How AI agents are spooking the banks

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Bank of America has a message for its customers: please, for the love of God, stop handing your banking passwords to your AI assistant. And if your robot does something daft with your money? That's your problem, not theirs. Meanwhile, a company that promised to rescue ransomware victims without paying the criminals stands accused of... paying the criminals. ProPublica's Renee Dudley was on the case years before the indictment. Plus, Dropzone AI's Edward Wu asks what happens when AI models break out of their test environment and go hacking, and whether AI agents can help overstretched security teams keep up. All this and more in episode 491 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest Renee Dudley. EPISODE LINKS: • Binance Hack: Fake Job Interviews Helped Hackers Steal $6.34 Billion - Hackread. • British spy agency cannot account for thousands of data storage devices, watchdog says - The Record. • Pentagon treating military base freezer malfunctions as suspected cyberattack, officials say - Reuters. • Bank of America’s email to customers - Bluesky post by Bryan Toporek. • Bank of America kindly asks that yo