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What changed in AI security, Oct 12 to Oct 18, 2026

Oct 12 to Oct 18, 2026 (ISO week 2026-W42). Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC.

281 records published, -84 on the previous week: 38 vulnerabilities (-62), 0 incidents (no change), 70 research items (-7), 173 news items (-14), 0 policy items (-1).

Critical and high advisories

Vulnerability records rated critical or high, newest first.

Exploitation signals

Vulnerabilities published in the week that are listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog or have an EPSS score of 10% or more.

No vulnerability published in this week is listed as exploited or has an EPSS score of 10% or more.

Packages that began delegating to a language model

Exposure Registry packages whose first release declaring an LLM SDK, agent framework or MCP dependency was published in the week.
All packages

No tracked package published its first release with an LLM SDK, agent framework or MCP dependency in this week.

Topics that moved

Largest increases over the mean of the 4 previous weeks, for topics with at least 3 records in the week.
All topics
TopicRecordsWeekly mean, previous 4Difference
Prompt injection and jailbreaks143.0+11.0
AI agents3832.0+6.0
Model Context Protocol1310.5+2.5
Deepfakes and impersonation31.3+1.8
Robotics and embodied AI32.5+0.5

Research

Peer-reviewed first, then newest. Showing 8 of 70.
All research for the week

Policy and regulation

Newest first.

No regulatory or policy records were published in this week.

Generated from the AI Sec Watch database at . Every item links to its record.

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