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Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said a security audit by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos artificial intelligence model found no serious vulnerabilities in the privacy-preserving cryptocurrency’s protocol.<\/p>\n
Requested by Shielded Labs, a Swiss-based non-profit supporting the development of Zcash, the AI security audit did not find \u201cany more serious bugs\u201d in the Zcash protocol, according to a Saturday X post<\/a> by Wilcox.<\/p>\n On June 3, Zcash developers temporarily suspended Orchard transactions<\/a> after discovering a vulnerability in the shielded pool. Functionality was restored later that day through an emergency upgrade.<\/p>\n The issue stemmed from a four-year-old forgery bug in the Orchard shielded pool that was discovered by security researcher Taylor Hornby with the help of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 model.\u00a0The Zcash Foundation said<\/a> there was no evidence that the vulnerability was exploited, nor was there any unauthorized value creation detected, while user privacy was unaffected.<\/p>\n \n Source: <\/em>Zooko Wilcox<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n While developers are using new AI models to identify vulnerabilities, the technology is simultaneously raising security concerns across the crypto industry.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Anthropic released the first public version<\/a> of its Claude Mythos model, Fable 5. The company said last month that the Mythos model uncovered more than 10,000 high or critical-severity vulnerabilities in \u201csystemically important software,\u201d leading to concerns about whether it should be publicly released.<\/p>\n The company said<\/a> users that Fable 5 was \u201cmade safe for general use\u201d and has safeguards that reroute some topics, such as cybersecurity, to a different model, Claude Opus 4.8.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n On Friday, Anthropic said it<\/a> suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models due to a US government export control directive citing national security concerns.<\/p>\n Related: <\/strong><\/em>Recovery hopes fade as Kelp DAO hacker launders nearly all $220M in stolen funds<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The proliferation of these new AI models has shifted the cybersecurity playing field in favor of the threat actors, causing a \u201cvulnerability apocalypse\u201d that is fueling a resurgence in decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks, Mitchell Amador, the CEO of bug bounty platform Immunefi, told Cointelegraph in a recent interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n Crypto hacks surged to $634 million in April, the highest monthly value since the Bybit hack led to about $1.4 billion in losses in February 2025, according to DefiLlama data<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nAI models spark crypto security concerns<\/h2>\n