Financial Systems
Bank of England: Cloud outages and DDoS attacks pose risk of cascading systemic failure
Regulators tighten oversight of “operational incidents” that could ripple through the digital economy.
Jasper Hamill
Cyberwar
Cyberwar fears escalate as nation-state threat actors intensify private sector attacks
Leaders report growing concerns that attacks from adversary nations could "cripple critical infrastructure".
AI
Yan LeCun hints at creepy Meta Ray-Ban AI plans as he celebrates $1billion raise
COMMENT: Facebook's former Chief AI Scientist now leads his own company, AMI. Can he resist the siren call of Mark Zuckerberg?
AI
What do AI agents actually talk about? Mostly themselves, Moltbook study reveals
It turns out that autonomous artificial intelligences are even more self-obsessed than the species that created them.
Security
President Trump unveils new Cyber Strategy that's big on bluster, but light on detail
The White House promises to take the fight to criminal and nation-state adversaries in both offensive and defensive cyber operations.
AI
AI hallucinations in legal filings risk "loss of public confidence", immigration tribunal warns
Judges issue stern AI warning after immigration lawyer filed an appeal containing false information.
AI
From zero days to zero hours: How AI is accelerating attacks to "machine speed"
CrowdStrike data shows that exploits are being weaponised within days as AI drives down the cost of vulnerability discovery.
AI
Anthropic hit by "industrial-scale distillation attacks" from Chinese AI labs
It's feared that stolen models are being put to work in offensive cyber operations or authoritarian surveillance campaigns.
Financial Systems
FBI warns of surge in ATM jackpotting "cash on command" attacks
Criminals deploy Ploutus malware to infect cash machines and trick them into dispensing vast sums of money.
Existential Risk
Welcome to the x-risk games: Which AI models pose the greatest threat to humanity?
Chinese researchers test a new AI safety benchmark to identify which models could potentially be misused for catastrophic harm.
AI
Hackers steal AI agents' "souls" in infostealer attack on OpenClaw configurations
"This finding marks a significant milestone: the transition from stealing browser credentials to harvesting the identities of AI agents."
Security
Private sector threat actors are trying to clone rivals' AI models, Google warns
Nation-state adversaries are also deploying AI to automate phishing, accelerate attack lifecycles and conduct reconnaissance.