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Black October: AI Agents in Bank Accounts, the PHP Flaw and the LiteLLM Hack | Technically Creative Week in Review This week Orlando breaks down Black October, the week AI met cybersecurity head on. Unauthorised AI agents turned up inside customer accounts at JPMorgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Citi, and some were phoning call centres on their own. A critical PHP vulnerability found with the help of AI leaked early, and the NSA told organisations that couldn’t patch straight away to take their websites offline. Microsoft revealed that a China-aligned hacking group, Storm-0940, used an AI penetration-testing tool to break into Microsoft 365 accounts. And a poisoned release of LiteLLM, the popular AI gateway, stole cloud and AI credentials. What it means for creative companies: why agencies, studios, production companies and publishers should care, and simple ways to give AI agents access without handing over the keys to the business. Also in this episode: Meta pauses its new commercial terms after publishers push back over AI crawling Coca-Cola moves its North American media account to Omnicom Canva launches Craft, its own AI image model trained on design templates Anthropic and music publishers argue fair use over song lyrics in court Elon Musk invests $1 billion in Skydance, the new owner of HBO and Warner Bros. BBC’s Blue Planet III keeps murky footage to prove it isn’t AI Technically Creative is a weekly look at technology and the creative industries: AI, film, TV, advertising, music, design, publishing and media. Hosted by Orlando Wood, founder of KoobrikLabs, the AI and IT partner for creative companies.