Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking

Business - Mythos shock - is AI taking cybersecurity risks to new levels?

Governments and regulators are assessing potential implications and urging critical sectors to beef up their defences after a powerful new AI model sent shockwaves around the world. Mythos showed the ability to find previously undetected bugs and to exploit the vulnerabilities by itself, prompting its developer Anthropic to decide not to release it to the general public. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-founder and CEO of SecurityScorecard, explains the…

Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking

Anthropic’s new Mythos AI model is raising concern among governments and companies that it could outpace current cyber security defenses, turbocharge hacking, and expose weaknesses faster than they can be fixed. The San Francisco-based startup released a cyber-focused model this month, which has shown the ability to detect software flaws faster than humans but also demonstrated it can generate exploits needed to take advantage of them. In one al…

Anthropic's 'Mythos' signals a new era of AI-driven cyber threats

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Ministers urge cyber crackdown as Anthropic AI fears grow

Ministers have ramped up pressure on UK businesses to strengthen their cyber defences amid concerns that the next generation of AI could supercharge hacking threats. In a new push led by cyber minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra, nearly 200 business leaders were told to sign a new “cyber resilience pledge”, as fears mount that powerful AI tools could expose them at unprecedented speed. Her intervention follows the release of Anthropic’s closely wat…