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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 …

hot
US agencies warn attackers are targeting refrigeration systems that protect food and medicine

Threat actors are going after the controllers that keep grocery store freezers and cold storage rooms at safe temperatures, and they may push those units into continuous …

blood
Cyberattack hits French blood banks

Three blood banks have detected and reversed a potentially destructive temperature spike in their cold rooms, following a cyberattack that targeted a refrigeration equipment …

Claude
Claude Security can now spot vulnerabilities that reappear in code

Anthropic has updated Claude Security with ongoing code scanning and automatic fix tracking to help security teams monitor vulnerabilities as software changes. The service …

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 …

OpenAI
OpenAI tightens defenses after AI agents breach research environment

Following the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which an agentic collective autonomously penetrated OpenAI’s research infrastructure and another company’s production …

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) …

Dashlane Password Manager
Product showcase: Dashlane Password Manager is more security toolkit than password vault

Dashlane is a password manager for individuals and families that stores passwords, passkeys, payment cards, personal information and secure notes in an encrypted vault. It …

AWS
AWS retools Security Hub for AI and multicloud threats

AWS added AI workload protection and Microsoft Azure security monitoring to Security Hub, its centralized security platform for collecting and prioritizing security findings …

Unauthenticated RCE in Splunk Enterprise under active attack (CVE-2026-20253)

CISA has added CVE-2026-20253, a critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and ordered US federal …

Nichole Windholz
Onspring CISO on where automated GRC systems fall short

In this interview with Help Net Security, Nichole Windholz, CISO at Onspring, talks about the limits of automated GRC systems and continuous control monitoring. She explains …

Scott Schnoll
The Exchange Online security controls organizations keep getting wrong

In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Schnoll, Microsoft MVP for Exchange, breaks down the Shared Responsibility Model, where Microsoft secures the cloud while …

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