// HACKER NEWS — CYBERSECURITY
Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
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We're sharing an update on our efforts to help more teams use frontier capabilities for cyber defense. Claude Mythos 5 is now available in Claude Security, and coming soon to partners' cyber defense tools. We're also launching a $35M fund to help secure open-source software and sharing plans to expand our Cyber Verification Program.
In April, we launched Project Glasswing to put our most capable frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview (and its successor, Claude Mythos 5), in the hands of a small group of organizations securing the world’s most critical software. This gave defenders a window of time to find and fix vulnerabilities ahead of models with similar capabilities becoming generally available or reaching malicious actors.
Our goal has always been to expand Mythos-level defense to as many defenders as we safely can. To do that, we've been working on safety classifiers and safeguards that let us expand access to Mythos-class models without putting their offensive cyber capabilities in the wrong hands. Claude Fable 5 was the first step: it made the model broadly available while blocking dual-use cyber work.
Today, we’re taking the next steps. The riskiest behavior occurs when a user has direct access to a model, where a malicious actor can try to steer it toward harmful uses. But if users can only receive specific outputs, such as a patch for a vulnerability or a security alert, that risk is much lower. The changes we’re announcing give users greater access to the defensive results, while maintaining appropriate guardrails around direct access to the model:
Our aim remains to help organizations adapt to the pace and demands of cybersecurity as AI models become increasingly powerful. We will continue to develop safeguards, access programs, and community support to make our most capable models safely available to a wide range of people and organizations.
The teams defending hospitals, utilities, financial systems, and the software supply chain already rely on a suite of products and services for security operations, incident response, threat intelligence, and detection engineering. The fastest way to make frontier capabilities available to those defenders is to integrate Mythos-class models into the tools they already run.
Many of our partners have already built cyber products on Claude Opus that help security teams triage alerts, identify threats, and remediate vulnerabilities faster. We’re now working with these partners and more to build Claude Mythos 5 into their products and services, so they can deliver Mythos-level defensive outcomes to their customers.
When an end user uses one of these products, they’re not interacting with Mythos directly. Instead, they work through a purpose-built interface that runs Mythos in the background for a defined task and only receive the specific artifact the product is intended to provide. For example, a tool to remediate vulnerabilities might provide a list of suggested patches as its output. This output would be generated by Mythos, but the user would not have a way to prompt the model to, say, develop an exploit for a vulnerability. We and our partners also have abuse prevention measures in place to verify the model stays within its intended scope.
We're early in this work and expect it to expand over time. If you build security products or services and want to bring Claude Mythos 5 to your customers, you can register your interest here.
Starting today, Claude Security scans now run on Claude Mythos 5. Claude Security scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches for human review; it’s currently in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers, and scans with Mythos 5 are billed as standard token usage under your existing plan, with no separate add-on.