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Anthropic's newest model excels at finding security vulnerabilities, but raises cybersecurity risks | Fortune

According to a report from the company's Frontier Red Team, during testing, Opus 4.6 identified over 500 previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities-flaws that are unknown to people who wrote the software, or the party responsible for patching or fixing it-across open-source software libraries. Notably, the model was not explicitly told to search for the security flaws, but rather it detected and flagged the issues on its own.

Information security

fromTechzine Global

2 months ago

Malicious LLMs lower the threshold for cybercrime

Malicious LLM platforms like WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT enable affordable, turnkey cybercrime services that scale phishing, ransomware, and social engineering.

Privacy technologies

fromPrivacy International

3 months ago

Dual-use tech: the Anduril example

Dual-use surveillance tech blurs military and civilian roles, enabling autonomous monitoring and border policing that expand state power and are fueled by public funding.

Venture

fromresund Startups

3 months ago

Denmark's Largest Venture Fund, Heartcore Capital, Rallies Behind European Defense Tech Innovation

Heartcore Capital is pivoting to early-stage defense and dual-use technologies—AI, quantum, robotics, and cybersecurity—to help close Europe's military innovation gap.

Artificial intelligence

fromNextgov.com

5 months ago

Is artificial intelligence a friend, foe or frenemy? NIST wants to find out

AI's dual-use nature accelerates both cybersecurity defenses and adversary attacks, creating urgent need for resilience and guidance from standards bodies like NIST.