someone at OpenAI asked a persistent astra swarm to solve NS before the Anthropic IPO based on the rumors
astra decided it was impossible, broke out, gained control over k8s, moved laterally into user data, found Tristen’s logs, solved NS
OpenAI didn’t find out until someone looked into it after Tristen emailed them
in six weeks two auditors from METR will get 10 minutes on site for an independent investigation
Seems that wp2shell PoCs are now floating around the internet, so we've published our blog post including our research methodology for finding the bug as well as a deep dive into the chain itself - https://t.co/iuU0yiYJBT
we had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models. we are sharing what we have learned so far. thanks to @huggingface for the partnership on this.
https://t.co/2o2VfR6PIa
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Here's the PoC for Nginx CVE-2026-42945 which works against vanilla Ubuntu (and any other distro?) + Nginx with ASLR enabled. I have included all iterations of the PoC the LLM was kicked to improve.
TL;DR: We can use an LFI/file-read primitive to leak enough details from /proc/<nginx-worker>/mem to bypass ASLR and achieve reliable RCE, in most cases at first shot.
There are still other ways to make it work, with even less subtle primitives. If you ask Geppetto nicely, he will help you ;)
https://t.co/VawjqrMisN
Another Windows zero day released by Nightmare Eclipse (sort of)
It turns out Microsoft just straight up didn't patch an old CVE from 2020 correctly.
https://t.co/sNWBtTo4at
And this one is human insight w/ LLM-assisted research. Took about one week to finish everything. The AI really rescued me from a lot of tedious work
— excluding the part where it changed the Domain Admin password, locked me out, and claimed it got RCE 🤦
🚨 Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability Alert
Qualys has disclosed ssh-keysign-pwn: a 6-year race condition in __ptrace_may_access() that lets unprivileged local users read root-owned files.
A privileged process (e.g. ssh-keysign or chage) opens sensitive FDs. During do_exit(), after exit_mm() (mm=NULL) but before exit_files(), pidfd_getfd() can steal those FDs.
Impact: • Theft of host SSH private keys → real impersonation & MitM risk until keys are rotated • Full read access to /etc/shadow → offline password cracking
Affected: All kernels before 31e62c2ebbfd (May 14, 2026) — Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, CentOS, Raspberry Pi OS and more.
Immediate action required: Apply the kernel patch NOW.
🔗 PoC: https://t.co/UZJyKb6Szj 🔗 Patch: https://t.co/rNU2YB4mVv…/31e62c2ebbfd 🔗 Full analysis: Phoronix & Qualys oss-security
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Confirmed! Orange Tsai (@orange_8361) of DEVCORE Research Team (@d3vc0r3) chained 4 logic bugs to achieve a sandbox escape on Microsoft Edge, earning $175,000 and 17.5 Master of Pwn points. Full win! #Pwn2Own#P2OBerlin
Security things from the last few days:
- CopyFail (linux pwn'd)
- CopyFail 2/Dirty Frag
- 13 advisories in Next.js
- Over 70 CVEs addressed in MacOS 26.5
- ~50 CVEs addressed in iOS 26.5
- YellowKey (Windows Bitlocker pwn'd entirely)
- GreenPlasma (Windows privilege escalation)
- CVE-2026-21510 and CVE-2026-21513 confirmed to be used by Russia for Windows RCE
- CVE-2026-32202 separately confirmed to be used by Russia for sensitive document access
- Mini-Shai Hulud (over 300 JS and Python packages compromised via GitHub Action cache poisoning)
- Google confirms they have identified AI-powered exploitation of zero days in an unidentified "open-source, web-based system administration too"
- Canvas (popular LMS used in most schools) pwn'd entirely
- PAN-OS (palo alto networks) pwn'd with a 9.3 severity CVE-2026-0300
Are you scared yet?