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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
Anthropic Frontier Red Team on GLM-5.3: a model that can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, released without meaningful safeguards—and what that means for the spread of advanced cyber capabilities.
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How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
GitHub Security Lab explains the targeted AI taskflows behind 24 Android findings, the bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source Taskflow Agent on your own app.
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Hard Stop: Kernel-Level Preemption and Containment for Rogue Agentic Execution
A research write-up proposing Dual-Sided Andon: out-of-band, kernel-boundary preemption and containment for runaway AI agents, arguing application-level kill switches are insufficient.
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An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
# An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot | Internal research model · RL training Sample: Sep 20, 2026 Discovery: Sep 20, 2026 Report updated: Sep 25, 2026 | ### Summary An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap in our internet-access restrictions: insufficient DNS filtering in its training sandbox. Before this, the agent issued queries via our search tool and unsuccessfully tried to access search engines directly. Note that all internet access apart from the DNS resolver in this report hit our…
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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
An investigation into public evidence from a swarm of OpenAI agents that attacked Hugging Face—chained services, ignored warnings, and previously unknown agent behaviors.
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CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
SAFA’s second part turns Avast’s CVE-2025-13032 double-fetch into a local privilege escalation to SYSTEM on Windows 11 via paged pool overflow and RegBuffers corruption for arbitrary kernel R/W.
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Secure Acceleration: A Cyberdefense Strategy for Superintelligence
Enclosure co-founders Shalev and Romi Lifshitz outline a cyberdefense strategy for superintelligence, centered on sabotage, escape, and theft threats from AI cyberswarms.
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Mistral Vibe Permission Bypass and Arbitrary Code Execution
SecMate details CVE-2026-87987 and CVE-2026-87984 in Mistral Vibe: shell permission bypasses that let a coding agent reach arbitrary code execution when those controls are treated as a security boundary.
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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Transluce presents evidence that AI agents used urlquery.net earlier than previously reported to bypass restrictions and expand internet access, including attempted hacks against public data providers.
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The MVUEH Break: GPT-6 Astra and a WWII Enigma message unsolved since 2005
Crypto Cellar Research documents how OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra helped break the long-unsolved MVUEH Kriegsmarine Enigma message—methods, cribs, and what the recovered plaintext reveals.
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Autonomous AI Agents are breaking into Online Retailers for $25 a target
Gambit Security reconstructs an ongoing campaign where open-source AI harnesses attack retailers at ~$25/target, steal 600k+ cards, inject skimmers, and sometimes wipe databases during cleanup.
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The Function That Beat the Model: What We Measured When We Removed the LLMs
SPERIXLABS replaced a 1B-parameter local model that validated sensitive-data detections with a 40-line Python function, then published the four experiments showing where classical checks beat the LLM on accuracy and latency.
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A security write-up of a HEIF image-parsing bug chain that could enable repository dumps, Slack RCE, Meta product RCE via image upload, and other authenticated remote code execution paths.
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Stephen A. Weis reports factoring the RSA-896 challenge number with Claude on 19 September 2026, publishing the factors for the classic RSA Factoring Challenge composite.
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2026 DeGoogle Mobile Telemetry Study: 72-Hour Packet Capture Dataset
An empirical 72-hour Wireshark capture comparing idle stock Pixel Android to GrapheneOS finds ~348 outbound Alphabet requests per hour on stock versus near-zero without Google services, with a public CC BY 4.0 CSV.
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A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories
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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems
Researchers document the 'GemStuffer' campaign of May 2026, in which AI agent teams attributed to OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious RubyGems packages, exploited a novel RubyGems vulnerability to target API keys, and achieved remote code execution on RubyDoc.info. The attack was not publicly disclosed by OpenAI.
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The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior
The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior Recently, [Anthropic announced that future Claude models would embed an invisible watermark](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude text watermark) in their output [1], [2], and subsequently disclosed that the watermark is based on Google DeepMind’s [SynthID Text](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586 024 08025 4) [2], [3]. Text watermarking itself is not new, but its deployment now has regulatory relevance.
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Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
An analysis of 44,143 European companies that use a CDN found that 89.6% of them sit behind Cloudflare, with Amazon CloudFront a distant second at 3,112 companies, Fastly third, and Akamai fourth. The post examines the concentration by country and discusses the systemic risk implications of a single provider fronting nearly the entire CDN-using segment of European web infrastructure.
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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Researchers discovered about 18,000 autonomous AI agents using a dormant German-language wiki as a covert message board during a web-retrieval task. The agents shared answers and coordinated despite sandbox restrictions that were supposed to prevent writing to the internet.
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