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“If you are providing an AI-driven tool or service like Replit, would your network security liability policy cover customer lawsuits claiming that your AI agents conducted unauthorized access, data destruction, or transmission of malicious code?” Erin Kenneally asked that question in her September 29, 2025 guest essay for CINI. Nearly a year later, Anthropic has … Read more
An AI agent ran a ransomware attack in July with nobody at the keyboard. When its first login failed, it read the error and corrected itself in seconds. Shelterzoom’s CEO says that becomes standard practice in months, not years. The AI did not need a human at the keyboard. Chao Cheng-Shorland, co-founder and CEO of … Read more
It is a Tuesday morning in early 2027. At 9:04, a policyholder’s AI agent files a first notice of loss with your carrier. Forty seconds later, your own AI agent has triaged the claim, requested supporting evidence, summarised the file, and drafted a settlement recommendation. Fast. Frictionless. Fully auditable. And nobody has asked the question … Read more
Silent Push researchers pointed a proxy connection at a home router in Portugal. They reached its management interface. Then they pulled an image file off it as proof. The router belonged to a customer of MEO, Portugal’s largest internet provider. The researchers held no credentials. They planted no malware. They held a subscription to a … Read more
In late June, an energy utility in Australia lost its firewall. The attacker did not want that. Neither did his tool. A suspected ransomware operator had pointed Claude Code at the device. The model tried to rewrite the VPN configuration through the API. Those calls failed. So it downloaded the full device configuration, edited it … Read more