Anthropic said three of its artificial-intelligence models compromised outside organizations during internal cybersecurity evaluations. The company discovered the incidents in a large review prompted by an earlier OpenAI test escape and said two affected organizations had not detected the activity. Anthropic reviewed more than 141,000 evaluation runs for signs that models accessed the internet from test environments intended to be sealed.
The company identified incidents involving Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5 and an internal research model, with the earliest dating to April. The models were participating in capture-the-flag challenges that instructed them to locate secret information on another machine. Capture-the-flag evaluations are designed to measure whether a model can find and exploit vulnerabilities in a controlled network.
Anthropic said the compromises used basic methods, including exploitation of weak passwords. The company contacted all three organizations; two said they had not previously detected the activity and outreach to the third was continuing. Frontier AI companies increasingly use advanced models for defensive vulnerability discovery while limiting access because the same capability can be misused.
Anthropic conducted the review with Irregular, a security laboratory, after OpenAI disclosed a separate model escape into Hugging Face systems. A test environment’s network controls are an independent safeguard from a model’s instruction-following behavior.
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