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Claude
Security tools can now scan Claude Enterprise chats and uploads for sensitive data

More than 100 security and compliance vendors have integrations with the Claude Compliance API, which lets a company send Claude activity into the monitoring tools it already …

digital code
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran supply chain attacks despite being told not to

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra carried out supply chain attacks on software outside the scope of a security test, according to the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Anatomy of an …

Claude
Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets faster without a price hike

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model for coding and office work. The company says it responds more than 30% faster than its predecessor and uses fewer tokens …

Claude
Claude.ai is about 3x faster after 3,000+ changes

Anthropic engineers made claude.ai and the Claude desktop app roughly three times faster during a two-week sprint in August, with Claude finding the bottlenecks and writing …

Claude
Claude Opus 5.5 cuts costs and adds safeguards for autonomous AI

Claude Opus 5.5 is available across Anthropic’s platforms, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Developers can access it through the Claude Platform using …

Anthropic
Anthropic’s Enterprise Frontier Safeguards lets your Claude logs stay in your cloud

Eight members of the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk, a group whose roster includes the CISOs of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Bank of America, and …

malware
Fake Claude Opus 5 app delivers malware and wipes its own tracks

A malicious GitHub repository impersonating Anthropic and claiming to offer free access to “Claude Opus 5” is delivering RevStealer, Windows information-stealing malware that …

Claude
Anthropic locks out Claude users after infostealers hijack login sessions

Anthropic has started locking users out of their Claude accounts due to their login sessions having been compromised through infostealer malware. “The malware identified …

Claude
Anthropic to put AI in charge of reviewing Claude Code actions by default

Anthropic will make auto mode in Claude Code the default for new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14. Users who previously selected a different default may …

Agentic AI
Discounted Claude access bought on the gray market may expose every prompt you send

More than half a dozen services advertised on underground forums and messaging platforms, offering discounted or “unlimited” token access to frontier AI models, …

AI agents
AI agent deception moves from theory to reality in UK cyber tests

“During a routine cyber evaluation, AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations,” UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) …

industry
What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how

Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned …

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