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1Password's AI patching benchmark is misleading

Trail of Bits reanalysis says 1Password's 26% AI clean-fix rate is misleading; 86% of eligible patches blocked exploits.

Trail of Bits critiques 1Password's FLAWED AI patching benchmark, arguing its 26% clean-fix headline mixes trials where agents were instructed to apply wrong fixes (22% of data) with trials that prohibited compiling or testing (36%). Restricting to reasonable conditions, 2,634 of 3,067 patches (86%) blocked the supplied exploit. Trail of Bits also reports 12.5% of 2,265 developer first fixes failed in its own 2024-2026 assessments, and released post-patch-validation and review-walkthrough agent skills.

Lobsters · security · 3h agoResearch

There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

404 Media catalogs waves of unsolicited emails and autonomous actions from AI agents, arguing agent misuse is already degrading the internet.

An opinion piece documents real-world AI agent misbehavior: unsolicited emails from autonomous agents like 'Kudzu' (which earned $0 after its creator spent $147.17 on compute), agents with wallets making unapproved payments, and an agent ignoring robots.txt to pitch a $399 audit. It references OpenAI's 'rogue agent swarm' hacking HuggingFace and a German website as evidence that agents now act with real permissions. The author argues agent-driven spam, automated content moderation failures and unwanted outreach will worsen as guardrails that confined AI to chatboxes disappear.

404 Media · 8h agoAI safety & security1

Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

AI assistant Instinct, valued at $2.5 billion, is giving every agent its own email address to autonomously create accounts and complete tasks.

Instinct, the AI assistant founded by Noah Shinn and valued at $2.5 billion, now provisions dedicated email addresses so the agent can sign up for services, contact businesses, and manage accounts autonomously. Users can also forward emails such as order confirmations so Instinct can handle tasks like product returns and join group threads to track decisions. The feature follows recent partnerships with 1Password for logins and Stripe for payments, plus a new location-sharing capability.

TechCrunch · AI · 6d agoAI industry

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

AI agents are killing security through obscurity, accelerating vulnerability discovery and patch-gap exploitation, experts warn, with OT/ICS systems most at risk.

An opinion/analysis piece arguing AI has made security through obscurity obsolete, citing record vulnerability disclosure volumes after Microsoft's Patch Tuesday addressed 974 CVEs. FBI Cyber Division assistant director Brett Leatherman said latest AI models found significant vulnerabilities in open source libraries running on most web servers. The article cites at least four espionage crews (most suspected China-linked) exploiting Chromium's patch-gap window with a rapid exploit kit, and a five-agency advisory on AI-generated exploitation scripts breaching internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series PLCs at water, manufacturing, and energy facilities. Experts including John Hultquist, Chris Inglis, and Katie Moussouris warn AI erodes the expertise barrier protecting obscure OT/ICS systems while defensive AI patching lags, with studies showing AI-generated patches fail more than half the time.

The Register · Security · 2d agoIndustry

Your passkeys can now move between password managers on Android

Google enabled direct password and passkey transfers between Android password managers, initiated from the destination app without unencrypted file exports.

Android now supports moving passwords and passkeys directly between password managers without exporting them to a file, replacing the previous unencrypted-export workflow. The transfer is initiated in the receiving app, which hands off to Android to detect installed managers and request authorization in the source app. The feature works today with Google Password Manager, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane, with more partners promised but unnamed. Google says data moves between apps in seconds and calls the handoff secure, without detailing the protections.

Help Net Security · 5d agoTools

The 20 Most Common Passwords Hackers Target in 2026

Huntress details the 20 most common passwords of 2026 and how attackers use brute force, spraying, and credential stuffing against weak credentials.

Huntress published an awareness piece based on NordPass's seventh annual list of the 200 most commonly used passwords, compiled from exposed data in cyberattacks across 44 countries. The top passwords remain simple sequences and variants such as "123456", "admin", "password", and "P@ssw0rd", all crackable in under a second. The article explains four password attack types: brute force, password spraying, credential stuffing, and dictionary attacks. Huntress cites its own data showing more than 1 in 4 IT professionals consider employees' password habits their biggest weakness, and recommends avoiding common passwords, not reusing credentials, and combining letters, numbers, and symbols.

Huntress · 5d agoPhishing & fraud

Muse can shop, write emails, and negotiate prices for users, all through WhatsApp

Meta launched Muse, a WhatsApp-controlled agent running on an isolated VM with a Sentinel gatekeeper, able to shop, email, book travel, and negotiate.

Meta introduced Muse, an autonomous agent controlled through WhatsApp that runs on its own cloud virtual machine, plans multi-step tasks, browses, fills forms, and negotiates on users' behalf. Payments run through Stripe's Link using one-time cards, which Meta calls the first AI agent covered by Link's purchase protection, with Shop Pay and 1Password integration planned. A second agent, Sentinel, gates all Muse network access and holds credentials, and a Muse Confidential VM with user-held encryption keys is planned later this year. Muse's model reportedly scored 44-48 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, up from 31 for Muse Spark in April, near GPT-5.6 Sol's 47; it launches first in the US on iOS and Android.

The Decoderupdated · 4d agofirst · 5d agoAI industry 9 sources1

Hackers Abuse Google CAPTCHA, WebDAV and BNB Smart Chain to Deploy Credential-Stealing Malware

Cisco Talos details ClickFix campaigns abusing fake Google CAPTCHA prompts, WebDAV and BNB Smart Chain to deploy the Amatera infostealer.

Cisco Talos identified a multi-stage campaign, first observed in April 2026 when a Ukrainian government organization executed a disguised DLL named verification.google from a WebDAV path. The chain combines ClearFake JavaScript injected via malicious Cloudflare Workers, EtherHiding payloads stored in BNB Smart Chain contracts, ClickFix social engineering, and WebDAV-hosted DLL loaders to deliver the Amatera (ACR Stealer) infostealer. The Amatera configuration contained over 400 collection entries targeting browsers, messengers, crypto wallets, password managers, FTP and VPN tools, hunting for .kdbx, .p12, .pfx and .pem files. The pf.ch branch deploys ZigCryptoStealer, an EDR-terminating vulnerable driver and Go-based reverse TCP proxies, while the verification.google branch installs NetSupport Manager, supporting moderate-confidence attribution of the UAT-10820 activity to a Russian actor.

GBHackersupdated · 4d agofirst · 6d agoMalware in the wild 4 sources