News Summary

• Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner.
• Anthropic also unveiled the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to safeguard critical infrastructure and open-source software as part of its Cyber Mission.
• The company said it has identified more than 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities in some of the world's most important software projects, out of which a little more than 6,000 flaws have been reported to maintainers.
• These have resulted in 584 advisories as of October 2, 2026.