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Cybersecurity is the rickety scaffolding supporting everything you do online. For every new feature or app, there are a thousand different ways it can break – and a hundred of those can be exploited by criminals for data breaches, identity theft, or outright cyber heists. Staying ahead of those exploits is a full-time job, and one of the most lucrative and sought-after skills in the tech industry. All too often, it’s something up-and-coming companies decide to skip out on, only to pay the price later on.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
California sues over 23andMe breach that exposed millions of people’s data.

Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Chrome Holding Co. — formerly 23AndMe — claiming that the company failed to protect user information, leading to the massive 2023 breach that included data belonging to 6.9 million users. In 2024, 23andMe agreed to pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit related to the breach.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Aqara’s new smart locks work with almost any door.

The Aqara U500 lineup includes three separate models. There’s a “Rim Lock” for standard entrance and interior doors that doesn’t require a mortise, a “Gate Lock” for metal grille-style doors, and even a lock that’s designed for glass doors. They’re only available in Europe for now though.

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Aqara Smart Glass Door Lock U500
The Aqara Smart Glass Door Lock U500 doesn’t require any drilling.
Image: Aqara
Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

AI can’t feel, but the best hackers pretend it can.

Robert Hart
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Anthropic is making the security tools it’s used with Claude Mythos Preview just a bit more available.

Upon request, “qualifying” customers can use things like skills, a Claude harness, and a threat model builder, Anthropic says as part of a bigger update about Project Glasswing.

Anthropic also plans to expand Project Glassing to “additional partners” and has published a dashboard of open source vulnerabilities disclosed by Mythos Preview.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Trump Mobile admits it suffered a data breach.

YouTuber Coffeezilla first reported the leak of customer details, now apparently fixed. Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien has now confirmed to The Verge there was a breach, which he blames on “a third-party platform provider.”

“The impacted information appears to be limited to certain customer details, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, order identifiers and mobile phone numbers.

Out of an abundance of caution, our third-party platform provider has implemented additional safeguards and enhanced monitoring measures while the matter continues to be investigated.”

Update: Added comment from Trump Mobile’s CEO.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Nvidia says some of its old drivers have “high severity” security vulnerabilities.

A security bulletin from Nvidia breaks down new vulnerabilities found in some of its GPU drivers for Windows and Linux and vGPU software. As Digital Foundry and Club386 point out, they affect drivers prior to 596.36 on the current branch, so if you’re running the most recently released update (596.49, which was released on May 12th), you don’t have anything to do.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
GitHub says a data breach impacted 3,800 internal repositories.

The company traced the incident to a “poisoned” VS Code extension on an employee’s device. While the hacking group TeamPCP has claimed responsibility for the breach, GitHub says it has since removed the malicious extension and that the exfiltration was limited to internal data, as reported by Bleeping Computer.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Researchers used Mythos to crack macOS.

Researchers at the security firm Calif say they used Anthropic’s cybersecurity AI to create a privilege escalation exploit, the Wall Street Journal reports:

Last September, Apple said it leveraged its hardware and operating system expertise into a technology called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), which it described as “the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade.” With Claude, building the code that exploited the two MacOS bugs took five days, Calif says.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
AI cybersecurity updates for MDASH, Mythos, and GPT-5.5.

On Wednesday, the AISI, which evaluates AI models for the British government, said both Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 showed progress well above previous trends on cybersecurity testing. Separately, XBOW released data suggesting “frontier models have taken a major step forward in vulnerability discovery.”

Meanwhile, Microsoft said its multi-model agentic setup, MDASH, was used to discover 16 CVEs in this week’s Patch Tuesday updates and is the leader on the CyberGym security evaluation framework.

graph showing the average number of steps completed on a cybersecuirty benchmark comparing various models across how many tokens spent
Image: AISI
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers

They should be fixed now. Hopefully.

Sean Hollister
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
All Linux distros are affected by the new “Dirty Frag” vulnerability.

Similar to the “Copy Fail” exploit revealed a week ago, the two “Dirty Frag” exploits (CVE-2026-43284) also allow a local user to give themselves root privileges on nearly any Linux distribution. The researcher who found it says that, “Because the embargo has now been broken, no patches or CVEs exist for these vulnerabilities.”

Ubuntu developer Canonical has detailed mitigations, and Red Hat says it will provide guidance “soon.”

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Watch your nuggets.

Sean Hollister let a hacked robot lawnmower run him over in the name of journalism, but it took a Verge commenter to find the right language that really sets the stakes.

MattMaher_M7Innovations:

There’s investigative journalism, and then there’s ‘get-run-over-by-a-lawnmower-to-prove-a-point’ journalism. Thank you Sean, for almost chopping off your chicken nuggets to give us the gif of the century.

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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Mozilla is sharing more details about some of the 271 Firefox bugs identified by Claude Mythos Preview.

Ordinarily we keep detailed bug reports private for several months after shipping fixes and issuing security advisories, largely as a precaution to protect any users who, for whatever reason, were slow to update to the latest version of Firefox. Given the extraordinary level of interest in this topic and the urgency of action needed throughout the software ecosystem, we’ve made the calculated decision to unhide a small sample of the reports behind the fixes we recently shipped.

A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

Thousands of Yarbo robot lawnmowers and blowers have massive security flaws that can let any hacker hijack them and possibly your home network.

Sean Hollister
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Ubuntu’s servers are down after a DDoS attack.

Ubuntu’s web infrastructure remains unavailable after going offline Thursday morning, blocking updates and other access at a time when Linux admins really need to apply a patch.

“Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it. We will provide more information in our official channels as soon as we are able to.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Anthropic rolls out its codebase-scanning security tool for businesses.

Claude Security uses the Opus 4.7 model to scan a business’s codebase for vulnerabilities and issue a fix. This tool is rolling out to enterprise customers globally and isn’t to be confused with Anthropic’s Mythos, a powerful AI model that can identify and exploit vulnerabilities across operating systems and web browsers.

Screenshot: Anthropic via X
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Ukrainian police arrest three hackers for allegedly stealing over 610,000 Roblox accounts.

The group is accused of using stolen cookies to hijack accounts, targeting profiles with high amounts of in-game currency and items, according to a press release spotted by Bleeping Computer. The hackers allegedly earned around $225,000 after selling the accounts on a Russian website.

Attack of the killer script kiddies

In the aftermath of Mythos, AI-assisted amateur hackers are waiting to strike.

Yael Grauer
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
ADT confirms customer data was stolen in a breach.

The prolific ShinyHunters group is claiming responsibility and threatening to leak the stolen data unless a ransom is paid. ADT has said that the info was mostly limited to names, phone numbers, and addresses, and that credit card or bank account information was not compromised.

The investigation confirmed that the information involved was limited to names, phone numbers, and addresses. In a small percentage of cases, dates of birth and the last four digits of Social Security numbers or Tax IDs were included. Critically, no payment information — including bank accounts or credit cards — was accessed, and customer security systems were not affected or compromised in any way.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Vercel says some customer data was stolen before the breach.

The hosting platform provided a new update on the recent compromise. It named Context.AI as the vector for the attack, found more customer data that had been stolen, and said it discovered that some accounts had been broken into during an earlier incident.

First, we have identified a small number of additional accounts that were compromised as part of this incident. Second, we have uncovered a small number of customer accounts with evidence of prior compromise that is independent of and predates this incident, potentially as a result of social engineering, malware, or other methods.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
The NSA reportedly has access to Anthropic’s Mythos despite being labeled a supply-chain risk.

Sources told Axios that the agency was among the roughly 40 organizations granted access. This, despite the Pentagon arguing that Anthropic is a threat to national security. The NSA has reportedly been using it primarily to identify vulnerabilities in its own network, but considering its track record, it’s understandable if you’re wary.

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
Madison Square Garden surveillance state.

A new Wired investigation details the lengths Jim Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks and venues like MSG and the Las Vegas Sphere, goes to to spy on perceived enemies, fans, and critics. The vast surveillance apparatus includes dossiers, social media posts, and facial recognition tech.

Last year I wrote about one fan who believes a t-shirt design he had made resulted in a lifetime ban from Dolan’s venues — and that facial recognition picked him out of the crowd.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Now the White House is reportedly preparing for access to Mythos.

Despite Anthropic’s ongoing battle with the Pentagon, Bloomberg reports that the White House Office of Management and Budget’s CIO told government officials that it is preparing for their agencies to use Anthropic’s cybersecurity-focused AI model.