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 […]

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This week the European Central Bank (ECB), which supervises about 111 of the eurozone’s largest banks, convened at an urgent meeting with major lenders to accelerate efforts around AI security and heed caution on the cyber risks of AI. Officials have warned banks specifically about the risks linked to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and similar […]

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The Cyber Agony Aunts – Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager and Researcher at Sophos, and Amelia Hewitt, Founder of CybAid and Co-Founder and Director of Cyber Consulting at Principle Defence – are back! After a whirlwind of a year, with the release of their first co-authored book ‘Securely Yours’ in early 2025 and the launch of […]

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Last week, Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager and Researcher at Sophos, and Amelia Hewitt, Director of Cyber Consulting at Principle Defence and Founder of CybAid, released their second co-authored book Resilient You: An Agony Aunts’ Guide To Keeping It Together. The book is a follow up to their 2025 book Securely Yours. The book […]

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Most people understand what it means to protect a human identity because the dangers of someone impersonating you online or stealing and cloning your card are immediately obvious. Today, organisations rely on thousands of non-human identities that belong to software applications, cloud workloads, APIs, bots, and now AI agents as well, which can affect almost […]

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