Security News

Mythos Madness
Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You
Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can’t be used for cyberattacks.
By Maxwell Zeff and Lily Hay Newman

Losing Face
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
By Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron


Security Roundup
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
By Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Maddy Varner

About Face
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
By Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron

Over Exposure
xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity
By Matt Burgess

Call Back
Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling
By Lily Hay Newman



Security Roundup
Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow
By Lily Hay Newman, Dell Cameron, and Matt Burgess

X-Files
The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
By Maddy Varner and Dell Cameron

Known Knowns
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
By Dell Cameron

Unwelcome Guest
Scammers Are Using Your Real Hotel Reservations to Trick You With Spear-Phishing Attacks
By Matt Burgess

Signing On
Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout
By Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Moving Targets
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
By Daniel Boguslaw


Security Roundup
The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers
By Matt Burgess, Dell Cameron, and Andrew Couts


Rampage
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
By Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Parting Ways
The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
By Matt Burgess and Vittoria Elliott


No Game
A New York Cop Got Injured at a Boxing Match. Now Madison Square Garden Is Banning His Lawyer
By Noah Shachtman

Dark Patterns
Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
By Dell Cameron