Industry Odisha Bureau, April 27: Amid the swelling ‘Mythos’ AI threat, country’s nodal cyber-security agency Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has reportedly issued advisory, especially to the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector urging to deploy soon AI-driven state-of-the-art spotting tool so that the squirms could be suo motu set right.
CERT-In’s noteworthy note captioned ‘Defending Against Frontier AI Driven Cyber Risks’ released on April 26 reportedly states: “Such AI-driven tools can chain together exploits across systems, enabling attackers to compromise enterprise networks end-to-end. This marks a significant shift from traditional cyber threats, where attacks typically required manual effort and specialised expertise. The automation and speed offered by frontier AI models drastically lower the barrier to entry for cybercriminals while amplifying the scale and precision of attacks”.
Reportedly citing that the MSME sector “often lacking in strong and sturdy cyber-security foundation”, the sector ought to fortify by installing highly-sophisticated AI-threat detection tools so that a robust defence system would be in place to timely ward off the evils of AI threats allegedly like the Anthropic’s Claude Mythos.
Reportedly being now a global alarm, the “dual-use nature of advanced AI technologies and their misuse in cyber warfare and digital crime” has now surfaced as a paramount issue/greatest challenge.
Pertinent to note, “Mythos” is an advanced AI model developed by Anthropic (unveiled in April 2026) that has raised major global concerns due to its unprecedented ability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities at a scale and speed surpassing human capabilities. It has been described by Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as a threat ‘as big as war’, prompting urgent warnings for banks and financial institutions to strengthen their digital infrastructure.” (Courtesy: AI Overview).
