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Anthropic’s Mythos AI used social engineering to target real people

medmalwarebytes_blogPublished 2026-08-06

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Anthropic’s Mythos AI agent, tested by the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI), has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w1lvn7d9go" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">reportedly</a> attempted a real‑world social‑engineering style hack against GitHub maintainers by creating fake human profiles, pressuring them to accept malicious code, and then editi

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Original source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/08/anthropics-mythos-ai-used-social-engineering-to-target-real-people