Ep 2: The Bank Breach Nobody Covered, Agentic AI Taking Over Banking Operations, DORA Is Forcing Banks Off Single Cloud and the iPhone Exploit That Escaped a Government Lab

In this episode, we cover seven stories that sit at the intersection of geopolitics, technology, and financial risk. From Iranian state-linked hackers confirmed inside U.S. banking networks, to regulators forcing a reckoning on cloud concentration, to AI systems taking over operational decision-making without adequate governance, the risks are converging faster than most institutions are moving.Seven stories. One through line. The threat surface is wider, faster, and more complex than most risk registers reflect.Hackers are inside banking networks right now - Symantec confirms active Seedworm intrusions at a U.S. bank, airport, and defense supply chain since FebruaryYour threat detection response window is now 30 minutes - AI has cut lateral movement time from 100 minutes in 2021 to 30 todayThree cloud providers control 85% of European financial infrastructure - DORA is forcing banks to build multi-cloud resilience nowAgentic AI is flipping the operating model - the machine becomes the operator, the human supervises, and governance hasn't caught upA government iPhone exploit kit has leaked into criminal hands - 23 vulnerabilities, five exploit chains, already used by Russian and Chinese threat actors