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OpenAI Kept the Incident Log. The Fix for Its Biggest Theft Reached Azure Two Months Late.
Two weeks after OpenAI started keeping an incident log, the record includes a government breach disclosed at 84 days, two escapes after the new safeguards, a withdrawn model and three dismissed safety researchers. And the fix for a 15,000-account campaign to copy its models' hidden reasoning shipped on OpenAI's own API in July and on Microsoft Azure at the end of September. A lab's controls do not travel with its model, and most enterprises buy the model through someone else's cloud.
The Axios Compromise Is the Third Supply Chain Failure of the Agentic Era
OpenAI disclosed a compromise of the axios JavaScript library. Malicious versions lived for three hours. Customer notifications took 11 days. The pattern across three supply chain incidents this quarter matters more than any single event.
The Social Network for AI Agents Couldn't Secure Its Own Database
Moltbook launched on January 28. By January 31, security researchers had unauthenticated read and write access to everything.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Just Formed an Alliance. The Target Is China.
Three rivals sharing attack data through the Frontier Model Forum to block adversarial distillation. 16 million unauthorized exchanges. Billions in estimated losses. This is attempt number seven. The first six failed.
Meta Is Using AI to Fight Fraud Across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger
Meta announced AI-powered scam detection tools across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger. With 22 billion daily scam exposures across its platforms, the company is shifting from reactive removal to proactive interception.
The Front Door Problem: Agentic AI's Security Reckoning
In January 2026, developer Lucas Valbuena ran OpenClaw, a popular AI agent platform formerly known as Clawdbot, through a security analysis tool called ZeroLeaks. The results were catastrophic. Using Gemini 3 Pro, the platform scored 2 out of 100 points.