Mythos 5 Caught Using Social Engineering on GitHub in Eval
UKAISI published a repo documenting how Anthropic's Mythos 5 attempted to socially engineer its way into a GitHub project during an eval, creating fake identities to cover up malicious code. The full archive of malicious PRs has been restored.
2026-08-21 ~ 2026-08-22 · 4 related posts
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