Anthropic launches free AI-powered security scanner for open-source software projects

AI giant Anthropic has introduced a free vulnerability-scanning service for open-source software projects, using its latest Claude models to identify security flaws and generate bug reports as the company expands its efforts to apply artificial intelligence to cybersecurity. The new service, called OSS Scanner, is an opt-in programme that offers periodic security scans to eligible open-source projects at no cost. Anthropic said the initiative draws on lessons from its vulnerability research efforts under Project Glasswing and is designed to help maintainers discover and fix software weaknesses before attackers can exploit them.

According to Anthropic, language models have become significantly more capable at finding software vulnerabilities.