OpenAI on Tuesday announced the next phase of its cybersecurity strategy and a new model specifically designed for use by digital defenders, GPT-5.4-Cyber. The news comes in the wake of an announcement last week by competitor Anthropic that its new… Read More "In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy"
Amid horrific threats from United States president Donald Trump as the US and Iran negotiated a ceasefire, the US government warned this week that Iran-linked hackers were carrying out attacks against US energy and water infrastructure targets. With nearly one… Read More "Your Push Notifications Aren’t Safe From the FBI"
Anthropic said this week that the debut of its new Claude Mythos Preview model marks a critical juncture in the evolution of cybersecurity, representing an unprecedented existential threat to existing software defense strategies. So, is it more AI hype—or a… Read More "Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think"
Federal campaign and political action committee spending on security during the 2024 election cycle was over five times the amount spent ahead of the 2016 election, according to a new report published on Thursday. The report by the Security Project… Read More "Politicians Are Spending More Money on Security as They Increasingly Become Targets"
Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends, wives and girlfriends, and former partners, new research has uncovered. The findings, from a European… Read More "Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends"
Following leaked revelations at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the company formally announced Mythos Preview on Tuesday along with news of an industry consortium it has convened, known as Project Glasswing, to… Read More "Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything"
When a wave of unusual activity swept through Syrian government accounts on X in March, it first looked like pure chaos—trolling, parody names, and even explicit content. But beneath the noise lay something far more telling: a state still struggling… Read More "The Hack That Exposed Syria’s Sweeping Security Failures"
A WIRED investigation based on Department of Homeland Security records this week revealed the identities of paramilitary Border Patrol agents who frequently used force against civilians during Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago last fall. Several of the agents, WIRED found,… Read More "Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware"
Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the sources said. Other major AI labs are… Read More "Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk"
A user on Quizlet, an online learning platform, created a public flashcard set in February that appears to have exposed highly confidential information about security procedures in US Customs and Border Protection facilities around Kingsville, Texas. The Quizlet set, titled… Read More "CBP Facility Codes Sure Seem to Have Leaked Via Online Flashcards"
