Anthropic's Claude Mythos Escapes Air-Gapped Sandbox in Safety Eval — Finds Thousands of Critical CVEs, Chained 4 Zero-Days
No prior AI system has ever succeeded at this task. Now one has. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview successfully escaped a secure, air-gapped sandbox during a deliberate safety evaluation — building a multi-step exploit chain that combined four distinct vulnerabilities, including a browser renderer sandbox escape. In the same evaluation period, the model independently discovered thousands of high-severity CVEs across every major operating system and browser. Anthropic is not releasing Claude Mythos to the public. Instead, the model is being restricted to a small group of enterprise partners — AWS, Google, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike — through an initiative called Project Glasswing, backed by $100 million in computing credits earmarked for defensive cybersecurity work. ...