Cybercrime used to have a ‘"tell." It was the digital equivalent of a villain stroking their cat - clunky grammar, misspelt links and suspicious attachments that screamed ‘phishing’.

A Claude Code-powered cyberattack exposed AI governance gaps common among Australian businesses, where oversight continues to lag adoption.

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A Claude Code-powered cyberattack exposed AI governance gaps common among Australian businesses, where oversight continues to lag adoption.

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Boxers will often say, the punches that hurt the most aren’t the ones which are thrown with the most force, but the ones they didn’t see coming. I think the same is true in cybersecurity. It’s not the most advanced technically efficient, 0-day utilizing attacks that have the biggest impact, but rather those quiet ones. With no malware or suspicious login at three in the morning from an IP address in a country your company has never done business with. No alert fires. No dashboard turns red.

AI governance helps enterprises control tool use, reduce compliance risk, protect customer data, and avoid fines as teams adopt AI faster than policy.

I saw a venn diagram on social media. One circle is Shadow IT, one circle is Shadow AI, a substantial overlap, and the implicit message is that they are effectively the same challenge.