Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here's what enterprises should know

The UK AI Security Institute (AISI ) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity tests the agency was running, including a sustained campaign by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 against two working open-source software developers who had no connection to the experiment. Unable to solve a challenge inside its sandbox, Mythos 5 searched the open web for a target, profiled the two developers using open-source intelligence (OSINT), routed its traffic through Tor and then a commercial p