- Anthropic to brief FSB on Mythos capabilities
- Financial experts worry attackers could exploit vulnerabilities in banking software
- Banks and lenders have been asked to improve their detection and patching of vulnerabilities exposed by AI models.
Anthropic must submit a briefing to the Financial Stability Board (FSB) about the vulnerabilities and flaws that the Mythos AI model has exposed “across all major operating systems and web browsers.”
The FSB is a global watchdog that works with officials from finance ministries, central bankers and securities regulators across the G20.
In announcing Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s collaborative effort to protect the world’s critical software, the company warned that “the consequences—for economies, public safety, and national security—could be severe.”
Myths could threaten the global banking system
According to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke with the Financial timesAndrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, invited Anthropic to present Mythos capabilities and findings to the FSB.
Many FSB members are increasingly concerned that AI models designed to search for high-severity vulnerabilities could threaten the stability of the global banking system, and in turn the global economy, if adversaries manage to obtain an AI model such as Mythos or OpenAI’s Daybreak, and abuse flaws in banking software.
Anthropic has provided Mythos to around 40 companies to enable them to protect their software against critical vulnerabilities. Mozilla found and fixed 423 Firefox security bugs in a single month after bringing Mythos to the web browser, including some that had been prevalent in the code for more than 15 years.
Many more companies have requested access and information about Mythos’ capabilities, but a request from the Trump administration has prevented Anthropic from continuing to distribute the software.
Now the race is on to patch AI-discovered vulnerabilities as quickly as possible before adversaries and state-sponsored threat actors continue to develop their own capabilities.
While AI models like Mythos are not yet part of threat actors’ toolkit, Google recently observed attackers using an AI model to uncover a chain of zero-day exploits for the first time.
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