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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT Workspace Agents that could have allowed a single phishing link to stealthily build, authorize, and deploy an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent inside a victim’s organization.

The vulnerability has been codenamed AgentForger by Zenity Labs. The issue has since been addressed by OpenAI as of June 8,

Researchers H0j3n and Aniq Fakhrul published a working exploit on July 24 that lets a low-privileged Active Directory user obtain a certificate for a Domain Controller and authenticate as that machine.

They codenamed the flaw Certighost. Because Domain Controller accounts carry directory replication rights, the resulting Kerberos credential can retrieve the krbtgt secret through DCSync.

The North Korean threat actors behind the ClickFix-style campaigns that employ typosquatted Zoom and Microsoft Teams domains have been found to operate an active phishing kit to impersonate the videoconferencing platforms in social engineering campaigns designed to deliver malware.

“BlueNoroff has operationalised trust abuse by combining compromised industry contacts, social engineering, wallet

There are more reports than ever before of strong-arm tactics like home invasions and kidnappings against cryptocurrency holders, researchers say.

The new British prime minister is retaining Liz Lloyd in a cyber policy role, making her one of the few Keir Starmer allies remaining in government.

A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it. 

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Industry professionals debate whether it represents a lab containment failure or an unprecedented agentic capability milestone.

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The company has raised a total of $49 million in funding, including from Battery Ventures, Accel and Foundation Capital.

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The AI security layer and guardrails for many AI products don’t evenly protect against jailbreaking and unsafe actions in every single language.

Someone installed a popular AI assistant on a rented server, switched off the setting that makes it ask permission before running risky commands, and pointed it at Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, which runs the country’s treasury and tax collection.

The agent then worked through the ministry’s network on its own, checking hosts for ways to gain root access, hunting through file systems, and