Weeks after Anthropic’s Mythos AI model sent shockwaves through the financial system, America’s top banking regulators are stepping back from the exam room to give the country’s largest lenders time to shore up their defences. The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are pausing some cyber-related examinations of the biggest […]
Hitachi has announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic that will see the Japanese industrial conglomerate deploy Claude AI models across its entire workforce of approximately 290,000 employees, in what it describes as a move to strengthen its “Lumada 3.0” business model. The deal positions Hitachi as one of the largest enterprise adopters of Claude globally, […]
New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including fingerprints, in a breach affecting at least 1.8 million people. The organisation reported the figure to the US Department of Health and Human Services, making the […]
Google has identified the first zero-day exploit it believes was developed with artificial intelligence. The criminal threat actor that built it planned to use it in a mass exploitation event. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group discovered the vulnerability before it was deployed, worked with the affected vendor to patch it, and disrupted the operation. The […]
A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries. Intruder, a London-based cybersecurity company that graduated from GCHQ’s Cyber Accelerator, has launched AI pentesting agents that replicate the methodology of a human […]
Anthropic built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The Federal Reserve chair and the Treasury secretary called bank CEOs to discuss it. The company says there is a six-to-twelve month window to patch the flaws before adversaries build models that can do the […]
The two most important software supply chains in artificial intelligence have been systematically compromised. Hugging Face, the repository that hosts more than a million machine learning models used by virtually every AI company on the planet, has been found to contain hundreds of malicious models capable of executing arbitrary code on the machines of […]
The largest education data breach in history was not an attack on a school. It was an attack on a vendor. On 30 April, hackers exploited a vulnerability in the systems of Instructure, the company that makes Canvas, the learning management system used by 41 per cent of higher education institutions across North America. […]
OpenAI has released a security feature for ChatGPT accounts that treats them the way banks treat online banking: hardware keys, no passwords, no email recovery, and no help from customer support if you lose access. The feature, called Advanced Account Security, is an opt-in setting that requires users to authenticate with two passkeys, two hardware […]
