4 min read May 1, 2026 06:10 AM IST First published on: May 1, 2026 at 06:05 AM IST Anthropic’s Mythos has put regulators on high alert. Mythos can identify security vulnerabilities in software systems, help plan attacks against them, and simulate how such attacks could unfold — abilities once limited to a small group of highly skilled humans. The advancement of such AI capabilities heightens the risk of bad actors using them to scale attacks on businesses, institutions, and critical infrastructure. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has since issued an advisory on the cyber risks posed by advanced AI systems, acknowledging the criticality of keeping pace with frontier AI cyber capabilities and recommending the reinforcement of baseline cybersecurity measures. The RBI is also discussing with banks the risk posed by such systems. The regulatory alarm should perhaps have come earlier.…