Goldman Sachs boosts cyber defenses over Anthropic AI

Goldman Sachs is strengthening cyber and infrastructure resilience and accelerating investment after US regulators warned that Mythos from Anthropic could increase cyber risks.

David Solomon, CEO, said that Goldman has access to the model and is working with Anthropic and its security vendors as it accelerates investment in its defenses.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell held an urgent meeting with Wall Street leaders in Washington last week to discuss the issue.

Officials urged banks to test the model against their systems.

🔗 Source: Bloomberg

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Anthropic’s new model can uncover hard-to-find cyber weaknesses

Anthropic built Claude Mythos Preview to hunt complex exploit chains, which are linked software weaknesses used in a sophisticated cyberattack 1.
Security researchers often miss long sequences of flaws, especially when the links span multiple components 1.
Mythos has found thousands of bugs, including one in OpenBSD, a security-focused operating system, that stayed unnoticed for 27 years 2.
Anthropic is limiting access and is offering the model through Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity program that gives defenders at Apple and Google early use before similar tools reach attackers 1.

US officials want big banks to test AI tools as part of cyber defense

At a Washington meeting, US officials pressed large banks to run Mythos against their own systems to uncover weak spots in defenses 3.
Officials are pushing critical industries toward machine-scale cyber defense using AI tools to keep up with AI-enabled attacks 1.
The approach is stirring international friction, since European regulators welcomed Anthropic’s plan to hold any launch beyond the current partner preview while security risks get reviewed 4.
US agencies also differ, since the Department of Defense, the US military, labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk in vendor relationships and Anthropic is fighting that label in court 5.