XBOW tests Anthropic's Mythos Preview for offensive security

XBOW security researchers tested Anthropic's Mythos Preview model, a new AI designed to help find software vulnerabilities (weaknesses in code that attackers can exploit). They found it significantly outperforms previous models at analyzing source code (program code written by developers) to identify vulnerability candidates, especially in complex areas like native application analysis (testing software written in languages like C or C++), though it works better as a tool to assist human experts rather than as a replacement for hands-on security testing.