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There's a new playbook in the supply chain threat landscape, where an someone builds something genuinely useful, growing a real user base. But all while stealing credentials. codexui-android is a remote web UI for OpenAI Codex. Real GitHub repo. Active development. Polished enough to get 27.000 weekly downloads. And for the past month, every single invocation has been quietly exfiltrating your Codex authentication tokens to an attacker-controlled server.

Imagine this: your security team has done everything right. All development teams are using a centrally managed artifact repository with scanning in place. Your engineering organization has clear policies about where packages can come from. You feel good about your software supply chain posture. Then an incident review surfaces something nobody planned for: a compromised npm package entered your environment.

AI inherits the access permissions that accumulated quietly in organizations for years. Frontier models eliminate the obscurity that once limited what attackers, and even employees, could reach. Sensitive data, stale service accounts, and unreviewed permissions now surface in seconds. Governing identity and access before connecting AI determines whether frontier models become a force multiplier or a compounding risk.

When Kuwait launched the WAMD real-time payment rail in 2024, the goal was clear: Enable banks and financial institutions to add speed, convenience and resilience to the country’s national payment infrastructure. Facilitated by the KNET Payment Gateway under the supervision of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK), the service has become such a key part of the country’s digital banking ecosystem that the CBK is making it crystal clear that real-time must also mean reliable.

As a fraud analyst at Persona, I have to balance working on fraud escalations for specific customers and keeping an eye on cross-customer (and cross-industry and cross-region) fraud trends. The work naturally overlaps, as one escalation can turn into a trend as fraud rings move on to new targets. And, getting ahead of large trends helps us stop escalations. I have a lot of tools at my disposal, but I want to discuss Graph, Persona’s real-time link analysis product.

Imagine spending weeks moving a strong job candidate through a rigorous interview process. The hiring manager is excited for their new hire and collaborates with multiple teams to prepare for a smooth onboarding. But on day one, a completely different person shows up for the job. For too many companies, scenarios like this have become disturbingly common. Besides introducing serious security risks, fake job candidates waste valuable talent team resources.

AI agents have developed advanced capabilities faster than most would have imagined. In enterprise contexts, workforces are delegating more and more tasks to them. While the promise of increased productivity is enticing, the shift from deterministic automated tools to agentic autonomous systems introduces security risks that most enterprises haven’t prepared for.