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Bank of America Hires 1,000 Contractors to Patch Anthropic Mythos Flaws

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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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  1. SOURCE@cointelegraph“Crypto projects including Ethereum client Nethermind and Bitcoin wallet ZEUS have applied for Anthropic's free OSS Scanner”x.com
  2. SOURCE@anthropicai“periodically scan opted-in open-source projects for vulnerabilities, at no cost. Our reports will provide a proof-of-concept, explanation, and suggested fix”x.com
  3. SOURCE@anthropicai“new effort to secure critical infrastructure and open-source software”x.com
  4. SUPPORT@hesamation“latest Claude models found +29,000 candid vulnerabilities”x.com
  5. SUPPORT@cyberscoopnews“combine its AI tools with outside cybersecurity companies to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and open-source software”x.com
  6. SUPPORT@rohanpaul_ai“Only organizations vetted with the US government can use Claude to probe power grids, flight systems and interbank networks”x.com
  7. SUPPORT@wesroth“more than 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities. Humans had reviewed and triaged approximately 6,000”x.com
  8. SUPPORT@jun_song“how could you call this "security" when you are handing over all your data to those companies?”x.com
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