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  • Anthropic’s Mythos Found a Cryptographic Flaw Human Experts Missed for Two Years – In 60 Hours

    Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has achieved what human cryptographers could not: identifying structural vulnerabilities that remained hidden through years of expert review. The model’s most striking success is its discovery of a nontrivial automorphism within the HAWK lattice-a NIST post-quantum digital signature candidate-demonstrating a capability to resolve complex mathematical weaknesses that have long eluded human…

  • NadMesh Botnet Marks the Shift From AI Compute Theft to Credential Harvesting

    Attackers have shifted from commoditizing GPU cycles to harvesting high-value credentials from exposed AI infrastructure. The NadMesh botnet, discovered by QiAnXin XLab in early July 2026, is the first operation purpose-built to hunt AI services not for their compute, but for the cloud keys and Kubernetes tokens that unlock the broader enterprise environment. How NadMesh…

  • The Ransomware That Runs Itself: Inside JadePuffer, the First Fully Agentic Extortion Operation

    Sysdig Threat Research Team has documented the first instance of agentic ransomware, a campaign dubbed JadePuffer. The execution phase of a multi-stage ransomware attack — reconnaissance, credential harvesting, lateral movement, encryption, and ransom delivery — was performed entirely by an LLM agent. The initial MySQL root credentials came from a separate, prior compromise; the subsequent…

  • Identity Dark Matter: The IAM Gap in Agentic Security

    Identity and Access Management (IAM) architectures were designed for a static era. They rely on human Single Sign-On (SSO) and predictable machine accounts. This model assumes that every action can be traced back to a known entity with a defined lifecycle. However, the rise of autonomous agents has rendered this assumption obsolete. IAM systems are…

  • What is a digital wallet?

    Why wallets matter for the agentic economy In a traditional digital transaction, a human enters a credit card number or clicks ‘Pay Now.’ In an agentic economy, an AI agent needs to initiate, sign, and settle transactions autonomously — often across multiple blockchains and payment rails. The digital wallet becomes the agent’s identity and authorization…

  • Cryptocurrency

    Cryptocurrency is a form of digital money that uses cryptography to secure transactions, verify ownership, and control the creation of new units. Learn how Bitcoin, stablecoins, and programmable commerce work in the agentic economy.

  • What Is Agentic Commerce?

    What Agentic Commerce Actually Means Agentic commerce represents a fundamental shift in how goods and services are bought and sold online. Instead of a human browsing a website, comparing options, and clicking “Buy Now,” an AI agent handles the entire commercial workflow — discovery, evaluation, negotiation, and payment — on behalf of the user, or…

  • x402 protocol

    An open, internet-native payment protocol that enables instant, automatic stablecoin payments directly over HTTP, reviving the long-dormant HTTP 402 ‘Payment Required’ status code to facilitate machine-to-machine and AI-agent transactions.