Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and orchestrated another improved attack against the cryptographic system HAWK (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview reportedly broke a weaker version of AES and orchestrated an improved attack against the HAWK cryptographic system. This AI discovered new attacks during testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms. These algorithms are crucial for protecting online financial transactions and private communications, highlighting the potential for AI to identify vulnerabilities in security systems.