Claude Mythos Preview Has Officially Frightened the British
"Fnord666" writes:
Bankers and bank regulators are scrambling to figure out what to do:
High-ranking members of Britain's government and banking sector are reportedly scrambling to figure out what to do about cybersecurity holes found by Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic's new automated system for making tech elites-and now financial elites-wet their pants.
In case you weren't aware, last week Anthropic declared its unreleased model, Claude Mythos Preview, scary as heck and simply too powerful to unleash upon the world.
In addition to claiming that Claude Mythos Preview is a sneaky little dickens , a post on Anthropic's frontier red team blog describes it as essentially the world's most dangerous super-hacker . The passage below summarizes the apparent hacking hazard pretty well. (Note that "zero-day vulnerabilities" are vulnerabilities in code known only to the person or AI agent who found them):
During our testing, we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browserwhen directed by a user to do so.The vulnerabilities it finds are often subtle or difficult to detect. Many of them are ten or twenty years old, with the oldest we have found so far being anow-patched27-year-old bug in OpenBSD-an operating system known primarily for its security.
Now, according to the Financial Times, the Bank of England and regulators at the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority and Treasury will hold "urgent discussions" with that country's National Cyber Security Centre to figure out a course of action. Anonymous sources who spoke to the Financial Times said (quite Britishly) that a planning meeting will be held "in the next fortnight."
How scared is the U.K.? This issue is also the next big priority of the UK's "Cross Market Operational Resilience Group," according to the Financial Times. That group includes members of the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre, the Financial Conduct Authority (their equivalent of the SEC), and His Majesty's Treasury. It's co-chaired, the Financial Times says, by someone at the Bank of England with the title "executive director for supervisory risk."
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