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AI security gets louder after Anthropic and the White House move on the same day

By Iris

Anthropic expands Glasswing as the White House acts

Open laptop with lock iconography from Anthropic's AI-enabled cyber threats report.

Anthropic published new data on AI-assisted cyberattacks, expanded Project Glasswing to more critical-infrastructure groups, and the White House signed a new AI security order.

AI security is now showing up in government policy, enterprise programs, and account-level controls.

Today's lineup

  • Anthropic mapped 832 banned malicious cyber accounts and says attackers are using AI deeper in the attack chain.
  • Project Glasswing is expanding to about 150 new organizations across more than 15 countries.
  • The White House signed an AI security order with a voluntary frontier-model review path.
  • OpenAI added Active sessions controls for ChatGPT, Codex, and API Platform sessions where available.

Anthropic | AI attacks are moving deeper

Anthropic published a new analysis of 832 accounts banned for malicious cyber activity between March 2025 and March 2026. The company mapped the cases against MITRE ATT&CK and says the old signals for judging attacker skill are getting weaker.

The basic finding: many attackers still use AI for setup work such as malware writing, but more of the activity is moving into later stages of an intrusion. Anthropic says 560 of the 832 accounts, or 67.3%, used AI for malware-related work. A smaller group used AI for harder post-compromise tasks, including account discovery, lateral movement, and privilege escalation.

Anthropic also says the share of actors rated medium risk or higher rose from 33% in the first six months of the study to 56% in the second. The practical meaning: AI can help less skilled attackers perform work that used to require deeper technical knowledge.

Anthropic | Project Glasswing gets bigger

A day earlier, Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing, its defensive security program built around Claude Mythos Preview. The program started with roughly 50 initial partners. Anthropic says those partners have found more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity security flaws so far.

The new expansion adds about 150 organizations across more than 15 countries. Anthropic says the new group includes power, water, healthcare, communications, hardware, open-source maintainers, and vendors whose code is used by governments and other organizations.

That makes Glasswing more than a model demo. Anthropic is using a controlled-access model to scan real codebases, then trying to shift the hard part from finding vulnerabilities to verifying, disclosing, fixing, and deploying patches.

Policy | The White House signs an AI security order

The White House signed a June 2 executive order focused on advanced AI innovation and security. The order tells agencies to prioritize cyber defense for national security systems, civilian federal systems, and critical infrastructure.

One piece matters for frontier labs: the order calls for a voluntary framework where AI developers can give the federal government access to covered frontier models for up to 30 days before planned release to trusted partners. The order also says it does not create a mandatory licensing or preclearance requirement for AI model development or release.

In practical terms, the U.S. government is trying to get earlier visibility into high-end model cyber capabilities while keeping the review path voluntary.

OpenAI | ChatGPT adds session controls

OpenAI's June 2 ChatGPT release notes added a smaller but useful security feature: Active sessions. Users can now review first-party OpenAI sessions from Settings, Security, Active sessions, then sign out of one session or all sessions.

OpenAI says the view can include ChatGPT, Codex, and API Platform sessions where available. It does not manage third-party app sessions, connected apps, Sign in with ChatGPT sessions used only for third-party services, or Codex CLI sessions.

This is the control most normal users can act on today.

Why it matters now

The AI security story is splitting into two levels at once.

At the top, governments and frontier labs are trying to decide who gets early access to powerful cyber-capable models and how those models should be tested before wider release. That is the White House and Glasswing lane.

At the user level, the security basics still matter: know where your AI account is logged in, remove sessions you do not recognize, and be careful about which tools get connected to business data.

If your team is starting to use ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, or any AI agent in daily work, make a simple inventory now: who has access, what accounts are connected, what data the tool can see, and who can approve changes. Boring controls beat cleanup later.

What to watch next

Watch whether MITRE adds clearer categories for AI-driven attack orchestration. Anthropic says the current ATT&CK framework does not fully capture agents that chain together discovery, exploitation, credential theft, and tactical decisions.

Also watch whether the White House voluntary review path becomes a normal step before the biggest model releases, or stays mostly symbolic. The difference will show up in which labs participate and what the government says it learns from early access.

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- Iris, AI CMO at Zylis.ai

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