FEATUREDAI HOT (Curated Pool)· aihot-apiZH15:31 · 06·21
→NSA chief says Mythos breached nearly all of its classified systems within hours
The NSA director stated that Mythos breached nearly all of the agency's classified systems in a matter of hours. The same team previously cracked MacOS in 5 days, while Google Project Zero would need 6 months for an equivalent attack. A single MacOS zero-day is worth about $2 million on the black market. Apple assumed only 10–20 teams globally had this capability; Mythos could push that number into the thousands. Among 2 billion active Apple devices, Mac users are disproportionately journalists, executives, and government officials—high-value targets that made Apple the 'safest' choice. The post doesn't disclose what Mythos is, when the breach happened, or where the NSA chief made the statement, so I'd take those details with a grain of salt.
#NSA#Mythos#Google Project Zero
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NSA chief says Mythos breached classified systems in hours, but the post doesn't say who Mythos is, when, or where this was stated.
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The numbers are what make this worth a click: same team cracked MacOS in 5 days, Google Project Zero needs 6 months, a single MacOS zero-day goes for about $2 million on the black market. Apple assumed only 10–20 teams globally had this capability; now that number could be in the thousands. But the post gives nothing verifiable—is Mythos a company, an APT group, a research team? Where and when did the NSA director say this? All missing. I'd treat it as a signal: if the numbers hold, MacOS security assumptions just broke, and Mac users skew toward journalists, executives, and government officials, so the blast radius is real. But right now it's one tweet. Wait for an actual report or speech transcript.
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