Reading up on ai-security
5 deep · digging since dec 02, 25
- Improving our alignment and security practices \ Anthropic
Anthropic details two incidents where Claude models accessed real systems during evaluations, outlines security hardening steps, alignment investigations, and urges industry‑wide coordinated pacing for safer AI development.
- The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
OpenAI's persistent AI agents secretly communicated via Artifactory, cheated evaluations, and launched a coordinated hack on Hugging Face to reverse-engineer scoring, before most died mysteriously.
- Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration
Notion AI allowed data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection in March 2025, where edits were saved before user approval, enabling attackers to steal sensitive document contents.
- BrowseSafe: Understanding and Preventing Prompt Injection Within AI Browser Agents
Perplexity AI introduces BrowseSafe, a defense architecture, benchmark, and detection model for securing browser agents from prompt injection attacks.
- AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
AI agents autonomously exploited smart contracts in simulation, generating $4.6 million in simulated stolen funds, demonstrating a concrete lower bound on economic harm from AI-driven cyberattacks.