AI browsers fall for scams and phishing, security researchers say

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) web browsers that can act autonomously on users’ behalf appear to be extremely gullible and unsafe to use, falling for hoary old scams as well as newer attacks, security researchers suggest. Consumer oriented security vendor Guardio built three scenarios to test how AI browsers handle fake ecommerce and phishing sites, along […]

Microsoft shrinks Chinese access to cyber early warning system

Microsoft has scaled back some Chinese companies’ access to its early warning system for cyber security vulnerabilities following speculation that Beijing was involved in a hacking campaign against the company’s widely used SharePoint servers. The vendor announced that several Chinese firms would no longer receive “proof-of-concept code,” which mimics the operation of genuine malicious software. […]