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AI news about cybersecurity, vulnerabilities and attacks involving AI.
Hacker News A version of the Claude Code VS Code extension containing a backdoor was released on the Cursor marketplace. According to the report's URL, Anthropic was hacked to deliver a remote access trojan to the laptops of Claude developers worldwide.
TechCrunch Mistral has released the open weights for Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a trillion-parameter model nicknamed "Le Chonk," via Hugging Face and its API. The company claims the model outranks all other open models on agentic coding benchmarks and matches top open-weight competitor GLM-5.3 while using 47% fewer tokens per task. Mistral is positioning the release toward enterprises and governments seeking on-premises, sovereign AI capabilities for cybersecurity defense.
Hacker News Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new frontier model featuring state-of-the-art performance in cybersecurity defense, coding, and long-horizon agentic tasks. The model will initially roll out to selected cyber defenders and trusted partners before becoming widely available at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
