AI
"Savants in the network": Why AI agents don’t need to go rogue to become dangerous
The immediate danger from agentic AI is not malicious intent, but capable systems that relentlessly pursue their goals without knowing when to stop.
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Critical Systems
Fragmented data is becoming a systemic risk to fragile global supply chains
Hidden dependencies and bad data in critical systems are leaving civilization exposed to cascading disruption, warns Chris Upkes of Neo4j
AI
AI agents caught hacking, scamming and collaborating in swarms. Are we losing control?
OpenAI and Anthropic's security-focused models don their black hats to engage in some very bad behaviour out in the wild.
Crime
Criminals hack Police National Legal Database, leak UK cops' private data on the dark web
British law enforcement comes a cropper in an incident which should - but probably won't - force a rethink of dreadful data storage policies.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."