Nozomi Networks Labs reports persistent abuse of weak or default credentials and exposed industrial and IoT assets between June and August 2026. Faster exploit cycles and botnets that generate opportunistic traffic add volume on top, the vendor says.
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Anthropic announced a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program that pairs Claude with outside security firms, CrowdStrike among them. Alongside it, Anthropic is running a free, opt-in scanning service for open-source maintainers directly, CyberScoop reported.
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- Builder 42%
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- Operator 37%
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- Investor 21%
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- Adoption38
- Hype gap+12
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buildOne report1 publisher Anthropic's Cyber Mission puts Claude models, engineers and funding behind bug fixing, after Glasswing finds often waited months for a patch. Its free OSS Scanner sends unreviewed reports that Anthropic expects to be over 90% accurate, so it suits maintainers who have time to verify them.
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- Evidence40
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence40
Anthropic expects more than 90% of the unreviewed vulnerability reports its new OSS Scanner sends to open source maintainers to be real. Opt-in projects get findings faster and take on the work of catching the errors, such as wrong severity ratings.
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- Builder 52%
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- Operator 37%
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- Investor 11%
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- Adoption35
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence62
Nozomi Networks reports a September 5 spike in attacks exploiting CVE-2021-35394, a Realtek SDK flaw patched five years ago, to plant the Cling botnet. Its command-and-control hides inside ordinary STUN traffic, so the beacons resemble legitimate NAT traversal.
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- Evidence55
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- Hype gap+5
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Rome's Exein says its valuation is up thirtyfold in two years and first-half recurring revenue up fourfold, and its first foundation models are due in the first quarter of 2027, two quarters after the round closed.
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- Operator 23%
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- Investor 52%
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Operation Economic Outcast names nearly 60 targets, but the durable change is the standing authority to designate foreign firms in crypto, technology, gold, aviation and shipping.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder 15%
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- Operator 52%
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- Investor 33%
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Nozomi Networks is selling industrial operators the argument that their remediation backlog is a bookkeeping problem. Compass is the product it wants holding the asset record, the approvals and the audit evidence.
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- Evidence24
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives88
- Confidence32