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🟢 Claude Opus 4.7 is now generally available on Vertex AI, delivering improved problem solving, instruction following, and expanded vision and long-memory capabilities. The release boosts accuracy on high-resolution documents and charts and enhances performance in coding and agentic workflows. Paired with Vertex AI’s infrastructure, you can scale agents, leverage low latency and provisioned throughput, and apply unified security controls and Model Armor. Access is available on Vertex AI and via Google Cloud Marketplace with sample notebooks and pricing guidance.

🌐 Google Cloud has announced that U.S. and EU multi-region endpoints for Claude on Vertex AI are available in public preview. These endpoints pool capacity across multiple regions within a geography to dynamically route requests, improving reliability while keeping processing and data within the chosen jurisdiction. The feature supports prompt caching and automatic failover, and currently offers Opus 4.7 in preview. Enabling the capability requires a simple update to your API location identifier (for example, using us or eu).

🔒 At VulnCon26 in April, Lindsey Cerkovnik of CISA urged that AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic be more directly represented in the CVE program to help manage a surge in reported vulnerabilities. She warned that new AI tools both accelerate discovery of valid flaws and generate lower-value noise, putting pressure on disclosure workflows. Recent vendor developments — Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.4-Cyber — illustrate how automated research is already changing the threat landscape. Cerkovnik said CVE funding is secure and the program remains a CISA priority.

🔎 Mallory has launched an AI-native threat intelligence platform that converts global threat telemetry into prioritized, evidence-based cases tailored to an organization’s environment. The SaaS offering monitors thousands of sources, contextualizes findings against actual attack surfaces, and integrates with existing tools to automate hunt, detection, and exposure management workflows. It emphasizes actionable answers over alerts and supports Claude Code, MCP, APIs, and a modern UI for extensibility.

🔒 European regulators have been largely frozen out of early access to Anthropic's new Mythos model, Politico reports. Anthropic's Project Glasswing has initially restricted testing to select U.S. technology firms — notably Apple, Microsoft and Amazon — so partners can evaluate and mitigate security risks. The UK’s AI Security Institute has been permitted to test Mythos and acted on findings, while Germany has opened dialogue but not gained access, prompting concerns about private-sector control over a potent security-focused AI.

🔐 The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) evaluated Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found it can autonomously discover and exploit vulnerabilities in controlled tests when given network access. In a 32‑step simulated corporate attack the model completed the full sequence in 3 of 10 runs and averaged 22 of 32 steps, though performance varied. AISI stresses these cyber ranges are easier than real environments and recommended organisations strengthen basics — timely patching, robust access controls, secure configuration and comprehensive logging — while also exploring AI to bolster defensive capabilities.

⚠️A new Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) briefing warns that Anthropic's Claude Mythos (Preview) marks a structural shift in cybersecurity. The model can autonomously discover and exploit thousands of vulnerabilities and orchestrate attacks at speeds that compress discovery-to-weaponization from weeks to hours. The paper — informed by leading security figures — says Mythos is not an outlier and urges CISOs to build Mythos-ready programs, harden fundamentals, and elevate the issue to the board.

🔍 Anthropic's new Claude Mythos Preview and its Project Glasswing effort have focused industry attention on AI-driven cyberattack capabilities. Anthropic says it will not release the model publicly, citing the risk that it can automatically generate operational exploits, and is running the model against public and proprietary code to find and patch vulnerabilities before they can be weaponized. The announcement produced substantial PR impact, prompting rival vendors to echo similar caution. Security observers note defenders still hold an advantage—finding flaws is easier than turning them into attacks—but that margin is shrinking as models improve.

🔔 Emergency updates address a critical PDF zero‑day in Adobe Acrobat Reader (CVE-2026-34621, CVSS 8.6) that executes malicious JavaScript when specially crafted documents are opened. The report also highlights Anthropic's Mythos being used as an exploit-generation engine, state-linked interference with infrastructure, and research showing telecom optical fibers can be abused for acoustic eavesdropping. Prioritize patching, credential hygiene, and detection for fileless and AI-driven attacks.

🔍 Researchers at Horizon3.ai used Anthropic’s Claude to rapidly identify a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Classic that persisted for roughly 13 years. The flaw (CVE-2026-34197) allows misuse of the Jolokia management API—for example via addNetworkConnector—to load a malicious remote Spring XML and execute arbitrary Java/system commands. While the issue requires authentication in principle, default credentials remain common and a separate vulnerability in some 6.x builds can expose Jolokia without auth, turning it into an unauthenticated RCE. Apache has released patches in 5.19.4 and 6.2.3; administrators should upgrade and restrict access to management interfaces immediately.

💬 Sen. Bernie Sanders engaged the AI assistant Claude in a public conversation about AI and privacy, probing how such systems handle personal data and the policy implications. Bruce Schneier observes that Claude's answers were 'actually pretty good,' indicating that large language models can inform lawmakers while also raising privacy and regulatory questions.

🔍 Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing, an initiative that uses Claude Mythos Preview to autonomously locate and remediate undiscovered cybersecurity vulnerabilities in critical software. The private model — described by Anthropic as highly capable for coding and agentic tasks — was tested with launch partners including AWS, Google and Microsoft and reportedly found thousands of previously unidentified zero-day flaws. Anthropic committed up to $100m in usage credits and $4m in donations to support open-source security while keeping Mythos Preview restricted to defenders with guardrails.

🔐 Anthropic launched Project Glasswing to apply a preview of its frontier model, Claude Mythos, to find and help remediate security vulnerabilities in critical software. The company says Mythos Preview has already identified thousands of high‑severity zero‑day flaws and autonomously developed complex exploits in testing. Access is restricted to a small set of vendors and foundations due to abuse risks. Anthropic committed significant usage credits and donations to support coordinated defensive patching while acknowledging prior operational leaks and the risk that the same capabilities could be misused.

🔎 Horizon3.ai researchers used Anthropic's Claude to help uncover a remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2026-34197, in Apache ActiveMQ Classic that reportedly persisted for about 13 years. The flaw allows an attacker to invoke Jolokia management operations to fetch a remote configuration file and execute arbitrary OS commands; default admin:admin credentials or prior exposure via CVE-2024-32114 can make exploitation trivial. Patches are available in versions 5.19.4 and 6.2.3, and administrators are advised to update, remove default credentials, and inspect broker logs for signs of compromise.

🔎 Anthropic's Project Glasswing uses Claude Mythos Preview to autonomously hunt software vulnerabilities and is being offered to a closed consortium of more than 40 organizations, including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and the Linux Foundation. Anthropic says early tests found thousands of high-severity flaws across operating systems, browsers, and other widely used software, including an allegedly 27-year-old OpenBSD bug. Security leaders warn the development could upend bug-bounty economics, push security upstream, shorten exposure windows, and raise dual-use control questions.

🛡️ At AWS, decades of scaled security operations combine with new AI collaborations to proactively harden critical systems. Through Project Glasswing and Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, AWS runs continuous AI-driven code reviews and provides gated research previews via Amazon Bedrock. Complementary offerings include AWS Security Agent for autonomous penetration testing and Bedrock guardrails and Automated Reasoning to enforce enterprise controls and reduce risk.

🔒 Anthropic’s newest and most capable model, Claude Mythos Preview, is available in Private Preview to a select group of Google Cloud customers through Project Glasswing. Its placement on Vertex AI provides enterprises access to a frontier model integrated with Google Cloud’s tools to build, scale, and govern AI applications and agents. The announcement emphasizes high performance across use cases and a renewed focus on reducing cybersecurity risk in enterprise deployments.

🔒 CrowdStrike announced it is a founding member of Project Glasswing, partnering with Anthropic to secure execution of frontier models like Mythos Preview where they run inside enterprises. CrowdStrike emphasizes its sensor-level visibility across endpoints, real-time AI Detection and Response, and Falcon Data Security to govern data and agent behavior at runtime. The company frames deployment governance as distinct from model safety and highlights regulatory and operational requirements for enterprise adoption.

🔒 A leaked copy of Claude Code has revealed a documented vulnerability that can be triggered when the tool receives more than 50 subcommands. Researchers at Adversa found that subcommands beyond the 50th bypass compute-intensive security analysis and instead elicit a simple user confirmation, creating a risky blind spot. Anthropic has developed a fix — a tree-sitter parser — but it is present only in internal code and not enabled in public builds that customers use.

⚠️ Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source-code leak to distribute the Vidar infostealer via fake GitHub repositories. Anthropic accidentally exposed a 59.8 MB JavaScript source map on March 31 that revealed 513,000 lines of TypeScript across 1,906 files, and copies rapidly proliferated on GitHub. Zscaler found a malicious repo optimized for search that lures users to download a 7‑Zip archive containing a Rust dropper, ClaudeCode_x64.exe, which deploys Vidar and the GhostSocks proxy. The archive is updated frequently and may carry additional payloads.