AI Security

You don’t need malware to steal someone’s Instagram account anymore. No phishing links, no zero-day exploits, no sophisticated social engineering targeting humans. You just need to have a polite conversation with a chatbot. This week, Meta confirmed that attackers hijacked Instagram accounts — including high-profile ones and coveted short “OG” usernames — by doing something breathtakingly simple: they asked Meta’s AI support assistant to change the email address on someone else’s account. The chatbot said yes. ...

There’s a moment in every technology shift when the old rules stop applying and nobody’s figured out the new ones yet. We just hit that moment — and it’s happening in cybersecurity. Over the past 48 hours, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos model cracked Apple’s five-year, billion-dollar M5 security architecture in five days, sent U.S. banks scrambling to patch exposed systems, and drew a direct challenge from Microsoft’s own multi-agent cybersecurity platform. ...

The enterprise world’s favorite new toy and its worst new nightmare are the same thing: agentic AI. OutSystems’ 2026 State of AI Development report just dropped the numbers, and they’re staggering. 96% of organizations are already using AI agents — not experimenting, not piloting, using. And 97% are exploring system-wide agentic strategies that would embed autonomous decision-making into core operations. Here’s the catch: 94% of those same organizations say AI sprawl is increasing complexity, technical debt, and security risk across their enterprises. ...

A developer at FutureSearch noticed his laptop grinding to a halt on March 24. Thousands of Python processes spawning uncontrollably. What looked like a runaway AI coding assistant turned out to be something far worse: a sophisticated supply chain attack that had compromised LiteLLM, one of the most critical packages in the AI ecosystem. This isn’t a hypothetical threat model. This happened. And it should scare you. LiteLLM: The Package You Didn’t Know You Depend On LiteLLM is an open-source Python library that provides a unified API for dozens of LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and more. Instead of writing custom integration code for each, developers use LiteLLM as a universal translator. ...