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Anthropic's Mythos set off a cybersecurity 'hysteria.' Experts say the threat was already here
The arrival of Anthropic's Mythos jolted banks, software giants and governments into reckoning with a new era of cyber attacks. But the threat is already here.
TL;DR
- Cybersecurity experts claim that the software vulnerabilities revealed by Anthropic's Mythos model can be found using existing AI models from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.
- The fear surrounding Mythos has intensified concerns about a new era of AI-enabled cybercrime, leading to a 'hysteria' among banks, tech giants, and governments.
- Companies like watchTowr and Vidoc have demonstrated that by 'orchestrating' older models, they can reproduce similar vulnerability discovery results.
- While Mythos can automate the development of exploits, a capability already possessed by skilled hackers, the availability of powerful AI models is lowering the entry barrier for cyber attacks.
- The situation highlights a current advantage for cyber offense over defense, as companies are finding vulnerabilities faster than they can patch them.