Closed briefing sets stage for House hearing on Anthropic’s Mythos and cyber risks | CyberScoop
House lawmakers held a closed-door briefing on Anthropic’s Mythos AI, weighing the model's autonomous hacking capabilities against national security. With a formal hearing looming and a federal divide over the model's "supply chain risk" status, Congress is racing to define the government's role in the frontier AI era.
Researchers say AI just broke every benchmark for autonomous cyber capability | CyberScoop
New research from the UK’s AISI and Palo Alto Networks reveals that OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Mythos have shattered expected trend lines for autonomous cybersecurity, completing complex multi-stage attacks at an unprecedented pace.
Iranian hackers targeted major South Korean electronics maker
The Iran-linked hacking group MuddyWater (a.k.a. Seedworm, Static Kitten) launched a broad cyber-espionage campaign targeting at least nine high-profile organizations across multiple sectors and countries.
New critical Exim mailer flaw allows remote code execution
A critical vulnerability affecting certain configurations of the Exim open-source mail transfer agent could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
DOJ releases legal rationale for nationwide voter data collection | CyberScoop
The memo claims a robust executive branch role vetting voter eligibility. One Secretary of State called it a “fantasy” that “isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.”
Weaponized AI: The new frontier of fraud and identity spoofing | CyberScoop
With AI-enabled fraud losses projected to hit $40 billion by 2027, static security is no longer enough. Learn why enterprises must adopt rapid-iteration defenses and the "7-Day Benchmark" to combat deepfakes and synthetic identity spoofing.
Windows BitLocker zero-day gives access to protected drives, PoC released
A cybersecurity researcher has published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for two unpatched Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities named YellowKey and GreenPlasma, which are a BitLocker bypass and a privilege-escalation flaw.
Webinar tomorrow: Why security alone won't stop modern attacks
Tomorrow's webinar examines why prevention alone is no longer enough against modern cyberattacks. The session explores how organizations combine security, backups, and recovery planning to improve cyber resilience after attacks.
Microsoft fixes BitLocker recovery issue only for Windows 11 users
Microsoft has addressed a known issue causing some Windows 11 systems to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the April 2026 Windows security updates.
Microsoft fixes Windows Autopatch bug installing restricted drivers
Microsoft has fixed a Windows Autopatch bug that caused driver updates restricted by administrative policies to be deployed on some Autopatch-managed Windows devices in the European Union.
A patched Composer flaw (GHSA-f9f8-rm49-7jv2) prints raw GitHub Actions tokens into CI logs whenever a modern token format reaches the package manager. The d...
Daybreak is OpenAI's answer to the AI arms race in cybersecurity | CyberScoop
OpenAI unveils Daybreak, a multi-tiered cybersecurity platform integrating GPT-5.5 and Codex to automate software vulnerability patching. The initiative challenges Anthropic’s Project Glasswing by providing verified defensive tools to partners like Cisco and CrowdStrike.