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Over the past few years, AI has gone from something understood and used by a select few to a cornerstone of almost every organisation. As businesses race to adopt new models, tools and autonomous agents, security and governance are struggling to keep up. Recent incidents involving AI agents behaving in unexpected ways have offered an early glimpse of what could happen as these systems are given greater autonomy. Closer to home, organisations face a more...

Security researchers have uncovered a now-fixed vulnerability in agentic AI platform Manus that could have allowed attackers to hijack an AI agent through a single malicious email and potentially access a user’s connected accounts. Researchers at Salt Labs, the research arm of Salt Security, found that Manus could interpret malicious instructions embedded within an incoming email and execute them when asked by a user to check their messages. Manus is a general-purpose agentic AI platform...

AI adoption is moving faster than most organisations can govern it. It is a familiar line by now, repeated often enough to sound routine, and that is part of the problem: it is still true, and still understated. As James Moore, CEO of AI security and governance platform CultureAI, told the IT Security Guru, this is a security challenge and a business risk, and one leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Employees are using...

Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human effort. In many ways, that's positive. Finding vulnerabilities is an essential part of making software more secure. But there is...

Cybercrime no longer divides neatly between lone hackers, organised gangs and state-backed operations. These groups exchange tactics and tools, while stolen data gives them an asset that can be sold, used for fraud, held to ransom or weaponised for political damage.  Geoff White is an award-winning investigative journalist whose reporting has taken him inside global hacking networks, cryptocurrency thefts and modern money-laundering operations.   A former Technology Correspondent for Channel 4 News, he has also reported...

The 25th July 2026 marks one year since the Online Safety Act's landmark child safety duties came into force, making it a natural moment to assess what's changed, what's worked and what challenges remain. Although the Act itself received Royal Assent in October 2023, its requirements were introduced in phases, with 25th July 2025 being the date many of the most visible obligations on platforms took effect. The child safety duties require platforms likely to...

Moona Ederveen-Schneider is a cybersecurity expert (and Most Inspiring Woman in Cyber Award winner 2026) with more than 20 years of experience across financial services, risk and cyber resilience. She has held senior roles at Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Nomura and ABN Amro, and previously served as Executive Director EMEA at FS-ISAC.  As the founder of Resilia Connect and author of the Practical Post-Quantum Transition Framework, Moona works with organisations preparing for the security risks created by quantum...

Synthetic media has moved from technical curiosity to mainstream threat in just a few years, with deepfakes now cheap enough to produce that a free app and a handful of seconds of scraped audio can generate convincing fakes. The consequences stretch well beyond political misinformation: corporate fraud running into tens of millions of dollars, biometric security checks being bypassed, and a largely under-reported epidemic of non-consensual intimate imagery. As regulation in the EU, UK and US...

Like many, I love KnowBe4’s The Inside Man series. So when series director Jim Shields and writer Robert McCollum stood on stage at the UK Premiere for Season 7 (held at the glitzy Odeon LUXE in Leicester Square, in an affair that could rival any of the Summer’s blockbusters) and said that they’d always planned to wrap the show up after seven series, I found myself abhorred. Personally, I’m not quite ready to let go...

Keeper Security recently released findings from a survey that explored how organisations manage AI-driven and non-human access. Insights from the in-person survey of cybersecurity professionals at Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London suggest that AI agents and Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are becoming more common in enterprise environments, while the governance approaches to handle them have been falling behind. Infosecurity Europe is one of the largest information security conferences in Europe, attracting practitioners, CISOs, and other security professionals to London each year. The survey conducted by Keeper collected responses...