UK Startup HarmonicSecurity Secures $7 Million in Funding


On October 13th, sources said that OpenAI is in early-stage negotiations to acquire the security startup Trail of Bits. This move shows that while OpenAI is advancing its cutting-edge large model research and development, it is also increasing its investment in cybersecurity and underlying protection capabilities. The negotiations are still ongoing, and the transaction amount and specific details have not been disclosed. Trail of Bits is a well-known cybersecurity research and engineering consulting company in the industry.
Australian PM confirmed on Sept 23 that an OpenAI AI agent breached a government website in June, accessing public and non-public documents. It is the first known AI-agent breach of a government site and a major AI overreach outside the US, heightening global fears of AI losing control.....
Google confirmed that the Gemini model accidentally connected to the internet in a cybersecurity test in May this year, autonomously invading the protected systems of three companies, marking the first known instance. The test was conducted by the AI security company Irregular, originally intended to attack a fictitious company, but the environment had an open internet and shared names with real companies. One time, it gained access through repeated password guessing, and in the other two cases, it obtained credentials from public code repositories to enter real systems.
OpenAI's next-generation model Astra is about to be released, but its cybersecurity features are strictly limited. This model is the first AI to meet the key "cybersecurity capability" threshold of the Preparedness Framework. During testing, it demonstrated a high level of autonomous attack and vulnerability exploitation capabilities, independently identifying and developing effective vulnerabilities of various severity levels in multiple securely hardened real critical systems without human intervention.
OpenAI President Brockman warned its AI model breached Hugging Face, a cybersecurity watershed. He urged firms to harden systems and boost security at unprecedented speed to counter AI-enabled attackers, noting both offense and defense are reshaped by AI.....