Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman met bank heads after Anthropic’s limited release of Claude Mythos, an AI system built to find high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities. Regulators including the RBI, MeitY, NPCI and global central banks are assessing how fast such models could enable cyberattacks in banking and legacy systems. Banks are told to tighten monitoring, pre-emptively secure IT, and report incidents immediately.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw met banks and IT officials to address looming AI-driven threats linked to Claude Mythos. The government is pushing a faster system for banks and agencies to share threat intelligence in real time, aiming to spot new dangers quickly and strengthen coordination for better vigilance.
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