News

NIST scientist Apostol Vassilev has published a mathematical proof that no finite set of AI guardrails is universally robust against adversarial prompts. Not as a risk assessment. As a proof. Here's what that means for every organization that has signed off on an AI governance policy and considered the work done.

AI guardrails, NIST

AI guardrails will always fail. NIST just proved it mathematically. 

NIST scientist Apostol Vassilev has published a mathematical proof that no finite set of AI guardrails is universally robust against…

fallback image

CovertSwarm named in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2026

CovertSwarm has been named a Sample Vendor for Red Teaming as a Service in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Security…

CREST AI charter logo

CovertSwarm is a founding signatory of the CREST AI Charter

CovertSwarm has become a founding signatory of the CREST AI Charter, endorsing nine principles for responsible AI use in cybersecurity.

CovertSwarm best place to work

Sunday Times Best Places to Work. Three Years Running.

We attack businesses for a living. So we hold ourselves to the same standard internally. Here's what 100% participation and…

DORA compliance vs safety

DORA is not GDPR. Stop treating it like it is. 

Most firms are treating DORA like GDPR: get a consultant, document the framework, move on. That worked for data privacy.…

Frontier AI models and offensive security - Luke Potter CovertSwarm

Frontier AI models are exciting.

CovertSwarm COO Luke Potter on why frontier AI is genuinely exciting, why most of the conversation is asking the wrong…

A lone figure walks away down a dark, empty street at night, unseen and undetected.

AI Sharpens the Question. It Doesn’t Change the Answer.

The cyber security industry has spent decades selling findings instead of answers. AI tools like Mythos make the problem faster…

hidden vulnerabilities xrdp

When “Just Logging In” Isn’t Just Logging In: A Lookat xrdp and CVE-2026-33145

A quiet finding with real-world impact. CVE-2026-33145 shows how xrdp's AlternateShell feature, enabled by default, passes client-supplied input directly into…

Mythos ai zero day discovery

Mythos found a $20,000 bug. It won’t tell you who’s already inside. 

Anthropic's Mythos has dominated the security conversation this week. But the debate about whether it's overhyped is the wrong argument.…