Sen. Hassan has requested a briefing with CISA on the reported GitHub repository that a private contractor left exposed online containing internal agency passwords & files www.axios.com/2026/05/19/c...

small bit of news in my story today: an Anthropic spokesperson says the company recently held a briefing with a majority of states and the District of Columbia on supporting their critical cybersecurity efforts. www.axios.com/2026/05/19/a...

Palo Alto Networks tells me the company found 75 bugs in its products in its first month of using Mythos + GPT-5.5-Cyber. Get ready for an influx of vulns from other vendors, too. My latest: www.axios.com/2026/05/13/p...

sorry but the way that so many stories are framing gpt-5.5-cyber as the first tiered access openai model for cyber defenders is wild to me — like you guys know they did this with 5.4 too, right? & announced this strategy nearly a month ago? from 4.14--> www.axios.com/2026/04/14/o...

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model for vetted cyber defenders who want to use the tool for do malware analysis, write proof-of-concepts for bugs and more. The release comes as safety tests suggests the model is nearly just as powerful as Mythos 👀 www.axios.com/2026/05/07/o...

New on @axios.com: As part of meetings with tech/cyber cos. + tech trade groups last week, ONCD floated an AI security framework that was already in the works before Mythos. On the table: DoD red-teaming of AI deployments at the federa/state/local government levels. www.axios.com/2026/05/04/t...

New: Tom Parker, a security services lead at IBM, has emerged as a potential contender to lead CISA after the most recent nominee withdrew himself from consideration for the role, five people familiar tell me: www.nextgov.com/people/2026/...

"While GPT‑5.5 didn’t reach Critical cybersecurity capability level, our evaluations and testing showed that its cybersecurity capabilities are a step up compared to GPT‑5.4." openai.com/index/introd...

Trump's science + tech adviser issued a memo today accusing China-based actors of "deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns" to distill and copy American AI models. www.axios.com/2026/04/23/u...

exclusive on @axios.com: OpenAI has been briefing federal agencies, state governments and Five Eyes allies on GPT-5.4-Cyber — including a D.C. event Tuesday with ~50 government cyber pros, a source familiar tells me. www.axios.com/2026/04/22/o...

Scoop: CISA doesn't have access to Anthropic's Mythos model, two sources tell me. Interestingly, Anthropic briefed both CISA and NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation ahead of its public announcement, and NIST is testing Mythos. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/04/21/c...

scoop w/ @mccuri.bsky.social: The NSA has been using Anthropic's Mythos despite the Pentagon's instance that Anthropic is a "supply chain risk," according to two people. The NSA was one of the 40+ orgs that got initial access to the model weeks ago, one source added. www.axios.com/2026/04/19/n...

Sources say NSA is using Mythos Preview, and a source says it is also being used widely within the DoD, despite Anthropic's designation as a supply chain risk (Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

scoop w/ @mccuri.bsky.social: The NSA has been using Anthropic's Mythos despite the Pentagon's instance that Anthropic is a "supply chain risk," according to two people. The NSA was one of the 40+ orgs that got initial access to the model weeks ago, one source added. www.axios.com/2026/04/19/n...

hello from World’s Lift Off event in SF this morning where Sam Altman’s “proof of human” company is unveiling a new World ID protocol and a slew of new partnerships this AM (tinder, zoom, Docusign, Shopify & more). my story on the news here: www.axios.com/2026/04/17/w...

exclusive from me: Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) is demanding info from four major AI voice cloning companies about their strategies to stop scammers from abusing their tools. www.axios.com/2026/04/16/h...

NEW: We documented almost 100 cases of deepfake sexual abuse happening in schools around the world—with more than 600 children being victimized by their peers. Mostly boys in 25+ countries created explicit imagery of girls they often know from school over the last couple of years

OpenAI rolled out its GPT-5.4-Cyber model on Tuesday and is giving access to anyone approved for the highest tier of its Trusted Access for Cyber program. more on @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/04/14/o...

oh sure, why not www.scworld.com/brief/claude...

pretty notable post-mortem from the Axios maintainer who says hackers tricked him via a bespoke Slack channel, fake microsoft team calls and initial communications that imitated the founder of a legit company

weird week to be an Axios cybersecurity reporter :) www.axios.com/2026/03/31/n...

Kash Patel emails (1.1 GB) The first tranche of emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence. ddosecrets.org/article/kash... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

A group linked to Iranian intelligence services claims it hacked FBI Director Kash Patel's emails, documents and potentially classified files. FBI hasn't commented yet, but a DOJ source confirmed to Reuters that Patel's inbox was breached. more @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/03/27/f...

FBI says it took down four domains linked to Iranian cyber operations, including two linked to pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala. Last week, Handala claimed credit for a cyberattack on U.S. medical tech giant Stryker. more on @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/03/20/i...

🚨NEW🚨 Cops used an AI-generated teenager to catch pedophiles on Kik Messenger, an app notorious as a hive of predator activity. A rare insight into how police can spin up AI teens for sting operations on social media. But where else are cops using AI personas? www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

new NSA/cyber command leader just dropped www.axios.com/2026/03/10/n...

SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said. The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.

honestly it's on me for not thinking that this could drop on a random friday afternoon after months of anticipation -- my b www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

OpenAI is starting to roll out Codex Security today, entering the growing market of frontier AI labs offering code security agents. The last time an AI co. introduced a similar offering, the news rattled share prices for major cyber companies for several days. www.axios.com/2026/03/06/o...

Gen. Nakasone, former head of the NSA & an OpenAI board member, called out the Pentagon's move to designate Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" at a conference in Sausalito last night. "This is not a good space for our nation." more @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/03/03/n...

Scoop: CISA CIO Bob Costello is being pushed out, per three people familiar with the matter, ending a standoff between Costello and CISA's beleaguered acting director, who tried and failed to get him reassigned last month. Two sources said Costello is being reassigned to FEMA.

New w @janetimm.bsky.social: In the feds' first call with states since gutting CISA's election programs, they promised no ICE at polling places, but weirdly refused to reaffirm states run elections, per people on the call.

the future looks more like "war games" than "terminator," ex. No. 323389 www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

I spent the last few weeks asking former senior gov't officials & leading cyber experts the same question: What will the major AI-powered cyberattack look like? Attacks on utilities. Agents going rogue. Humans overly trusting AI systems. It's all on the table: www.axios.com/2026/02/24/c...

i had a lot of feelings about the (sorry not sorry, overreaction!) of the markets on cyber stocks after Anthropic's code security tool release! maybe i'm wrong in the long term, but idk, a lot of folks seem to share my POV: www.axios.com/2026/02/23/c...

NEW –> DEF CON has banned Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman after DOJ files released in January revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to the popular hacker conference: www.nextgov.com/people/2026/...

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

NEW: The government's nutrition website directs users to Grok. After I asked about it, the site lost the name drop shown below, but users are still sent to Grok. This follows uproar over Grok's creation of millions of sexualized deepfakes of women and children. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Anthropic's new Opus 4.6 model has already proven it's a pro at finding zero-days. In early testing, the model found more than 500 security flaws in open-source software. Many of those were found after traditional security tools failed. my exclusive for @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/02/05/a...

a new threat actor tied to an Asian gov't (👀) has hacked at least 70 orgs across 37 countries in the last year, according to Palo Alto Networks. victims include Brazil's Ministry of Mines & Energy, the Czech Republic's parliament and an Indonesian gov't official. www.axios.com/2026/02/05/c...

"'If somebody said it's business as usual [with federal election security support], he's full of s—t and lying,' [Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes] said. 'That's not true.'" cyberscoop.com/cisa-electio...

a new open-source AI agent has gone viral across tech spaces. it requires persistent access to devices, can read & write files, and is easily misconfigured when set up. it’s a security nightmare & we’re only at the beginning of AI agent adoption 🫠 www.axios.com/2026/01/29/m...

New, by me: Under Armour says it’s aware of data breach claims after 72M customer records were posted online. A spox. told me a "small percentage" of customers had sensitive information compromised but wouldn't say what it considers "sensitive," nor provide an accurate figure of affected customers.

Oakland Animal Services has been absolutely slammed this month and they are over capacity. There are 4 dogs with a Monday euthanasia date right now. I’m picking one up for foster & hopefully you can too! Go grab one of these babies!

From Flock camera trackers to ICE leaks, protesters are now embracing hacktivism in their work against the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts. my latest on @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/01/20/i...

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

New: DOGE staff cuts gutted the Pentagon's IT office so hard it didn't have enough personnel to buy software it needed to operate theintercept.com/2026/01/19/d...

"Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms." wapo.st/3LWMYnX

one month after a cyberattack, Venezuela's state-owned oil company is operating via phone calls, WhatsApp messages and handwritten reports www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Daily Beast reports that a DHS whistleblower has leaked the personal details of around 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees. The data is said to include about 1,800 on-the-ground agents and 150 supervisors.