Cybersecurity

Cyberattacks, tariffs and geopolitics rank among biggest threats to U.S. companies. Executives increasing AI and tech spending to defend operations. Cybersecurity moved from IT concern to board-level strategic priority. AI-powered security tools essential for detecting threats at machine speed.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell summoned Goldman Sachs, BofA, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo CEOs over Claude Mythos cybersecurity risks. Security experts called it "Y2K-level alarming." ~$2 trillion tech stock wipeout reported.

Mercor, $10B AI startup providing training data to OpenAI and Anthropic, confirms major data breach linked to supply chain attack on LiteLLM project; compromised by TeamPCP hacking group; exposed training methodologies and labeling protocols for AI models worth billions; Meta paused all Mercor work.

Top AI and government officials tell Axios that Anthropic, OpenAI and others will release new AI models with sophisticated capabilities for hacking sophisticated systems at scale, with Anthropic proactively warning that its not-yet-released Mythos model could enable unprecedented cyberattacks.

Iran-linked hacktivist group Handala claims to have breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email, publishing photographs and documents online. The Justice Department has confirmed the breach appears authentic.

The European Commission has confirmed a cyberattack on its Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure after hackers claimed to have stolen more than 350GB of data, including databases and internal files.

A critical vulnerability in Langflow AI platform is being actively exploited within 20 hours of disclosure, with CISA adding CVE-2026-33017 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.