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"We are introducing Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative built with Trail of Bits to help maintainers strengthen the critical open-source software the world relies on. We’re pairing AI-assisted security research using our most cyber-capable models with expert human review to not only identify vulnerabilities, but help patch them."
SECURITY | AI | OPENAI | PATCHING
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Assume You Will Be Hacked. AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before.
SECURITY | AI | CYBERATTACK
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Mozilla used Mythos to fix more than 400 bugs in the Firefox web browser in April, roughly 20 times more than it fixes in a typical month. Anthropic has itself used Claude Mythos Preview to find thousands of bugs in open-source-software packages—many of which went undetected for years or decades—that undergird much of the internet.
SECURITY | AI | CLAUDE | MYTHOS
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We’ve just been writing software in a totally slapdash and insecure way for decades now. With some small, high-stakes exceptions—such as software used on the International Space Station or nuclear submarines—code is written and deployed without much rigorous testing. If a bug is reported, it gets patched.
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When the courseware Canvas was hacked last month, upending classrooms in thousands of schools and universities worldwide, AI likely played a role—and the criminal group responsible, a notorious hacking ring called ShinyHunters, is known for using AI in all sorts of scams. Just weeks later, Google cybersecurity researchers reported that ShinyHunters had hacked into an Oracle HR system and may have stolen data from more than 100 organizations.
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Last Friday afternoon, at the request of the U.S. government’s nonspecified concerns for national security, Anthropic shut down all access to their two most advanced models: Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
SECURITY | AI | MYTHOS | FABLE
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