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Exposed AI infrastructure grew 63% in nine months, Censys finds. The most exposed product, the n8n automation platform, stores the credentials for the systems it connects. Most exposed n8n servers run a release with at least one critical flaw. Cyber insurance underwriters can see them from outside. Exposed AI infrastructure is growing fast. Censys counted … Read more
Cowbell has launched Risk Advisor, an AI agent for its policyholders. It turns the data Cowbell collects on each business into a ranked list of actions. Each comes with its evidence. Most cyber policies sit untouched until something goes wrong. Cowbell wants its policyholders to open theirs first. The cyber insurer launched Risk Advisor on … Read more
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
Swiss Re Institute read the risk disclosures of 91 Fortune-100 companies. Ninety-eight percent of them name cyber attacks as a risk to their business. No risk in the study appeared more often. With the London School of Economics, it compared filings from 2019 and 2026. Cyber attacks topped the list in 2026, up from 91% … Read more
This essay originally appeared on “With Respect — Mostly,” Executive Editor Martin Hinton’s Substack, where he writes about a wide range of subjects, including cyber insurance and security. It has been adapted for Cyber Insurance News with additional reporting that ties it more directly to coverage we’ve done. Oh man. This was going to be … Read more