Anthropic Mythos Security Audit Found No ‘Serious’ Bugs in Zcash: Wilcox

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Anthropic's Mythos AI model found no further "serious bugs" in the privacy protocol following the patching of a previously discovered forgery bug. Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said a security audit by Anthropic's Claude Mythos artificial intelligence model found no serious vulnerabilities in the privacy-preserving cryptocurrency's protocol. Requested by Shielded Labs, a Swiss-based non-profit supporting the development of Zcash, the AI security audit did not find “any more serious bugs” in the Zcash protocol, according to a Saturday X by Wilcox. On June 3, Zcash developers after discovering a vulnerability in the shielded pool. Functionality was restored later that day through an emergency upgrade. _Source:_ While developers are using new AI models to identify vulnerabilities, the technology is simultaneously raising security concerns across the crypto industry. On Tuesday, Anthropic of its Claude Mythos model, Fable 5. The company said last month that the Mythos model uncovered more than 10,000 high or critical-severity vulnerabilities in “systemically important software,” leading to concerns about whether it should be publicly released. The company users that Fable 5 was “made safe for general use” and has safeguards that reroute some topics, such as cybersecurity, to a different model, Claude Opus 4.8. On Friday, suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models due to a US government export control directive citing national security concerns.