An AI Agent Can Pass Every Check And Still Make A Payment Nobody Wanted, Shufti Says

Cyber Insurance News story on Know Your Agent, showing a robotic arm signing a check beside an empty office chair

Shufti launched a product to verify AI agents and what they may do. Its product chief told CINI where verification stops. A stolen token can still fool it. A selfie check alone won’t beat a deepfake. An authorized payment can still be one the owner never intended. AI agents now log in, shop and move … Read more

Executive Exposure Starts At Home. A Family Password Can Lead To The Company, 360 Privacy Says.

Cyber Insurance News story on digital exposure, showing a family home at dusk with a glowing phone on a garden wall.

360 Privacy found its median client’s home address on 112 sources at sign-up. Removed records began returning in a median of 21 days. Chuck Randolph says a leaked personal password is often a path to a work account. Executive protection in the digital plain. Wiping an executive’s home address from the internet buys about three … Read more

IBM’s Quantum Safety Lead Doesn’t Expect A Cyber Catastrophe. If One Comes, He’s Watching Payments.

Cyber Insurance News story on quantum computing risk with IBM's John Buselli, showing a gold quantum computer chandelier hanging in a sunlit glass lab

Will quantum computing hand cyber insurers a catastrophe? IBM’s John Buselli doesn’t think so. If one comes, he expects it to hit payment networks, not one company. He also says nobody has shown him how to price the risk. John Buselli has spent a decade working almost exclusively on quantum safety and cryptography at IBM … Read more

Ransomware Hit 77 Schools And Colleges Last Quarter. Children’s Identities Are At Stake.

School ransomware attacks rose 54% in the third quarter, Comparitech reports. When gangs take student records, a child’s stolen identity can go unnoticed for years. Parents can freeze a child’s credit for free. A child’s stolen identity can sit unused for years. Children rarely have credit reports, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says. A family … Read more

GPT-6 Astra Asked Permission. An Automated Reply Said Use Your Best “Judgement.”

Cyber Insurance News story on an AI agent supply chain attack showing a chat window with a glowing automated reply above a network with one red node

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

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