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Autonomous AI agents tried to hack US, Canadian government websites

Oct 2, 2026 // 00:17

Autonomous AI agents using aggressive strategies attempted to hack U.S. and Canadian government websites to find school and divorce statistics. The failed breach attempts targeted […]

Autonomous AI Agents Compromise Thousands of Credentials in Under Six Hours

Sep 8, 2026 // 16:49

Threat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations, with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework […]

Chinese Hacker Commands DeepSeek via Telegram to Launch Autonomous Attacks

Jul 31, 2026 // 14:27

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 says a Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek through the open-source Hermes Agent framework to launch attacks autonomously. After an initial […]

Hugging Face discloses breach linked to autonomous AI agent

Jul 20, 2026 // 14:56

The Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository disclosed that attackers gained access to internal datasets and credentials after breaching its production infrastructure using an autonomous AI […]

World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

Jul 20, 2026 // 11:43

In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI […]

Thinking Fast and Slow in the SOC: The Case for Combining Autonomous AI with Analyst Copilots

Jul 13, 2026 // 14:43

A few days ago, I was sitting with the CISO of a Fortune 50 company, walking through how his security team was thinking about AI […]

Autonomous AI Tool Finds 2-Year-Old RCE Flaw in Redis (CVE-2026-23479)

Jun 3, 2026 // 16:54

Redis has patched a use-after-free in its blocking-client code that lets an authenticated user run arbitrary OS commands on the machine hosting the database. The […]

73 Seconds to Breach, 24 Hours to Patch: The Case for Autonomous Validation

May 13, 2026 // 15:36

By Sila Ozeren Hacioglu, Security Research Engineer at Picus Security. In April 2026, Anthropic released its newest frontier model, codename Mythos, to twelve partners under […]