Pentagon cyber official calls advanced AI ‘revolutionary warfare’

Multiple CyberScoop reports highlight rapid shifts in the cyber threat landscape driven by advanced AI, supply-chain compromises, and high-impact ransomware. Researchers say Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 have leapfrogged prior benchmarks for autonomous cyber capability, prompting closed congressional briefings and increased policy attention from Pentagon and White House officials who emphasize offensive cyber options and the primacy of identity security. Separately, Foxconn confirmed a Nitrogen ransomware attack that reportedly exfiltrated ~8 TB across 11M+ files, and a large