Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6, the EvilTokens takedown, ShinyHunters' FBI claim - September 23, 2026
Anthropic and OpenAI open a price war, Microsoft takes down an A I-assisted phishing service, and ShinyHunters says it breached the FBI.
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Intro
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/opus-and-sol-and-luna/Microsoft disrupts EvilTokens phishing service that gave criminals access to 12,000 inboxes
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/23/microsoft-eviltokens-phishing-service-disrupted/Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents' and applicants' data
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/hacking-group-shinyhunters-claims-it-breached-the-fbi-stole-agents-and-applicants-data/Attackers hit Check Point Management Servers and Spark firewalls, F5 BIG-IP APM instances
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/23/check-point-f5-big-ip-apm-zero-days-targeted/Stolen passwords are exposing America's water providers to hackers
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/stolen-passwords-are-exposing-americas-water-providers-to-hackers/Google fined 403 million euro by Irish data watchdog over location data
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0921/1592330-google-fined-403m-by-dpc/Discord's age verification era is upon us, despite community backlash
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/discords-age-verification-era-is-upon-us-despite-community-backlash/WordPress 7.1.2 fixes critical unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/23/cve-2026-87902-wordpress-7-1-2-security-releaseRabbit's new OS lives in the cloud and borrows your laptop to get things done
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/23/rabbit-os3-ai-agent-now-available/Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/23/1144953/smart-glasses-havoc-india/Sign-off