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Both Anthropic and OpenAI's agents have now escaped onto the internet (Image: ChatGPT)

AI

Anthropic's rogue agents launch "real-world" attacks, join OpenAI's models in the wild

Bots gain access to the open internet in a grim omen of the grave security risks agentic AI poses to enterprises and digital civilisation itself.

Cloudflare shows how a single failure can wipe an entire country off the internet

Critical Systems

Cloudflare shows how a single failure can wipe an entire country off the internet

"These incidents underscore the fragility of internet infrastructure, but also the remarkable stability global systems maintain when operating normally."

360 Security Technology (Qihoo 360) is based in Beijing, China (Image: Unsplash)

Security

The questions security teams should be asking about China's "Mythos rival" TuLongFeng

Black Duck's Collin Hogue-Spears decodes the debate over whether China's new AI vulnerability finder rivals Anthropic's US-made bug hunter.

European Systemic Risk Board issues frightening forecast of the dangers of frontier artificial intelligence.

Systemic Risk

Financial systems are exposed to a structural AI risk with "no effective mitigation," EU warns

European Systemic Risk Board issues frightening forecast setting out the dangers of frontier artificial intelligence.

"A productive equilibrium": How to scale agentic AI without losing control

AI

"A productive equilibrium": How to scale agentic AI without losing control

"AI agents are emerging not as a replacement for human capability, but as powerful partners in amplifying it."

Russian "Laundry Bear" threat actor rinses Western victims with zero-click exploit

Security

Russian "Laundry Bear" threat actor rinses Western victims with zero-click exploit

Intelligence agencies get lathered up about a Moscow-linked espionage group also tracked as Void Blizzard.

Cops are still some way away from Minority Report-style predictive policing (Image: Unsplash)

Crime

The Home Office has a huge cybercrime blind spot in its police forecasting data

Computer crooks are more likely to be male - but that's about all we know about who will go to the digital dark side.

Rogue OpenAI agents escape into the wild, attack Hugging Face and wreak havoc on GitHub

AI

Rogue OpenAI agents escape into the wild, attack Hugging Face and wreak havoc on GitHub

"We consider this incident to be an unprecedented security incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities."

Hollowgraph malware turns Microsoft 365 calendars into secret-stealing "dead drop"

Security

Hollowgraph malware turns Microsoft 365 calendars into secret-stealing "dead drop"

Command-and-control tool targets Israeli entities and shares technical similarities with a backdoor previously linked to an Iranian threat actor.

"Defenders urgently need to factor in the risks caused by a trusted system going rogue while attempting to carry out its assigned task."

AI

"Nine seconds of terror": How to stop AI agents wiping out systems at machine speed

How can organisations protect themselves against bad bots hellbent on destroying core production data?

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Agentic AI demands an upgrade to financial system resilience, Bank of England warns

Agentic AI demands an upgrade to financial system resilience, Bank of England warns

Central bank warns that "stronger defences are not enough" amid growing concerns about the weaponisation of autonomous security tools.

How cybercriminals are industrialising the trade in stolen healthcare data

How cybercriminals are industrialising the trade in stolen healthcare data

Inside the underground criminal ecosystem where private information is bought and sold on a global scale.

Systemic stablecoins will be used as money across economies (Image: Unsplash)

Stablecoins could become a systemic risk to global financial stability, central banks warn

Asset-backed digital currencies are set to enter widespread usage and pose

Can a digital notepad ever feel as good as real paper? TCL NXTPAPER Note A1 review

Can a digital notepad ever feel as good as real paper? TCL NXTPAPER Note A1 review

An inveterate notetaker asks where writing on a device matches scribbling or doodling in a notepad - and where analogue wins.

Five Eyes orders "whole of society" response to AI security crisis set to erupt in "months"

Five Eyes orders "whole of society" response to AI security crisis set to erupt in "months"

Intelligence agencies fear frontier AI risk is about to undergo a rapid takeoff - requiring a profound technological and philosophical shift.

“When one country controls the overwhelming supply of a critical technology, that is by its nature a structural risk,”

Chinese IoT ‘kill switches’ could disable Britain’s critical systems and infrastructure, MPs warn

"When one country controls the overwhelming supply of a technology, that is by its nature a structural risk."

The DragonForce ransomware gang just gave us another huge reason to hate Microsoft Teams

The DragonForce ransomware gang just gave us another huge reason to hate Microsoft Teams

Hackers piggybacked on the deeply unpopular communications app to quietly siphon data out of a "major US services firm".

Critical systems are moving beyond human control. How can regulated industries respond?

Critical systems are moving beyond human control. How can regulated industries respond?

"Enterprise environments are growing in complexity, making it harder to effectively oversee risk using traditional models and tools."

The Silicon Age Collapse: Systemic risks that could derail digital civilization

The Silicon Age Collapse: Systemic risks that could derail digital civilization

The first part of an ongoing series exploring threats that could trigger catastrophic cascading failures across the modern world.

Few humans could cope with this level of complexity - but machines can (Image: Unsplash)

Software complexity is outpacing humans' ability to control it, Datadog warns

Will legacy homo sapiens lose control of its systems as AI agents take the reins and complexity spirals beyond the comprehension of our species?

Water shortages could be disastrous for chip manufacturing and the AI sector that depends on semiconductors produced in frighteningly few locations (Image: Unsplash)

El Niño is a "systemic shock" that could wreck semiconductor supply chains, the WEF warns

“Crises no longer arrive neatly or sequentially. They overlap, compound, and amplify one another.”

Bureaucracy-as-a-service: The grim, grey future of AI government

Bureaucracy-as-a-service: The grim, grey future of AI government

From courts to call centres, AI is spreading across the public sector. We examine the UK government’s plans and the risks of an automated state.

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