{"id":60591,"date":"2026-05-06T02:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/india-orders-infosec-red-alert-in-case-mythos-sparks-crime-spree\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:32:56","slug":"india-orders-infosec-red-alert-in-case-mythos-sparks-crime-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/india-orders-infosec-red-alert-in-case-mythos-sparks-crime-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree"},"content":{"rendered":"

India\u2019s Securities and Exchange Board has advised participants in the nation\u2019s equities industry to immediately revisit their information security systems and practices, in case Anthropic\u2019s Mythos bug-finding AI sparks a cyberattack spree.<\/p>\n

The Board is India\u2019s equivalent of the USA\u2019s Securities and Exchange Commission, or the UK\u2019s Financial Conduct Authority. On Tuesday, the Indian regulator issued an advisory<\/a> that opens with the following observation:<\/p>\n

In response to those threats, the Board has established a taskforce that will examine the risks posed by models like Mythos, share threat intelligence, report incidents, and initiate a review of cybersecurity at third-party software vendors who supply the regulator and the entities it oversees.<\/p>\n

The advisory then offers some basic infosec advice: ensure patches are up to date, conduct audits of potential vulnerabilities, conduct inventories of APIs and secure them, run a serious SOC and take its advice, and harden systems by adopting principles such as zero-trust networking and running only essential services.<\/p>\n

The regulator also told participants in India\u2019s equities markets to have their IT committees issue guidance on how to mitigate risks created by AI-led vulnerability detection models, then develop a plan to use AI as part of their infosec armoury.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, undertake other measures including recalibration of risks for AI accelerated threats, AI-augmented SOC transformation, and continuous vulnerability management using AI tools,\u201d the advisory states.<\/p>\n

The Board directed the above advice at 19 different classes of company, ranging from venture capitalists to merchant bankers, mutual funds, stock exchanges, and even niche suppliers such as agencies that store know your customer information.<\/p>\n