• Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security for AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has begun to roll out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user’s software codebase for vulnerabilities and suggest patches. • The capability, calledClaude Code Security, is currently available in a limited research preview to Enterprise and Team customers. • “It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review, allowing teams to find and fix security issues that traditional methods often miss,” the companysaidin a Friday announcement. • Anthropic said the feature aims to leverage AI as a tool to help find and resolve vulnerabilities to counter attacks where threat actors weaponize the same tools to automate vulnerability discovery. • With AI agentsincreasinglycapable ofdetecting security vulnerabilitiesthat have otherwise escaped human notice, the tech upstart said the same capabilities could be used byadversaries to uncover exploitable weaknessesmore quickly than before. • Claude Code Security, it added, is designed to counter this kind of AI-enabled attack by giving defenders an advantage and improving the security baseline.

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  • Anthropic has introduced Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven tool that scans software codebases for vulnerabilities and proposes patches. The feature is currently in a limited research preview for Enterprise and Team customers. Unlike traditional static analysis, the system uses reasoning and data‑flow tracing to identify issues that rule‑based tools may miss, then applies a multi‑stage verification process to reduce false positives and assigns severity ratings. Results appear in a dashboard where developers review and approve suggested fixes, maintaining a human‑in‑the‑loop approach. Anthropic positions the tool as a defensive counter to adversaries who could use similar AI to discover exploits more quickly.

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