Bank of America CEO reveals how US’ second-largest bank had to hire thousands and spend millions of dollars to ‘contain’ damage done by Anthropic’s AI Agent Mythos

America's second-largest bank, Bank of America (BoFA), may have just told everyone how dangerous AI agents can be for companies. According to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, the bank has enlisted an army of external contractors and deployed thousands of tech workers to fortify its code against emerging cybersecurity threats posed by frontier artificial intelligence. CEO Brian Moynihan revealed the same in an interview with CNBC.The defensive overhaul was reportedly triggered after advanced AI Agents, including Anthropic’s Mythos -- demonstrated a heightened capacity to pinpoint and exploit longstanding software vulnerabilities across bank's internal and vendor networks.

Also reported by The Times of India.

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