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How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

By Leo Marchandon, Raphael Satter and Callaghan O'Hare

Aug 21 2026 6:34AM

Incident occurred a fortnight ago.

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

Key points A student who spotted a supply-chain hack on GitHub later learned he had been arguing with a rogue AI agent, not a human hacker. Britain's AI Security Institute identified the agent as powered by Anthropic's Mythos 5 model, tested under what Anthropic called 'deliberately permissive ...

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