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Frontier AI Can't Hack Corporate Networks? Claude Mythos Just Did It in 20 Hours.

April 17, 2026
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Frontier AI Can't Hack Corporate Networks? Claude Mythos Just Did It in 20 Hours.
UK AISI just confirmed Claude Mythos completed a 32-step corporate network attack autonomously 3 of 10 attempts. 73% expert CTF success, up from 0% a year ago. Project Glasswing charges $25/$125 per million tokens. Bloomberg Q&A today at 1:30 PM EDT. The myth that frontier AI cannot hack corporate networks without a human in the loop is dead.

A 32-step corporate network attack. 20 hours of human red-team work. Completed start-to-finish by an AI. Three times out of ten.

The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) published its independent evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview today. The results are the first independent confirmation of what people inside Anthropic have been quietly terrified about since February.

Key Takeaways

  • AISI published first independent evaluation of Claude Mythos — model completed 32-step TLO attack autonomously 3 of 10 attempts, average 22 steps
  • 73% success on expert-difficulty capture-the-flag challenges that scored 0% twelve months ago — the trajectory line is the story
  • Project Glasswing access tier prices Mythos at $25/$125 per million tokens (5x Opus 4.7) to create economic friction
  • Test ranges lacked EDR, active defenders, and incident response — Mythos can attack weakly-defended networks, not hardened enterprise environments yet
  • OpenAI confirmed same-day that it has a restricted cyber model ready to release through a similar consortium structure — arms race is no longer theoretical
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