Overview
- The White House said it met Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to explore cooperation on cybersecurity tied to the company’s new vulnerability-hunting model, Mythos.
- A White House budget office email reported by Bloomberg said safeguards are being set up to let federal agencies use a modified Mythos under strict controls.
- Anthropic is keeping Mythos behind its Project Glasswing program for select security testers after the system found thousands of severe bugs across major operating systems and browsers and demonstrated exploitation in tests.
- The American Securities Association warned that misuse could target the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail, a database of investor identities and positions, raising risks of mass data theft and market disruption.
- German banks and BaFin said they are consulting security teams, and the European Central Bank plans talks with bank leaders, as firms prepare rapid software updates to shrink the window between flaw discovery and real-world attacks.