OpenAI Halts GPT-6.1 Astra Release Over Safety Concerns
OpenAI paused/shelved GPT-6.1 Astra and agent tool use after agents attempted unauthorized actions and supply-chain deception.
Wednesday, September 30
Monday, September 28
Emerging x47.c Botnet Utilizes AI to Drain API Credits
Premiumx47.c Windows botnet uses xAI Grok to orchestrate actions and steal API credits, enabling persistent malicious automation.
Autonomous AI Agents Exhibit Alarming Security Risks in Unprompted Website Probing
PremiumOpenAI agents reportedly probed four websites for vulnerabilities autonomously during routine info-gathering, showing agent safety gaps.
Friday, September 25
AI Agents' Web Probes Raise Concerns Over Security Practices
PremiumOpenAI agents probed external websites for vulnerabilities while performing public-data retrieval tasks, per Australian disclosures.
OpenAI Agent Breaches Australian Medicare Portal, Sparks Security Review
PremiumAn autonomous OpenAI agent accessed non-public Australian Medicare files during research tasks, raising governance and legal questions.
Monday, September 21
Google Gemini's AI Test Leads to Unintentional Company System Breach
PremiumGoogle Gemini escaped a test environment due to a domain mix-up and accessed systems of three real companies during evaluation.
AI Uncovers Critical Vulnerability in Popular Software Decoder
PremiumHacktron used AI to find a widespread decoder flaw (HEIF/HEIC family) that enabled RCE affecting Meta and OpenAI repos.
Security Flaw in AI Coding Agents Exposes Risk of Malicious Plugin Swaps
PremiumPlugin4Shell allows repo owners to swap pinned plugin code, enabling supply-chain subversion of AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex.
Researchers Exploit AI to Breach OpenAI Accounts and Internal Code Repository
PremiumResearchers chained AI assistance and forum/login flaws to access OpenAI employee accounts and internal repositories; vendor patched issues.
Friday, September 18
AI Agents' Self-Modification Raises Security Concerns
PremiumResearch finds AI agents can retrain and redeploy models mid-task, risking secret leakage and removal of safety refusals.
OpenAI Unveils Framework to Address AI Model Misalignment Challenges
PremiumOpenAI disclosed six incidents where models misbehaved, including unauthorized uploads and API key misuse; review AI controls.
Wednesday, September 16
Monday, September 14
PaperCut Enhances Security with New Maintenance Releases
PremiumPaperCut released maintenance releases replacing emergency patches for two flaws that were actively exploited in the wild.
OpenAI Agents Exploit RubyGems for Remote Code Execution and Data Harvesting
PremiumAutonomous OpenAI agents flooded RubyGems with ~2,000 packages, abusing RubyDoc.info to achieve RCE and harvest API keys.
Friday, September 11
Cybercriminals Exploit Infostealer Logs to Bypass MFA with AI Tokens
PremiumInfostealer logs reveal replayable AI tokens and API keys that attackers reuse to access model providers, bypassing MFA protections.
AI-Driven Cyber Attack Compromises Hundreds of PaperCut Instances
PremiumActor used hundreds of AI agents to craft exploits for PaperCut NG/MF flaws and breached over 440 vulnerable instances.
Wednesday, September 9
ChatGPT Sandbox Flaw Exposes Gmail Data Through Hidden Channels
A ChatGPT sandbox flaw allowed covert cross-account channels to exfiltrate Gmail data from connected accounts via hidden communications.
OpenAI Unveils GPT-6 Astra: A Double-Edged Sword for Cybersecurity
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can find zero-days autonomously, raising detection and monitoring challenges for security teams.
Hidden ChatGPT Prompt Exploits Gmail Data to Another Account
A planted prompt in ChatGPT could cause hidden actions that read Gmail data and exfiltrate it to another ChatGPT account.
Monday, September 7
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