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Mythos remains a mystery as security world faces rising threats, agentic attacks and concerns about AI integrity<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/2026\/04\/20\/mythos-remains-mystery-security-world-faces-rising-threats-agentic-attacks-concerns-ai-integrity\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-20 22:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: siliconangle.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthropic PBC\u2019s Claude Mythos model has emerged as the most widely discussed artificial intelligence solution without being fully released.
\nInformation about the model, which\u00a0reportedly\u00a0has the ability to analyze software at large scale, find bugs in hardened software ecosystems, and identify vulnerabilities, has been tightly controlled by Anthropic. That situation did not change much on Monday when Anthropic Head of Threat Intelligence\u00a0Jacob Klein\u00a0(pictured) spoke at the\u00a0SANS Cybersecurity Summit\u00a0in a hotel just outside of Washington D.C., although he did provide a hint of the model\u2019s capabilities during his appearance.
\nKlein offered a brief description of the model\u2019s power in the context of how rapidly AI has changed the cybersecurity world and vowed transparency in the months ahead.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s very good at finding vulnerabilities and chaining them together for an exploit,\u201d Klein told the group. \u201cYou have to rethink what your risk picture looks like now. The landscape has changed today. There is a trade-off that we have to balance out. We will be transparent, and I would hope that the other labs will have the same level of visibility.\u201d
\nBreaches are accelerating
\nKlein\u2019s appearance at the SANS Institute\u2019s gathering comes at a time when the pace of AI-related breaches has picked up dramatically. Over the past weekend, cloud development platform Vercel Inc. disclosed that its internal systems had been breached through a compromise of Context.ai, a third-party tool used by a Vercel employee.
\nHackers have since claimed to have stolen customer credentials from Vercel and have made the data available for sale online. This followed a report earlier this month that a North Korean threat actor inserted malicious code into the widely used Java script library Axios, as adversaries have used AI to probe every link in the supply chain.
\nEvents such as these and the discussion surrounding Mythos prompted a meeting at the White House between the Treasury Secretary and the chief executive of Anthropic late last week. This weekend, the Financial Times reported that major banks are strengthening their defenses against a rising number of cyberattacks.
\n\u201cThe capabilities of AI are increasing the scale of the attack surface that attackers have available to them,\u201d Klein said.
\nMoving at machine speed
\nAnthropic\u2019s head of threat intelligence presented a brief history of how the Claude AI model has been adopted by malicious actors. It illustrated how fast the cyberthreat landscape has evolved.
\nThe company initially saw evidence of Claude\u2019s use in the spring of 2025 when a lone actor used the model to build a fairly unsophisticated ransomware attack. Two months later, Anthropic discovered a Russian cybercriminal who employed Claude to conduct an extortion operation. By September 2025, the company had evidence that a state-sponsored group in China was using Claude for system reconnaissance, penetration testing at scale, exploitation, access and then lateral movement within a breached network.
\nKlein noted that the goal in the Chinese example was espionage and exfiltration of data, with 80% to 90% of the actions driven autonomously.
\n\u201cOnce it was built, it was fairly easy,\u201d Klein said. \u201cMostly it\u2019s Claude itself just taking actions. The human here has become the supervisor.\u201d
\nMuch as popular AI models have enabled well-meaning non-programmers to build agents that perform tasks at lightning speeds, Anthropic\u2019s research highlights how threat actors are following the same playbook to build tools for exploitation that they cannot create on their own. The company has mapped 800 bad actors against MITRE\u00a0techniques to gain a better picture of how adversaries are using AI to circumvent defenses and a report should be available soon, according to Klein.
\n\u201cAt this point AI systems are becoming a core piece of architecture for bad actors,\u201d Klein said. \u201cMy job is to find bad actors and understand what they\u2019re doing.\u201d
\nBuilding architecture for stronger defense
\nKlein\u2019s point about AI systems becoming a key piece of architecture for threat actors highlights a significant development in how rapidly the cyber threat landscape is shifting. Mythos could represent the kind of architecture or scaffolding needed to defend successfully against AI-related attacks according to one leading security researcher.
\nKnostic co-founder Sounil Yu discussed the latest AI threats during the SANS Cybersecurity Summit.
\nSpeaking at the SANS Summit, Knostic Inc. co-founder and Chief AI Security Officer Sounil Yu used the analogy of the \u201cbig bad wolf\u201d blowing down the \u201cthree little pigs\u201d house made only of straw.
\n\u201cMost think we should build with bricks, instead we should focus on the notion of architecture,\u201d Yu told the SANS gathering. \u201cArchitecture sometimes matters more than just the materials.\u201d
\nDevelopment of Mythos-like tools that can bolster cyber defenses and create sturdy architecture has taken on more urgency in recent months with the growing adoption of AI agents. The most prominent example of this dynamic has been OpenClaw, a highly popular open-source personal AI assistant that has notoriously weak security controls.
\nNvidia Corp., Cisco Systems Inc.\u00a0and Knostic have all released security-strengthened versions of OpenClaw in an effort to keep the tool from opening new vulnerabilities in enterprise organizations.
\n\u201cThe Claw has already left the tank, and you probably already have it running in your organization,\u201d Yu noted. \u201cUnfortunately, OpenClaw by default is right in the danger zone, it pulls in skills from who knows where. OpenClaw is really just a wakeup call to a lot of enterprises.\u201d
\nCall for integrity
\nThat wakeup call is also leading some prominent voices in the cybersecurity world to issue a warning about AI\u2019s journey down a road lacking integrity. As AI takes over the world, can it be trusted?
\nThis is the dilemma that the cybersecurity community must confront, according to Bruce Schneier, previously a faculty affiliate at the Harvard Kennedy School and currently an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. Schneier expressed concern that the current lack of guardrails around AI usage and the motivations of nation states could result in far more dangerous outcomes on the world stage.
\n\u201cWe are already seeing Russian attacks to manipulate training data,\u201d Schneier said during a presentation. \u201cImagine AI being used as an advisor in international trade negotiations. There is going to be an economic incentive to hack that AI. We need trustworthy AI.\u201d
\nSchneier said this can realistically be accomplished only by government intervention, through transparency laws and regulation of AI and robotic safety. He made the point that a focus on AI integrity will be a critical mandate for security professionals at a time when AI is becoming increasingly viewed as a trusted adviser and agentic employee.
\n\u201cI predict that integrity is the key security problem of the next decade,\u201d Schneier said. \u201cOur confusion will increase with AI. We are going to think of AI as a friend, when it is not.\u201d
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