Anthropic's Mythos set off a cybersecurity 'hysteria.' Experts say the threat was already here

Anthropic released Mythos, an AI model that can find thousands of previously unknown software vulnerabilities (flaws in code that haven't been patched yet), which sparked concern among banks, governments, and tech companies about a new wave of AI-enabled cyberattacks. However, cybersecurity experts say this vulnerability-finding capability already exists in older, publicly available AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, and can be achieved through orchestration (coordinating multiple tools or models to work together on a task).