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AI tool \u2018too dangerous to release\u2019 could wreak havoc on businesses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAustralia\u2019s largest cybersecurity firm has issued an urgent warning about a powerful new artificial intelligence tool that can find and exploit flaws in software at unprecedented speed and scale, and which experts fear could trigger the next wave of major data breaches.CyberCX on Thursday told Australian businesses, banks and infrastructure operators they had a closing window to shore up their defences before the technology, or copies of it, reach the hands of criminals.Anthropic has plans to broaden bank access to its Mythos cybersecurity tool.BloombergThe warning deals with Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased AI model built by US company Anthropic that the firm has deemed too dangerous to release publicly. Anthropic has restricted access to about 50 major technology and infrastructure partners \u2013 including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase \u2013 under a program called Project Glasswing.Mythos has already uncovered thousands of previously unknown software flaws, including a 27-year-old bug in an operating system used in firewalls and internet routers worldwide. In one test, it produced 181 working attacks against the Firefox web browser. An earlier, publicly available version managed just two.Anthropic product lead Angela Jiang said the cyber capability had emerged partly as a by-product of the company\u2019s broader push on coding and long-horizon agentic tasks.\u201cIf something\u2019s really good at coding, it\u2019s also very good at detecting cyberattacks, especially over a bunch of different surfaces, and chaining that together,\u201d Jiang said. The company had been \u201cprivileged to work with a bunch of companies to help improve critical infrastructure\u201d.Dimitri Vedeneev, secure AI lead at CyberCX, said it was not just Mythos\u2019s ability to find long-buried vulnerabilities that set it apart, but also its capacity to chain multiple flaws together and suggest how to exploit them, all from a single prompt.Anthropic has restricted access to about 50 major technology and infrastructure partners \u2014 including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase – under a program called Project Glasswing.Bloomberg\u201cAustralian organisations should not be waiting for access to Mythos as some kind of silver bullet,\u201d Vedeneev said. \u201cIt won\u2019t be long until this capability \u2013 or others like it \u2013 is more widely available, and potentially in the hands of cyber criminals.\u201dMythos has rattled governments worldwide. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC central banks were examining what the technology could mean for cybercrime, while Canadian finance minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne described Mythos as an \u201cunknown unknown\u201d at International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington. The Trump administration convened major US bank bosses to discuss the risks.Related ArticleAnthropic expects competing AI companies to release similarly powerful tools within 18 months. OpenAI has given a select group of users access to its own cyber-focused model, GPT-5.4-Cyber. Bloomberg reported last week that a small group of unauthorised users had obtained access to Mythos through third parties, and Anthropic has confirmed it is investigating.Anthropic on Friday separately announced the public beta launch of Claude Security, a defensive product that allows enterprise customers to scan their own code for vulnerabilities and generate patches. It said hundreds of organisations had used the tool in research previews to find flaws \u201cthat existing tools had missed for years.\u201d Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, BCG and Infosys are among those using the product.An Anthropic spokesperson said the company was starting with \u201csome of the largest US-based companies\u201d on the basis that \u201cif they can secure their products quickly, that security extends on a global scale\u201d, adding it looked forward to expanding cybersecurity partnerships.Not everyone is convinced Mythos represents a clean break. Juraj Janosik, director of AI at cybersecurity firm ESET, said models capable of identifying vulnerabilities had existed well before Mythos. With the right orchestration, threat actors could \u201calready achieve Mythos-like capabilities using generally available models\u201d.\u201cMany companies still lag in maintaining basic cyber hygiene and are often exploited using older, already public vulnerabilities,\u201d Janosik said. \u201cWhile the developments in AI capability are a concern, they are dwarfed by the overall lack of cyber resilience.\u201dGrattan chief Aruna Sathanapally in discussion with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in Canberra.Manuel Salazar, director of cyber services at Australian firm Orro, said the fundamentals had not changed. \u201cMythos changes the speed at which weak fundamentals get exposed,\u201d he said. \u201cFor mature organisations, AI is a force multiplier; for less mature organisations, it can accelerate uplift, but it cannot bypass the fundamentals.\u201dSalazar said Australian businesses should have access to the defensive benefits of Mythos-class AI but not \u201cunrestricted access to a frontier exploit engine\u201d.\u201cAustralia needs to secure access to advanced AI technologies through agencies like the Australian Signals Directorate, Home Affairs and the National Cyber Security Coordinator,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t get involved now, we\u2019re at risk of falling behind our US counterparts.\u201dThe Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the White House had rejected an Anthropic proposal to roughly double the number of organisations with access to Mythos, citing security concerns. The administration\u2019s relationship with Anthropic has been strained by an earlier dispute over military use of the company\u2019s AI, now the subject of two court cases.It is unclear whether any Australian organisations are part of Project Glasswing. Anthropic signed an agreement with the Albanese government earlier this year and opened a Sydney office, but no Australian agency has publicly confirmed access.The warning lands against the backdrop of the 2022 Optus and Medibank breaches, which combined exposed the personal information of millions of customers and reshaped public trust in major institutions. The breaches exploited comparatively conventional weaknesses, and the fear is that more sophisticated AI tools such as Mythos could allow attackers to find and exploit flaws in systems previously considered secure.CyberCX is urging Australian organisations to map their critical systems, segment their networks and \u201cfight AI with AI\u201d by deploying defensive AI in security functions.Get news and reviews on technology, gadgets and gaming in our Technology newsletter. Sign up to receive it every Friday. SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.David Swan is the technology editor for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was previously technology editor for The Australian newspaper.Connect via X or email.From our partners
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