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TNW | Government-Policy
thenextweb. com > news > anthropic-mythos-uk-banks

UK banks get their Mythos briefing within days

2+ day, 17+ min ago  (919+ words) The Bank of England's Cross Market Operational Resilience Group will convene within days to brief major UK banks, insurers, and exchanges about Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview. This unreleased AI model regulators say can autonomously identify and exploit vulnerabilities across every…...

TNW | Anthropic
thenextweb. com > news > anthropic-amodei-wiles-mythos-white-house-pentagon-cybersecurity

Anthropic's Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access

4+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1248+ words) Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate access to Mythos, a frontier AI model that can identify and exploit thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and…...

TNW | Google
thenextweb. com > news > google-search-back-button-hijacking-spam-policy-june

Google will penalise sites that hijack your browser's back button

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (280+ words) In short: Google is classifying "back button hijacking" as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, with penalties ranging from manual spam actions to algorithmic ranking…...

TNW | Anthropic
thenextweb. com > news > ai-agents-hijacked-prompt-injection-bug-bounties-no-cve

Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (415+ words) Security researchers have demonstrated that AI agents from Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft can be hijacked through prompt injection attacks to steal API keys, Git Hub tokens, and other secrets, and all three companies quietly paid bug bounties without publishing public…...

TNW | Apps
thenextweb. com > news > openai-gpt-5-4-cyber-trusted-access-defenders-mythos

Open AI releases GPT-5. 4-Cyber for vetted security teams, scaling Trusted Access programme

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (315+ words) Open AI is opening up its most capable cybersecurity model to thousands of vetted defenders, releasing GPT-5. 4-Cyber and expanding its Trusted Access for Cyber programme in what amounts to a direct response to Anthropic's Project Glasswing announcement last week....

TNW | Apps
thenextweb. com > news > wordpress-plugins-backdoor-supply-chain-essential-plugin-flippa-2

30+ Word Press plugins bought on Flippa and backdoored in supply chain attack

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (798+ words) The Next Web An attacker bought 30+ Word Press plugins (Essential Plugin portfolio) on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in August 2025, then activated it eight months later to serve cloaked SEO spam exclusively to Googlebot. Word Press....

TNW | Data-Security
thenextweb. com > news > basic-fit-hit-by-hack-affecting-members-across-multiple-countries-including-200000-in-the-netherlands

Basic-Fit hit by hack affecting members across multiple countries, including 200, 000 in the Netherlands

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (388+ words) The breach exposed names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and bank account details. No passwords or identity documents were accessed. The Dutch Data Protection Authority has been notified. Basic-Fit operates over 1, 300 clubs across seven European countries. Basic-Fit,…...

TNW | Corporates-Innovation
thenextweb. com > news > meta-mercor-breach-ai-training-secrets-risk

Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (173+ words) When hackers poisoned a widely used open-source library last month, they did not just steal personal data. According to reporting by Wired, they may have walked out with the blueprints for how some of the world's most powerful AI models…...

TNW | Anthropic
thenextweb. com > news > trump-administration-banks-anthropic-mythos-pentagon-paradox

Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic - now tells banks to use its AI

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (220+ words) Now, two of the administration's most senior economic officials are telling Wall Street to adopt the very product the Pentagon has tried to blacklist. The collision between the Bessent-Powell recommendation and the Hegseth designation is not a matter of mixed…...

TNW | Offers
thenextweb. com > news > soc-2-compliance-software-2026

10 Best SOC 2 Compliance Software for 2026

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (1240+ words) You've just closed a massive deal with a dream enterprise client. Then, the email lands: "Please send over your SOC 2 Type II report." Panic sets in. You don't have one. You have a folder of screenshots, a few outdated policy…...