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A thread contrasts the hype around AI security startup Mythos with 360's practical achievement of autonomously discovering 23 vulnerabilities (including two criticals) in the OpenClaw ecosystem, highlighting the real direction of AI security.

We've been watching the wrong AI story. While the timeline keeps debating whether Mythos is real, hyped, or just well-marketed, 360 has quietly taken an autonomous vulnerability-mining agent into the OpenClaw ecosystem and walked out with 23 confirmed vulnerabilities, including two Criticals, all filed into the CNNVD and CNVD national vulnerability databases. That is the gap most of the timeline is stepping over. The OpenClaw work is also closer to where AI security is actually heading. Agents are a fuzzy-boundary target where prompts double as instructions, where the static-analysis baseline barely exists, and where a breach at any one of authentication, network, execution, or control cascades through the rest. The 23 findings cover all four layers. Where the Mythos conversation is still about whether the capability is real, the 360 work shows the same capability already running as operating infrastructure, on a target that better reflects the next phase of AI security. The interesting question stopped being "is AI-on-AI security real." It is who owns enough attacker-perspective data to make it production-grade.
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We’ve been watching the wrong AI story.

While the timeline keeps debating whether Mythos is real, hyped, or just well-marketed, 360 has quietly taken an autonomous vulnerability-mining agent into the OpenClaw ecosystem and walked out with 23 confirmed vulnerabilities, including two Criticals, all filed into the CNNVD and CNVD national vulnerability databases.

That is the gap most of the timeline is stepping over.

The OpenClaw work is also closer to where AI security is actually heading. Agents are a fuzzy-boundary target where prompts double as instructions, where the static-analysis baseline barely exists, and where a breach at any one of authentication, network, execution, or control cascades through the rest. The 23 findings cover all four layers.

Where the Mythos conversation is still about whether the capability is real, the 360 work shows the same capability already running as operating infrastructure, on a target that better reflects the next phase of AI security.

The interesting question stopped being “is AI-on-AI security real.” It is who owns enough attacker-perspective data to make it production-grade.

Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz): 🚨 The Mythos vs. 360 showdown is the perfect case study of hype vs. reality in AI security right now.

On one side: Mythos

Blockbuster launch. Massive benchmark claims.

On the other: 360.

Busy tearing apart OpenClaw, going ruthlessly deep into actual agent security. 🧵↓

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