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Among its achievements, the model caught a now-fixed weak spot in OpenBSD, an operating system known for its security
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It has also found “thousands of additional high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities” across open-source and closed-source programs, according to the company.
Key facts
- Anthropic caused an industrywide panic last week when it announced Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model with a knack for uncovering high-level cybersecurity vulnerabilities
- Among its achievements, the model found a now-patched weak spot in OpenBSD, an operating system known for its security, that Anthropic claimed went undiscovered for 27 years
- Tech insiders and other experts subsequently freaked out over the potential for the large language model to upend cybersecurity, but one 25-year industry veteran is skeptical
- David Lindner, chief information security officer at Contrast Security, told Fortune that while Mythos may help find myriad problems, this isn’t necessarily the most important issue
Summary
Anthropic caused an industrywide panic last week when it announced Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model with a knack for uncovering high-level cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Among its achievements, the model found a now-patched weak spot in OpenBSD, an operating system known for its security, that Anthropic claimed went undiscovered for 27 years. Tech insiders and other experts subsequently freaked out over the potential for the large language model to upend cybersecurity, but one 25-year industry veteran is skeptical. David Lindner, chief information security officer at Contrast Security, told Fortune that while Mythos may help find myriad problems, this isn’t necessarily the most important issue.