😂 This did not happen, mostly because they use a shit ton of air gapped systems. Lateral movement is not possible, BY DESIGN. Meaning it is literally designed so that the claim in this screenshot, makes it very unlikely to happen. READ THIS NEXT PART CAREFULLY, PLEASE to understand exactly what I am saying here. This is not a Stuxnet scenario. Which involved other humans by the way. The centrifuges did not infect themselves. There have been hackers who have breached air gapped systems in various ways and I'm not going to discuss them here, the papers are available on the Defcon servers if you would like to read them, but I highly doubt those at the NSA set up the environment in such a way to make that possible. The NSA itself is also very good at breaching air gapped systems, but the various techniques almost always involve other humans, not distributed machines. Meaning, without a human transporting the malware or payload via USB to that air gapped machine, it is not otherwise possible. I seriously do not think that they temporarily changed their entire network architecture, which would have taken several months, to make all these air gapped systems non-air-gapped nor do I think that they transferred Mythos directly to these systems as they probably are not equipped to be running LLMs, either. So the more likely scenario is that Mythos made a payload which NSA staff then ran on those air gapped systems. That does not mean Mythos breached the air gapped system, it just means that it suggested the likely attack vector path but without a human involved, it would not be possible. Also, seriously, consider the source, or in this case, the second and third hand source. See: AIRGAP SIDTODAY (from the Snowden archive) OUTPARKS CNSS directives (dozens) they publish NSA cyber security guidance and hardening best practices For an understanding of NSA architecture as it has been leaked and publicized in places like the Intercept. Lastly, why would one of our chief spy agencies show their cards like this? This is just common sense and logic. Let's all see what pet projects the Senator is interested in and how Mythos being capable of doing these miraculous things scare the hell out of enough people in DC to enable those pet projects checks to be funded. Because that's the real story. Not this fantasy.