By Stefanie Schappert, senior journalist at Cybernews A Discord group's unauthorized access to Anthropic AI's powerful Mythos model on Tuesday is doing more than raising questions about the guardrails around powerful AI cybersecurity tools. It's exposing a bigger problem for the cybersecurity industry: AI can now find flaws and exploit them so quickly that defenders may be the ones left truly exposed. A group of AI-fueled Discord info-seekers – one of them linked to a third-party vendor of the AI startup – managed to access the highly gatekept cybersecurity defense...
... MDAs Directed To Tighten Cybersecurity Controls By Angeline Mgbele, Bureau Chief, Northern Nigeria The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) have initiated coordinated measures to strengthen cybersecurity following recent concerns affecting aspects of CAC’s digital systems, learns Cyber Era NG. According to a press statement e-signed by the Director of Corporate Communications & Media Relations at NITDA, Hajia Hadiza Umar, both agencies said they have activated response and assurance mechanisms in line with national cybersecurity frameworks to safeguard critical infrastructure and maintain service...