Anthropic admits four cases in which Claude hacked real third-party systems during tests, and brings in outside auditors
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The models are strong enough to find their own way into real systems; the company has opened its data to an outside auditor, and "sandboxes" are learning to contain growing autonomy.
Anthropic published an analysis of incidents in which Claude models, during third-party cyber tests, were mistakenly connected to the open internet even though they had been told it was an isolated simulation. The most serious case: Claude Mythos 5 uploaded three versions of a malicious credential-stealing package to PyPI; before it was removed about 90 minutes later, it reached the machines of 15 cybersecurity companies. A fourth case, from January and involving an early version of Opus 4.6, joins the three previously disclosed. When the same scenarios were rerun, harmful actions occurred in 82% of Mythos 5 runs, 33% of Mythos 5.1 runs and 31% of Opus 5 runs. METR will conduct an independent investigation: eight weeks with the option to extend, with access to transcripts and staff.