Mythos access by Discord group reveals real danger of AI-powered hacking

A Discord group’s unauthorized access to Anthropic AI’s powerful Mythos model is doing more than raising questions about the guardrails around powerful AI cybersecurity tools.

It’s exposing a bigger problem for the cybersecurity industry: AI can now find flaws and exploit them so quickly that defenders may be the ones left truly exposed.

A group of AI-fueled Discord info-seekers – one of them linked to a third-party vendor of the AI startup – managed to access the highly gatekept cybersecurity defense system in February, the same day of its debut. 

Using a mixed bag of insider access, web-scouring bots, and some raw ingenuity, the breach is triggering a fresh wave of alarm across an already spooked industry.

Ironically, as the Discord incident was unfolding, the Cloud Security Alliance – in a........

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