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Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing  that will use a preview version of its new frontier model, Claude Mythos , to find and address security vulnerabilities. The model will be used by a small set of organizations, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks, along with Anthropic, to secure critical software. The company said it's forming this initiative in response to capabilities observed in its general-purpose frontier model that demonstrate a "level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities." Because of its cybersecurity capabilities and concerns that they could be abused, Anthropic has opted not to make the model generall...

The North Korea-linked persistent campaign known as Contagious Interview has spread its tentacles by publishing malicious packages targeting the Go, Rust, and PHP ecosystems. "The threat actor's packages were designed to impersonate legitimate developer tooling [...], while quietly functioning as malware loaders, extending Contagious Interview’s established playbook into a coordinated cross-ecosystem supply chain operation," Socket security researcher Kirill Boychenko said in a Tuesday report. The complete list of identified packages is as follows - npm: dev-log-core, logger-base, logkitx, pino-debugger, debug-fmt, debug-glitz PyPI: logutilkit, apachelicense, fluxhttp, license-utils-kit Go: github[.]com/golangorg/formstash, github[.]com/aokisasakidev/mit-license-pkg Rust: logtrace Packagist: golangorg/logkit These loaders are designed to fetch platform-specific second-stage payloads, which turn out to be a piece of malware with infostealer and remo...

Iran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned  Tuesday. "These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality, manipulation of display data and, in some cases, operational disruption and financial loss," the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a post on X. The agencies said the campaign is part of a recent escalation in cyber attacks orchestrated by Iranian hacking groups against U.S. organizations in response to the ongoing conflict between Iran, and the U.S. and Israel. Specifically, the activity has led to PLC disruptions across several U.S. critical infrastructure sectors via what the authoring agencies described as malicious interactions with the project file and manipulation of data on human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control an...

The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard) has been linked to a new campaign that has compromised insecure MikroTik and TP-Link routers and modified their settings to turn them into malicious infrastructure under their control as part of a cyber espionage campaign since at least May 2025. The large-scale exploitation campaign has been codenamed   FrostArmada by Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, with Microsoft describing it as an effort to exploit vulnerable home and small office (SOHO) internet devices to hijack DNS traffic and enable passive collection of network data. "Their technique modified DNS settings on compromised routers to hijack local network traffic to capture and exfiltrate authentication credentials," Black Lotus Labs said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "When targeted domains were requested by a user, the actor redirected traffic to an attacker-in-the-middle (AitM) node, where those credentials were harv...

In the rapid evolution of the 2026 threat landscape, a frustrating paradox has emerged for CISOs and security leaders: Identity programs are maturing, yet the risk is actually increasing . According to new research from the Ponemon Institute , hundreds of applications within the typical enterprise remain disconnected from centralized identity systems. These "dark matter" applications operate outside the reach of standard governance, creating a massive, unmanaged attack surface that is now being aggressively exploited—not just by human threat actors, but by autonomous AI agents . The Invisible Threat: Disconnected Apps & AI Amplification Modern enterprises have invested heavily in IAM and Zero Trust, but the "last mile" of identity—legacy apps, localized accounts, and siloed SaaS—remains a stubborn blind spot. The entry of AI into the workforce has turned this gap from a compliance headache into a critical vul...