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This is the online edition of The Wiretap newsletter, your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is finally using Anthropic\u2019s Mythos AI model to search for vulnerabilities that could have a serious impact on government agencies and private businesses, per a report in Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n Forbes previously reported<\/a> that CISA didn\u2019t have access to either Anthropic or OpenAI models that had proven adept at finding bugs and exploiting them with no human required. Anthropic has limited Mythos access to select partners, but CISA was not one of the first cohort of nearly 50 organizations.<\/p>\n Now, though, as confirmed to Forbes by an anonymous CISA employee, some staff on the Attack Surface Evaluation team have been using the tool to scan government code stored on Github. Reuters, citing three people familiar with the matter, reports that CISA has uncovered a \u201clarge number\u201d of vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n Government departments need to use AI to bolster cybersecurity, but they\u2019ve had to balance that with the White House\u2019s standoff with Anthropic. Earlier this year, Anthropic declined to provide AI to the Pentagon for use in mass surveillance, angering the Trump administration to the point that it declared Anthropic a supply chain threat, effectively cutting it off from doing government business. Last month, the White House told Anthropic to cease foreign sales of its new Fable model, a heavily-safeguarded version of Mythos, over concerns about offensive use of the tool. <\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear how agencies such as CISA got permission to use Mythos. Neither Anthropic nor CISA responded to requests for comment. <\/p>\n CISA\u2019s use of the tool shows that there\u2019s a strong willingness to make sure the government doesn\u2019t get left behind in the AI race. Other nations, most notably China, are rapidly developing artificial intelligence that can hack better and faster than many human operators.<\/p>\n Got a tip on surveillance or cybercrime? Get me on Signal at +1 929-512-7964<\/a>.<\/p>\n THE BIG STORY<\/p>\n (Photo by JOEL SAGET \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n AFP via Getty ImagesNSO Spyware Used On European Surveillance Investigator, Report Claims<\/p>\n NSO spyware was used to surveil Stelios Kouloglou, a former member of the European Parliament, at a time when he was carrying out an investigation into the abuses of surveillance technology. That\u2019s according to Citizen Lab, a nonprofit monitoring spyware dealers, which said \u201cattackers could have had access to confidential documents and committee deliberations.\u201d <\/p>\n The researchers were unable to conclude what government conducted the attack. Kouloglou, who left the European Parliament in 2024 to become an investigative journalist, told Reuters<\/a> he was shocked by the revelations, saying, \u201cI was not expecting that they would be as \u200breckless as that.\u201d<\/p>\n Stories You Have To Read Today<\/p>\n Cops have repeatedly used Flock Safety\u2019s network of over 80,000 cameras to stalk women. In one case, a cop followed a woman at high speed, nearly causing a crash, according to video obtained by 404 Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s Communications Security Establishment spy agency revealed<\/a> it carried out three foreign \u201cactive cyber operations\u201d over the last year. The hacks targeted opioid manufacturers and an extremist organization. <\/p>\n Winner of the Week<\/p>\n Spanish police announced the arrest<\/a> of an unnamed member of two pro-Russia hacktivist groups, which had targeted critical infrastructure. He was arrested in Palencia, in central Spain. A few months ago, U.S. officials said that one of the groups, the CyberArmy of Russia Reborn, had been working directly with Kremlin spies.<\/p>\n Loser of the Week<\/p>\n A number of U.S. Army websites were defaced last week with derisive messages about President Trump and the U.S. ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, while calling for Kurdish freedom, CyberScoop reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n More On ForbesForbesAmerica\u2019s Top Architects: In An East Coast Retreat, L.A.\u2019s Koning Eizenberg Proves Less Is MoreBy Fred Albert<\/a>ForbesAI Data Centers Are Set To Electrify This $13 Billion Family\u2019s 76-Year-Old CompanyBy Simone Melvin<\/a>ForbesHow OpenAI Plans To Win Over Doctors, Patients And HospitalsBy Amy Feldman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON \/ AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images This is the online edition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,621,53,387,6455,5969,313,51157,353,4451],"class_list":["post-98008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai","tag-america","tag-anthropic","tag-china","tag-cisa","tag-cyber","tag-cybersecurity","tag-flock-safety","tag-mythos","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}