This is your easyDNS #AxisOfEasy Briefing for the week of June 15th, 2026. Our Technology Correspondent Joann L Barnes and easyCEO Mark E. Jeftovic send out a short briefing on the state of the ‘net and how it affects your business, security and privacy.

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In this issue:

• Canada’s New Bill Would Trade Online Anonymity for “Child Safety”
• US Forces Anthropic to Pull Fable 5, Mythos 5 Over Disputed Jailbreak Claim
• Massive Fortinet Firewall Breach Exposes Credentials at Samsung, FedEx, Oracle, and 21,000+ Other Domains
• AI Sovereignty Fears Boil Over at G7
• The Backdoor That Outlived the Takedown

Elsewhere Online:

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Canada’s New Bill Would Trade Online Anonymity for “Child Safety”

Canada’s Bill C-34 (Safe Social Media Act), tabled by Minister Marc Miller, creates a Digital Safety Commission with power to write rules, investigate, judge, and fine—no court required. It targets vaguely defined “harmful content,” forcing 24-hour takedowns without judicial review. Sections 26-27 ban under-16 accounts via ID checks or facial age-estimation, necessarily screening all adults too.

Chatbots must detect crisis language and redirect users to help services. Penalties hit $10M/3% revenue or $20M/5% for criminal violations, pushing platforms toward reflexive over-censorship. Cabinet can also preemptively regulate smaller platforms over perceived risk.

More via Reclaimthenet

US Forces Anthropic to Pull Fable 5, Mythos 5 Over Disputed Jailbreak Claim

On June 12, 2026, the US government ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals worldwide, citing national security but offering no details.

The trigger: a suspected Fable 5 “jailbreak.” Anthropic’s extensive pre-launch testing with the US government and UK AISI found no universal jailbreak; the government’s only evidence was a narrow exploit fixing software flaws—capability it says matches OpenAI’s GPT-5.5. Anthropic complied but disputed the action, warning it could stall frontier AI deployments industry-wide.

More via Anthropic

Massive Fortinet Firewall Breach Exposes Credentials at Samsung, FedEx, Oracle, and 21,000+ Other Domains

Hackers breached roughly 75,000 Fortinet firewalls, stealing credentials from corporations in 194 countries—including FoxConn, Samsung, Comcast, Siemens, Lenovo, FedEx, and Oracle—across 21,632 domains, per Hudson Rock. Researcher Volodymyr Diachenko linked the attack to a Russian-speaking group cracking passwords via a 45-GPU cluster, fully compromising four organizations, including a Turkish NATO contractor whose classified files were stolen.

Kevin Beaumont confirmed the credentials’ legitimacy. Shodan data showed half of internet-facing FortiGate devices affected. Fortinet disputes it’s a new breach, calling it recycled data from past incidents.

More via Theregister

AI Sovereignty Fears Boil Over at G7

At the G7 Summit, Macron and Modi warned the U.S. could cut off allies’ access to American AI models without notice. Macron told Amodei, Altman, and Trump that “turning off the switch” would hurt both foreign economies and U.S. AI firms—after Washington blocked Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 exports over safety concerns Amazon flagged, despite similar flaws in OpenAI’s models.

Modi called unfettered access vital for democracies. Cohere’s Aidan Gomez warned against dependence on a few tech giants. Leaders floated a “trusted partners” scheme, though its reach remains unclear.

More via Techcrunch

The Backdoor That Outlived the Takedown

A French-speaking hacker called “Poisson” breached a small French auto business, planting a keylogger to steal banking and email credentials. Before his Havoc command server went offline, he quietly installed OpenSSH and Tailscale, creating an independent backdoor. When the C2 died the next day, his access survived—and reconnected automatically 18 days later.

Cato Networks reconstructed all 339 commands after the attacker exposed his own SSH keys online, revealing a stark lesson: killing a C2 server means nothing if the backdoor stays alive.

More via Thehackernews

Elsewhere Online:

GitBait Campaign Exploits GitHub and Google Sheets to Steal Bank Data
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