AI breaks encryption research hit a new milestone: Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview found a flaw in HAWK, a NIST ...

Generalized Feistel Network block cipher security relies on a flawed assumption: a new IACR preprint shows that adding more ...

Anthropic’s locked model Claude Mythos found a new attack on a post-quantum signature scheme headed for U.S. federal ...

RC4 has been exploited in high-profile attacks across enterprise Windows networks Kerberoasting exploits weaknesses in Active Directory, allowing attackers to perform offline password cracking ...

Claude Mythos cut HAWK's key strength in half in 60 hours and improved attacks on reduced AES by 200-800x. No production systems are affected. Each discovery cost ~$100K.

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