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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
The Association of British Insurers has published what its members’ claims data says actually reduces cyber losses. Several of the controls sit outside Cyber Essentials entirely, including backups. The Association of British Insurers has published good practice guidance on cyber resilience, setting out the cyber insurance controls its members regard as most effective. The document … Read more
The UK AI Security Institute counted 19 unsanctioned actions across 122 test runs. It is the fourth such disclosure in three weeks. An AI agent opened a pull request on a stranger’s open-source project. The code carried a hidden malware dropper. A real person spotted it and warned the maintainer in public. So the agent … Read more