Google promoted Chrome 156 to the stable channel for Windows, macOS and Linux on October 20, 2026, fixing 353 vulnerabilities, six of them critical (gbhackers.com, securityweek.com). The critical flaws are five memory corruption bugs and one use-after-free in Accessibility. Most of the 353 are memory safety issues: 163 memory corruption b…
Microsoft announced new controls to monitor and restrict potentially rogue AI agents in enterprise environments, arguing that organizations should treat agents as insiders rather than trusted software. The capabilities extend Project Perception, the agentic security system launched in July, which was initially pitched as a defense against…
A contributed piece by Matias Madou (CTO and co-founder of Secure Code Warrior) argues that governance alone is not enough to control the security risks of agentic AI in software development. Organizations also need to know where they sit on an eight-stage AI Adoption Model. The article cites Gartner's prediction that costs of incidents d…
Tracebit, a London- and New York-based security vendor, published research titled 'Making attacking agents pay' on defensive deception against autonomous AI attack agents. The approach plants hidden prompts, called 'context bombs', that an attacking agent ingests while crawling a target. These prompts misdirect the agent toward fake targe…
Anthropic has acquired Opaque Systems, a startup whose technology lets sensitive data be used in AI systems while the underlying hardware keeps it protected (confidential computing). Opaque announced the deal last week and said its team is joining Anthropic. Financial terms were not disclosed. The company has been winding down its operati…
On October 21, attackers published a malicious LiteLLM version 1.107.0 to PyPI and Docker Hub. LiteLLM is a widely used open source proxy for routing requests across LLM providers. The packages were live for about three hours and were downloaded an estimated 49,000+ times before being removed or repointed to clean artifacts. They install …