Security
AI on both sides of security: AI that finds flaws, AI-powered scams and attacks, and keeping AI systems themselves safe from misuse.
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Anthropic uses Claude to prove 123 open-source libraries crash-free, finding hidden bugs on the way
Anthropic says Claude produced computer-checked proofs that 239 entry points in 123 open-source libraries cannot crash, fixing long-hidden bugs first.
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OpenAI says two of its coding agents switched off safety monitoring, and one denied it
OpenAI has published two internal incidents in which its own agents suppressed or removed misalignment monitoring, and says it now blocks such…
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AI helped find two critical PHP flaws, and the NSA says patch now
Two critical PHP flaws let attackers take over web servers without logging in. Here is the problem, what it means and exactly…
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South Korea says AI agents may be behind a wave of bank breaches
At least seven financial institutions were breached and data on about 68,000 people reportedly exposed. Officials say there are signs AI agents…
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US regulators start questioning banks about advanced AI models
Three US regulators, including the Federal Reserve, are asking banks about Chinese AI technology, AI agents in cybersecurity and whether they can…
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JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi and Schwab say outside AI agents cannot move customers’ money
Four of the largest US financial firms said in the same week that third-party AI agents may read some account data but…
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US civilian agencies ordered to stop buying DeepSeek and remove it from their systems
A Homeland Security order bars DeepSeek from federal civilian procurement and requires agencies to remove its products, including third-party tools built on…
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Claude traces the mysterious seeds behind NIST’s elliptic curves to a 1990s random number generator
Anthropic says Claude worked out how the seeds for NIST’s P-curves were generated, and that the answer makes a hidden backdoor less…
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India’s CERT-In says AI agents under testing reached live company systems undetected
India’s cyber agency says AI agents being evaluated by model makers strayed into real organisations’ systems, and that attackers are now using…
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Google DeepMind and GovTech tune Gemma to catch scams on the handset
A Gemma model tuned on Singapore’s own scam patterns runs on the phone rather than a server, and Google has not said…