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Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

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Re: Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

#3

The vulnerabilities found continues to impress, and make legacy media, Twitter and Youtube go nuts. But we still have no data to prove this wasn't doable with the same initiative backed by Opus 4.7, and there is no GA for Mythos access.

I've seen a blog post by a security researcher saying that he was able to find the same vulnerabilities (for Firefox IIRC) with a ~30B params LLM...

So yeah, huge marketing as always.

Re: Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

#5

The vulnerabilities found continues to impress, and make legacy media, Twitter and Youtube go nuts. But we still have no data to prove this wasn't doable with the same initiative backed by Opus 4.7, and there is no GA for Mythos access.

you would likely be quite interested in the more quantitative writeup from a real research team ! it’s linked about midway in to the article - similar functionally can be reached, yes, but not always and never with fewer tokens than what mythos requires.

https://xbow.com/blog/mythos-offensive-security-xbow-evaluat...

Re: Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

#6

The vulnerabilities found continues to impress, and make legacy media, Twitter and Youtube go nuts. But we still have no data to prove this wasn't doable with the same initiative backed by Opus 4.7, and there is no GA for Mythos access.

> Mozilla found and fixed 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 while testing Mythos Preview—over ten times more than they found in Firefox 148 with Claude Opus 4.6

4.6 but close.

Re: Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

#7

The vulnerabilities found continues to impress, and make legacy media, Twitter and Youtube go nuts. But we still have no data to prove this wasn't doable with the same initiative backed by Opus 4.7, and there is no GA for Mythos access.

Makes me wonder if Anthropic is really having issues with allocating compute (see recent deals with xAI and SpaceX). From available benchmarks, it seems like similar results should be possible with GPT 5.5 Pro or Opus 4.7 (with specific cybersecurity trained models).

Re: Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

#8

[edit: TFA addresses this, though I still find crazy 90% accuracy overall vs 20% accuracy for curl] Is this suspected vulns or actual vulns? If I recall correctly, it produced 5 for curl but only 1 was legit

This is marketing. So probably suspected. Or somewhere in between.

Re: Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

#9

The vulnerabilities found continues to impress, and make legacy media, Twitter and Youtube go nuts. But we still have no data to prove this wasn't doable with the same initiative backed by Opus 4.7, and there is no GA for Mythos access.

. Mozilla found and fixed 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 while testing Mythos Preview—over ten times more than they found in Firefox 148 with Claude Opus 4.6;

Re: Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

#10

[edit: TFA addresses this, though I still find crazy 90% accuracy overall vs 20% accuracy for curl] Is this suspected vulns or actual vulns? If I recall correctly, it produced 5 for curl but only 1 was legit

> So far, Mythos Preview has found what it estimates are 6,202 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in these projects (out of 23,019 in total, including those it estimates as medium- or low-severity).

> 1,752 of those high- or critical-rated vulnerabilities have now been carefully assessed by one of six independent security research firms, or in a small number of cases by ourselves. Of these, 90.6% (1,587) have proved to be valid true positives, and 62.4% (1,094) were confirmed as either high- or critical-severity. That means that even if Mythos Preview finds no further vulnerabilities, at our current post-triage true-positive rates, it’s on track to have surfaced nearly 3,900 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in open-source code

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