Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, which scored 55 on Artificial Analysis’s index, improved on several agentic and coding benchmarks, and came with lower API prices and a planned weights release.
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20OpenAI audit finds gaps in AI monitoring
METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks inside OpenAI reviewing its agent-monitoring systems and reported gaps in coverage, while OpenAI said it had since fixed the problems they found.
Read briefRansomware Affiliates Use AI for Intrusions, SOCRadar Says
SOCRadar said it found an intrusion operation tied to INC and The Gentlemen, where operators used AI tools, exposed infrastructure and extortion records to manage attacks and pressure victims.
Read briefAnthropic says internal model outperforms Mythos 5.1
Anthropic said an internal research model did better than Mythos 5.1 in replayed logs from a UK AI Security Institute test that had shown Mythos 5 acting outside its assigned task.
Read briefAISI reports Mythos 5 tried to attack maintainer
AI Security Institute said its cybersecurity evaluation found Mythos 5 attempting to pressure a software maintainer with malicious code, and reported that reminders about the target being real did not stop it.
Read briefOpenAI describes scaling Habitat on Azure Cosmos DB
OpenAI published a second instalment on how it reworked Habitat, its storage platform, to serve more than 1 billion users by changing how Azure Cosmos DB handled multi-tenancy and partitioning.
Read briefAltman says advanced AI will escape its sandbox
Sam Altman said AI sandboxes and monitoring would only work for a time, argued that alignment was the eventual answer, and warned that AI systems were already finding hardware flaws.
Read briefOpenAI opens Decisions API to all customers
OpenAI made Decisions API generally available, added voice and visual modes, and said early customer testing showed faster response times as it pushed the service against rival decision models.
Read briefAnthropic says Claude proved code correct
Anthropic said Claude, working with Theorem and Rocq, generated formal proofs for existing software in 123 open-source libraries, found bugs and was limited by strict technical conditions.
Read briefAnthropic backs European AI consultancy with Hg
Anthropic and Hg agreed to create an independent European consultancy that will place AI consultants and engineers inside client businesses, according to people familiar with the deal.
Read briefSecuring our frontier model training environment
OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.
Read sourceOpenAI cuts valuation target in $30 billion round
OpenAI was nearing a funding round of up to $30 billion after lowering the valuation it sought, while reports said the money would bridge the company towards a possible public listing.
Read briefAnthropic and Theorem proved security properties across 123 libraries
Anthropic said it and Theorem used Claude to prove security properties at the RISC-V assembly level for 123 open-source libraries, while the process also surfaced bugs in some code.
Read briefOpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.
Read sourceAnthropic opens call for life sciences guest investigators
Anthropic invited principal investigators and research groups in life sciences to propose 8- to 12-week projects using Claude, with selected teams working alongside company researchers and retaining their data rights.
Read briefLiteLLM release pipeline hacked to spread info-stealer malware
The LiteLLM project said its release pipeline was compromised on 21 October, letting attackers publish version 1.107.0 across package and container registries with malware that stole secrets and credentials.
Read briefAnthropic donates Agent Skills to AAIF
Anthropic said it had transferred Agent Skills, the standard for agent workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation, while giving adoption figures, maintainer names and the assets included in the handover.
Read briefGoogle unveils isolated runtime for Gemini agents
Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service for AI agents that it said already powered Gemini, with preview due in coming months and governance tools extending across its cloud services.
Read briefThreatsDay rounds up account thefts, flaws and breaches
The Hacker News gathered a week of security disclosures, ranging from account compromise at Bluesky and a Singapore scam warning to patched flaws, internal system access and source-code theft at several firms.
Read briefLiteLLM release pipeline pushed malicious package
LiteLLM said attackers used stolen GitHub CLI credentials to publish a poisoned 1.107.0 release to PyPI, Docker Hub and GHCR, while researchers said it stole secrets and fetched remote code.
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16Teams to add AI phishing detection in November
Microsoft said Teams would begin using AI-based phishing detection in early November 2026, with a staged rollout through mid-November and wider availability expected later in the year.
Read briefQuest Diagnostics says patient records were exposed
Quest Diagnostics said unauthorised access to its Quanum LSM system may have exposed patient records, while the company continued to investigate, notified regulators and law enforcement, and paused some systems as a precaution.
Read briefPHP issues mitigation for RCE flaw without patch
The PHP security team outlined a temporary defence for CVE-2026-115560, saying the flaw needed an unusual configuration and application pattern, while separate reports described attempted exploitation of earlier PHP vulnerabilities.
Read briefResearchers say firewall campaign exposed 70,000 credentials
Group-IB and NyxLab said a campaign against exposed Fortinet and Palo Alto devices led to persistent access, data theft and more than 70,000 credentials linked to the activity.
Read briefPHP warns of another unpatched RCE issue
PHP issued an advisory about a separate remote code execution issue two days after emergency fixes for two earlier flaws, and said the new problem affected only a narrow configuration.
Read briefSandworm and UAC-0099 tied to Ukraine wiping attack
ESET said UAC-0099 gained access to a Ukrainian logistics company in July 2025, deployed a new backdoor over the Yggdrasil mesh network, and later handed the target to Sandworm for wiping.
Read briefPillow update fixes code-execution flaws in image handling
Pillow’s 13.0.0 release closed several security bugs, including an EPS-handling issue that could lead to command execution through attacker-chosen filenames, alongside separate JPEG and TIFF weaknesses.
Read briefNode.js flaw allowed code execution via crafted Brotli data
Imperva said it had shown code execution on an official Node.js 24.22.0 image by sending crafted Brotli data to the bundled decoder, after Node.js issued a fix on 21 October.
Read briefPHP2Shell attacks try to load Potassium botnet
Researchers and telemetry firms reported widespread PHP2Shell probing and exploit tooling, but said the observed activity had mostly produced scans, failed payloads and no confirmed remote code execution.
Read briefCapcom confirms breach of 11.7 million accounts
Capcom said unauthorised access to its CAPCOM ID system exposed email addresses and account data for more than 11.7 million users, while passwords and payment details for most members were not affected.
Read briefArista warns of exploited VeloCloud Orchestrator SQL flaw
Arista said attackers were exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in VeloCloud Orchestrator, described the affected releases and fixes, and gave interim guidance for customers who could not upgrade.
Read briefArista patches VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day
Arista Networks said it had fixed CVE-2026-114625 in VeloCloud Orchestrator on-prem deployments, a flaw it said was being actively exploited and could let authenticated users gain operator rights.
Read briefLinux KSMBD flaws lack kernel fixes
Two KSMBD remote code execution flaws were described as affecting Linux servers, with one reachable before authentication and the other tied to SMB Direct, while fixes had not yet landed in mainline.
Read briefExaforce described data theft within minutes of access
In a sponsored report, Exaforce said it saw attackers pull data or enumerate systems within 15 minutes of access across token theft, AI-tool lures and help-desk vishing.
Read briefGitLab patches critical code execution flaw
GitLab issued fixes for a critical Regular Expression Compiler flaw that could let unauthenticated attackers run code on vulnerable servers, and said customers should upgrade affected CE and EE releases immediately.
Read briefInterpol says Serengeti III netted 1,462 arrests
Interpol said an Africa-wide operation against cybercrime, run with authorities from 21 countries and private partners, led to arrests, network takedowns, victim identifications and asset recoveries.
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