AI-powered cyber attacks are expected to become increasingly common as more capable AI models proliferate. (Image generated using ChatGPT) Conventional cyber security controls are no longer sufficient to stop increasingly capable autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents, following last week’s rogue AI attack on AI platform Hugging Face, says cloud infrastructure company Modal. The company issued…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with US senators to discuss his company’s upcoming models, as President Donald Trump said he is considering AI “controls” following OpenAI’s disclosure that one of its AI systems escaped containment during a security test. “We’re looking at controls,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office in response to a…
Kaspersky’s Sergey Lozhkin Malware injection attacks on AI agents are rising and antivirus software has yet to adapt, according to Sergey Lozhkin, head of Kaspersky’s global research and analysis team for Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. Speaking at a Kaspersky cybersecurity event in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Monday, which TechCentral attended, Lozhkin said AI-driven…
Bramley Maetsa, IT digital and innovation enablement lead at Sasol. Something interesting is happening in enterprise AI right now. Organisations are celebrating how many AI agents they have built. How many pilots are running. How many employees have access to AI tools. How many use cases are in production. These are the wrong numbers to…
PubNub introduces Blocks.ai today, a global network to connect and control agents across all agent frameworks, providers, and APIs. Blocks.ai lets developers reach their existing AI agents regardless of where they are hosted. Blocks Network supports all AI agent use cases without opening inbound ports, setting up tunnels, changing DNS, or modifying firewall rules. For…
Visa is preparing the rails for AI agents to shop and pay on South Africans’ behalf – and a deepening global partnership with OpenAI has added fresh impetus to that effort. As TechCentral reported earlier this month, Visa has enrolled local banks in its Agentic Ready programme, which prepares financial institutions to process fully autonomous…
South African businesses are rolling out AI voice agents at speed. Most of those agents were built in the US. They sound American, “think” in English and process calls through servers on the other side of the world. Researchers at the University of Cape Town say the problem goes deeper than anyone selling a product…
Chipo Mushwana, Nedbank’s executive for payments and technology AI agents are already initiating financial transactions on behalf of people, and South African banks were not built for that. That was the central warning at Nedbank’s Innovation Day in Johannesburg last week, where banking and technology leaders said the industry’s biggest blind spot is not AI…
The Mexican governor of Chihuahua said Wednesday she was “being persecuted” by the country’s ruling party over the case of two U.S. officials who died in April during an unauthorized drug raid in her state. Maria Eugenia Campos, from the opposition National Action Party, appeared for questioning at the Mexican General Prosecutors office in Mexico…
Samantha Rule, CISO at Ninety One, outlines the considerations and concerns of implementing AI agents in enterprises. Offering efficiency gains and the potential for cost reduction, the adoption of AI agents in the enterprise is growing. However, despite the benefits offered, AI agents also open a wealth of cyber security risks, which need to be…
