Anthropic Models Blocked, FBI Takes Down $1.9B Phishing Network, Critical Splunk Flaw, and more

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