Alibaba has banned employee use of Anthropic's Claude tools starting July 10 and placed Claude Code on a high-risk list after Anthropic accused it of the largest known distillation attack. The move highlights escalating restrictions on U.S. AI models in China amid terms-of-service bans and reported access loopholes.
Employees must remove all Anthropic models and agent products and switch to the company's own AI assistant, Qoder.
The U.S. firm's terms of service ban Chinese companies and other "adversarial nations" from using its models.
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Microsoft has disclosed CVE-2026-83947, a CVSS 7.7 HIGH spoofing vulnerability in Azure Event Grid caused by missing authorization. Microsoft says it has already fully mitigated the cloud-service flaw and customers have nothing to do.
A critical vulnerability CVE-2026-77900 affects Microsoft Azure App Service for Linux with a CVSS score of 9.8. The flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute code over the network. Microsoft says it has already fully mitigated the flaw; no customer action is needed.
Microsoft Dataverse is affected by critical vulnerability CVE-2026-88131, which allows remote code execution. The flaw scores 9.8 on CVSS; Microsoft says it has already fully mitigated it and customers have nothing to patch.
IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.2 and IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.3 contain critical authentication bypass flaw CVE-2026-16823. The NVD rates it 9.1 and warns of remote exploitation without credentials.
Anthropic has launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission to support defenders of critical infrastructure and open-source software with models, engineers, and tools. The initiative starts with the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program and free OSS Scanner amid ongoing challenges in verifying and fixing vulnerabilities.
