AI
"Nine seconds of terror": How to stop "rogue" AI agents wiping out systems at machine speed
How can organisations protect themselves against bad bots hellbent on destroying core production data?
Security
Crime
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.
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.
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?
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.
Security
"AI didn’t invent new classes of risk. It poured fuel onto existing ones."
Dr Andrew Bolster sets out new security approaches that respond to the accelerating pace of AI-enabled software development.
Cyberwar
Russia is secretly waging a cyberwar against the UK, GCHQ chief claims
Moscow-linked threat actors are allegedly targeting supply chains and critical infrastructure in undeclared hybrid warfare operations.
Financial Systems
European Central Bank summons lenders over AI security threat to banking infrastructure
Financial chiefs rush to address the risk of automated exploits and accelerated cyber attacks following the release of Anthropic’s Mythos.
Security
The second coming of Shai-Hulud: Worm returns in massive supply chain campaign
“The scale and speed of the spread resemble some of the most disruptive supply chain incidents we have seen in recent years."
Financial Systems
Coinbase hit by cascading systems failure after "thermal event" in AWS data centre
Critical financial infrastructure went down for hours due to an overheating incident on a dreary spring evening in Virginia