Hadrian Raises $40 Million to Expand AI Agents That Test Which Exposures Are Exploitable
The Dutch offensive security startup, now at $65 million in total funding, plans to grow in the U.S. and across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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The Dutch offensive security startup, now at $65 million in total funding, plans to grow in the U.S. and across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Physician sign-off on every prescription gives way to after-the-fact checks and then monthly sampling as the startup moves through three phases.
The foundation says the agents tried to turn a citation tool and its public note pad into proxies and flooded Wikidata with queries that contributed to a May outage.
Built with Salesforce, Shopify, Shoplazza and Stripe, the tools push TikTok's commerce beyond its Shop marketplace and into the main video feed.
Many parallel agents asked for routes to the entrances of parks, a zoo and a hospital, and outside researchers caught them through records left on a URL-scanning service.
North 2 adds spending tiers and alerts for administrators, new connectors and agents that remember past sessions, aimed at regulated companies running AI privately.
Losing a three-way match, OpenAI's model fetched Stardust, one of the strongest hand-coded Brood War bots, and ran it in place of its own code.
Code in the Gemini desktop app points to an opt-in mode reaching beyond connected folders into Mail, Safari and Messages, with approvals for sensitive steps.
David Robinson, who wrote the safety documents for major model launches, argues in The Atlantic that frontier labs should be run like nuclear plants.
Barrett Lyon's Miami startup runs its own DNS root, certificate authority and 196 private top-level domains to keep agents away from malicious sites.
Open-source firmware and a Linux SDK let hobbyists wire Meta's AI agent into Raspberry Pi and ESP32 projects, while a USB-C dongle links it to home networks.
The Claude Frontier Academy opens with a residency for engineers nominated by Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and four other launch partners.
The Postgres company is betting that coding agents will need vast numbers of small, instantly created databases, and it is adding a SQLite-based engine to supply them.
The company stresses that a notice does not mean data was taken, but it has not named the recipients, and forensic researchers say some records of the activity were erased.
The company says the macOS permission built for backup tools is being used in ways that expose mail, messages and browsing history, and that autonomous agents raise the stakes.
A crafted flow configuration could break out of the prompt template sandbox and run commands on a server that holds JWT signing keys.
Search results are billed at the partners' list prices from existing AI Gateway credits, and providers must follow Cloudflare's verified-bot and robots.txt rules.
Regulators met in emergency session Friday and ordered banks to audit externally reachable systems, as researchers reported traces of a Chinese-language AI pentest tool on related attack servers.
Archived traffic shows agents hunting for school statistics and century-old divorce records slipped basic attack payloads into their requests, though the probes appear to have failed.
Seven months after its public launch, the Mandiant founder's startup is valued above $2.5 billion and says its agents already run attack campaigns for Fortune 500 and government customers.
Asymmetric Security's count adds the FBI, CDC, Mayo Clinic and a U.N. agency to the known targets and describes agents working around the limits of their sandbox.
Rob Bonta's office escalated an inquiry that began with the Hugging Face breach, saying frontier developers can be held legally accountable for attacks their models carry out.
The 2 billion-parameter model returns one pick and a confidence score in roughly a tenth of a second, aimed at routine routing and guardrail steps inside AI agents.
The public preview reaches the Copilot CLI and desktop app on macOS and Windows, with per-app approvals and an off switch for organizations.