{"id":282010,"date":"2026-06-25T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/chinese-cybersecurity-company-claims-its-built-a-better-than-mythos-bug-finder\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:00:30","slug":"chinese-cybersecurity-company-claims-its-built-a-better-than-mythos-bug-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/chinese-cybersecurity-company-claims-its-built-a-better-than-mythos-bug-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese cybersecurity company claims it\u2019s built a better-than-Mythos bug finder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese cybersecurity company claims it\u2019s built a better-than-Mythos bug finder<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/security\/2026\/06\/26\/chinese-cybersecurity-company-claims-its-built-a-better-than-mythos-bug-finder\/5262642<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-25 21:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Security<\/p>\n

Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says it\u2019s needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models<\/p>\n

Chinese cybersecurity vendor Qihoo 360 claims it\u2019s built an AI bug-finder that\u2019s better than Anthropic\u2019s Mythos model.<\/p>\n

CEO Zhou Hongyi revealed the model in a speech at the 14th Beijing Cybersecurity Conference, which Qihoo 360 organizes. Chinese media outlets have transcribed the talk, in which Zhou described Mythos as \u201cequivalent to a \u2018cyber nuclear weapon\u2019,\u201d because the USA\u2019s ban on foreign nationals accessing the model gives America a tool with which to find flaws in software upon which other nations rely.<\/p>\n

Zhou thinks China needs equivalent capabilities as a deterrent, but suggested replicating Mythos is not a viable approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cMythos follows a typical large-scale model approach: the strongest model, the strongest computing power, and the strongest chips \u2013 a strategy of sheer brute force,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, this path has an implicit prerequisite: your model capabilities must be sufficiently strong. Objectively speaking, domestically developed models still lag behind by 20 percent to 30 percent in underlying capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CEO therefore thinks China can\u2019t wait for its own models to catch up and needs to find another way to build Mythos-grade bug-finders.<\/p>\n

Helpfully, Qihoo 360 has found those alternative methods by distilling its 20 years of experience fighting cyber-threats and colossal malware library into security-specific models and agents. The company has put that to work in what Zhou described as a \u201cmulti-agent swarm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the American approach is about cultivating a genius hacker, the 360 approach is about organizing a professional attack and defense team,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen faced with a target, the swarm doesn’t perform single-point analysis, but rather collaborates: first, it models the threat and filters high-risk attack surfaces;…<\/p>\n

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