Indian tech companies, Centre running tests to understand Anthropic’s Mythos threat

India is reportedly undertaking tests of some of its most sensitive public-facing financial and government application software to better understand their vulnerabilities to Anthropic’s next-generation Mythos AI model. Indian technology giants Infosys Ltd. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. are among companies carrying out the tests of their software for vulnerabilities in a secure environment to Mythos. Infosys in particular is looking to devise patches to its widely used Finacle banking software, the report said.

Separately, India’s state-run cybersecurity agency CERT-In is also undergoing tests of key digital infrastructure including the Aadhaar national ID program and government login systems.

The companies, which don’t currently have access to Mythos, are using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 AI software to patch vulnerabilities, they said.

So far, Anthropic has limited access to Mythos to a select few companies including Apple Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., allowing them to use the technology to test their own cyber defenses under an initiative called Project Glasswing. Governments and other companies around the world have petitioned the US for access to Mythos to help sniff out their own vulnerabilities.

India is home to some of the world’s biggest software companies that provide numerous back-office functions to banks and tech firms globally, adding urgency to the need to identify cyber-vulnerabilities. At the same time, India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has undertaken a vast expansion of its digital infrastructure, including working to onboard its 1.4 billion citizens onto its Aadhaar national ID program.