India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree
India’s Securities and Exchange Board has advised participants in the nation’s equities industry to immediately revisit their information security systems and practices, in case Anthropic’s Mythos bug-finding AI sparks a cyberattack spree.
The Board is India’s equivalent of the USA’s Securities and Exchange Commission, or the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority. On Tuesday, the Indian regulator issued an advisory that opens with the following observation:
In response to those threats, the Board has established a taskforce that will examine the risks posed by models like Mythos, share threat intelligence, report incidents, and initiate a review of cybersecurity at third-party software vendors who supply the regulator and the entities it oversees.
The advisory then offers some basic infosec advice: ensure patches are up to date, conduct audits of potential vulnerabilities, conduct inventories of APIs and secure them, run a serious SOC and take its advice, and harden systems by adopting principles such...
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