Anthropic announced the Anthropic Cyber Mission on October 8, 2026, describing it as a long-term effort to help secure the systems the public relies on. The effort begins with two programs: a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program backed by 11 founding partners, and OSS Scanner, a free opt-in service that runs regular security scans of open-source software with the company’s strongest models. Anthropic said frontier models can be misused to exploit vulnerabilities and conduct cyber operations…