Amid horrific threats from United States president Donald Trump as the US and Iran negotiated a ceasefire, the US government warned this week that Iran-linked hackers were carrying out attacks against US energy and water infrastructure targets. With nearly one in five people in Lebanon displaced by Israeli attacks, the government is attempting to manage the crisis without modern digital infrastructure and an emergency system that is barely hanging on. Plus, a WIRED analysis looked at Syrian government account hijacks in March and the inadequacies they expose in Syria’s baseline cybersecurity defenses. Amid rising fears of political violence, a WIRED investigation found that US political candidates are spending more on security, including purchasing equipment like home alarms and bulletproof vests. And recent research looking at Telegram groups found that men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, purchasing spyware to use against their wives and friends, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse. Meanwhile, as governments scramble to address growing industrial scamming originating from Southeast Asia, China has emerged as the biggest enforcer, but also a selective one, resulting in crime syndicates shifting their focus abroad to avoid Chinese targets. Anthropic formally announced its new Claude Mythos Preview model this week and said that for now it will only make the model available to a select group of a few dozen leading tech and financial organizations, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, and the Linux Foundation. The consortium, dubbed Project Glasswing, will explore Mythos Preview’s advanced hacking and other cybersecurity capabilities and assess the best ways to improve software and hardware defenses before capabilities like the ones in Mythos Preview proliferate more broadly across other models and inevitably end up in the hands of attackers. The announcements sparked controversy about whether Mythos Preview and similar capabilitie