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FIS and Anthropic Unveil AI to Accelerate Money Laundering Probes
Imagine having an AI-powered ally that supercharges your money laundering investigations, automatically gathering evidence, detecting patterns, and prioritizing case files in minutes - not days. FIS and Anthropic have joined forces to bring you the Financial Crimes AI Agent, revolutionizing banking's most costly compliance challenge.
CISOs Confront Growing Skills Gap in Cybersecurity Teams
A growing concern for CISOs is the widening skills gap in their cybersecurity teams, with 60% citing a lack of skilled staff as a bigger challenge than filling vacant positions. The right people with the right skills are proving harder to find than more bodies to fill open roles.
Phishing campaigns increasingly harness AI to evade detection
Phishing campaigns are getting smarter by the minute, with a whopping 86% of recent attempts leveraging AI to sneak past detection. This marks a significant jump from just two years ago, when AI was used in 80% of phishing ops.
AI Drives Shift to Continuous Penetration Testing in Cloud Environments
The AI revolution is transforming technology like never before, and Evinova is at the forefront, shifting from annual penetration testing to continuous security validation to safeguard its cloud-native healthcare software. This bold move replaces traditional point-in-time assessments with ongoing validation, ensuring rock-solid security for its customers.
Vulnerability Discovery Outpaces Remediation Infrastructure
The latest AI-powered vulnerability discovery tool, Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, can identify a massive number of security risks at unprecedented speed, raising crucial questions about whether organizations can keep up with remediation. With AI outpacing human teams, the real challenge now is turning these findings into actionable fixes.
FTC Bolsters AI Efforts to Combat Deepfakes and Voice Scams
The Federal Trade Commission is stepping up its game against AI-powered scams, gearing up to enforce new laws targeting sexual deepfakes and exploring ways to shut down voice clone scams. It's a crucial move in the cat-and-mouse battle to stay ahead of tech-savvy scammers.
CrowdStrike Tests Anthropic's Claude Mythos for Accelerated Vulnerability Detection
Imagine slashing the time between discovering a software flaw and fixing it - a new breed of large language models, like Anthropic's Claude Mythos, may hold the key. Early tests with CrowdStrike suggest that AI-powered vulnerability detection can accelerate discovery and bring broader situational awareness to cybersecurity operations.
Researchers bypass Grafana AI with stealthy data exfiltration technique
Imagine a tool meant to reveal operational insights being turned into a stealthy spy, siphoning off sensitive corporate secrets - that's what happened when researchers exploited Grafana's AI with a cunning technique called indirect prompt injection. Dubbed GrafanaGhost, this attack bypasses Grafana's defenses, exfiltrating data without leaving a digital trail.
LiteLLM Supply-Chain Compromise Exposes Mercor Data
A single faulty AI dependency can become a backdoor for attackers - as seen in the recent LiteLLM supply-chain compromise that exposed sensitive data, source code, and internal credentials at Mercor. This alarming incident highlights the risks of relying on third-party dependencies and the importance of securing your supply chain.
Mercor AI Startup Discloses Data Breach Involving Open AI, Anthropic Partnerships
Mercor, an AI startup partnered with industry giants OpenAI and Anthropic, has confirmed a data breach - raising concerns about the potential impact on users and the company's ability to regain trust. The incident has left many questions unanswered, including what data was compromised and who might be affected.
Mercor Hit in Widespread LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack
Thousands of companies, including AI hiring startup Mercor, have been hit by a widespread LiteLLM supply-chain attack, marking the first publicly disclosed downstream casualty of a software supply-chain intrusion. This incident raises a critical question: how can organizations trust their tech toolchains when the chain itself can be compromised?
AI Revamps SAST to Cut Noise, Boost AppSec Effectiveness
Tired of static application security testing (SAST) screaming false alarms, only to be ignored by your team? AI is revolutionizing SAST by cutting through the noise, helping you focus on real threats and making application security more effective.
Anthropic Exposes Closed-Source Code in NPM Package Leak
A single character typo in a package manifest led to a major oops for Anthropic, the creators of Claude AI, as they accidentally leaked the source code for their closed-source language model, Claude Code. Fortunately, the company quickly acknowledged the mistake and assured that no customer data or credentials were compromised.
AI Arms Race Sparks Alarming Cybersecurity Urgency
The AI arms race has ignited a pressing cybersecurity urgency, as threat actors supercharge their attacks with artificial intelligence, leaving organizations scrambling to keep pace. Can we outsmart the machines before it's too late?
AI in security: Must-Have Best Practices for Resilience
AI can supercharge defenses — but only if we secure the AI stack; discover practical best practices to protect data, harden models, and keep automation from becoming a single point of failure.
Tech Grad Hiring Crisis: Stunning 46% Plunge
UK tech graduate hiring has collapsed 46% in a year, with another 53% drop forecast. GenAI is replacing routine junior roles, squeezing Gen Z out of entry-level jobs and threatening the talent pipeline unless employers and universities adapt.
Agentic AI: Must-Have or Risky Revolution
When software stops asking permission and starts setting its own goals, governments face a leap from helpful automation to powerful but risky agentic AI—promising faster services but raising urgent questions about accountability, oversight, and public trust.
Generative AI: Stunning, Risky Redesign of Politics
AI is already reshaping how campaigns persuade, personalize, and mislead voters—if we don’t act, the next election could be redesigned by synthetic media and automated messaging. We can still steer this tech toward strengthening democracy, but it will take clearer rules, better tools, and civic vigilance before habits harden.
AI-capable workforce: Stunning Best Practices
At the AIX Summit, technologists, agency leaders and vendors wrestled with the real challenge of scaling AI in government—not just the tools, but the people, policies and protections that make deployments safe and effective. Three practical takeaways emerged—hire hybrid-skilled teams, build layered governance for agentic systems, and make security and workforce resilience non-negotiable—offering an immediate roadmap for moving from pilots to production.
AI SOC: Must-Have Guide to Best (and Risky) Platforms
By 2026 SOCs will run as much on software agents as on analysts, with copilots, autonomous agents, and hybrid platforms transforming detection, response, and who holds decision authority. Pick tools that speed response but also deliver clear explainability, strong governance, and real adversarial testing so automation amplifies human wisdom instead of human error.
AI browsers Risky: Stunning Security Wake-Up
A new SquareX Labs analysis warns that AI browsers—promising smarter, hands‑free browsing—may open fresh security gaps by blending models, plugins and persistent state, creating new attack surfaces for credential theft and model poisoning. Users and enterprises should treat AI-driven suggestions cautiously and push for stronger sandboxing, permission controls and oversight before convenience outpaces safety.
Clearview AI Stunning ICO Win Sparks Risky Fallout
After a big court win, the ICO can now press ahead with a proposed £7.5m fine against Clearview AI — a landmark ruling that reinforces the UK’s power to hold foreign tech firms to account for using Britons’ facial data without consent.
Embed AI Now: Must-Have Fix to Reduce Risk
AI can find vulnerabilities in seconds but also flood teams with noisy alerts — embedding AI thoughtfully with context-aware scoring, human-in-the-loop checks, and better telemetry turns automation into a force-multiplier that speeds remediation and reduces risk.
AI-enabled influence operation: Dangerous, Exclusive Alert
Researchers uncovered PRISONBREAK, a coordinated AI-powered network of 50+ fake X accounts pushing Iranians toward unrest — a campaign that spiked in 2025 and appears tied to foreign actors and even military timing. It’s a wake-up call: generative AI is reshaping propaganda, and platforms, policymakers, and users must act fast to protect democratic discourse and digital trust.