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KYC checks are a regulatory requirement, and they can help prevent fraudsters and other bad actors from accessing your platform. But they're not designed to catch every type of fraud. That’s why many fintechs add additional identity verification and fraud checks. However, some overlook link analysis, which is an increasingly important layer for detecting fraud rings and AI-driven attacks.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the IT landscape in radical, unprecedented ways. Organizations are rewriting the rules of code generation, automating complex customer service interactions, and extracting deep data insights that were impossible to uncover just a few years ago. However, for technology specialists and IT leaders responsible for keeping the lights on, artificial intelligence represents a massive shift in infrastructure requirements.

Bug bounty has been a very hot topic lately. We’re seeing high-profile programs go offline or fundamentally change: the IBB (one of the most important programs for open-source programs) is pausing submissions, curl is removing payouts and Node.js is removing its bounty entirely. That’s not noise, that's signal.

Financial institutions rely heavily on third-party vendors like payment processors, banking platform providers and fintech integrations to maintain operational efficiency. In fact, according to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, 30% of data breaches involved a third party, including vendors with direct remote access to financial systems. As environments become more distributed and accommodate remote work, managing vendor access has become a modern security challenge.

Security maturity was the thread running through BSides MKE 2026, from clearer business language to role clarity, AI governance, and non-human identity risk.

The AI security market is crowded. Vendors are racing to protect prompts, harden models, detect jailbreaks, and scan for data leakage at the LLM layer. The investment is real. The intent is good. And most of it is missing the point. Here is the problem: agents do not just think. They act. They call APIs. They trigger workflows. They write to databases, send emails, move money, and modify production systems.

The human layer is not impacted by Anthropic's Mythos Preview announcement. If anything, it is reinforced, and for reasons that deserve to be spelled out clearly.

A new commodity phishing kit called “Venom Stealer” allows threat actors to automate ClickFix attacks, according to researchers at BlackFog. ClickFix is a social engineering technique that tricks users into executing malicious commands on their computer, usually resulting in malware installation.

Security teams accept that standing up a real SOC requires days of configuration, credential wrangling, and infrastructure work before any actual security engineering begins. With LimaCharlie, actual setup time is closer to ten minutes. It gives valuable time back to SecOps teams by managing infrastructure and simplifying onboarding and operations with Claude Code. Using agentic AI to deploy SOC capabilities means your team spends less time on infrastructure and more on security work.

The LA Times recently reported on a suspected breach involving a public sector legal office and a third-party tool used to transfer discovery materials. According to the report, the exposed data included a large volume of highly sensitive records, including witness information, medical data, unredacted legal documents, personnel records, and investigative materials. Without getting ahead of the facts, there is a pretty straightforward lesson here. Sensitive data rarely stays in one place.