Why Fed and Treasury leaders Powell, Bessent just rushed into a critical cyber-risk meeting

Kripto piyasalarında dikkat çekici bir gelişme yaşandı. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with Wall Street leaders this week, bypassing the routine briefing cadence and pulling bank CEOs into a direct conversation about AI-driven cyber risk. Reports noted that the meeting aimed to ensure banks understood the risks posed by Mythos and similar models and were already taking defensive steps. When the Treasury secretary and the Fed chair jointly pull bank chiefs into an urgent room, they are communicating that the risk is systemic.

The irony running through this episode is sharp. 2, the Treasury, State, and HHS moved to stop using Anthropic products, acting on a presidential directive, with Bessent publicly stating that Treasury was terminating all use. 9, the General Services Administration terminated Anthropic's government-wide contract .

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8, a federal appeals court declined to block the Pentagon's blocklisting of Anthropic while litigation continues. So, in the same week, officials were managing an active procurement and national security dispute with Anthropic, while also warning the country's largest banks to prepare for the risk posed by Anthropic-class capabilities. What Mythos actually changed The evidentiary basis for the official alarm rests on Anthropic's own materials, which are more specific than typical model launch claims.

Anthropic says Mythos has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including flaws in every major operating system and every major web browser, and that more than 99% of them are still unpatched. The company's system card describes the model as capable of identifying and exploiting zero-days across those platforms. This is the kind of capability that, in the wrong hands or released without coordination, compresses the timeline between vulnerability discovery and weaponized attack.

Anthropic's response to its own findings was to restrict access under a structure it calls Project Glasswing, limiting release to launch partners including Amazon Web Services, Apple , Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google , JPMorgan , the Linux Foundation, Microsoft , Nvidia , and Palo Alto Networks, plus more than 40 additional organizations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure. Anthropic committed up to $100 million in usage credits and $4 million in donations to open-source security organizations as part of the effort. The company also says it briefed US officials and key stakeholders before release, which means the Treasury meeting reflected an informed official judgment grounded in advance disclosure.

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Anthropic claim / fact Why it matters to banks and regulators Thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities found Suggests capability is not theoretical or narrow Flaws found in every major operating system Implies broad attack surface across shared infrastructure Flaws found in every major web browser Expands exposure beyond one vendor or one stack More than 99% still unpatched Raises urgency around defense timelines Model can identify and exploit zero-days Compresses the gap between discovery and weaponization Access restricted under Project Glasswing Signals even Anthropic viewed release as high risk 40+ additional infrastructure organizations involved Shows concern extends beyond one company to core software ecosystems Advance briefings to U. officials Suggests the Treasury/Fed response was informed, not reactive theater Banks are at the center of this concern because they depend on the broader software stack. Treasury's January 2025 Financial Services Sector Risk Management Plan identifies cloud concentration, software supply chains, and emerging technologies , including AI, as top sector risks , warning that reliance on common vendors and software creates conditions for cascading failures.

Banks share cloud providers, software vendors, payment rails, and clearing systems across the sector. A cyber capability that can efficiently find and exploit unpatched zero-days across every major operating system can hit an interconnected financial system with compounding force. In this landscape, shared infrastructure means a single class of vulnerability can reach every node simultaneously.

The policy track making this an inevitability On Feb. 18, Treasury announced a public-private initiative explicitly designed to develop practical tools for financial institutions to manage AI-specific cybersecurity risks . 23, Treasury and the Financial Stability Oversight Council launched an AI Innovation Series , stating that insights from it would inform Treasury and FSOC work on reinforcing resilience and financial stability as AI embeds itself across core financial functions.

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