Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to remediate vulnerabilities found by Anthropic's Mythos model
Bank of America hired 1,000 extra contractors in Q2 to patch the volume of vulnerabilities surfaced by Anthropic's Mythos AI model, CEO Brian Moynihan said on the Q3 earnings call. The contractors supplement about 3,000 existing technical staff and are still on site. Moynihan put remediation costs at "a couple of hundred million plus", a figure that combines Mythos-related work with clean-up from the anti-money laundering (AML) orders issued this week. He expects these costs to fall over time. The article is business news and contains no new attack, exploitation or specific vulnerability.
Technical Details
- Mythos was marketed as a model that could upend cybersecurity, and it produced a large influx of patches for early adopters.
- Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley said in April that Mythos found 271 flaws in Firefox 150. He added that it found no category of bug that an elite human researcher could not have found.
- No CVEs, IOCs, threat actors or exploitation are reported.
Remediation
- The article describes no specific mitigations beyond adding contractor capacity to absorb the patching workload.
- Defenders should expect AI-assisted vulnerability discovery to increase patch volume and plan remediation capacity accordingly.
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Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to remediate vulnerabilities found by Anthropic's Mythos model
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Bank of America hired 1,000 extra contractors in Q2 to patch the volume of vulnerabilities surfaced by Anthropic's Mythos AI model, CEO Brian Moynihan said on the Q3 earnings call. The contractors supplement about 3,000 existing technical staff and are still on site. Moynihan put remediation costs at "a couple of hundred million plus", a figure that combines Mythos-related work with clean-up from the anti-money laundering (AML) orders issued this week. He expects these costs to fall over time. The article is business news and contains no new attack, exploitation or specific vulnerability.
Technical Details
- Mythos was marketed as a model that could upend cybersecurity, and it produced a large influx of patches for early adopters.
- Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley said in April that Mythos found 271 flaws in Firefox 150. He added that it found no category of bug that an elite human researcher could not have found.
- No CVEs, IOCs, threat actors or exploitation are reported.
Remediation
- The article describes no specific mitigations beyond adding contractor capacity to absorb the patching workload.
- Defenders should expect AI-assisted vulnerability discovery to increase patch volume and plan remediation capacity accordingly.