Cybersecurity

Anthropic just got caught with its pants down. The company building what it calls the most safety-conscious AI on the planet accidentally left its biggest secret on a publicly searchable server. The secret? Claude Mythos — a new model tier that reportedly leapfrogs everything else in the industry. And the kicker? Anthropic’s own internal docs warn that Mythos poses “unprecedented cybersecurity risks.” You can’t write irony this good. What Got Leaked Fortune broke the story Thursday: nearly 3,000 unpublished documents, including a draft blog post announcing Claude Mythos, were sitting in an unsecured data store. Not a sophisticated state-sponsored hack. Not a disgruntled employee. A CMS misconfiguration. Human error. ...

A developer at FutureSearch noticed his laptop grinding to a halt on March 24. Thousands of Python processes spawning uncontrollably. What looked like a runaway AI coding assistant turned out to be something far worse: a sophisticated supply chain attack that had compromised LiteLLM, one of the most critical packages in the AI ecosystem. This isn’t a hypothetical threat model. This happened. And it should scare you. LiteLLM: The Package You Didn’t Know You Depend On LiteLLM is an open-source Python library that provides a unified API for dozens of LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and more. Instead of writing custom integration code for each, developers use LiteLLM as a universal translator. ...

It’s not every day that a single product launch wipes out tens of billions of dollars in market capitalization across an entire sector. But that’s exactly what happened last week when Anthropic unleashed Claude Code Security on the world. IBM tanked 13.2% on Monday — its worst single-day drop in 25 years. CrowdStrike shed over 11%. Cloudflare fell 8%. Okta cratered 9.2%. JFrog lost nearly a quarter of its value. Nassim Taleb is warning of bankruptcies. Analysts are furiously rewriting their models. And the phrase “the Anthropic Effect” has entered the financial lexicon as shorthand for what happens when AI doesn’t just compete with an industry — it threatens to make it irrelevant. ...