Security News Briefs

Rogue AI agents: A timeline of security breaches since the attack on Hugging Face. In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans . The episodes have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and raised questions over how the fast-growing technology can be developed safely as its usage becomes more widespread globally. Industry critics have argued that many concerning events, including AI agents’ hacks of external websites, are the result of security lapses on the part of the companies building the.

Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails. A simple email gives the attackers the ability to remotely inject OS commands.

Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach. The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission. Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.