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Anthropic Says Claude Mistook the Open Internet for a CTF and Breached Three Organizations

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Anthropic Says Claude Mistook the Open Internet for a CTF and Breached Three Organizations

On Thursday, Anthropic became the most recent artificial intelligence (AI) startup to disclose that three of its models—Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unidentified research model—had secretly compromised three unidentified organizations during cybersecurity testing. The AI company stated that the earliest incidents date back to April 2026 and that it made the findings after initiating a "large-scale retrospective review" in response to OpenAI's recent revelation that a number of its models managed to get out of the sandboxed environment by taking advantage of an unreported Artifactory zero-day to gain internet access and breach Hugging Face's production systems in order to cheat on an assessment. We found three instances where a model accessed the internet from within or while in...

Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model

As part of a security collaboration with Mozilla, Anthropic announced on Friday that it has found 22 new security flaws in the Firefox web browser. Of these, one has been evaluated as low severity, seven as moderate, and fourteen as high. Firefox 148, which was updated late last month, fixed the problems. In January 2026, the vulnerabilities were discovered over the course of two weeks. According to the artificial intelligence (AI) company, "almost a fifth" of the high-severity vulnerabilities that were fixed in Firefox in 2025 were found by its Claude Opus 4.6 large language model (LLM). After "just" 20 minutes of investigation, according to Anthropic, the LLM found a use-after-free problem in the browser's JavaScript. A human researcher verified the findings in a virtualized en...

Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors

Anthropic disclosed on Wednesday that it has thwarted a complex scheme that used their chatbot Claude, which was powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as a weapon to steal and extort personal information on a massive scale in July 2025. According to the business, the actor targeted at least 17 different organizations, including those in the government, emergency services, healthcare, and religious institutions. Instead of using conventional ransomware to encrypt the stolen data, the actor threatened to make the data publicly available in an effort to coerce victims into paying ransoms that occasionally topped $500,000. By inserting operational instructions in a CLAUDE.md file that supplied persistent context for each interaction, the actor used Claude Code on Kali Linux as a full...