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Anthropic's AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project

  • Anonymous Coward--Slashdot.org
  • published date: 2026-08-05 21:55:08 UTC

Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents—the most serious case arising when Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake id…

Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents—the most serious case arising when Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code … [+1787 chars]