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Anthropic launches a critical infrastructure defence programme and a free vulnerability scanner for open source

The Anthropic Cyber Mission kicks off with a programme for industrial security providers with eleven partners and OSS Scanner, a free, voluntary service of bug reports generated by its models.
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  • Anthropic launches a critical infrastructure defence programme and a free vulnerability scanner for open source
  • October 8, 2026
    Curated Importance: Medium
    Source Anthropic

    By Anthropic

    Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission

    Published on 8 October 2026

    Anthropic presents a long-term cyber defence initiative focused on operational technology and open source. It acknowledges that finding flaws is now easy and that the bottleneck lies in verifying and fixing them.

    Read the original on Anthropic (opens in a new tab)

    What it says

    • The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program provides Claude models, field engineers and threat research to operational technology security providers; its founding partners are Accenture, Booz Allen, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Dragos, Hitachi, Insane Cyber, Nozomi Networks, Palo Alto Networks, PwC and Rockwell Automation.
    • OSS Scanner offers enrolled open-source projects free periodic scans; each report includes a proof of concept, an explanation and, where available, a suggested fix, without human review.
    • Anthropic expects a true positive rate above 90% and warns that some reports will contain errors, such as a wrongly assigned severity.
    • That same week it integrated Project Glasswing into its expanded Cyber Verification Program, which gives more defenders access to its most capable models.
    • The company forecasts that within two years AI will favour defence, although it admits that in the short term exploiting flaws has become cheaper while fixing them remains slow.

    The Tech Guardian summarises and comments in its own words on third-party publications. The full information is in the original source, which we recommend you read.

    Our take

    If you maintain an open-source project that your products depend on, enrol it in OSS Scanner only if you have the capacity to triage findings: they arrive without human review and with the occasional false positive. And if you consume that code, get ready for more advisories and fixed releases in your dependencies; it is worth automating your component inventory and its updates.

    # Artificial intelligence Open source Vulnerabilities
    Anthropic updates its usage policy: requirements for high-risk uses, autonomous robots and deceptive campaigns from 12 November
    The new version of the Usage Policy takes effect on 12 November 2026 and spells out requirements for high-risk uses, autonomous hardware control, surveillance and unsupported regions.

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