Anthropic’s Claude Code Security is available now after finding 500+ vulnerabilities: how security leaders should respond
FeaturedLouis Columbus February 23, 2026 VentureBeat created with ImagenAnthropic pointed its most advanced AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at production open-source codebases and found a plethora of security holes: more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities that had survived decades of expert review and millions of hours of fuzzing, with each candidate vetted through internal and external security review before disclosure. Fifteen days later, the company productized the capability and launched Claude Code Security.Security directors responsible for seven-figure vulnerability management stacks should expect a common question from their boards in the next review cycle. VentureBeat anticipates the emails and conversations will start with, “How do we add reasoning-based scanning before…
