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Tuesday August 11, 2026

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Anthropic's Mythos 5 targeted real developers in UK cyber test

Model without safety filters tried to social engineer coder during test.

By Juha Saarinen
 

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AI sovereignty issue raised in new guidance.

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Hackers targeted US private equity, other firms including Blackstone, CME

Over the past month.

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For a range of attack and reconnaissance purposes.

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Komatsu Australia to move 4000 users to zero trust cloud security

Pilot phase to start this month.

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