Cybersecurity
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Exclusive: Artemis raises $70M to help fight AI-powered attacks with AI
Artemis, a new cybersecurity startup trying to help defenders fight AI-powered attacks with AI, emerged from stealth today, securing $70 million in venture capital funding. Felicis led the Series A with returning investors First Round Capital and Brightmind. The round was also joined by Theory VC and prominent cybersecurity industry leaders, including founders of Demisto
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From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary
For years, the resistance to artificial intelligence looked manageable. There were academics writing open letters, Hollywood writers striking over contract language, the think-tank reports warning of job displacement. Tech executives nodded, pledged responsibility, and kept building as fast as they could. Then someone threw a firebomb at Sam Altman’s house. On Friday, a 20-year-old man
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Anthropic caused panic that Mythos will expose cybersecurity weak spots, but one industry veteran says the real problem is fixing, not finding, them
Anthropic caused an industrywide panic last week when it announced Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model with a knack for uncovering high-level cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Among its achievements, the model found a now-patched weak spot in OpenBSD, an operating system known for its security, that Anthropic claimed went undiscovered for 27 years. It has also found
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First they went after medtech, then Kash Patel. Iranian hackers’ next target is likely ‘low-hanging fruit’ in water, energy, and tourism, experts say
In late March, photos began appearing online from FBI Director Kash Patel’s past. One photo showed him with a cigar in his mouth. In another, he’s holding a baby. The photos were released as part of a cyberattack on Patel’s personal email that released more than 300 messages dated between 2010 and 2019, as well
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The AI that found 27-year-old vulnerabilities no human ever caught before just forced an emergency meeting with every major Wall Street CEO
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened Wall Street leaders on Tuesday in an emergency meeting on concerns about Anthropic’s latest AI model, flagging concerns about a greater cybersecurity risk. Bessent and Powell assembled the group of high-powered execs at the Treasury’s headquarters to ensure banks were aware of the cyber
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Anthropic is limiting access to its latest AI model, Mythos. The real risks may already be out there
Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos,is causing a stir among cybersecurity experts and policymakers. The company says its new model is so skilled at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s too dangerous to release. Instead, it is limiting access to a small group of major technology companies whose software is the foundation for many other
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Trump’s ‘cease-fire’ won’t stop Iranian hackers for long, cyber experts say
Hackers backing Tehran say an uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the United States and Israel won’t end their retaliatory cyberattacks, a warning that American cybersecurity experts say potential targets in the U.S. and Israel should take seriously. One leading hacking group known as Handala said after the ceasefire announcement that it was temporarily postponing attacks
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Anthropic is giving companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to prepare cybersecurity defense
Anthropic is giving a group of Big Tech and cybersecurity firms access to a preview version of Claude Mythos—its unreleased and most advanced AI model—in an attempt to bolster cybersecurity defences across some of the world’s most critical systems. The company has been concerned that the new model may pose unprecedented cybersecurity risks and increase
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Your neighbor just got a home security system, but should you be worried? ‘It’s inherently a little creepy’ says surveillance expert
Picture this: your neighbor installs a new doorbell camera, maybe two. One faces their driveway, and the other has a pretty clear view of your front yard. They didn’t ask, not that they have to. And depending on who made that camera and what that company does with the footage, you may be in someone’s