The group tracked as Silver Fox has been running a backdoor campaign across India and Russia since at least Q1, and the infection chain is consistent with what regional financial institutions saw probing their perimeters last quarter. The concurrent exploitation of a zero-day in a widely-deployed Chinese-language office platform, unpatched since March, suggests the campaign is not opportunistic. The overlap in tooling and timing points to deliberate staging, possibly pre-positioning against financial sector targets ahead of a geopolitical trigger that neither vendor nor regulator is willing to name explicitly.

Prompt injection has graduated from conference talk to documented incident, and the Treasury's framing of AI as the financial sector's equivalent of a nuclear threat is either hyperbole or an admission that defenses are not ready. The more immediate question for CISOs running AI-assisted workflow tools is whether their prompt sanitisation is being tested against adversarial input, or whether the honest answer is "we assumed the vendor handled it." The gap between those two answers is where the next significant breach will originate.