailed native Defender and GitHub Code Security integration to protect AI-written code and agents across the development lifecycle.
Cisco's Cloud Control Puts AI Security Agents and No-Downtime Patching in One View
Cisco's new Cloud Control platform unites human operators and AI security agents in a single view, with runtime 'Live Protect' patching and quantum-safe defenses.
depthfirst's Dependency Firewall Blocks Malicious Packages Before They Install
Launched June 1, 2026, depthfirst's Dependency Firewall vets every open-source package before install — approving safe ones, quarantining the suspicious, and blocking the malicious.
Microsoft's MDASH Sends 100+ AI Agents to Find and Prove Bugs — Now Wired Into Defender
At Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft expanded MDASH, its 100-plus-agent vulnerability hunter, integrating it with Defender after a 96.55% score on the CyberGym benchmark.
Cortex XSIAM Meets NVIDIA DOCA Argus: Agentless Security for AI Factories
Palo Alto Networks integrates Cortex XSIAM with NVIDIA DOCA Argus to deliver agentless, silicon-level security monitoring for agentic AI factories.
Project Lightwell: IBM and Red Hat's $5B AI Open-Source Security Push
IBM and Red Hat launch Project Lightwell, a $5B AI-powered open-source security effort that validates fixes at scale and feeds patches upstream.
Palo Alto Networks' May Patch Wednesday Goes AI-Native — 26 CVEs Found by Frontier Models in a Single Sweep
Palo Alto Networks disclosed 26 CVEs across 75 issues on May 14, 2026 — the first Patch Wednesday where the majority of findings came from frontier AI models scanning the company's own code.
Microsoft Unveils MDASH — A Multi-Model Agentic Scanning Harness That Tops the Vulnerability Benchmark
Microsoft announced MDASH on May 12, 2026 — a multi-model agentic scanning harness that delivers state-of-the-art results on a leading industry vulnerability discovery benchmark and orchestrates frontier models for defensive cybersecurity.
Palo Alto Networks Launches Frontier AI Defense — Autonomous Remediation Against Machine-Speed Attacks
Palo Alto Networks unveiled Frontier AI Defense on May 7, 2026 — a platform pairing AI-native security with Unit 42 expertise and a partner alliance to remediate machine-speed AI attacks in real time.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5-Cyber for Vetted Defenders — A Specialized AI Security Model
OpenAI's new GPT-5.5-Cyber, announced May 7, 2026, gives vetted cybersecurity defenders a specialized AI model for red teaming, penetration testing, and bug discovery via the Trusted Access for Cyber program.
Operant Launches Endpoint Protector to Defend Every AI Tool, Agent, and MCP Workflow
Operant AI's new Endpoint Protector, launched May 8, 2026, gives security teams a single endpoint surface for discovering and defending AI tools, coding agents, and Model Context Protocol workflows.
Five Eyes Agencies Release First Joint Guidance for Securing Agentic AI Systems
On May 1, 2026, CISA, NSA, and four allied cybersecurity agencies published the first joint Five Eyes guidance on safely deploying agentic AI — a 30-page playbook organized around five risk categories for autonomous AI agents.
Google Gemini Blocked 8.3 Billion Harmful Ads in 2025 and Is Expanding in 2026
Google's annual ad safety report reveals Gemini AI blocked 8.3 billion harmful ads in 2025, catching 99%+ of violations before serving — and plans to expand to more ad formats this year.
Cynomi's CISO Intelligence Agents Give Every MSP a Full Virtual Security Team
Cynomi launched four AI co-worker agents on April 8 that act as a virtual CISO team — handling strategy, compliance, execution, and board reporting for MSPs.
Microsoft Releases Zero Trust for AI: A Security Framework Built for the Age of AI Deployment
Microsoft's new Zero Trust for AI initiative delivers reference architectures, assessment tools, and governance workshops specifically designed to secure AI systems in enterprise environments.
The 1H 2026 AI Security Report: The Era of Agentic Security Has Arrived
The 1H 2026 AI and API Security Report finds enterprises racing to secure AI agents as agentic architectures reshape the enterprise attack surface.
ISC2 Weaves AI Security Into All Its Cybersecurity Certifications
ISC2 published AI security exam guidance on April 2, mapping AI concepts across 50+ domains in its entire certification portfolio for 265,000 members.
CSA's 2026 AI Cybersecurity Survey: 92% of Security Leaders Are Concerned About AI Agents
The Cloud Security Alliance surveyed 1,500+ security leaders for its 2026 report, finding near-universal concern about AI agent security alongside meaningful year-over-year progress in AI-powered defenses.