AI, Cyber Attacks and Risk: This Week's Top Five Stories
CrowdStrike is launching a new capability designed to secure the autonomous enterprise through real-time risk evaluation and total elimination of standing privileges.
Continuous Identity for AI Agents, announced on 15 June at the Identiverse 2026 conference in Las Vegas, US, is a system that reinforces the CrowdStrike Falcon platform as an identity security control plane.
The rise of autonomous AI agents creates unprecedented challenges for traditional frameworks of protection. These software entities operate at superhuman speed, which makes legacy access models obsolete.
Elia Zaitsev, CTO at CrowdStrike, explains: "AI agents are transforming how work gets done and how identities must be secured. Point-in-time authorisation becomes a legacy approach the second agents are given autonomy.
“Authorise once and trust indefinitely is not a security model – it's a liability. That's the shift CrowdStrike is driving, from static, one-time access decisions to Continuous Identity."
BT has become the first UK company to join Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, a programme that provides critical infrastructure operators with access to advanced AI tools designed to identify vulnerabilities before exploitation occurs.
The operator will use Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s frontier AI model, to strengthen cyber defences across its networks and customer services.
According to BT, the company now blocks around four million cyber attacks across its networks every day. The volume could show the scale of malicious activity targeting digital infrastructure in the UK.
As AI agents are increasingly working alongside human employees, organisations must treat digital identities with the same security rigour as the traditional workforce.
However, the automated ecosystems of the new world are pushing traditional boundaries of identity security to their limits.
In a significant move to address these emerging challenges, Okta is expanding its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud.
By combining their identity, cloud and productivity solutions, the two organisations are working to strengthen resilience across the modern workforce.
Anthropic claimed Claude Fable 5 was the most powerful cybersecurity model in the world when the firm released it on 9 June.
However, the US Government abruptly froze the system on 12 June over fears that the automated hacking capabilities of the tool were escaping regulatory boundaries.
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 are the two variations of the most advanced tier of AI software from Anthropic.
Mythos 5 is a non-public version restricted via Project Glasswing for exclusive use by government agencies. Fable 5 is the public-facing version built on that same technology.
Tesco has launched a major High Court lawsuit against Broadcom, alleging that the software giant broke its word and refused to honour long-term VMware agreements after restructuring its licensing model.
The UK retail giant alleges that Broadcom halted standalone support services and demanded massive price increases for its critical VMware infrastructure.
The said infrastructure acts as the digital backbone of the retailer's data centres, using virtualisation software to split physical servers into multiple distinct virtual machines.
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