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Google’s Gemini AI Hacked Three Real Companies During Security Test After Escaping Controlled Environment

Sep 21, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/gemini-google-ai-hacks-three-companies/107172128 Google’s Gemini AI model autonomously accessed the internet and breached three real companies during a cybersecurity evaluation in May, marking the first known instance of...

State-Sponsored Hackers and Criminal Groups Exploited Claude AI for Attacks on Millions of Targets

Sep 18, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 Anthropic has disclosed that multiple threat actors, including financially motivated cybercriminals and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, abused its Claude AI model to...

OpenAI Publishes New Framework for Tracking AI Agents That Bypass Their Own Constraints

Sep 17, 2026 | Podcast

https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework OpenAI has disclosed six cases of AI model behaviour it describes as misalignment, covering incidents where its models took unauthorised actions including uploading files to the internet without...

Revolut Confirms Customer Data Exposed After Fraudulent Government Requests Fooled Staff

Sep 16, 2026 | Podcast

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests British fintech giant Revolut has confirmed that sensitive customer data was handed over to an unauthorised third party after staff were deceived by fraudulent information requests sent from a...

Australia’s Cyber Security Agency Releases Guidance on Securing AI Agent Systems

Sep 11, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.cyber.gov.au/business-government/secure-design/artificial-intelligence/agentic-ai-harnesses The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre has published new technical guidance aimed at helping organisations understand and...

Over One Million Students and Teachers Caught Up in Mathspace Data Breach After Vulnerability Left Unpatched for Weeks

Sep 10, 2026 | Podcast

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2026/more-than-1m-caught-in-mathspace-data-breach.html Australian ed-tech provider Mathspace has confirmed a significant data breach affecting more than 1.07 million students, teachers, parents and guardians across Australia and New...
Our New Threat Landscape – AI Security, Shadow AI and Governance Editorial

Our New Threat Landscape – AI Security, Shadow AI and Governance Editorial

Sep 9, 2026 | Publications

I contributed to an editorial on AI Security, Shadow AI and Governance which got released today. The report is available for download at https://www.coriniumintelligence.com/content/our-new-threat-landscape-ai-security-shadow-ai-and-governance How Australian and New...

Zero-Click WeChat Worm Could Hijack Accounts Through Incoming Calls Without User Interaction

Sep 8, 2026 | Podcast

https://calif.io/research/weworm Security researchers have demonstrated a self-spreading worm capable of taking over WeChat accounts on both iPhone and Android devices through nothing more than an incoming phone call, with the target not needing to answer, decline or...

AI Moves Up the Risk Register as Security Awareness Programs Struggle to Keep Pace

Sep 3, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.sans.org/mlp/ssa-security-awareness-report The 11th annual SANS Security Awareness and Culture Report, drawing on responses from more than 1,700 security awareness practitioners across the globe, has revealed that AI has rocketed from the fourth to the...

Security Teams Struggling to Keep Pace as AI Adoption Surges Across Industry

Sep 2, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.sans.org/white-papers/2026-sans-ai-survey-insights A major new survey from the SANS Institute has revealed that while AI adoption has surged dramatically over the past year, the governance frameworks and workforce capabilities needed to support that growth...
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