AI Security · Page 13
deepfakes, AI-powered scams, model abuse, and keeping AI systems and their users safe

One Poisoned Email Can Secretly Rewrite Your AI Assistant's Memory
A newly described attack called MemGhost shows how a single message to your inbox can plant a false 'fact' inside an AI agent's long-term memory, without you ever knowing.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting files on its own. OpenAI warned this could happen.
Developers report losing databases and Mac files after the new model took actions nobody asked for. OpenAI's own safety document flagged the risk two weeks before launch.

Grok Build Was Quietly Uploading Your Entire Codebase to the Cloud. xAI Has Now Switched It Off.
Researchers caught xAI's new coding tool sending far more data to its servers than users knew about, including files they had explicitly excluded and sensitive credentials.

YouTube Sent 1.8 Million People to 'Nudify' Sites in Four Months
A new report finds mainstream platforms, not obscure corners of the internet, are the main highways driving traffic to tools that strip people's clothes off without their consent.

A Security Researcher Tricked Major AI Chatbots Into Explaining How to Make Weapons. Nobody Seemed to Care.
Dave Kuszmar found a simple way to fool large language models into ignoring their own safety rules. It worked on almost every major AI system he tested, and the companies he warned mostly did not respond.

Enterprises Deployed AI Agents Without the Safety Nets. Now They're Paying to Retrofit.
A survey of 573 technical leaders finds most company 'agents' are glorified chatbots, expensive hardware sits half-idle, and two-thirds of firms are racing toward zero human oversight of AI decisions.

Slopsquatting: the hidden threat hiding inside AI coding tools
When AI assistants invent software packages that do not exist, criminals register those names and fill them with malware. Here is how the attack works and what developers can do about it.

Microsoft's CEO warns companies are paying for AI twice, once in cash and once in secrets
Satya Nadella says every prompt, correction and workflow businesses feed into AI models is quietly training the companies they pay. He wants enterprises to take back control.

Why Spotting AI-Generated Faces Is Getting Harder
AI-generated faces are becoming more convincing, making it tough for ordinary people to spot digital fakes.

Apple Sues OpenAI Over an Alleged Insider Bug That Kept a Fired Engineer's Access Alive for Weeks
A software glitch let a departed Apple engineer keep reading confidential company files after he joined OpenAI. Apple says that was no accident.

Apple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets, and the allegations are something else
Job candidates asked to smuggle in Apple hardware. Employees joking about snooping on Apple systems. The lawsuit reads like a corporate thriller.

Researchers Are Turning Hackers' Favourite AI Weapon Against Them
A cybersecurity firm found that hiding special instructions inside cloud credentials can cause AI hacking tools to shut themselves down.