alt.hn

4/11/2026 at 9:20:21 PM

AI Is Tipping the Scales Toward Hackers After Mythos Release

 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/anthropic-claude-mythos-ai-hackers-cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-rcna273673

by thywis

4/11/2026 at 9:53:48 PM

If you maintain an open source project, you should absolutely run claude, codex, and gemini through your code base looking for security issues. It found some surprising vulns in some of my repos that were so subtle that even when it pointed them out to me, I still couldn't see the problem. I chatted back and forth for a bit and finally realized that it was right. Fixed the bugs and moved on.

by freedomben

4/11/2026 at 10:10:24 PM

Exactly! I think it might go deeper than that. Some issue or result of like hosting or configuration that it doesn't seem that all is just by looking at the code base. It's a combination of a lot of stuff.

by thywis

4/11/2026 at 10:22:07 PM

More generally, AI is enabling predatory use cases more than positive use cases. There's more resources and more will behind the former.

by add-sub-mul-div

4/11/2026 at 10:34:58 PM

Yeah, spears usually wins first.

by thywis

4/11/2026 at 9:52:41 PM

Overhyped.

by nubinetwork

4/11/2026 at 11:26:57 PM

Maybe there is some astroturfing going on, as is usually the case, but it's already known that Codex/Claude Code and their ilk have been ruining CTFs for a while.

And well, one can always prompt "review my feature branch" or "review this file for bugs" with these tools; code analysis plays into the strengths of LLMs far more than code generation, since false positives/hallucinations aren't a problem with the former.

by TuxSH

4/11/2026 at 10:11:04 PM

LMAO, I do genuinely believe it's much easier to hack right now. Just matter of timer sth blows up on the news.

by thywis