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Security

Researcher watches one hacker use AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites

NorForge says the Chinese-speaking attacker left nearly all the work to agents on the open-source Cairn platform. Reuters identified Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins among the victims.

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Researcher watches one hacker use AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites

  1. BNN BloombergHow one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sites: Reuters exclusivePublished · fetched
  2. TNW | Security‘It’s not script kiddie stuff’: AI agents hack 100+ sites for one hackerPublished · fetched
  3. The VergeA hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agentsPublished · fetched

DHS orders federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and stop buying them

  1. CyberScoopDHS to ban DeepSeek from federal civilian agenciesPublished · fetched
  2. OfficeChaiUS Government Orders DeepSeek Removed From All Federal Civilian IT SystemsPublished · fetched

Microsoft launches controls that treat enterprise AI agents as potential insider threats

  1. Microsoft Security BlogAgents are your newest insiders. Security must move at their speed. | Microsoft Security BlogPublished · fetched
  2. SiliconANGLEMicrosoft targets the 'agentic insider' with new controls for rogue AI agents - SiliconANGLEPublished · fetched
  3. TechCrunchMicrosoft says AI agents are like insider threats as 'frontier models can't be trusted' | TechCrunchPublished · fetched
  4. Help Net SecurityMicrosoft wants to limit AI agents’ permissions when they stray from the job - Help Net SecurityPublished · fetched
  5. Security AffairsMicrosoft Treats AI Agents as Insider Threats in New Security FrameworkPublished · fetched

OpenAI reportedly speeds up a $30 billion funding round to close before Anthropic's IPO

  1. The StarExclusive-OpenAI seeks to accelerate fundraising ahead of Anthropic IPO, sources sayPublished · fetched

MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash and says it cuts the cost of agent tasks by 70 percent

  1. SiliconANGLEMiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70% - SiliconANGLEPublished · fetched
  2. MiniMaxMiniMax M3.1 Flash: Redefining Agent Performance and Cost - MiniMax ResearchPublished · fetched

MIT model uses symmetry to track fetal movement during brain MRI scans

  1. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWhy teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliablePublished · fetched

Nikkei says hackers took 1.83 million records from a development cloud service

  1. BleepingComputerNikkei discloses third data breach in a month, 1.8M records exposedPublished · fetched
  2. SecurityWeekHackers Steal 1.8 Million Records From NikkeiPublished · fetched

Attackers exploit a Siemens Software Center DLL flaw in ClickFix campaigns to install a remote access trojan

  1. SecurityWeekSiemens Software Center Vulnerability Exploited in ClickFix Malware AttacksPublished · fetched
  2. The Hacker NewsClickFix Attackers Exploit Siemens Software Center Flaw to Deploy Remote Access TrojanPublished · fetched

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