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Juan Carlos Munera
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Cybersecurity Engineering

Claude Opus 4.7 Drops with Built-In Cyber Safeguards: What Security Practitioners Need to Know

·1054 words·5 mins
AI Security Cybersecurity Engineering AI Security Agentic AI Project Glasswing Claude Opus Vulnerability Research Penetration Testing
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 today as its most capable generally available model, but the cybersecurity story is bigger than the benchmarks. The model includes automated safeguards that block high-risk cyber requests, deliberately reduced offensive capabilities compared to Mythos Preview, and a new Cyber Verification Program that gates legitimate security use behind a formal application process. This is the first generally available model where Anthropic is actively testing the controls it needs before it can release Mythos-class capabilities to the public.

CPU-Z and HWMonitor Hijacked: Inside the CPUID Supply Chain Attack

·945 words·5 mins
Incident Analysis Cybersecurity Engineering Supply Chain Security Malware Analysis DLL Sideloading STX RAT Watering Hole Attack Threat-Intelligence
Attackers compromised CPUID’s official website and swapped download links for CPU-Z and HWMonitor with trojanized packages delivering STX RAT. The attack targeted the exact tools IT professionals carry on USB drives and run on production servers, turning implicit trust in a 20-year-old download source into a direct path to privileged credentials.