Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI has successfully cracked a weakened AES encryption and broken HAWK, marking a significant milestone in cryptographic advancements.
Claude Mythos autonomously devised a cryptographic attack on weakened AES within a week. This signals enterprises must urgently adopt quantum-resistant cryptography standards; advanced AI systems now pose material threats to current encryption infrastructure security.
AES is a widely used encryption standard
Jul 29, 2026
11:53 am
What's the storyAnthropic's leading artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Mythos Preview, has exposed vulnerabilities in a weakened version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a digital encryption standard widely used across the internet.
The discovery was made during a research test backed by Reuters.
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