Linux Foundation Launches Akrites with 19 Founding Members to Counter AI-Powered Open Source Attacks

According to an announcement on Thursday (June 26), the Linux Foundation launched Akrites alongside 19 founding members including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI to coordinate the remediation of critical open-source vulnerabilities before AI-enabled attackers can exploit them.

Fewer than 5% of the thousands of open-source vulnerabilities surfaced by AI in recent months have been patched, according to Endor Labs CEO Varun Badhwar. Akrites addresses this coordination gap by establishing a single confidential Security Incident Response Team, providing maintainers with a predictable partner instead of multiple uncoordinated reports.