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Claude
Claude Mythos 5.2 arrives with stronger bug hunting and less sandbox-breaking behavior

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2. The two versions share an underlying model, with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity and biology tasks in the …

connect
AI coding agents are installing MCP servers that will never be patched

When a developer tells an AI coding agent to “set up a GitHub MCP,” the agent has to pick a package. New research from Glow Labs documents sessions where it picked …

door
Claude Code extension poisoned with persistent SSH backdoor

A tampered build of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension for VS Code-compatible editors planted an SSH backdoor on developers’ machines, researchers at macOS security firm …

Voice
Fake IT help desk callers got by on little more than names and email addresses

Attackers posing as IT help desk staff contacted employees by phone, email and Microsoft Teams in the third quarter of 2026 and talked them into opening remote access …

malware
Yoba malware hides in fake desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude

Fake GitHub projects posing as desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude have been used to spread a malware chain that ends with a cryptocurrency miner, Check Point has found. …

Anthropic
Anthropic details what stops Claude Duet from going rogue

Anthropic has outlined the security and privacy protections behind Claude Duet, its proactive AI agent that can monitor connected accounts and complete tasks while users are …

Anthropic
Anthropic offers free AI security scans to open-source maintainers

Anthropic’s OSS Scanner is a new, free service that uses the company’s strongest AI models to find security vulnerabilities in open-source software. Maintainers who opt in …

Claude
Anthropic’s new budget model gets much better at ignoring hidden commands

Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 model, designed for quick, repetitive workloads and speed-sensitive tasks, is now better at finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits than its …

Anthropic
Anthropic loosens Claude’s cyber restrictions for verified defenders

Anthropic expanded its Cyber Verification Program (CVP), giving approved security professionals access to advanced Claude capabilities with fewer automated blocks on work such …

AI Agent Gateway
AI Agent Gateway: Open-source tool keeps credentials out of agent configs

Tuskira’s AI Agent Gateway is an open-source solution that sits between AI agents and everything they call: the MCP tool servers that connect them to services like …

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 …

Phishing
Fake Claude Max giveaway tricks users into handing over their Google account credentials

A fake Claude Max giveaway uses a spoofed Google sign-in window to steal users’ login credentials, Malwarebytes researchers have found. …

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