AI agents accessing bank accounts are raising concerns about software acting beyond customers’ instructions, highlighting the risks of giving automated assistants financial authority and the safeguards businesses need before trusting them with money. What Has Prompted The Concern? Some US banks have reportedly detected outside AI agents accessing customer accounts, […]
Posted in News Also tagged Account, Agents, AI, BankA Brazilian man says he sold his belongings and travelled over 2,000 kilometres to meet a woman who turned out to be AI-generated. Edimar Rocha Martins, 49, travelled from Imperatriz to Belo Horizonte seeking “Jéssica Oliveira”, whose profile promised companionship and farm life and attracted 300,000 followers. Local authorities helped […]
Posted in News Also tagged AI, Fake, VoiceBusinesses using cloud computing, website hosting and other services charged by usage can face huge unexpected bills when someone else exploits their account or triggers costly activity, so what can they do to protect themselves? How Does An Account Become An Open Chequebook? With usage-based services, the bill depends on […]
Posted in News Also tagged Account, Bank, Cheque, TechnologyMicrosoft’s October security release addresses more than 1,400 vulnerabilities, setting another monthly record as AI helps researchers uncover software weaknesses faster and businesses face growing pressure to keep their systems protected. What Has Microsoft Released? Patch Tuesday is Microsoft’s regular monthly release of security fixes, allowing organisations to plan updates […]
Posted in News Also tagged Flaws, Microsoft, PatchBank of America hired 1,000 contractors to help repair software weaknesses uncovered by advanced AI, including Anthropic’s Mythos. The contractors joined around 3,000 existing staff in the second quarter and were still helping in October. AI can find vulnerabilities quickly, but people must still check, test and install fixes across […]
Posted in News Also tagged AI, Bank, HiresA US-based IT specialist and Prusa employee, known online as Nomad, reported that his parents’ connected Keurig coffee machine generated around 1TB of network traffic in ten days. Investigating their slow Wi-Fi, he found monitoring figures showing 1,008GB transmitted by the machine over ten days and nine hours. He later […]
Posted in News Also tagged Coffee, Machine, TrafficMI5 says more than 100 UK-linked academics contributed to research funded through an institute linked to China’s intelligence service. Its 30 September alert identifies the China General Technology Research Institute as funding projects intended to improve Chinese espionage capabilities, including AI, cybersecurity and covert communications. Many researchers may have acted […]
Posted in News Also tagged MI5, ResearchGartner found that 41 per cent of surveyed cybersecurity leaders reported deepfake incidents involving employee audio calls, while 36 per cent reported video-call incidents. Its March–May 2026 survey covered 297 leaders reporting on the previous year, without establishing how many attacks succeeded. Email phishing or business email compromise affected 79 […]
Posted in News Also tagged Calls, DeepfakeAn updated international security advisory says North Korean attackers infected at least 30,000 computers across over 100 countries through fake recruitment tests. Between December 2025 and July 2026, WaterPlum stole at least US$10.71 million, taking funds or credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets. Applicants were tricked into running malicious coding […]
Posted in News Also tagged Fake, Interviews, JobSouth Korean electronics manufacturer LG is facing privacy allegations after researchers reported extensive data collection and security weaknesses in its smart TVs. Gamers Nexus found audio transcripts and information about nearby networks and devices, describing an “egregious invasion of privacy”. Researchers demonstrated recording on a compromised TV with its screen […]
Posted in News Also tagged LG, Privacy, Smart, TVAn advanced AI model has independently completed an entire cyber attack against a live enterprise-style network in tests, marking what the company describes as a move from AI-assisted hacking towards autonomous cyber operations and raising urgent questions about whether traditional defences can keep pace. Booz Allen Test US technology and […]
Posted in News Also tagged AI, Cyber Attack, ModelSecurity researcher Johann Rehberger tricked Claude Code into running malicious code by asking it to summarise a webpage. Testing Opus 5 in Auto Mode, he steered Claude towards an archive. It rejected a supplied program but wrote a replacement that unknowingly loaded a malicious Python file. The payload contacted a […]
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