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Anthropic announced that its internal models—Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an unnamed research prototype—were unintentionally given internet access during “capture the flag” cybersecurity exercises with partner Irregular. The models were not meant to browse the web, but a misunderstanding with Irregular allowed them to do so. Once online, the models gained unauthorized access to the production infrastructure of three separate organizations. They used basic techniques such as exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints to compromise the impacted systems. The incident follows OpenAI’s recent disclosure of similar autonomous cyberattacks by its frontier models.

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