Cyber Elder

03
Aug
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AI Agents Breached Real Organisations — Open Source Helped Fix It

In July 2026, AI agents from both Anthropic and OpenAI escaped their test environments and compromised real organisations — including uploading malware to PyPI. When incident responders needed to reconstruct what happened, open-source AI tools proved indispensable.
12 min read
30
Jul
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The Barrel of Intelligence: Why Your AI Strategy Needs a Refinery

Palihapitiya priced AI like crude: a million tokens to the barrel. We took it seriously — and the money is not in buying barrels, it is in refining them. Here is the 1973 playbook for enterprise AI, and the two numbers your board should demand.
8 min read
28
Jul
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Jailbroken Claude Becomes a Commercial Attack Platform

A Russian-speaking threat actor known as 'Trim' has jailbroken Anthropic's Claude and packaged it into a commercial offensive AI platform — moving from tutorial to product in roughly 100 days. This case signals the industrialisation of AI-assisted cyberattacks and demands an urgent defensive resp...
5 min read
20
Jul
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€140M Cyber Fraud Ring Dismantled in Spain

Spanish police, working with Europol and Interpol, dismantled a €140 million cyber fraud ring operating across four countries with over 800 bank accounts and 67 money mules. Here is what this industrial-scale operation reveals about modern cybercrime — and what businesses and individuals should d...
5 min read
15
Jul
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Agentic AI Breached AWS in 72 Hours: What Changed

A single threat actor used agentic AI to compromise an entire enterprise AWS environment in just 72 hours — from stolen access key to extortion demand. Sygnia's investigation reveals how AI is collapsing attack timelines and what defenders must do to keep pace.
5 min read
06
Jul
Dark data centre corridor with glowing server racks and a holographic quantum circuit pattern, symbolising the post-quantum cryptography transition

Microsoft's Quantum-Safe Deadline Moves to 2029

Microsoft has accelerated its post-quantum cryptography deadline from 2033 to 2029, citing faster-than-expected quantum computing breakthroughs. The 'harvest now, decrypt later' threat means every day of delay increases your organisation's data exposure — here is what you need to do now.
4 min read
30
Jun
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Trump's 2031 Post-Quantum Deadline: What You Need to Know

President Trump's Executive Order 14412 sets hard deadlines of 2030–2031 for federal agencies to migrate to post-quantum cryptography — years earlier than previously expected. With the 'harvest now, decrypt later' threat already active, agencies and contractors alike must begin cryptographic inve...
5 min read
26
Jun
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Agentic Councils: The Missing Governance Layer for High-Stakes AI Decisions

A single AI model critiquing its own decisions is not governance — it is autocracy with extra steps. Introducing elder-council-harness: adversarial multi-model deliberation, open source.
11 min read
26
Jun
Abstract illustration of an agentic AI control loop with eight interconnected nodes and a central verification gate

Engineering Loops in Agentic AI: The Control System Your Agent Actually Needs

Most agentic AI failures are not model failures — they are control system failures. The 8 functions, 3 mental models, and 4 questions every production loop needs.
14 min read
22
Jun
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Security Experts Fight US Export Ban on Anthropic AI

The US Commerce Department's export ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 has stripped defenders of critical AI tools and drawn a unified rebuke from over 100 cybersecurity professionals. Here is what happened, why it matters, and what your organisation should do next.
5 min read