Mercor’s recruiting platform was breached after attackers slipped malicious code into a published LiteLLM package, turning a widely reused open‑source proxy into a broad data exfiltration channel. The incident — detected and removed from distribution within hours but still exploited — exposed terabytes of sensitive material and has forced immediate, industry‑wide dependency audits and credential […]
AI agents aren’t just smarter chatbots; they operate with distinct identities and degrees of autonomy that let them act on infrastructure and data. That identity-plus-autonomy combo requires enterprises to move security from conversational filters to identity governance, least-privilege controls, and operational checkpoints. Three agent types and why identity changes the problem Enterprises now deploy three […]
Varonis Systems has launched Varonis Atlas, an end-to-end AI security platform that combines continuous AI asset discovery, runtime protection, threat detection, and governance with the company’s data-sensitivity context. The product is pitched as more than a discovery or monitoring tool: Atlas aims to close blind spots from shadow AI through to live model interactions and […]
