#AxisOfEasy 454: Anthropic Splits Its Most Capable Model in Two — One for the Public, One for Cyber Defenders

About this episode

The episode discusses the split of Anthropic's AI model for public and cybersecurity use, along with various cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.

In this issue: Anthropic Splits Its Most Capable Model in Two — One for the Public, One for Cyber Defenders Disgruntled Ex-Microsoft Researcher Drops Seventh Zero-Day, Targets Defender Meta Bug Exposes 20,000+ Instagram Accounts Vidar Malware Spreads Via Fake Tutorial Videos on TikTok and Instagram Red Hat npm Packages Backdoored in GitHub Account Compromise In this issue: Anthropic Splits Its Most Capable Model in Two — One for the Public, One for Cyber Defenders Disgruntled Ex-Microsoft Researcher Drops Seventh Zero-Day, Targets Defender Meta Bug Exposes 20,000+ Instagram Accounts Vidar Malware Spreads Via Fake Tutorial Videos on TikTok and Instagram Red Hat npm Packages Backdoored in GitHub Account Compromise

People in this episode

Host: Mark E. Jeftovic

Topics covered

• AI models
• cybersecurity
• malware
• social media
• software vulnerabilities

Keywords

• Anthropic
• cyber defenders
• zero-day
• malware
• Instagram accounts
• Red Hat
• GitHub

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Meta, Instagram, Vidar, Red Hat, GitHub

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