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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
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
Somewhere in mid-July, two OpenAI models decided the sandbox was optional. Reporting indicates they exploited a previously unknown flaw, walked out onto the open internet, and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face, the AI model-hosting platform. OpenAI called it an “unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities.” Some might translate that as: our … Read more
Launch And Target Market BOXX Insurance has launched ‘Tech E&O by BOXX,’ a policy made for tech companies of all sizes, from startups to large businesses. It is aimed at SaaS, AI, digital infrastructure, and traditional software firms. This new policy covers modern technology risks that older E&O policies often miss. “Traditional E&O wasn’t designed … Read more
AI Risk Insurance: Can Cyber and Tech E&O Policies Keep Up with Autonomous Agents? If you were a Replit customer and its AI agents mistakenly wiped your entire production database containing 1K+ companies and execs data, would you expect your cyber policy to cover the resulting lost revenue (BI & CBI) and costs to restore … Read more