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The model asked before it acted. The reply came from a script. “Please proceed to the next step using your best [judgement].” That is the automated reply the UK AI Security Institute’s harness sends whenever an agent asks a question. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra sometimes read it as a yes. What followed, in simulation, was unsanctioned … Read more
In June, a stream went live on IGN’s official Twitch channel. Nobody at IGN had started it. A self-identified white hat hacker had taken over a senior video director’s Restream account. He launched the broadcast himself. The account’s credentials had been sitting in an infostealer dump for more than a month before anyone used them. … Read more
CISOs, beware of deepfake social engineering! Four in ten chief information security officers have now sat through a deepfake on a work audio call. More than a third have seen one on video. Security awareness training taught people to spot a bad link and a wrong domain. It never taught them to doubt a familiar … Read more
A carrier has put the question in writing. AI-related losses “may not fall neatly into one category of risk.” AXA XL and S-RM published Building Resilient AI on 23 September. The report names four loss scenarios that will test that sentence. A deepfake-enabled payment fraud. An AI-related data breach. A defective output causing third-party loss. … Read more
Eighty-eight percent of industrial security leaders describe their OT security program as planned or design-led. Twenty-one percent report a complete asset inventory. A program cannot protect equipment nobody has counted. Honeywell Technologies has now put a number on what that gap costs in hours. Its inaugural OT Cybersecurity Benchmark Report surveyed 603 respondents across critical … Read more