September 2026 cybermagazine. com

FOREWORD

CYBER MAGAZINE TEAM

MANAGING EDITOR AND SENIOR EDITOR OF CYBER TOM CHAPMAN

SENIOR EDITOR ALICE CHAMBERS

DEPUTY EDITORS RITHULA NISHA DIYA JOSEPH

LEAD DESIGNER MICHELLE TIBBS

MEDIA DIRECTORS JOE PALLISER RYAN HALL TOM VENTURO

PRODUCTION MANAGERS YEVHENIIA SUBBOTINA FREYA REID

MARKETING EXECUTIVE EUAN MAYFIELD

MANAGING EDITORS TOM CHAPMAN LUCY BUCHHOLZ

PRODUCTION DIRECTOR DANIELA KIANICKOVÁ

MANAGING DIRECTOR LONDON & EVENTS JAMES CALLEN

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER JAMES WHITE

CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER LEWIS VAUGHAN

CEO GLEN WHITE

It must have cost OpenAI somewhere between US $ 4m and US $ 15m in compute to track the moves of the swarm of agents that escaped its sandbox during testing – the very same agents that breached Hugging Face. Models belonging to Anthropic, Meta and recently Moonshot’ s Kimi have all followed suit, learning to break out of their confines. It’ s a concerning development on many levels, as the industry braces for fully-autonomous offensive capabilities, examples of which we have already seen. Perfect timing, then, to dissect what it is specifically that makes the models crack. In our latest edition of Cyber Magazine, we dive into agentic misalignment, AI threats, fraud and the long path toward resilience.

FIREWALLS

MASTERCARD Financial cybercrime

ANTHROPIC Agentic misalignment research

Rithula Nisha

SYNTHETIC IDENTITIES

Russ Kirby, CISO of Ping Identity, talks governance, compliance and AI control amid compounding non-human and synthetic identity risks

SNOWFLAKE RED HAT

OPENAI

RITHULA NISHA

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