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Mythos Vulnerability Firehose Hits a Human Bottleneck

Analysis of Project Glasswing findings shows only a fraction of discovered vulnerabilities have reached disclosure and even fewer are fixed.

Dark Reading reports that an analysis of Project Glasswing findings shows only a fraction of the vulnerabilities discovered by the program have reached disclosure, and an even smaller number have been fixed. The article examines how the volume of findings from the discovery program is bottlenecked by limited human triage and remediation capacity. The piece highlights growing tension between high-volume vulnerability discovery and the industry's ability to process, disclose and patch reports.

Dark Reading·Sep 9, 21:19 UTC · 6d agoResearch

We have a year to fix security everywhere

Blog post warns that cheap open-weight GLM 5.3-flash, once abliterated, could enable mass AI-driven vulnerability exploitation, urging industry-wide patching now.

An essay argues that Z.ai's open-weight GLM 5.3-flash—runnable locally on roughly $6k consumer hardware at 20-45 tokens/second—combined with 'abliterated' variants from groups like DeAlignAI that score 0% on HarmBench-320 puts dangerous hacking capability in nearly anyone's hands. GLM 5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym and 54.4% on ExploitBench, versus GPT-6 Astra's 100% and GPT-5.6 Sol's 78.5%, and the author cites evidence of frontier models exploiting real-world infrastructure. The author calls for using LLMs (Project Glasswing, Daybreak) to find and fix vulnerabilities industry-wide before adversaries weaponize cheap open models.

Hacker News · security·Sep 8, 04:48 UTC · 8d agoAI safety & securityHN 278↑ · 292 comments

AI’s ‘middle class’ has gotten dramatically better at hacking

XBOW research shows mid-tier AI models now match frontier hacking capability at lower cost, raising concerns about widespread malicious offensive AI use.

XBOW benchmarks show mid-tier models such as Z.ai's GLM-5.2, xAI's Grok 4.5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 now complete moderately complex agentic exploitation tasks that they failed at six months ago. GPT-5.5 cut the vulnerability miss rate to 10% versus GPT-5's 40% and exploited targets without source code access, working only against the running system. Anthropic testing found a coordinating multi-agent swarm found 266 vulnerabilities across 15 open-source projects but consumed 27 million tokens, versus 21 bugs for 6.5 million tokens with non-coordinating agents. Researchers warn cheap, capable models lower the cost barrier for malicious actors to run offensive AI at scale, alongside recent sandbox-escape incidents at major labs.

CyberScoop·Aug 13, 16:55 UTC · Aug 13, 2026AI safety & security

Claude Mythos Executes End-to-End Intrusion From Initial Access to Full Domain Compromise

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, its most cyber-capable model, autonomously completed an end-to-end enterprise intrusion simulation in restricted-access testing.

Anthropic's April 2026 system card describes Claude Mythos Preview as the first model to solve a private cyber range end to end and finish a corporate-network attack simulation an expert would need 10+ hours to complete. It scored 100% pass@1 on a 35-challenge Cybench subset and 0.83 on CyberGym versus 0.67 for Claude Opus 4.6. The model is limited to vetted partners under Project Glasswing; it failed an OT cyber range and could not find novel exploits in a fully patched sandbox.

GBHackers·Sep 8, 11:31 UTC · 8d agoModel release1

Hunting Vulnerabilities Using Frontier Models

Okta used frontier AI models GPT-5.5 Cyber and Mythos via OpenAI and Anthropic programs to scan millions of code lines for vulnerabilities.

Okta describes using frontier AI models, including GPT-5.5 Cyber Preview (TAC) and Mythos Preview, through OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program and Anthropic's Project Glasswing to hunt vulnerabilities across its product codebase. The team built a custom Python orchestrator with strong isolation, vendor-agnostic model support, and four distinct scanning pipelines executed as isolated Codex or Claude Code sessions with progressive context loading to reduce context bloat. Human experts and AI agents worked both autonomously and in paired hunts, and Okta reports the best results when humans and agents taught each other.

Okta Security·Sep 8, 00:00 UTC · 8d agoResearch

Claude Mythos 5 is coming to Tenable One, powering the new “Adversary View”

Tenable will integrate Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 into Tenable One, launching Adversary View to surface exploitable vulnerability chains from scan data.

Tenable announced it is bringing Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 into the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, extending its Project Glasswing research work with Anthropic. The first capability, Tenable One Adversary View, will use the model's adversarial reasoning over raw scanner evidence, plugin output, live connections and low-confidence signals to identify viable vulnerability chains and ranked defensive actions. Customers will act on results through Tenable Hexa AI. Availability details for Adversary View are expected in the coming weeks; no customer deployment exists yet.

Tenable Blog·Sep 8, 17:21 UTC · 7d agoTools1

Ping Identity introduces enterprise security for personal AI agents

Ping Identity launched Enterprise Personal Agent Access to discover, authenticate and control personal AI agents like Claude at runtime.

Ping Identity announced Enterprise Personal Agent Access, delivered through PingOne Privilege, to give enterprises visibility and control over personal AI agents such as Claude and Claude Code. The product discovers agents including shadow AI, associates each session with the user and device behind it, and enforces allow, deny, log, human-approval or revocation decisions on agent access at runtime. It enables secretless developer workflows so agents can commit code without long-lived credentials while keeping actions attributable to the agent. Ping cites Gravitee research that 48% of production AI agents run unsecured and says the product is available now and piloting with global enterprises.

Help Net Security·Sep 3, 06:25 UTC · 13d agoAI safety & security

AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks

Gartner survey of 316 organizations ranks AI-driven vulnerability discovery as the top emerging risk, with tangible impact expected within roughly two years.

Gartner's quarterly survey had 316 risk managers, auditors, and senior executives rank 20 emerging threats in April and May, with AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities ranked first, up from outside the top five the prior quarter. Respondents scored the impact time frame at 1.92 on a scale where 1 means under a year and 2 means one to two years, and 76% placed it in their top ten, ranking first in all four regions and highest among banking and financial respondents at 78%. The analysis notes AI now finds unknown flaws at volumes patching teams cannot absorb and that exploit development time has collapsed, citing defensive efforts like Anthropic's Project Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak. Gartner recommends recalibrating cyber risk impact, revisiting risk appetite, demanding stronger vendor security validation, and moving toward faster automated remediation.

Help Net Security·Aug 26, 00:00 UTC · 21d agoIndustry

Why The Vulnerability Backlog Is About To Get Worse

Recorded Future analysis says AI-driven vulnerability discovery and faster weaponization will grow the triage backlog while shrinking defenders' response windows.

Disclosed vulnerabilities rose from roughly 21,000 in 2021 to nearly 50,000 in 2025, while Recorded Future assessed only 446 as actively exploited in 2025. VulnCheck found nearly 29% of 2025 KEV entries were exploited on or before CVE publication. The authors argue AI-assisted discovery and automated exploit development will multiply credible reports, cut disclosure-to-exploit time toward minutes, and force re-evaluation of medium-severity flaws as exploit-chain components.

Recorded Future·Aug 26, 00:00 UTC · 21d agoResearch

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, prepares Mythos-class models for all customers

Help Net Security·Jun 3, 08:06 UTC · Jun 3, 2026Model release1