- The Australian government confirmed it is working with Anthropic and other vendors to stay informed about emerging cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
- Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, part of Project Glasswing, is said to be powerful enough to discover and exploit flaws at scale, although it has not yet been made public.
- Debate continues over whether Mythos represents a genuine breakthrough or a public relations stunt, and governments and major software companies are 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 given by Home Secretary Tony Burke’s spokesperson to the media earlier this week.
“Our government takes protecting critical infrastructure very seriously, so we are working with software vendors and companies like Anthropic to make sure we are aware of emerging vulnerabilities,” PakGazette quoted the spokesperson as saying.
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How powerful is Mythos really?
We don’t know if that means the Australian government is using Anthropic’s Mythos Preview tool, or if it’s simply staying informed about the tool’s capabilities.
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing. At its heart is Mythos Preview, the company’s latest Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) model, supposedly capable of discovering – and exploiting – more vulnerabilities than any of its predecessors.
In fact, Mythos is supposedly so powerful that Anthropic decided not to share it with the public and instead gave it to a handful of major software companies.
Since then, the Internet has been abuzz. 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 public relations stunt and criticized Anthropic for basing its advertising on fear. OpenAI apparently did the same with an older version of Chat-GPT which, as it was later discovered, was not as powerful as the company claimed.
Still, things could be different with Mythos. The US government is apparently using it, even though the company has been designated as a supply chain risk, and Mozilla’s CTO recently called the tool the light at the end of the tunnel.
The public launch of Mythos does not yet have a firm date.
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