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AI Security Rally: Coalition Launched, Hacks +89%, Ransomware +48%

6/18/2026

Summary

Story summary

Chainguard launched the Athena coalition, a 20-plus-company AI effort that processed 20,000 findings and delivered 2,000 patches to 500 projects.
Anthropic halted Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a U.S. export-control directive barred foreign nationals.
Verizon reported AI-enabled hackers rose 89% in 2025 and software bugs caused nearly a third of breaches.
Check Point Research said ransomware rose 48% in May 2026, with education hit by 4,641 weekly attacks, up 7% year-on-year.

History

Historical Context

The WannaCry ransomware burst onto the internet on 12 May 2017, exploiting the NSA-leaked EternalBlue flaw in unpatched Windows systems and infecting more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries. Its disruption of the UK National Health Service and firms such as Nissan prompted emergency patches from Microsoft and sparked global standards that now underpin coalitions like Chainguard’s Athena and AI-driven security initiatives.

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Story summary

Chainguard launched the Athena coalition, a 20-plus-company AI effort that processed 20,000 findings and delivered 2,000 patches to 500 projects.
Anthropic halted Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a U.S. export-control directive barred foreign nationals.
Verizon reported AI-enabled hackers rose 89% in 2025 and software bugs caused nearly a third of breaches.
Check Point Research said ransomware rose 48% in May 2026, with education hit by 4,641 weekly attacks, up 7% year-on-year.

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