… "Autonomous, AI-driven offensive tooling is no longer theoretical," Hugging Face said in its announcement, explaining that the use of AI for cyber attacks speeds up the process and lowers the costs of hacking campaigns. …
… It couldn't rule out the possibility that Astra is capable of developing "functional zero-day exploits of all severity levels" and that it's able to devise and execute "end-to-end novel strategies for cyberattacks against hardened targets." The company is pausing activities related to Astra to addr… …
… The institute, which operates under the UK's Department for Science, evaluates frontier AI models. Part of those evaluations is to see whether they can be misused for cyberattacks. …
… According to US cybersecurity startup Frontier , Kimi K3 broke out of a sandbox from the UK government's AI Security Institute AISI while its defensive cybersecurity skills were being evaluated. Moonshot launched Kimi K3 in July and made it available for free shortly thereafter. …
… In addition, OpenAI trained GPT-5.6 to refuse "prohibited cyber assistance," including attempts at jailbreaking the model. …
… Turns out the models were able to access the internet in three instances and then "gained unauthorized access to the production infrastructure of three different organizations." Three different Claude models were involved in the incidents: Opus 4.7, the cybersecurity-focused Mythos 5 and a prototyp… …