Ethereum client developer Nethermind and bitcoin and lightning wallet ZEUS are among several crypto companies to apply for a newly launched Anthropic program that gives open-source projects access to security reports from its most powerful AI models.
The projects submitted enrollment requests Friday for the OSS Scanner, which Anthropic launched Thursday with the goal of helping open-source developers find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.
“These reports will be powered by our robust models (including Claude Mythos) to give open source projects the greatest protective advantage,” Anthropic said in its report. announcement.
Applications come as crypto farms Press for access from Frontier AI model To defend against increasingly capable attackers. Cybersecurity experts warn that uneven access could put defenders at a disadvantage as powerful alternatives become more widely available.
Anthropic says OSS Scanner is an opt-in service that follows the work of Project Glasswing. The company said that while it already routinely scans open source software for vulnerabilities and sends reports after human review, the manual review process is slow “so we can’t always share vulnerabilities as quickly as we’d like.”
OSS Scanner will provide vulnerability reports to participating projects as their code is scanned.
Pull requests to the OSS Scanner GitHub repository show to Nethermind to apply for auditing its entire repository, while ZEUS, a self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning wallet, ask To test its app for vulnerabilities affecting payments, private keys and connectivity to Lightning services. another one applicant is VirtEngine, a decentralized cloud computing marketplace structured as a Cosmos SDK chain.
Other applicants include developers of AI assistants, agent-security tools and machine-learning infrastructure, in addition to projects providing software development tools, cloud storage and energy-system control.
No pull requests have been merged at the time of publication.
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Anthropic said projects will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, considering their importance to infrastructure and user security, exposure to remote attacks and how many users or other projects depend on them.
Crypto companies have reported AI-assisted attacks this year. Bitcoin exchange provider Boltz The proceedings were suspended in Augustsaid attackers were developing exploits faster than his team could patch them, while crypto-payments service PayPerQ was repeatedly attacked in suspected AI-driven attacks.
anthropological warned on Thursday That AI may favor attackers in the near term, as exploits become cheaper while verifying and fix weaknesses Slow and dependent on people.
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