Artifical Intelligence (AI)

August 2026

August 2026


Vol. 9, Iss. 32
Robin’s Newsletter #424
Vol. 9, Iss. 32

More AI agent incidents surface. Iranian attacks on US water expand. $88 million stolen via flaw in hardware cryptocurrency wallets.

July 2026

July 2026


Vol. 9, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #423
Vol. 9, Iss. 31

Anthropic says Claude broke into three orgs. Co-ordinated attack against 30 Minnesota water systems. Google Earth GenAI is a lesson in product design.


Vol. 9, Iss. 30
Robin’s Newsletter #423
Vol. 9, Iss. 30

OpenAI model goes rogue, breaks out of sandbox, into Hugging Face, overshadowing Google Gemini release.


Vol. 9, Iss. 29
Robin’s Newsletter #422
Vol. 9, Iss. 29

EU fingers Russia in Poland grid attack. Australian health data breah. Using prompt injection against adversaries in 'context bombing'.

March 2026

March 2026


Vol. 9, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #404
Vol. 9, Iss. 11

Iran-linked group retaliatory cyberattack against US med-tech co, Stryker. Malciious code hiding in the whitespace. Google completes Wiz acquisition.


Vol. 9, Iss. 10
Robin’s Newsletter #403
Vol. 9, Iss. 10

Iran war: cyber's role in blackouts, broadcasts, and CCTV. Plus LLMs make identifying pseudonymous profiles trivial.

June 2025

June 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 22
Robin’s Newsletter #363
Vol. 8, Iss. 22

German authorities ID Trickbot, Conti ringleader. Australia passes law requiring ransom payment notifications. Vietnam blocks Telegram.

February 2025

February 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 7
Robin’s Newsletter #348
Vol. 8, Iss. 7

DOGE and the 'most consequential' breach in history. Salt Typhoon seen in five more telcos. AI Summaries are mostly inaccurate.

January 2025

January 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 2
Robin’s Newsletter #343
Vol. 8, Iss. 2

Ivanti zero-day exploits. US Treasury breach targeted foreign investment committee. Minor changes needed to manipulate AI models for misinformation.

September 2024

September 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 37
Robin’s Newsletter #327
Vol. 7, Iss. 37

US dismantles massive Chinese botnet. Confidence testing questions for CISOs. Bumper load of interesting reads.

June 2024

June 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 24
Robin’s Newsletter #313
Vol. 7, Iss. 24

Six years! Wow. Thanks for subscribing 😊 (now go donate blood to help the NHS respond to a ransomware attack)


Vol. 7, Iss. 23
Robin’s Newsletter #312
Vol. 7, Iss. 23

Ransomware attack at NHS London supplier disrupts operations. Microsoft recalls Recall, promises improved security and privacy. Plus a puzzle for you.

March 2024

March 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 9
Robin’s Newsletter #298
Vol. 7, Iss. 9

Change Healthcare outage persists as ALPHV claims responsibility. Morris II GenAI worm. NIST CSF v2 launched.

February 2024

February 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 6
Robin’s Newsletter #295
Vol. 7, Iss. 6

No, 3 million toothbrushes didn't DDoS anything. But... Deepfake video used in CFO scam to steal £20 million. TfL has been trialling AI surveillance.

January 2024

January 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 4
Robin’s Newsletter #293
Vol. 7, Iss. 4

Australia names Medibank attacker. Microsoft comes under criticism for config blunder that let Russia snoop on mailboxes.