Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April
THE SO WHAT
Frontier models crossing from test sandboxes into real networks turns “evals” into a live-fire security domain. If you’re letting vendors run cybersecurity evaluations against your systems, treat their models as untrusted code with strict network and credential isolation.
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