Myths and Mythos: An AI Vulnerability Research FAQ
It’s still very early days for all of this, and relatively little is known about Claude Mythos’s real capabilities, so we wanted to dig into what actually is known and what it all means.
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Dennis Fisher
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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.
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The Era of AI-Led Vulnerability Research With Tom Ptacek
Dennis sits down with Tom Ptacek of Fly.io, a veteran security researcher, founder, and observer of the vulnerability landscape, to talk about the recent wave of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and exploit development, specifically from the use of frontier models such as Claude Mythos. Tom has strong opinions on what’s coming and how human researchers and […]
Mapping the Cybercrime Ecosystem With Andrew Northern of Censys
The internet is dark and full of terrors, but thanks to folks such as Andrew Northern, a principal security researcher at internet-mapping pioneer Censys, it doesn’t have to be, Andrew joins Dennis to talk about the cybercrime ecosystem, getting his start in security on a tiny team with huge responsibilities, and the value of a […]
Fortinet CVE-2026-35616 Actively Exploited
The company published an advisory on Saturday and urged all customers who are running affected versions of the software to install the hotfix as quickly as possible. The bug affects versions 7.4.5 and 7.4.6 of FortiClient EMS.
The Rapid Rise of AI Exploit Development and More Axios Compromise Effects
It’s been quite a week in security news, and Dennis and Lindsey dig into the continued effects of the axios supply chain attack, the incredibly fast adoption of AI tools for vulnerability research and what that means for software makers and defenders, and what the future holds for vulnerability research and exploit development. Security Theater […]
The Fallout From the Nasty Axios NPM Supply Chain Attack
Dennis and Lindsey dig into what we know do far about the supply chain attack on the axios NPM package, including how the attacker gained access to the maintainer’s account, the window of exposure for the malicious packages, the behavior of the RAT that’s installed on victims’ machines, and what the downstream effects may be.