Threat intelligence editor

Alex Kim

Articles: 235
Desks: 7

Focuses on cloud identity, incident response, and exploitation trends.

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Data graphic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 retires on Nov 30, 2026, after 61 days of notice from Sep 30. Sonnet 5.5 costs $2 / $10 per million tokens, down from $3 / $15, uses about 30% more tokens for the same text, and returns a 400 error on request shapes Sonnet 4.5 accepted.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Retires Nov 30: Six Requests That Return a 400 on Sonnet 5.5

Sonnet 4.5 stops answering on Nov 30, 2026. Sonnet 5.5 is a third cheaper per token, but prefill, forced tool use and thinking budgets now return 400 errors.

Oct 2 · 8 min

Data graphic: AI agent hacks the hunters. The attack chain from the internet through a Zammad session hijack CVE-2026-102489 to RCE, root CVE-2026-102490 and stolen volunteer data, with each flaw scored CVSS 4.0 9.4.

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AI Agent Breached Bug-Hunting Nonprofit DIVD by Chaining Two Zammad Zero-Days

An autonomous AI agent chained Zammad flaws CVE-2026-102489 and CVE-2026-102490 to reach root at DIVD. What Zammad admins should check and patch now.

Oct 2 · 10 min

Data graphic: comparison of three Chinese Flash MoE models. Ling 3.1 Flash is the largest at 560B total and ~25B active parameters with no DeepSWE 1.1 score published; GLM 5.3 Flash 320B total, 18B active, MIT, $0.15/$0.50 per 1M tokens scores 63.4; Qwen 3.8 Flash Next 125B total, 6B active, $0.16/$0.47 scores 58.7.

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Ling 3.1 Flash vs GLM 5.3 Flash vs Qwen 3.8 Flash Next: Three Bets on Cheap Agent Models

Ant Group's 560B Ling 3.1 Flash lands against GLM 5.3 Flash and Qwen 3.8 Flash Next. Specs, licences, prices, and the benchmarks Ling has not published yet.

Sep 30 · 6 min

Data graphic: Ant Group's Ling-3.1-flash posts a vendor-reported 87.90 on CyberGym. On SWE-Pro it scores 65.39, behind Claude Opus 5 79.20 but ahead of Kimi K3 64.84 , GLM 5.3 flash 63.06 and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash 56.77 . It grows from 124B to about 560B total parameters and from 5.1B to about 25B active, and ships as a free two-week trial capped at 256K context, with no safety evals and no weights yet.

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Ling-3.1-flash Is Ant Group's Best Flash Model Yet, and It Scores 87.9 on CyberGym

Ant's 560B-parameter Ling-3.1-flash beats rival flash models on SWE-Pro and posts 87.90 on CyberGym, but it ships with no safety evals and no weights yet.

Sep 30 · 6 min

Data graphic: ChatGPT Pro 500 $500 a month adds Ultrafast Codex, up to 8x faster tokens than Standard on GPT-6 Astra, and only Pro 500 has it, while Pro 100 $100, 5x Plus usage and Pro 200 $200, 10x from 30 Oct do not. The verdict is to pay $500 only if waiting on token generation is your bottleneck.

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ChatGPT Pro 500: What $500 a Month Buys

ChatGPT Pro 500 costs $500 a month and adds Ultrafast Codex, up to 8x faster. Here is what it changes, what Pro 200 lost, and who should pay.

Sep 30 · 7 min

ThreatFrontier data poster: GPT-6.1 Sol rated Critical for cyber at $2/$10 per million tokens, one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra's price, with 21.5% exploit success and 74.8% on DeepSWE v1.1.

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GPT-6.1 Sol Brings Critical-Rated Cyber Capability at a Fifth of Astra's Price

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol nears GPT-6 Astra on coding at $2/$10 per million tokens, and inherits Astra's Critical cyber rating with a 4x jump in exploit success.

Sep 29 · 6 min

Data poster comparing Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Sonnet 5: $2 input, $10 output, $0.20 cached read per million tokens, 1M context; Sonnet 5.5 at medium effort beats Sonnet 5 at high for under a fifth of the cost.

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Claude Sonnet 5.5: Same Price as Sonnet 5, More Work per Dollar — and How to Run It Efficiently

Sonnet 5.5 keeps Sonnet 5's $2/$10 pricing, runs 30% faster and nears Opus 5.5 on benchmarks. How to set effort, cache and batch to cut cost per task.

Sep 29 · 7 min

Data graphic: ChatGPT Pro's $200 plan drops to 10x Plus usage from 30 October, while Google AI Ultra $199.99 and Claude Max $200 stay at 20x their base plans. Published GPT-6 Astra estimates in Codex run 5–45 local messages per 5 hours on Plus $20, 25–225 on Pro $100 and 100–900 on Pro $200 the 20x allowance, valid until 29 October . The verdict is to buy the plan that owns your agent.

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Google AI Ultra vs Claude Max vs ChatGPT Pro: Which $100 or $200 Plan for Developers? [UPDATED]

All three sell a 5x tier at $100 and a $200 tier, but ChatGPT Pro $200 drops to 10x on 30 Oct. We compare coding agents, limits and bundles by persona.

Sep 24 · 16 min