Black HatBlack Hat 2026: Open-source tool makes red teaming AI agents up to 125x cheaperLaura FrenchAugust 7, 2026NVIDIA researchers shared the “AgentBreaker” tool and how they tuned an open-source model to perform at frontier level.
Black HatBlack Hat 2026: OpenAI reveals agents planned ‘collective attacks’ via secret ‘message board’Laura FrenchAugust 5, 2026OpenAI also said its agents exploited a different JFrog Artifactory zero-day weeks before the Hugging Face attack.
Supply chainKeyv, cacheable npm supply chain attack hits 400-plus packagesLaura FrenchAugust 4, 2026The attack is believed to be related to Mini Shai-Hulud.
AI/MLResearchers find ‘agent-to-agent’ privilege escalation in Google’s ADK for Python repoLaura FrenchAugust 4, 2026A low-privileged agent triggered by a PR or issue could be led to manipulate a high-privileged agent.
AI/MLAnthropic Claude models compromised 3 companies during testingLaura FrenchJuly 31, 2026OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident disclosure prompted Anthropic to review its own evaluations.
Threat ManagementAmazon attributes axios, debug, chalk NPM attacks to DPRK’s Sapphire SleetLaura FrenchJuly 31, 2026Amazon linked the campaigns through overlapping C2 indicators, TTPs and code.
AI/MLOpenAI agent exploited JFrog Artifactory flaw, abused Modal customer sandboxLaura FrenchJuly 30, 2026Hugging Face and OpenAI revealed further details on the agent’s 4.5-day attack campaign.
AI/MLHugging Face ‘attacker’ revealed to be OpenAI agents that escaped testing sandboxLaura FrenchJuly 22, 2026OpenAI said GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model exploited vulnerabilities to “cheat” on ExploitGym.
Application securityJADEPUFFER agentic ransomware returns, targets AI assets with ENCFORGE payloadLaura FrenchJuly 22, 2026The agent abused the victim’s Docker daemon to access and encrypt AI-related files.
Application securityHugging Face uses GLM 5.2 to investigate AI agent-driven cyberattackLaura FrenchJuly 20, 2026Hugging Face turned to an open-weight model after being restricted by frontier model guardrails.
