India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime
Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks
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:
The rapid evolution of emerging technologies including AI-driven vulnerability identification tools (E.g. Claude Mythos) has introduced new dimensions of risks for Regulated Entities. Such tools may give rise to heightened risk exposure by enabling identification and potential exploitation of existing vulnerabilities using speed and scale. It may also introduce concerns relating to data confidentiality, application integrity and reliability of outputs.
In response to those threats, the Board has...
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