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summary: "Bank of America has hired 1,000 contractors to address software vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic's Mythos model, using a version of Claude with permissive safeguards for vetted professionals through a three-tier clearance system. Anthropic's Cyber Mission includes a free vulnerability scanner for open source projects that found over 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities in six months, with human teams triaging about 6,000 of them, and a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program with partners including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Hitachi."
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# Bank of America Hires 1,000 Contractors to Patch Anthropic Mythos Flaws

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**Published:** 2026-10-14T19:10:37.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** anthropic, llm, safety

## Summary

Bank of America has hired 1,000 contractors to address software vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic's Mythos model, using a version of Claude with permissive safeguards for vetted professionals through a three\-tier clearance system\. Anthropic's Cyber Mission includes a free vulnerability scanner for open source projects that found over 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities in six months, with human teams triaging about 6,000 of them, and a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program with partners including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Hitachi\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/cybersecurity/update-bank-of-america-hires-1000-contractors-to-patch-anthropic-mythos-8c668016>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/Cointelegraph/status/2108441260377751869>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2108302543977906649>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2108302539498414208>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2108311197095199188>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/CyberScoopNews/status/2108558141004693674>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2107611973995430397>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/WesRoth/status/2108731742727365102>)