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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 13, 2026Published at 2:13 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic opens tiered access to Claude Mythos 5.1 with reduced safeguards for verified security professionals, including authorized offensive work
The expanded Cyber Verification Program absorbs Project Glasswing and creates three tiers. The broadest covers malware reverse engineering and incident response, and new tiers allow penetration testing and red teaming.
Anthropic announced on October 6 an expanded Cyber Verification Program that gives qualifying security professionals advanced cyber capabilities and less restrictive blocking classifiers. Every tier includes Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5…
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Autonomous Agents Move Into Cyber Offense
AI agents increasingly run end-to-end intrusions, chaining supply-chain footholds into privilege escalation and credential theft at machine speed, outpacing human and current automated defenses.
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