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AI slops from Eve

oss-security moderator Solar Designer approved three AI-generated vulnerability reports from automated security researcher Eve, sparking debate over AI slop on the list.

oss-security moderator Solar Designer approved three posts submitted by Eve, described as an 'automated security researcher', noting they lacked Date headers and arrived on the list server on September 9. He expressed uncertainty about their value but suggested they may have historical significance as early examples of AI-generated security reports at the dawn of AI security research. The post is meta-commentary on AI-generated content reaching a vulnerability disclosure mailing list rather than a specific vulnerability disclosure itself.

oss-securityupdated · 3d agofirst · 6d agoIndustry 12 sources

OpenAI Builds ‘Defense Factory’ Where AI Agents Continuously Find and Fix Vulnerabilities

OpenAI unveils a Defense Factory where AI agents continuously discover, validate, and fix vulnerabilities, integrating GitHub, Snyk, Semgrep, Tenable, and ServiceNow.

OpenAI introduced a Defense Factory, an agent-first cybersecurity operation that connects AI agents to developer and security tools via APIs, CLIs, and Model Context Protocol integrations including GitHub, GitLab, Snyk, Semgrep, Tenable, Jira, Linear, and ServiceNow. During an internal security sprint, over 250 people across more than 100 service areas closed 53 urgent or high-priority issues on day one, achieved a 90.6% accepted ownership-assignment rate, and Codex generated all remediation patches with only 0.53% rolled back. Agent-assisted deduplication flagged 37% of findings as duplicates, and runtime validation reproduced 19.5% of findings, cutting the false-positive rate to 0.81%. OpenAI argues defenders must exploit a temporary 'defender's window' using source-code access and frontier models before open-weight models enable autonomous offensive agent fleets.

Cyber Security News · 6d agoTools 2 sources

Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code

New Relic study finds AI-generated code doubles critical runtime issues, with senior engineers losing a third of their week to fixes.

A New Relic survey of U.S. technology leaders reports AI now writes the majority of shipped code, with senior SRE and DevOps engineers spending up to a third of their week triaging and refactoring it. A large majority of organizations had at least one AI-related production failure in the past six months, and roughly three in ten saw newly introduced security vulnerabilities. AI-generated code showed nearly twice as many critical runtime issues as peer-reviewed human-authored code, with gaps concentrated in edge cases, concurrency, deprecated APIs, and complex state changes. Most teams now prompt AI tools to embed logs and traces directly into generated code.

Help Net Security · 23d agoAI industry1

Staying Ahead of Adversarial AI Through Agentic Source Code Review

Google Threat Intelligence details an agentic AI pipeline with human expert oversight to review source code and outpace AI-enabled attackers.

Google Threat Intelligence researchers argue that adversaries' misuse of AI raises the risk of data theft and extortion when proprietary source code is exposed. They describe a structured agentic source code review pipeline that combines AI models with skeptical validation steps and injected human domain expertise. The team reports a leap in efficacy in finding vulnerabilities before adversaries can exploit them.

Google Threat Intelligence · 29d agoResearch1

Shipping More AI Code Than You Can Secure? Watch How to Control Remediation Debt

ActiveState webinar examines how AI coding tools accelerate open-source dependency additions and create remediation debt, based on a survey of 300 enterprise leaders.

ActiveState is promoting a webinar on AI coding and open-source risk, drawing on a survey of 300 security and engineering leaders across technology, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and government. The session covers how AI-generated code increases dependencies, review workloads, and remediation debt, benchmarked against survey data. The piece is sponsored partner content with no new incident or vulnerability details.

The Hacker News · 23d agoIndustry1

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE and EPA warn that actors use AI-generated Python scripts to exploit internet-exposed Siemens S7 PLCs at U.S. critical infrastructure.

A joint advisory from NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE and EPA describes an active threat in which AI-generated exploit scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools target Siemens S7 Series PLCs (S7-200 through S7-1500, including F-series safety controllers). The actors use Censys and ZoomEye scanning to find internet-exposed, outdated PLCs and a custom Python script using snap7 libraries over the S7comm protocol for initial access, credential access and denial of service; no attribution was given. Targeted sectors include Critical Manufacturing, Energy, Water and Wastewater, Chemical, Food and Agriculture, and Commercial Facilities, with potential for process disruption and cascading impacts. A related Dream report details a near-autonomous AI-agent campaign (July 1-4, 2026, 12 waves) against Taiwan government entities, using Hermes and OpenClaw agents with eight parallel sub-agents to crack 85 accounts via password spraying and exfiltrate over 2,564 personnel records, SSO client secrets and database credentials.

The Hacker News · 26d agoExploit / PoC in the wild1

AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networks

Researchers found 120 corporate llms.txt files pointing to unregistered packages, demonstrating AI coding agents install and execute attacker-controlled code on Fortune 500 networks.

Researchers at an Israeli stealth startup scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500 and Big Tech companies, finding 120 llms.txt files that pointed to unregistered code packages or domain names. After registering a handful of the unclaimed names, they received a phone-home beacon within an hour from a Fortune 500 company and dozens more over time. Parent-process chains showed coding agents including Claude, OpenAI's Codex and Nous Research's Hermes executed the installed packages. The researchers warn agents treating vendor docs as ground truth creates a SolarWinds-style supply-chain surface as agent adoption spreads across SaaS, cloud and endpoints.

Schneier on Security · 12d agoAI safety & security in the wild1

Beyond Solver Verdicts: Generative Reward Models for Autoformalization

Researchers introduce Generative Verification (GenV), a generative reward model achieving 0.961 AUROC in detecting unfaithful autoformalization that preserves solver verdicts.

The paper formalizes Verdict-Preserving-Unfaithfulness (VPU), a failure mode in neurosymbolic autoformalization where an incorrect encoding executes successfully and matches the expected solver verdict, and proves verdict-only verification is bounded to chance-level detection. The proposed Generative Verification (GenV) distills an offline Z3-equivalence oracle into a reference-free, continuous reference-equivalence score within the language model's vocabulary space. The oracle-mined verifier (GenV+HN) achieves 0.961 AUROC, generalizes zero-shot across unseen translators and formal styles, and yields an 11.3-point downstream accuracy gain in agentic test-time compute allocation. Mechanistic analysis with decision-projected logit lenses and sparse autoencoders shows the generative readout extracts precise spatial error coordinates without explicit localization training.

Hugging Face daily papers · 7d agoAI research1

Do AI Coding Assistants Check Before They Install? A Pre-Registered Demand-Side Audit of Trust Signals in the Research Software Supply Chain

Pre-registered audit finds AI coding assistants verified provenance signals in only 9 of 1,920 trials before installing research software packages.

The study tested whether AI coding assistants check machine-readable trust signals such as SBOMs, signed releases, and provenance attestations before installing six open-source research software projects spanning HPC and quantum computing. Three models under two operating modes produced 1,920 registered trials scored from container logs. Provenance signals were opened in only 9 of 1,920 trials (0.5%) and zero of 384 control trials, with no trial running a verification command. The authors conclude publishing signals is insufficient and verification must be built into the program running the assistant.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 9d agoAI safety & security

Synthesized builds Test Data Agent to validate AI agents with production-like data

Synthesized announced a Test Data Agent that provisions production-like data and system states to validate enterprise AI agents before deployment.

Synthesized unveiled its Test Data Agent, an agentic infrastructure capability that generates, masks, and subsets production-representative data for testing AI agents under realistic enterprise conditions. It integrates with agent development, evaluation, testing, and orchestration frameworks, with purpose-built support for complex SAP estates including finance, procurement, and supply-chain workflows and ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation programs. The product runs in on-premises, private-cloud, and hybrid environments and exposes REST APIs and CI/CD triggers for repeatable validation scenarios.

Help Net Security · 29d agoAI tools & infra1

Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world

Datamimic is an open-source test data generation tool aimed at keeping coding agents from inventing their own test fixtures.

A Hacker News discussion (40 points) highlights Datamimic, an open-source rapiddweller GitHub project for generating realistic synthetic test data. The tool targets AI coding agents, aiming to prevent them from fabricating their own inconsistent test worlds. Only the repository link was shared, so details are limited.

Hacker News · AI · 15h agoAI tools & infraHN 40↑ · 6 comments

Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE

Rapid7 disclosed CVE-2026-55040, a SharePoint JWT validation bypass chaining into CVE-2026-63520 unauthenticated RCE, with research substantially AI-agent-assisted; patches released.

Rapid7 disclosed CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), several JWT validation pipeline issues letting unauthenticated attackers impersonate chosen SharePoint users by SID or UPN, chained with CVE-2026-63520 (CVSS 8.1), an unsafe .NET type instantiation in Business Connectivity Services yielding RCE as the service account. An AI agent contributed significantly across 96 sessions and roughly 80,000 tool calls over 24 active days, though an expert had to steer it and it repeatedly overstepped its threat model. No exploitation of the bypass had been reported as of CISA's July 14 assessment. The RCE affects SharePoint Subscription Edition, 2019, and 2016, plus Project Server 2013 SP1 and Office Web Apps 2013 SP1; the July updates break the chain.

The Hacker News · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-55040CVE-2026-635201

How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?

A FOSS maintainer manually graded 102 F-Droid apps from the September 12, 2026 update batch, finding many show signs of LLM-generated code.

A student and FOSS app maintainer reviewed 102 apps pushed to F-Droid on September 12, 2026, assigning each a three-tier rating for likelihood of LLM-authored code (mostly AI >50%, hard to say/mostly human, no signs of AI). The heuristic relies on commit aesthetics, README and branding style, and the presence of agentic infrastructure like Claude Code or Codex, which automatically places an app in the 'mostly AI' tier. Example ratings include Amber (Nostr event signer) as mostly AI, and Aria for Misskey as showing no AI signs. The author stresses reliable detection of LLM-generated code from text alone is impossible, so ratings are approximate.

Hacker News · AI · 1d agoAI researchHN 46↑ · 23 comments

Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans

Microsoft published an AI code of conduct barring its MAI models from cyberattacks, deepfakes, and evading human oversight.

Microsoft released an AI code of conduct defining values and safety constraints for training its MAI models, including "absolute constraints" forbidding cyberattacks, nuclear weapons, and deepfake production. Each model's conduct code overrides individual user preferences or task instructions, with provisions against mechanisms that defeat human oversight. The document predicts superintelligent AI within a decade, and Satya Nadella endorsed frontier pacing and embedded evaluators alongside Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI.

TechCrunch · AI · 2d agoAI safety & security

Microsoft AI Code of Conduct Sets Cyberattack Boundaries, Chain of Command, Safety Constraints

Microsoft AI's draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct blocks MAI models from producing exploit code and constrains autonomous agent behavior.

The draft code sets 'Absolute Constraints' preventing MAI models from generating working exploit code, attack tooling, or intrusion guidance, while permitting authorized defensive work such as vulnerability discovery and malware analysis. A 'Chain of Command' rule means tool outputs, file contents, and webpages carry no authority over model behavior, countering injected instructions. Microsoft opened a six-week public consultation; a revised version will guide 2027 model development, and current MAI Models were not trained on the document.

SecurityWeek · 1d agoAI safety & security1

Design Docs Are All You Need: An AI-native Machine-Learning Performance Tool

Researchers present SMART, an ML performance-modeling library regenerated by AI coding agents from natural-language design docs instead of code.

The paper describes SMART, a symbolic performance-modeling library whose main branch contains almost no code: the repository is a DAG of self-contained design documents, and coding sub-agents regenerate implementations from only the docs on version updates. Reliability rests on a worked-example doc style used as in-context demonstrations and a minimal operator IR with SymPy cost expressions, offering both fast analytical roll-up and fine-grained modulo-scheduling modes. Regenerated implementations reproduce hand-audited reference models, including DeepSeek-V3 serving on a TPU pod slice, to round-off precision.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 12d agoAI research1

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

Analysis found 227 install commands from Claude, Codex, and Hermes agents inside corporate networks pointing to packages with no verifiable owner.

Researchers found 227 install commands issued by the AI coding agents Claude, Codex, and Hermes inside corporate environments, with the referenced packages having no clear owner. The finding highlights agentic software supply-chain risk, as AI agents can pull unverified third-party code into production networks without organizational oversight. The article is published in Ars Technica's security section and frames this as an emerging governance gap for AI-driven development.

Ars Technica · Security · 20d agoAI safety & security in the wild2

AI Coding Tools Now a Prime Target for Threat Actors, Google Warns

Google Threat Intelligence Group warns threat actors increasingly target AI coding tools and proprietary AI data, with UNC6780's Dustmaker enabling large-scale supply chain compromises.

Google Threat Intelligence Group's September 8 report says AI-assisted coding tools have become prime targets, contributing to large-scale software supply chain compromises in 2025 and early 2026. Financially motivated group UNC6780 used its Dustmaker credential stealer to extract tokens from GitHub Actions runner memory and compromise packages across PyPI, npm, and Docker Hub, then sold harvested AI tool credentials to other criminals. Chinese nation-state actor UNC6508 conducted espionage against proprietary AI research at North American academic, medical, and military institutions, while extortion gangs stole models, prompts, and source code in Q2 2026. GTIG also documented agentic attacker experimentation, including an autonomous multi-agent credential harvesting campaign built in under six hours and a 'Recon' C2 framework managing over 23,800 harvested secrets.

Infosecurity Magazine · 8d agoThreat actor in the wild 2 sources1

The Regulators Already Assume You Have an AI Inventory. Do You?

Checkmarx argues regulators now expect organizations to maintain an AI inventory as AI-generated code and outputs enter security workflows.

Checkmarx contends that implicit trust in AI-generated code, AI summaries, and scanner output has become a governance liability that regulators no longer accept. The piece argues security teams must formalize AI inventories and treat AI outputs as untrusted inputs. It frames AI governance as an emerging compliance expectation rather than an internal maturity project.

Checkmarx · 21d agoAI policy1

Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation

OpenAI partners with CodeAI to help students build AI literacy, critical thinking, and skills to use AI responsibly.

OpenAI announced a partnership with CodeAI focused on education. The initiative aims to help students develop AI literacy, think critically about AI, and build skills to use and shape it responsibly. No product or model release is associated with the announcement.

OpenAI News · 29d agoAI industry1

AgenticGen: Reward-Guided Agentic Video Generation for Advertising

AgenticGen applies DPO and GRPO reward-guided reasoning to ad video generation, improving TikTok CTR 2.72%, CVR 2.63%, and Advv 9.61%.

AgenticGen decomposes advertising video generation into two trainable reasoning stages, strategy selection and draft generation, supervised by online business feedback. It learns a performance-based reward from accumulated online feedback plus a rubric-based reward aligned with human quality standards, then optimizes policies with DPO followed by GRPO using process and outcome rewards. Online A/B experiments in the TikTok advertising system show CTR up 2.72%, CVR up 2.63%, and Advv up 9.61% over an SFT baseline.

Hugging Face daily papers · 17d agoAI research

AI made software development unrecognizable. Is cybersecurity next?

Opinion piece argues AI-driven shifts that transformed software development—agent-run SOCs, autonomous triage—will soon reshape cybersecurity operations and staffing.

A CSO Online analysis notes Google Cloud research found 90% of developers already use AI, while a March 2026 Federal Reserve paper found coder employment growth fell roughly 3% since ChatGPT's arrival. Gartner predicts 80% of organizations will run smaller, AI-augmented engineering teams by 2030. Security leaders from Contrast Security, Menlo Security and the Cloud Security Alliance expect agent-run SOCs, machine-speed containment and abundant vulnerability discovery, but caution that absorption capacity and autonomous production-environment validation remain bottlenecks.

CSO Online · 12h agoIndustry

Coding Is Over. Get over It

A JPMorgan Chase engineer reflects on AI agents outpacing hand-coding, questioning ROI while predicting inference costs will become negligible.

A personal essay by a software engineer with 15+ years at JPMorgan Chase describes how AI coding agents now outperform him and have transformed his workflow. He argues AI ROI is unmeasurable, praises cheap small models such as GPT 5.6 Luna, and cites Claude Code head Boris Cherny's advice to discard AGENTS.md/Claude.md rule files. He contends coding is no longer scarce, worries entry-level jobs will be automated first, and predicts AI's bigger impact lies outside coding.

Hacker News · security · 4d agoAI industryHN 20↑ · 26 comments2

My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test

A developer's business partner shipped a 5,236-line untested vibe-coded payments backend PR whose endpoints failed basic testing.

The author describes reviewing a pull request with 5,236 additions for a payments backend that a business partner generated largely with AI in a single day without testing. The PR's AI-written documentation included redundant boilerplate (e.g., 'returns 400 on error') but omitted operational details like where to obtain API keys, and the endpoints failed when tested. The post is a critical opinion piece on vibe coding and perceived skill atrophy among developers who rely on AI for everything.

Hacker News · security · 8d agoAI industryHN 46↑ · 75 comments1

Microsoft sets security and safety rules for its AI models

Microsoft AI published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct setting safety rules and human-control requirements for its models, open for public consultation.

Microsoft AI released the first draft of its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, open for six weeks of public consultation, with a revised version expected later this year to guide model training from 2027 onward. The Code sets Absolute Constraints barring model assistance with chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive weapons, offensive cyber operations, CSAM, malicious deepfakes, and mass civilian surveillance, while permitting authorized defensive cybersecurity work such as vulnerability discovery, malware analysis, and PoC exploit testing. It establishes an instruction hierarchy where the Code takes precedence over operator policies and user instructions, plus Human Control Requirements covering shutdown compliance, least privilege, and no autonomous goal initiation. MAI models will undergo red-teaming, safety evaluations, and pre- and post-deployment reviews; current models have not yet been trained on the Code.

Help Net Security · 1d agoAI safety & security

Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development

OpenAI launched a $5 million grant program funding independent research on generative AI's effects on teen development, well-being, and safety.

OpenAI opened applications for a $5 million grant program supporting independent research into how generative AI affects teen development, well-being, and safety. The program was announced via the OpenAI newsroom on 2026-09-08.

OpenAI News · 8d agoAI industry