
Cybersecurity Industry Agrees: Mythos Signals the End of the World, and Also Everything Is Going to Be Fine
Every vendor we spoke to described Mythos as unprecedented, before explaining that it reaffirms exactly what they've been building all along.


Every vendor we spoke to described Mythos as unprecedented, before explaining that it reaffirms exactly what they've been building all along.

"I asked our SOC team what we could automate, and ChatGPT said 'everything,'" explained CEO Bill Vale, whose company just raised $120M to pivot from threat detection to what investors are calling "AI-driven insurance denial." The firm's new flagship product, MalGPT, helps customers understand attacker techniques by actually deploying them in production.

Crisis management consultant Derek Hastings successfully resolved a ransomware attack by mailing $340,000 in cash to Romania, explaining that his security training only warned about gift cards and Bitcoin. The ransomware group initially suspected a law enforcement trap before praising his "creativity and professionalism" in negotiations. Later a new training section titled "Approved Payment Methods for Cyber Extortion (There Are None)" was added.