- The Australian government confirmed it is working with Anthropic and other providers to stay informed of new cyber security vulnerabilities.
- Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, part of Project Glasswing, is said to be powerful enough to detect and exploit bugs at scale, although it remains unreleased to the public.
- Debate continues over whether Mythos represents a genuine breakthrough or a PR stunt, with governments and major software companies already testing its potential impact.
The Australian government is “working with” Anthropic and other similar software providers to ensure it is “aware of emerging vulnerabilities”.
This was the statement made by the spokesman for Home Secretary Tony Burke to the media earlier this week.
“Our government takes the protection of critical infrastructure extremely seriously, which is why we work with software providers and companies like Anthropic to ensure we are aware of emerging vulnerabilities,” Pakinomist quoted the spokesman as saying.
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How powerful is Mythos really?
We don’t know if this means the Australian government is using Anthropic’s Mythos Preview tool, or if it’s just being kept informed of the tool’s capabilities.
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing. At its heart is the Mythos Preview, the company’s latest Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) model, which is said to be able to detect – and exploit – more vulnerabilities than any of its predecessors.
In fact, Mythos is reportedly so powerful that Anthropic decided not to share it with the public and instead gave it to a handful of large software companies.
Since then, the Internet has boomed. While some hailed it as a revolution that would virtually end cybercrime, others were wary of what could happen if the tool fell into the wrong hands. Some claimed it was all a PR stunt and slammed Anthropic for basing its advertising on fear. Apparently, OpenAI did the same with an earlier version of Chat-GPT, which, as it later turned out, was not as powerful as the company said.
However, things may be different with Mythos. The US government is apparently using it despite the company being designated as a supply chain risk, and the Mozilla CTO recently called the tool the light at the end of the tunnel.
Mythos’ public release does not yet have a firm date.
Via Pakinomist
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