Fortinet EMS Zero-Day, Anthropic's AI Finds Thousands of Bugs, Iranian Hackers Target US ICS
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The episode discusses the exploitation of a Fortinet EMS zero-day, the discovery of thousands of bugs by Anthropic's AI, and Iranian hackers targeting US critical infrastructure.
Fortinet EMS Zero-Day Exploited, Anthropic's AI Finds Thousands of Bugs, and Iranian Hackers Target US ICS Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/cst Host David Shipley reports Fortinet issued emergency hotfixes for a new actively exploited FortiClient EMS unauthenticated RCE zero-day (CVE-2026-35616) affecting 7.4.0.5/7.4.0.6, with over 2,000 exposed instances online and a full fix coming in 7.4.0.7. Anthropic says its Claude "Mythos" model (Project Glasswing) has found thousands of high-severity zero days and demonstrated advanced exploit chaining and sandbox escape, but will not be released publicly; it is being used with major partners and funded with up to $100M in credits plus $4M for open-source security. A postmortem details a North Korea–linked social-engineering supply-chain breach of Axios on NPM, part of a broader campaign spreading 1,700+ malicious packages across multiple ecosystems. US agencies warn Iranian-linked hackers are targeting…
People in this episode
Host: David Shipley
Topics covered
- Fortinet EMS Zero-Day
- Anthropic AI
- Iranian Hackers
- US ICS
Keywords
- cybersecurity
- zero-day
- RCE
- exploit
- critical infrastructure
Sponsors
Meter
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Claude, Mythos, Project Glasswing, Axios, NPM, Fortinet EMS, Claude Mythos
Places: US, North Korea, Iran
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