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Anthropic's cyber-capable Mythos leaked before launch, shipped only to vetted defenders, and then started finding real flaws at scale.
Jump to timeline ↓Mythos was the model Anthropic never meant to show anyone: a CMS misconfiguration exposed it in April, complete with the ability to discover and exploit zero-days autonomously.
It shipped in June to vetted cyberdefenders only, found mathematical weaknesses in the HAWK signature scheme and reduced AES in July, and by September Epoch was tying a jump in critical CVE disclosures — from 84 a month to 606 — to it and to Project Glasswing.