Artificial intelligence / Machine learning

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‘GhostJacking’ attack turns error logs into indirect prompt injections

Laura FrenchAugust 11, 2026

Attacks targeting Cloudflare, DataDog and Sentry MCP integrations were demonstrated at DEF CON 34.

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AI/ML News

Black Hat

Talk to the LLM: How AI exposes ‘pig butchering’ scams

Paul WagenseilAugust 10, 2026

A security researcher is using AI to study and expose long-duration scams that abuse online trust.

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Black Hat

Black Hat: AI isn’t the problem. We are

Paul WagenseilAugust 9, 2026

The obstacles in trying to secure AI use boil down to one issue: We're thinking about it the wrong way.

Vulnerability Management

Sci-Fi, PKD, Greatness, Passkeys, AgentBreaker, Rockwell, Flock, Josh Marpet – SWN #605

August 7, 2026

Sci-Fi, PKD, Greatness, Passkeys, AgentBreaker, Rockwell, Flock, Doug is very dark, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News.

Black Hat

Black Hat 2026: Open-source tool makes red teaming AI agents up to 125x cheaper

Laura FrenchAugust 7, 2026

NVIDIA researchers shared the “AgentBreaker” tool and how they tuned an open-source model to perform at frontier level.

Supply chain

When AI Commits Felonies – PSW #938

August 6, 2026

This week: When you are not at summer camp you can't read about it, The Fettle continues, Using the CFAA against AI, Social contracts are not security models, VSCode extentions, again, Bugtraq is back!, NVIDA, LVFS, and unraveling AI infrastructure, More routers that come with backdoors, Do we care about LPE?, Even more AI that finds vulnerabilitie...

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Application security

Paperclip authorization bug exploited, leads to control plane takeover

Steve ZurierAugust 6, 2026

Critical Paperclip flaws let attackers seize AI agent platforms, escalate privileges, and execute code.

Vulnerability Management

Bugcrowd Launches Pathseeker: Flipping the Script on Traditional Pentesting – Braden Russell – BH26 #2

August 6, 2026

Bugcrowd is launching Savant Pathseeker, the first product in its new Agentic Offensive Testing line, which combines continuous agentic pentesting with on-demand human validation. The launch comes as the security industry grapples with a growing "AI slop" problem, where unchecked AI-generated vulnerability reports have overwhelmed bug bounty progra...

Cloud Security

Everyone’s a Builder Now: Securing the AI-Powered Enterprise – Gil Geron – BH26 #2

August 6, 2026

AI is fundamentally changing software development, turning employees across the business into builders and reshaping how organizations think about innovation and risk. In this session, Orca Security CEO Gil Geron explores what this shift means for enterprise leaders and why security must evolve alongside the next generation of AI-powered software c...

AI/ML

From Secrets to Verified Workload Identity—at Enterprise Scale – Ellen Boehm – BH26 #2

August 6, 2026

As AI agents become autonomous participants inside enterprise environments, organizations can no longer rely on static credentials and traditional identity models to establish trust. Enterprise AI is driving a shift from possession-based access to cryptographically verified identity, as AI agents, cloud-native workloads, and automated services incr...

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Black Hat

Black Hat: Agentic anarchy: Why using AI browsers just isn’t worth the risk

Paul WagenseilAugust 6, 2026

Using an AI browser sounds like a good idea until you realize you've just given it the keys to your online identity.

Fast Five

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Artificial intelligence / Machine learning

‘GhostJacking’ attack turns error logs into indirect prompt injections

Today's Top AI/ML Headlines

New patterns can make objects invisible to surveillance cameras

OpenAI’s new Astra model may pose critical cybersecurity risks

Scammers use AI deepfakes to impersonate OnlyFans creators

AI inference attacks pose new data privacy risks

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Explained and Explored

Four AI agent governance mistakes to avoid

Bugcrowd’s Braden Russell on launching Pathseeker

Forcepoint’s Ronan Murphy on securing the data layer AI just set on fire

Keyfactor’s Ellen Boehm on enterprise AI at scale

How we can apply lessons from The Odyssey to the AI challenge

F5’s Sean Murphy on securing frontier AI as attack and defense accelerate

Orca’s Gil Geron on securing the AI-powered enterprise

Island’s Michael Leland on the hidden risks of the AI supply chain

Frank Vukovits on how Delinea delivers runtime authorization for AI agents

Intruder’s Chris Wallis on AI pentesting and the future of cybersecurity

AI/ML News

Talk to the LLM: How AI exposes ‘pig butchering’ scams

Black Hat: AI isn’t the problem. We are

Sci-Fi, PKD, Greatness, Passkeys, AgentBreaker, Rockwell, Flock, Josh Marpet – SWN #605

Black Hat 2026: Open-source tool makes red teaming AI agents up to 125x cheaper

When AI Commits Felonies – PSW #938

Paperclip authorization bug exploited, leads to control plane takeover

Bugcrowd Launches Pathseeker: Flipping the Script on Traditional Pentesting – Braden Russell – BH26 #2

Everyone’s a Builder Now: Securing the AI-Powered Enterprise – Gil Geron – BH26 #2

From Secrets to Verified Workload Identity—at Enterprise Scale – Ellen Boehm – BH26 #2

Black Hat: Agentic anarchy: Why using AI browsers just isn’t worth the risk

Fast Five

Selected by the SC Media Editorial team every Tuesday.

AI/ML Events

Identity security under pressure: AI, compliance, and the gaps you can’t afford to ignore

Who’s watching your AI? A security-leader panel on runtime visibility and accountability

The Brittle Identity Perimeter — Why Behavioral AI Is the Next Frontier of Identity Security

Securing Agentic AI: Lessons and Strategies from the Agentic AI Task Force

Rise of the machines: How to secure and win the AI revolution