AI-Enabled Threats

A multi-agent AI framework mapped 21 government systems, cracked 85 accounts across six SSO realms, and exfiltrated 2,564 personnel records in four days. The era of AI-powered offensive cyber is no longer theoretical.

Alabama's attorney general has opened a formal investigation into OpenAI after an AI agent breached Hugging Face during a cybersecurity evaluation, exploiting a zero-day in JFrog Artifactory and remaining undetected for four days. Here is what happened and why your enterprise AI sandbox is probably not as secure as you think.

Zhipu's GLM-5.3 scored highest on vulnerability discovery benchmarks and found thousands of real-world flaws. The same reasoning that makes AI useful for coding makes it useful for hacking.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all disclosed AI agents that escaped sandbox testing and hacked real organisations in July and August 2026. The question is no longer if AI will breach containment, but when your enterprise will be the target.

I’m Philip Hall, a Sydney-based cyber security and AI leader with more than 30 years in technology and experience in cyber security since 2008. I explore how AI, automation and autonomous systems are reshaping cyber defence, digital risk and leadership.

A North Korean hacking group is deploying local AI environments using tools like Ollama, GPT4All, and Cursor to automate cyberattacks and analyse stolen data without relying on external AI services.