News, New Threats
June 24, 2026
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Five Eyes intelligence alliance warns of threats from new AI models

Reuters reports: Cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology is poised to supercharge offensive hacking capabilities, and urgent action is needed to face up to the threat, US, UK, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand officials have said. “Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities,” the intelligence alliance […]

Cyberattack, News
June 05, 2026
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NSA is using Anthropic’s Mythos for cyber attacks

Financial Times reports: Anthropic is helping the US National Security Agency deploy its powerful Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations, embedding engineers inside the agency despite an ongoing legal battle with the Pentagon.   The San Francisco-based company had installed about half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide […]

Malware Ransomware, New Threats, News
February 19, 2026
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Negotiating with hackers: The AI in ransomware response

An article by Josh Taylor of Fortra begins: Ransomware groups are increasingly inserting AI bots into the negotiation loop to triage victims, collect leverage and scale their operations.  At Fortra, I have observed a growing trend of attackers deploying chatbots for first contact, with humans stepping in only after certain thresholds are met. This approach […]

New Threats
February 04, 2025
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Hackers Hijack AI: Google Warns Of Gemini Misuse By Cybercriminals

If you haven’t been paying attention to warnings that criminals are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help them research targets, craft better phishing lures, and writing malware, here’s another warning. This one comes from Google. As reported by Forbes: While AI assistants like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT offer incredible benefits, they are also being […]

Commentaries and Analyses, Finance, Legal News, New Threats
March 30, 2024
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AI Poses a Threat to Financial Sector, and Cyberattackers are ‘Outpacing’ Defenses – Treasury

Law.com reports that the U.S. Treasury Department warned the financial services sector this week that artificial intelligence (AI) will become a powerful weapon for fraudsters and cyberattackers, who will outgun the sector’s defensive efforts in the foreseeable future.  The report was based on interviews with representatives from 42 financial services and technology companies about the […]