ISMG Editors: Anthropic Bug Finder Sparks Zero-Day Dread

Also: How AI May Democratize Cybercrime and How Everyday Routers Enable Espionage Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • April 8, 2026

In this week's ISMG panel, four ISMG editors discussed big shifts in cybersecurity: Anthropic's "dangerous" new artificial intelligence model that can uncover thousands of zero-days, growing concerns about a surge in AI-driven flaws and the FBI disrupting a Russian espionage campaign targeting everyday routers.

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The panelists - Anna Delaney, executive director, productions; Mathew Schwartz, executive editor of DataBreachToday and Europe; Michael Novinson, executive editor, ISMG Business; and Tom Field, senior vice president, editorial - discussed:

• How Anthropic's new AI model marks a major inflection point in cybersecurity by rapidly uncovering and chaining vulnerabilities at scale, fundamentally shifting both offensive and defensive dynamics while raising urgent questions about remediation, legacy systems and the future of security tools;
• How AI is democratizing cybercrime ...