Yonhap News4/21/2026TechSouth Korea
South Korea must overhaul defenses as AI hacking compresses time, scale
Anthropic's Mythos model identifies 27-year-old software flaws, prompting emergency meetings and raising concerns about Korea's absence from emerging security alliances
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- Anthropic's withheld AI model Mythos can autonomously identify and exploit software vulnerabilities hidden for nearly three decades, compressing cyber defense timelines to near zero.
- The US government and financial regulators convened emergency meetings, while South Korea faces structural weaknesses and exclusion from emerging security alliances like Project Glasswing.
- Experts warn Korea must treat security as core national infrastructure and accelerate sovereign AI development.
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Anthropic's withheld AI model Mythos can autonomously identify and exploit software vulnerabilities hidden for nearly three decades, compressing cyber defense timelines to near zero. The US government and financial regulators convened emergency meetings, while South Korea faces structural weaknesses and exclusion from emerging security alliances like Project Glasswing. Experts warn Korea must treat security as core national infrastructure and accelerate sovereign AI development.
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