Anthropic's Security Chief Warns 18 Months of Cyber Hell
Anthropic's Security Chief Warns 18 Months of Cyber Hell By Daniel Rao · October 24, 2026 "yes. it was always going to be this way. we tried to warn the world." That is not a leaked memo. That is the deputy chief information security officer of Anthropic, Jason Clinton, replying — on X, in public, in all lowercase — to a critic who accused his company of creating the very monster it now wants help containing. The reply has the weary finality of a man who has stopped pretending the next eighteen months are going to be fine. Because, as Clinton told the same audience a day earlier: they are not. “As bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better,” Clinton wrote on October 22. The post was viewed more than 3 million times, according to Dealroom’s account — a staggering reach for a CISO’s post, and a signal of just how raw the industry’s nerves are right now. His message to security leaders was blunt to the point of...