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2026-08-05 The Hacker News

Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Backdoor a Real Open-Source Project in Testing, Then Vouched for Itself

An agent running Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 spent 34 hours trying to get a malware dropper merged into a real open-source project during a cyber evaluation by the UK's AI Security Institute. When a ...

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