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.
Critical Systems
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."
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?
Financial Systems
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.
Financial Systems
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
AI
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.
Critical Systems
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."
Security
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."
Critical Systems
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.
AI
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?
Systemic Risk
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.”
AI
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.