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AI workflows may be creating a dangerous new authorization blind spot

Noma Labs researchers describe 'workflow identity hijacking,' letting unauthenticated users trigger privileged AI workflows that execute actions with high-privilege service accounts.

Noma Labs lead researcher Sasi Levi detailed 'workflow identity hijacking,' where benign unauthenticated inputs via support inboxes, GitHub issues, or web forms trigger enterprise AI pipelines that execute privileged actions. The workflow runs using high-privilege service accounts or developer API keys, decoupled from the requester's identity, effectively creating a confused-deputy condition. Unlike prompt injection, the model behaves correctly; the failure lies in authorization enforcement at the workflow layer, and activity blends into routine automation. Mitigations include identity-aware access at execution points and user-context propagation between AI outputs and downstream operations.

CSO Online·updated Sep 10, 12:57 UTC · 6d ago·first Sep 10, 12:04 UTC · 6d agoAI safety & security 2 sources

Webinar: The forgotten Google Workspace access that can lead to a breach

BleepingComputer and Material Security will host a September 23, 2026 webinar on breaches caused by forgotten third-party Google Workspace integrations.

BleepingComputer announced a live webinar on September 23, 2026, titled 'Breach autopsy: How fast-growing companies are breached through Google Workspace' in partnership with Material Security. Speakers include Rajan Kapoor, VP of Security at Material Security, and Rick Fitzgerald, President of Fireside Consulting LLC. The session will examine real documented Google Workspace breaches involving overly permissive third-party integrations, social engineering entry paths, first-hours breach response decisions, and high-value security controls for lean security teams.

BleepingComputer·Sep 8, 12:40 UTC · 8d agoIndustry

Evolve your marketing with new AI tools

Google announced new AI and agentic features across Google Ads and Google Analytics to simplify marketing workflows.

Google published a product announcement introducing AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics. The features are aimed at simplifying marketing workflows. No technical details, benchmarks, or security-relevant content were included.

Google · AI·Aug 10, 14:30 UTC · Aug 10, 2026AI industry

Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent

The Hacker News·Aug 4, 11:16 UTC · Aug 4, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wild

Try Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace

Google rolls out Pics, a Nano Banana-based image creation and editing tool, to Workspace subscribers with integrations in Docs, Slides, and Drive.

Google Pics, built on the Nano Banana image generation model, is rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and most Workspace business customers. Features include object segmentation, in-image text editing and translation, collaboration, and multiple generations per prompt. Integrations launched in Docs and Slides, with Drive support planned in the coming weeks.

Google · AI·Sep 1, 16:00 UTC · 15d agoAI industry

Webinar: What happens in the first hours of a Google Workspace breach

BleepingComputer and Material Security will host a September 23 webinar analyzing first-hours response decisions in real Google Workspace breaches.

The September 23, 2026 webinar 'Breach autopsy' features Material Security VP of Security Rajan Kapoor and Fireside Consulting president Rick Fitzgerald examining publicly documented Google Workspace breaches. Two analyzed attacks combined social engineering with malicious OAuth applications to gain access. Sessions will cover scoping exposed users and data, confirming whether attacker access persists, and which early containment decisions limited or worsened impact for lean security teams.

BleepingComputer·12:11 UTC · 9h agoIndustry

Intezer adds native response automation without separate SOAR

Intezer launched Workflows, native response automation inside its AI SOC, letting teams automate remediation without a separate SOAR platform.

Intezer announced Workflows, a native automation and response builder inside its AI SOC platform that lets security teams run post-investigation actions such as closing alerts, isolating hosts, and updating tickets without a separate SOAR. Workflows are created through natural language via MCP, inherit full investigation context, and are logged for audit, with per-tenant routing and customer communications aimed at MSSPs. The announcement cites Intezer's AI SOC Report 2026 finding that nearly 1% of real incidents trace back to lowest-severity alerts.

Help Net Security·Aug 19, 00:00 UTC · 28d agoTools

[webapps] Langflow 1.10.0 - RCE

A public proof-of-concept demonstrates remote code execution in Langflow 1.10.0, the open-source AI workflow builder.

Exploit-DB lists a remote code execution proof of concept targeting Langflow version 1.10.0. Langflow is a widely used open-source tool for building AI agent and LLM workflows. The listing does not include a CVE id or evidence of in-the-wild exploitation, but RCE in AI development tooling is relevant to teams running it in production.

Exploit-DB·Sep 2, 00:00 UTC · 14d agoExploit / PoC1

New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS

Google launches an interactive AI & Economy ATLAS experience; new research shows nearly half of surveyed scientists use AI daily.

Google introduced new interactive, open-access data visualizations for its AI & Economy ATLAS project tracking global AI adoption patterns. Research from Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT FutureTech analyzed 2,600 specialized AI models and surveyed over 600 U.S. and U.K. scientists, finding nearly half use AI daily and report saving almost seven hours per week. The study also found validation bottlenecks and a growing backlog of untested hypotheses limiting research productivity gains.

Google · AI·Sep 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas

Google added Sheets canvas to Workspace, letting users generate interactive dashboards, trackers, and charts from spreadsheet data via prompts.

Google introduced Sheets canvas, a Workspace feature that turns spreadsheet data into interactive dashboards, custom study trackers, and seating charts from a simple prompt. The announcement is a productivity feature launch with no described security impact or risk. No metrics, model details, or pricing are provided in the notice.

Google · AI·Aug 13, 16:45 UTC · Aug 13, 2026AI industry

Context Engineering Inside the Harness: 4 Mechanisms That Beat Context Overflow and Goal Loss on Long-Horizon Tasks

Survey of four harness mechanisms—context budgeting, compaction, todo-state, and memory—that keep long-horizon LLM agents on task across 200+ tool calls.

The article details how agent harnesses, not larger context windows, solve context overflow and goal loss on long-horizon tasks, citing Chroma's Context Rot report showing 18 LLMs (GPT-4.1, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, Qwen3) degrade on long inputs. Concrete implementations include LangChain Deep Agents offloading tool responses over 20,000 tokens to the filesystem and truncating old tool calls at 85% window usage, and Claude Code capping auto memory at 25KB while re-reading the 5 most recently modified files after compaction. OpenAI's Responses API now offers server-side compaction via context_management with a standalone /responses/compact endpoint, which Codex uses for long-running coding tasks. Manus reports a roughly 100:1 input-to-output token ratio per ~50-tool-call task, motivating todo.md state recitation to prevent goal drift.

MarkTechPost·Sep 13, 05:56 UTC · 3d agoAI research1

Webinar: How malicious OAuth apps can lead to Google Workspace breaches

BleepingComputer webinar will dissect two Google Workspace breaches caused by malicious OAuth apps and social engineering, hosted September 23 with Material Security.

On September 23, 2026, BleepingComputer will host a webinar with Material Security examining two real attacks that used malicious OAuth applications and social engineering to breach Google Workspace environments. Rather than stealing credentials, attackers persuaded users to authorize malicious apps, gaining access to data through the granted permissions. The session covers first-hour response decisions and which security controls provide the greatest value for fast-growing organizations.

BleepingComputer·Sep 14, 12:15 UTC · 2d agoPhishing & fraud

What researchers learned about building an LLM security workflow

Oslo and FFI researchers show structured agentic workflows lift LLM alert-triage accuracy from 0% to about 93% on malicious cases.

Researchers at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment tested GPT-5-mini, Claude 3 Haiku, Qwen3:30B, and Gemma 3:27B on alerts from the AIT Log Data Set V1.1; given only alert descriptions and log summaries, all four models correctly flagged zero percent of true-positive cases involving reconnaissance, brute-force logins, and initial access. Wrapping the same models in a workflow with constrained SQL queries over Suricata logs, an evidence summarizer, and a verdict stage with revision loops raised malicious-case accuracy to an average of 93 percent, with GPT-5-mini identifying every malicious case across 100 runs. The authors flag it as a proof-of-concept on one synthetic scenario and note models skewed conservative on benign alerts, with GPT-5-mini marking every benign case uncertain.

Help Net Security·Aug 24, 04:21 UTC · 23d agoAI research1

New AI Workflow Identity Hijacking Attack Lets Hackers Exfiltrate Sensitive Data

Noma Labs disclosed Workflow Identity Hijacking, an AI automation flaw letting anonymous users trigger privileged data exfiltration without prompt injection or stolen credentials.

Noma Labs researcher Sasi Levi described Workflow Identity Hijacking, where AI workflows process untrusted input from low-privileged or anonymous users but execute downstream actions with the workflow creator's elevated permissions, turning the pipeline into an unauthenticated proxy. Unlike prompt injection, the model is not tricked; the flaw is a missing authorization check between the requester and the privileged actions. Noma Labs also disclosed and helped fix a similar issue in Google Workflows, and linked the problem to the earlier GitLost research on GitHub Agentic Workflows. Recommended mitigations include per-user identity propagation, least-privilege service accounts and authorization checks before every downstream action.

GBHackers·Sep 10, 07:51 UTC · 6d agoAI safety & security

JarvisGUI: Towards Cross-Device GUI Agents with Dynamic Task Composition

JarvisGUI benchmark tests GUI agents on cross-device workflows across Android, Windows, and Ubuntu, revealing major gaps in state transfer and long-horizon reasoning.

JarvisGUI is a dynamic benchmark that formulates GUI tasks as input-output transformations under a lightweight type system, automatically composing multi-step cross-device workflows across Android, Windows, and Ubuntu virtual environments. Evaluation shows state-of-the-art open-source GUI agents struggle with state-transfer awareness, cross-platform contextual reasoning, and long-horizon dependency management, exposing a capability gap invisible to existing single-device benchmarks.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 9, 16:59 UTC · 7d agoAI research1

MIT creates method to force AI to comply with safety rules

MIT researchers published HardFlow, a method enforcing hard safety constraints on flow-matching generative models' final outputs without retraining.

MIT researchers led by Zeyang Li and Navid Azizan developed HardFlow, a trajectory-optimization method that enforces strict, non-negotiable constraints on flow-matching generative models by checking rule satisfaction only at the final generation step. Published in IEEE TPAMI, it outperformed six rival projection and guidance methods on four simulated benchmarks including D3IL robotic manipulation, Maze2D, physical process control, and image editing. All results are simulation-only, with no independent reproduction yet reported.

Hacker News · security·Sep 14, 16:18 UTC · 2d agoAI researchHN 24↑ · 25 comments

Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides

Anthropic launched Claude Docs and Slides in beta and merged chats with Cowork into 'one Claude', challenging Google's Gemini-powered productivity tools.

Claude Docs and Slides launch in beta, letting users create, edit, share, and collaboratively comment on documents and presentations from any chat, with export options. Anthropic also merged regular chats and Cowork into 'one Claude', bringing Cowork, Design, and Artifacts into a single interface. The update closes ground with Google, which has expanded Gemini inside Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and rolls out to Pro and Max users first across web, desktop, and mobile.

The Verge · AI·updated 18:09 UTC · 3h ago·first 16:30 UTC · 4h agoAI industry 5 sources

5 new ways to level up your learning with Search

Google promotes five Search study tools for students preparing for classes and standardized tests.

Google published a back-to-school post highlighting five ways to use Search tools when studying for classes and standardized tests. The post is promotional product guidance rather than a launch, research result, or security announcement.

Google · AI·Aug 19, 19:00 UTC · 28d agoAI industry

Google Open-Sources Mantis: A Modular Skills Toolkit That Lets Coding Agents Find, Reproduce and Patch Vulnerabilities

Google open-sourced Mantis, an Apache-2.0 modular skills toolkit that lets AI coding agents find, reproduce, and patch vulnerabilities with sandboxed verification.

Google released Mantis on GitHub under Apache 2.0 as a stack-agnostic set of slash-command skills that chain through the full vulnerability lifecycle: mining version history, building threat models, filtering findings, reproducing bugs in gVisor or network-disabled VMs, assembling exploit chains, patching, and scoring residual risk from 1 to 10. It runs with Gemini CLI, Antigravity CLI, the Google ADK, or comparable agent frameworks, and a supervisor skill (/mantis-meta-agent) can drive the whole loop. Google says the design targets the sub-7 percent true-positive rate of naive AI code scanning, and that its hierarchical summary tree cuts token overhead by over 85 percent. The toolkit is deployable for local and internal evaluation but not yet recommended for production.

MarkTechPost·Sep 9, 22:58 UTC · 6d agoAI tools & infra

Give every teammate and agent the right level of access to your Workers

Cloudflare launches per-Worker granular access controls with four roles, enabling least-privilege access for teammates, AI agents, and CI/CD pipelines.

Cloudflare announced granular authorization for Workers, letting admins scope access to a single Worker instead of the whole account. Four new roles are available: Metadata Read-Only (observability without source code), Content Read-Only (read code without changes), Editor (deploy without delete), and Admin (full control of one Worker). Roles apply at Developer Platform, product, or resource level, can be attached to dashboard users or API tokens, and are available to all customers now, with plans to extend to D1, R2, and KV.

Cloudflare Blog·Sep 15, 13:00 UTC · 1d agoTools

The Closed Loop Remediation Playbook with Wiz

Wiz announces Workflows general availability and public preview of Remediation and Response for closed-loop, automated cloud remediation.

Wiz published a remediation playbook promoting a closed-loop approach to cloud security remediation. The company announced that Wiz Workflows is now generally available, while Remediation and Response capabilities are in public preview. The announcement is a vendor product release aimed at enabling self-healing cloud environments rather than reporting a new threat or vulnerability.

Wiz Blog·Aug 17, 12:23 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Tools

AI for Societal Impact

Google publishes a collection page showcasing partnerships applying AI to health, disaster prediction, learning, and economic opportunity.

Google's 'AI for Societal Impact' page curates examples of experts and local leaders applying AI to disease detection and prevention, natural disaster prediction, education, and economic opportunity. It is a marketing-oriented collection page with no new technical details.

Google · AI·Sep 15, 16:00 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Google's Gemini Spark agent can now edit images, curate albums, and create calendar events in Google Photos for eligible US subscribers.

Google announced that its personal agent, Gemini Spark, can now manage Google Photos libraries, including editing images, curating albums, creating shared albums, converting concert flyer photos into calendar appointments, and running workflows. Google Photos lead Shimrit Ben-Yair said the capabilities roll out over the next few weeks to eligible Gemini AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US, in English, with no international timeline given. The move illustrates the industry's push to demonstrate consumer AI value amid criticism that labs have poorly communicated AI's benefits.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 4, 14:47 UTC · 12d agoAI industry

Hackers Use Autonomous AI Agents to Harvest Thousands of Credentials in Under 6 Hours

Google Cloud documents a financially motivated actor using autonomous AI agents on a compromised cloud tenant to harvest 23,800+ credentials in under six hours.

Google Cloud reports that an attacker compromised a victim's cloud environment and deployed a multi-agent framework driven by preconfigured Markdown playbooks to autonomously handle vulnerability scanning, credential collection, error troubleshooting, and IP rotation. An exposed command-and-control server hosted the 'Recon' framework with a live dashboard managing over 23,800 harvested secrets, including cloud and AI-service API keys. The report also ties DUSTMAKER to UNC6780/TeamPCP, targeting AI development tools and CI/CD systems via trojanized MCP packages such as tiktoken_mcp. Google has disabled linked assets and updated protections after the actors' operational security failures.

Cyber Security News·Sep 15, 09:28 UTC · 1d agoThreat actor in the wild

How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability

OpenAI highlights Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs using AI agents for onboarding, account management, and developer integrations in enterprise workflows.

An OpenAI news post profiles AI-native companies Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs that use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. The piece positions these workflows as operating capability and draws lessons for enterprise leaders. It is promotional case-study content rather than product or research news.

OpenAI News·Sep 1, 17:00 UTC · 15d agoAI industry

Hackers Deploy Agentic AI to Automate Exploitation and Mass Credential Harvesting

Google GTIG documents a financially motivated actor using a multi-agent AI framework to automate credential harvesting, compromising over 23,800 secrets within hours.

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) documented a financially motivated actor that compromised an unnamed organization's cloud infrastructure and used a multi-agent AI framework to automate vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting, troubleshooting, and IP rotation. The operation went from planning to mass credential compromise in under six hours, harvesting more than 23,800 secrets including cloud and AI-service API keys via an exposed C2 dashboard called 'Recon'. The actor directed specialized agents using an AI coding chatbot and Markdown instruction files such as AGENTS.KNOWLEDGE.md and agentic_vuln_research.md. Google has not observed fully autonomous zero-day exploitation; the shift automates labor-intensive tasks like reconnaissance, account validation, and infrastructure management, sharply shrinking detection windows.

GBHackers·Sep 15, 07:46 UTC · 1d agoThreat actor in the wild1

Google’s open-source HEIR lets AI work with data it can’t see

Google open-sourced HEIR, a compiler toolchain that converts pre-trained AI models to operate on homomorphically encrypted data without exposing it.

Google's HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation) is an open-source compiler toolchain and development platform for fully homomorphic encryption, announced in 2023 and now supporting four peer-reviewed publications. It compiles Python programs handling sensitive data into implementations that process encrypted inputs, supporting multiple FHE schemes, libraries, front-end languages, and hardware accelerators such as GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and custom ASICs. Demonstrated applications include private recommendations, credit card fraud detection, network intrusion detection, and hotword recognition.

Help Net Security·Aug 18, 00:00 UTC · 29d agoTools

Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini

Google DeepMind launches agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cutting video-analysis tokens up to 88%.

Google DeepMind launched agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The feature replaces static fixed-FPS ingestion with an agentic loop that dynamically searches frames, audio, and transcripts, cutting token consumption by up to 88%, reducing costs by up to 66%, and improving accuracy by up to 7%. Gemini 3.7 Flash with the feature sits at the accuracy-to-cost Pareto frontier on tested video benchmarks, and the capability will later power YouTube's Ask YouTube feature.

Google DeepMind·Sep 1, 17:08 UTC · 15d agoAI tools & infra

GTIG AI Threat Tracker: From Prompting to Autonomy – The Evolution of Adversarial AI

GTIG's Q2 2026 tracker shows adversaries adopting agentic AI workflows, including credential harvesting in under six hours and supply chain attacks by UNC6780.

Google Threat Intelligence Group's Q2 2026 report documents adversaries moving from basic prompting to agentic AI workflows and automation, including a cloud compromise followed by agent-enabled mass credential harvesting executed in under six hours. It tracks financially motivated actor UNC6780 (TeamPCP) conducting large-scale open source supply chain compromises across PyPI, npm, and Docker Hub since March 2026, deploying credential stealers. The report also highlights growing targeting of proprietary AI models, source code, prompts, and API credentials, plus LLMJacking practices where adversaries steal developer credentials or hijack cloud infrastructure to run unauthorized AI workloads.

Google Threat Intelligence·Sep 8, 14:00 UTC · 8d agoThreat actor in the wild1