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Bracing for Mythos: AI power pushes global cybersecurity overhaul | Tech News<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/technology\/tech-news\/bracing-for-mythos-ai-power-pushes-global-cybersecurity-overhaul-126042600812_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-26 13:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.business-standard.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n

\tIndia has started preparing in anticipation of Mythos being misused. Earlier this month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met officials from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, bank executives and other senior civil servants to discuss Mythos\u2019 risks and its ability to find vulnerabilities in legacy software systems.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tGovernment officials who attended the meeting said the general belief is that while Mythos is powerful, more companies will release their own versions of such models that are equally, if not more, capable.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tNasscom, which represents the Indian information technology industry, said in a statement: \u201cIt is imperative that Indian technology firms are included in the global industry consortium by Anthropic under the Glasswing project. Ensuring their participation is a critical step towards strengthening global cyber resilience, enabling responsible testing, and safeguarding interconnected digital ecosystems at scale.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tExperts argue agentic AI like Mythos \u2014 capable of more complex decision-making than traditional tools \u2014 exposes countries and companies to systemic vulnerabilities. These capabilities \u201crapidly discover and operationalise weaknesses across digital infrastructure\u201d faster than existing defensive and regulatory mechanisms can respond.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cMythos shifts the centre of gravity of the debate towards capability risk. It demonstrates that certain AI systems can possess operational capacities that materially alter the security environment in which governments, industries and critical infrastructure operate,\u201d said Jameela Sahiba, associate director at policy think tank The Dialogue.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tAnthropic said Mythos can identify and exploit vulnerabilities across all major operating systems and web browsers. These \u201csubtle\u201d flaws were dormant and undetected for nearly three decades, evading both detection and patching until Mythos discovered them.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe did not explicitly train Mythos Preview to have these capabilities. Rather, they emerged as a downstream consequence of general improvements in code, reasoning, and autonomy. The same improvements that make the model substantially more effective at patching vulnerabilities also make it substantially more effective at exploiting them,\u201d Anthropic said in a blog post after the model\u2019s limited release.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cThese systems are effectively weaponising reasoning. We are moving from a world of N-days to a critical window of minutes. This shifts the risk from static infrastructure to the speed of the attack cycle, where machines reason across identity, code and supply chains at a pace humans cannot manually match,\u201d said Philippa Cogswell, managing partner for Japan and Asia Pacific at cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks\u2019 Unit 42.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tAnthropic has announced Project Glasswing, an initiative in which it will work with multiple business giants to develop \u201cdefensive\u201d applications for Mythos.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cMythos Preview has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser. Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely. The fallout \u2014 for economies, public safety and national security \u2014 could be severe,\u201d Anthropic said in the post.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tGlasswing partners will use Mythos for defensive security and share the lessons with others worldwide. They will get access to Mythos\u2019 preview to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in their own foundational systems.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe anticipate this work will focus on tasks like local vulnerability detection, black-box testing of binaries, securing endpoints, and penetration testing of systems,\u201d Anthropic said.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tSome experts, however, argue that Mythos has not created a new problem but exposed an old one. Ajai Chowdhry, chairman of the EPIC Foundation and a member of the mission governing board of the government\u2019s National Quantum Mission, said the problem is that \u201cmodern computing is more brittle, under-tested and under-governed than we like to admit.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe lesson is not simply that [AI] models are getting bigger. It is that once a powerful model is connected to tools, network access, or operational authority, longstanding software weaknesses can surface \u2014 and potentially be exploited \u2014 far faster than before. The wrong instinct is to shoot the messenger. The right one is to harden the systems that the messenger is revealing,\u201d said Chowdhry.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tMost experts agree that the banking, financial and insurance sectors are most at risk if Mythos is misused. At Sitharaman\u2019s meeting, banking executives were asked to take measures to secure their systems, data and customers.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe message for Indian banks is very clear: AI can no longer be treated only as an efficiency layer \u2014 it must be governed as a real-time cyber risk. We need continuous cyber threat intelligence sharing, faster patch management, stronger identity security, tighter vendor controls, and AI-powered defence operating alongside human oversight,\u201d said Tarun Wig, cofounder and chief executive officer of Innefu Labs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tMythos and similar systems have \u201cdual-use\u201d capabilities, Chowdhry said. \u201cAt the national level, that means independent evaluation, baseline standards, incident reporting, and special support for under-resourced sectors and critical infrastructure. At the company level, it means cyber risk must sit with the board and executive team, not be delegated away,\u201d he said.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tSahiba said that for countries like India \u2014 with its vast, complex digital identity, financial and government networks \u2014 the emergence of AI systems capable of autonomously discovering software vulnerabilities requires preparing for a future where cyber threats evolve faster than traditional defensive mechanisms.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cIf AI tools capable of identifying previously unknown vulnerabilities become concentrated among a small set of corporate or geopolitical actors, this creates a structural asymmetry in cyber defence. Ensuring equitable access to defensive capabilities will therefore become a central element of technological sovereignty,\u201d she said.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\tChowdhry said systems like Mythos could also compromise critical software, disrupt infrastructure, or steal sensitive data.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cNo powerful model should be given direct authority over code execution, network administration, financial controls, or critical operations without independent evaluation, bounded permissions, human approval for consequential actions, comprehensive logging, and a duty to report serious incidents and near misses,\u201d he said.
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