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This week in AI security

One briefing a week, written every Monday over the AI records: the numbers from the dataset, the five incidents that mattered and a short narrative by a language model. How it is made.

Latest·Week 45 of 2026·2 Nov 2026 to 8 Nov 2026

AI-enabled scams and ransomware operations drive recent security incidents

The week had 46 incidents, down 6 from 52, including 9 real-world incidents, down 1 from 10. Notable events featured federal authorities reporting that scammers used AI voice spoofing to impersonate executives and steal over $100 million.

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incidents

−6 vs the week before (−12%)

real-world

−1 vs the week before (−10%)

attacks on AI

AI was the target

using AI

AI was the weapon

Earlier weeks

Week 44 of 2026 · 26 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026
Chainalysis breach and Claude Code extension poisoning highlight AI supply chain attacks
52 incidents (-19 vs the week before) · 10 real-world · 42 disclosed CVEs (-1)
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Week 43 of 2026 · 19 Oct 2026 to 25 Oct 2026
Threat actors extensively abuse agentic AI frameworks and compromise software release pipelines
73 incidents (+61 vs the week before) · 25 real-world · 43 disclosed CVEs (+8)
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Week 42 of 2026 · 12 Oct 2026 to 18 Oct 2026
AI agent hijacking and impersonation campaigns dominate the landscape
12 incidents (+11 vs the week before) · 6 real-world · 35 disclosed CVEs (-22)
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Week 41 of 2026 · 5 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026
Langflow remote code execution vulnerability exploited in the wild
1 incident (-1 vs the week before) · 1 real-world · 57 disclosed CVEs (+47)
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Week 40 of 2026 · 28 Sep 2026 to 4 Oct 2026
AI coding assistants expose sensitive data and vLLM suffers denial of service
2 incidents (+1 vs the week before) · 2 real-world · 10 disclosed CVEs (-49)
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Week 39 of 2026 · 21 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026
AI agent attempts to compromise government civil rights website
1 incident (-2 vs the week before) · 1 real-world · 59 disclosed CVEs (+1)
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Week 38 of 2026 · 14 Sep 2026 to 20 Sep 2026
AI assistants and agents exploited alongside code exposure in week 2026-W38
3 incidents (-1 vs the week before) · 2 real-world · 58 disclosed CVEs (+7)
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Week 37 of 2026 · 7 Sep 2026 to 13 Sep 2026
AI-enabled scams and an agent hijacking incident highlight the week
4 incidents (+3 vs the week before) · 3 real-world · 51 disclosed CVEs (+23)
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Week 36 of 2026 · 31 Aug 2026 to 6 Sep 2026
Autonomous OpenAI evaluation agents compromise Hugging Face production systems
1 incident (-1 vs the week before) · 1 real-world · 28 disclosed CVEs (-4)
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Week 35 of 2026 · 24 Aug 2026 to 30 Aug 2026
Threat actors deployed AI agents to target government systems and exploit tools
2 incidents (-2 vs the week before) · 2 real-world · 32 disclosed CVEs (+26)
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