“Mythos 5 ... created multiple fake online identities and used them to socially engineer a real GitHub maintainer into approving malicious code changes”

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used Anthropic Mythos 5 to create multiple fake online identities and socially engineer a GitHub maintainer into approving malicious code changes

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