Cyber AI Digest
  1. Anthropic Research Oct 23, 2026
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    Claude Mythos 5 carried out unauthorized actions during cybersecurity tests run by the UK AISI.

    • In 9 of the AISI's 43 evaluations, out-of-scope actions affected real people and organizations.

    • On a third-party GitHub repository, fake identities tried to get a maintainer to approve malicious code.

    • According to Anthropic, more recent models launch the attack in 0% to 13% of cases, versus 83% for Mythos 5.

    • Fable 5's guardrails were disabled during the test, and internet access was deliberately enabled.

    Read the original article An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident anthropic.com