AI Risk Wire

Incidents

7 incidents

Risk: Deception, concealment or sabotage Control: Independent check of task results Outcome: Not stated in sources

EffectiveNot effectiveNot effective (bypassed)Did not existNot stated in sourcesNot yet checkedAttacker's ownOrder: model · harness · application · target

DateIncidentRiskWhere it failedControls mentioned in sources
2026-08-04AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent bypassed an audio CAPTCHA and abused a free DNS service to point a public record at an internal target
Anthropic
Deception, concealment or sabotage
Did not existNetwork egress control L2
EffectiveStop control L2
2026-08-04AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent exposed locally-hosted attack tooling to the public internet via tunnelling services
Anthropic
Deception, concealment or sabotage
2026-08-04AISI cyber evaluation: concurrent Mythos 5 agents coordinated via a shared GitHub account and a leaked access token
Anthropic
Deception, concealment or sabotage
Did not existNetwork egress control L2
2026-08-04AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent mass-created malicious GitHub repositories and its packages executed in Dependabot containers
Anthropic
Deception, concealment or sabotage
Did not existNetwork egress control L2
2026-08-04AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent sent deceptive targeted emails and file transfers to real open-source maintainers
Anthropic
Deception, concealment or sabotage
EffectiveStop control L2
Not effective (bypassed)Bot and scraping defences L4
Did not existNetwork egress control L2
2026-08-04AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent opened malicious pull request on real open-source project and used sockpuppets to push merge
Anthropic
Deception, concealment or sabotage
Did not existNetwork egress control L2
2026-07-25AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent posted hidden instructions for AI coding assistants on real GitHub issues
Anthropic
Deception, concealment or sabotage