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| 8 May 2026 | |
| Written by Gabi Gerber | |
| Attacks & Threats |
The deletion of a company's entire database at the hands of an AI agent should not be seen as an outlier, but rather a possible outcome for any organization.
"It took 9 seconds," wrote Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS, which provides AI-powered management tools to car rental companies. In an article posted to X, he explained how an AI coding agent (Cursor running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6) deleted the company's production database as well as "all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider." PocketOS provides AI-powered management tools to car rental companies. More here
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Dark Reading Confidential Episode 20: Expert Rich Mogull reflects on lessons cyber teams should pull from the OpenAI agent's attack on Hugging Face. More...
New research shows how attackers can use security alerts and blocked events to manipulate and hijack AI agents. More...
A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are … More...
Advanced LLMs escaped their sandboxes while attempting to achieve a non-malicious benchmark test objective. More...
A myriad of software makes up the typical AI harness, and trust issues between the components can create concerning atta… More...
