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| 16 Mar 2026 | |
| Written by Gabi Gerber | |
| Attacks & Threats |
A cybersecurity startup says its artificial intelligence agent needed just two hours to break into McKinsey & Company's proprietary generative AI platform, accessing millions of staff messages and thousands of files.
CodeWall published findings earlier this week, disclosing that it also could have rewritten the chatbot's core instructions after its agent exploited a SQL injection flaw.
The startup said its agent gained full read and write access to the production database underpinning McKinsey's AI platform Lilli, an internal platform the high-priced consultancy says could "rewire the way we operate." Roughly three quarters of the firm's more than 40,000 employees use it for strategy work, client research and document analysis. Read more...
Ernst & Young has begun notifying clients of a data breach after an attacker compromised a third-party support platform and downloaded documents containing personal and financial i… More...
A cryptomining incident highlights how AI gateways can provide access to AI models, cloud infrastructure, and identity a… More...
Microsoft signed a malicious kernel driver, and now it's being used to kill security software in ransomware attacks. More...
Two new models from Chinese firms compete with top US mainstream and frontier models. Should cyber-defenders be worried? More...
An "agentic threat actor" successfully exploited a Langflow flaw to steal data from a production database server and enc… More...
Ernst & Young has begun notifying clients of a data breach after an attacker compromised a third-party support platform and downloaded documents containing personal and financial i… More...
A cryptomining incident highlights how AI gateways can provide access to AI models, cloud infrastructure, and identity a… More...
Microsoft signed a malicious kernel driver, and now it's being used to kill security software in ransomware attacks. More...
Two new models from Chinese firms compete with top US mainstream and frontier models. Should cyber-defenders be worried? More...
An "agentic threat actor" successfully exploited a Langflow flaw to steal data from a production database server and enc… More...
