This Week's Top Five Stories in Cyber

Will Anthropic's Claude Code Security Replace Cyber Tools?

The team at Anthropic has decisively stepped into the cyber ring by launching Claude Code Security.

This capability, which is available in research preview hands the power of AI to cyber defenders. 

The colossal AI company’s cyber unveiling sent major cybersecurity stocks sliding down into the red, with Global X Cybersecurity ETF taking a massive 4.9% dip – its lowest closing since 2023. 

The companies, still under trading pressure, saw CrowdStrike fall 8%, Cloudflare drop 8.1% and SailPoint and Okta declining 9.4 and 9.2%, respectively. 

“We might be six to 12 months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all of what software engineers do end-to-end,” said Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, at Davos - and now this is playing out in real-time with Claude Code Security. 

Google Cloud Security: Protecting the Cloud from AI Threats

Securing cloud at every stage is no longer optional – cloud conscious threat actors made sure of that. 

Claiming a significant percentage of the world’s cloud deployment, the Google Cloud Platform, also offers a comprehensive security framework designed to help businesses innovate safely. 

“Over 70% of cloud breaches stem from compromised identities, according to a recent Cloud Threat Horizons report and we expect that trend to accelerate as threat actors exploit AI,” says Widya Junus, Head of Strategy & Operations, Cloud Security Strategic Alliances and Office of CISO at Google.

“The security focus should shift from human-centered authentication to automated governance of non-human identities using cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and workload identity federation (WIF).”

Dragos: Operational Tech Under Increasing Risk of Attack

In December 2025, when Poland’s energy sector suffered a cyber attack that compromised industrial control systems (ICS), threat actors proved operational technology (OT) is under significant risk. 

These systems are part and parcel of industrial and critical infrastructure and such breaches can quickly escalate to question national security.  

Evaluating this increasingly attacked threat landscape, Dragos has released its latest 2026 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report and Year in Review report.

“The threat landscape in 2025 reached a new level of maturity,” says Robert M. Lee, CEO and co-founder of Dragos. “Adversaries are mapping how control systems work, understanding where commands originate, how they propagate and where physical effects can be induced.”

How Zscaler and Airtel Are Leading India's Cyber Resilience

In this moment of widespread geopolitical uncertainty, where conflicts are often followed or preceded by state-sponsored or hacktivist cyber activity, developing robust cyber defences is paramount for national security the world over.

India, with its economy of 1.4 billion people and its rapidly growing tech infrastructure, is now taking a much needed step towards national cyber resilience, with the newly launched AI & Cyber Threat Research Center.

Zscaler, a world leading cloud security firm, and Bharti Airtel, one of India's largest telcos, have come together to launch an initiative that aims to protect India's telecoms, banking and energy sectors from cybercrime.

“India is building digital systems at an unmatched population scale," says Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman, and Founder, Zscaler.

CrowdStrike: Leading the Race Against Threat Actors

AI and tech sophistication that helps organisations innovate is also helping cybercriminals attack from the shadows and hide their tracks. 

This cyber reality is why CrowdStrike named 2025 as the “Year of the evasive adversary” in its 2026 Global Threat Report.

With AI-enabled bad actors increasing attacks by 89% year-over-year, mounting speed, accuracy and sophistication of cyber threats define the evolving threat landscape. 

A striking find showed that intruders did not break in, they used a stolen key to open the door and merged in with the crowd. 

These intrusions accounted for 82% of detections, which were malware-free and occurred by the exploitation of the gaps in visibility created by fragmented security ecosystems.