At this week\u2019s HumanX AI conference in San Francisco, Alex Stamos of start-up Corridor, which addresses AI safety, acknowledged the threat from agentic hackers.<\/p>\n
And Stamos quipped about what he referred to as Anthropic\u2019s \u201cmarketing schtick\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have these adorable cutesy cartoons about these products that are so incredibly dangerous that they won\u2019t even let people use them,\u201d Stamos said of the San Francisco-based start-up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like if the Manhattan Project announced the nuclear bomb within a cute little Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.\u201d<\/p>\n
The heads of America\u2019s biggest banks met this week with Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to weigh the security implications of the yet-to-be-released Claude Mythos, according to reports Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cMythos\u2019 model points to something far more consequential than another leap in artificial intelligence,\u201d Cato Networks co-founder and chief executive Shlomo Kramer said in a blog post.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt signals a shift that could redefine the balance between attackers and defenders in cyberspace.\u201d<\/p>\n
A tightly restricted preview of Mythos was shared with partner organisations this week, under an initiative called Project Glasswing. They include Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, CrowdStrike and JPMorgan Chase.<\/p>\n
According to Anthropic and partners, Mythos can autonomously scan vast amounts of code to find and chain together previously unknown security vulnerabilities in all kinds of software, from operating systems to web browsers.<\/p>\n
Crucially, they warn, this can be done at a speed and scale no human could match, meaning it could be used to bring down banks, hospitals or national infrastructure within hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat once required elite specialists can now be performed by software agents,\u201d Kramer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe immediate consequences will be a surge in vulnerability discovery, a true tsunami\u201d of exploiting known and unknown vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n
\u2018Agent-to-agent war\u2019<\/p>\n
At HumanX, the apparent consensus was it makes sense that AI agents already adept at coding will excel at finding weaknesses in software.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not in an era where human beings can write code when we have superhuman [AI models] that are then going to find bugs in it,\u201d Stamos said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just not possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
He predicted the coming dynamic will involve humans supervising AI agents to protect networks against hackers using that same technology to attack.<\/p>\n
Stamos referred to it as \u201cagent-to-agent war\u201d, with humans on the sidelines giving advice.<\/p>\n
Wendy Whitmore, of cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, expects \u201csome sort of catastrophic attack\u201d this year connected to AI agent capabilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that keeps me up at night is that we\u2019re staring down the barrel of a massive influx of new vulnerabilities that are going to be found by AI,\u201d said Adam Meyers of CrowdStrike.<\/p>\n
Meyers saw embedding a tiny AI model directly into malicious code infecting networks as a natural tactic to be explored by hackers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ultimate weapon would be malware that has no pre-programming,\u201d Meyers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can do whatever you ask it to.\u201d<\/p>\n
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