Anthropic Models Blocked, FBI Takes Down $1.9B Phishing Network, Critical Splunk Flaw, and more
6/15/202611 min
The U.S. government orders Anthropic to shut down foreign access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after the Pentagon labels the company a supply-chain risk.
David Shipley examines what may be behind the decision and what it means for countries and businesses that depend on American AI platforms.
The FBI also disrupts Outsider Enterprise, a China-based phishing-as-a-service network linked to more than 9,000 fake websites, one million fraudulent URLs, 3.8 million stolen payment-card records and an estimated $1.9 billion in losses.
Also in this episode:
A critical Splunk vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code through a PostgreSQL sidecar service enabled by default in some deployments.
A former Iowa school IT worker is sentenced after retaining access for 21 months and using it to delete accounts and disrupt school systems.
And FortiWatch returns with a critical FortiSandbox command-injection vulnerability that requires no authentication.
Cybersecurity Today is hosted by David Shipley.
Chapters
00:00 Cybersecurity Today headlines
00:26 U.S. government shuts down Anthropic AI models
02:59 FBI takes down Outsider Enterprise phishing network
04:47 Critical Splunk vulnerability explained
06:31 Former school IT worker sentenced for cyberattack
08:29 FortiWatch: FortiSandbox command-injection vulnerability
10:08 What's ahead this week
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsDavid Shipley· Host0:00
Washington yanks Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models offline. The FBI guts a billion-dollar phishing empire. Another security tool becomes the critical vulnerability. A fired IT worker's twenty-one-month grudge. And our latest addition to Fordo Watch. This is Cyber Security Today, and I'm your host, David Shipley. Let's get started. The US government has yanked Anthropic's two most capable AI models offline for everyone on Earth. Bleeping Computer and Fortune report that on Friday, the US Commerce Department issued an export control directive citing national security. It bars any foreign national inside or outside the United States, including Anthropic's own non-US citizen staff, from accessing Fable Five and Mythos Five. To comply, Anthropic had to shut both models down for everyone. Other models, including Claude Opus four point eight, are still online. The stated trigger for the US government action, a reported method to bypass Fable Five's safeguards. Anthropic says it reviewed the report and found capability that's widely available elsewhere, including in OpenAI's GPT five dot five, which as of this recording on Sunday night, was not subject