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Claude Mythos breaks HAWK and nibbles AES-7: Anthropic publishes its report on autonomous crypto research
Claude Mythos breaks HAWK and nibbles AES-7: Anthropic publishes its report on autonomous crypto research

Anthropic ran Claude Mythos Preview as a semi-autonomous agent on cryptographic primitives: effective keysize of HAWK-256 dropped from 2^64 to 2^38, 7-round AES attack accelerated ×200 to ×800, LEA 13-round key recovery in less than an hour. Two real CVE (OpenSSL, wolfSSL) along the way. Cost: ~$100,000 API per subject.

Jul 28, 2026 20 4

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GitHub Actions hijacked to scan cPanel/WHM: 10 PHP packages compromised and CVE-2026-41940 exploited at scale
GitHub Actions hijacked to scan cPanel/WHM: 10 PHP packages compromised and CVE-2026-41940 exploited at scale

Socket.dev documented a campaign where 583 GitHub Actions workflows slipped into 10 PHP packages scan the Internet for cPanel/WHM instances vulnerable to the CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass - to steal almost all available credentials. Approximately 6,100 workflows bear the campaign's signature on GitHub.

Jul 23, 2026 18 3

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