My presentation at Hexacon is done ! Time for public disclosure.
Pictured below: remote unauthenticated code execution over-the-air (including the shell) on Proximus BBOX 3V+
Exciting work from @willzhou97 (Fellow, now full time!) and @bucketofkets on the Frontier Red Team. One of the cool parts of the job is seeing a future world early. We think this one is ~pretty underpriced.
"We should aim to harden our systems to make it difficult for such replicators to spread, but also prepare to deal with a world where they are here to stay."
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team believes small AI models may now be months away from being capable of self replicating without access to a datacenter.
Quoting from the blog:
'The capabilities that make AI models generally powerful coding agents also generalize to cyber tasks,
Very excited to share details on the bugs used in our full chain Chrome exploit! We used three bugs (V8 corruption, V8 sandbox escape, and renderer sandbox escape via Crashpad). The third bug is my favorite!
📚 Slide decks from OB1 2025 & 2026 are live!
Catch up on talks you missed, revisit top sessions, or dive into the technical breakdowns. Most slides are up on GitHub:
👉🏻 github.com/star-sg/OBO
Huge thanks to all our speakers, sponsors, activity partners, and attendees!
We made an anime about SBOMs (with a lot of help from @claudeai). Then shipped v0.3.0 🎉
CBOMs now get checked against CNSA 2.0 + post-quantum rules, and if sbom-tools can't tell what an algorithm is.
github.com/sbom-tool/sbom…
To secure open-source software, we’re launching OSS Scanner.
We’ll use our frontier models to periodically scan opted-in open-source projects for vulnerabilities, at no cost. Our reports will provide a proof-of-concept, explanation, and suggested fix.
anthropic.com/research/launc…
Agree on verification, but I'd push it further. Memory safety is a symptom, not the cause. We got here because of design decisions and trade-offs we made all along, and you can see it in pretty much every recent Linux kernel disclosure.
Throwing more tokens at the attack surface
We’re expanding our Cyber Verification Program to give security professionals broader access to our most capable models.
Through this program, verified security professionals can access Claude Mythos 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Sonnet 5.5 with safeguards designed for defensive work.
We’re also opening up new tiers to allow for authorized offensive work, like penetration testing and red-teaming.
anthropic.com/news/cyber-ver…
Thank you to @UnpromptedAU & @BSidesCbr for inviting me to speak. Being back down under was lovely! You can find the slides for my n-day automated pipeline talk here. I’m at OAIC this week if you want to chat about exploit dev in 2026 and beyond. beautiful.ai/player/-P2q0r-…
Agree on verification, but I'd push it further. Memory safety is a symptom, not the cause. We got here because of design decisions and trade-offs we made all along, and you can see it in pretty much every recent Linux kernel disclosure.
Throwing more tokens at the attack surface won't save us either. Nothing we have today is ready for AI-driven vuln research at this scale, and finding and fixing bugs with AI doesn't change that.
What we actually need is redesign and architecture validation with AI, formal methods where we can, and not accepting attack surface at the design phase in the first place. That's just not how we build software today. Patching known bugs doesn't touch the root cause, and hardware has the same problem.
Security will become a larger and larger function in software companies. Security is verification engineering (eg: “my code is probably memory-safe”), as well as capital allocation (“what surface should I throw most tokens at?”)
For startups, it’s a challenge and opportunity. As
We’ve confirmed a KVM 0day through our Vercel Sandbox bounty program. Affecting the industry’s gold standard solution for Linux virtualization.
2026 is wild! Thankful to Paulos and other researchers helping us make the most secure sandbox for agents. Full writeup coming.
It's been one year of our Sprawl meetup! Our 7th event is this Tuesday, with much more planned for later!
If you're coming, there's also some @uwu_underground unique tokens to hand out, and Sprawl challenge coins.
Website: sprawl.nyc
Organized by @withzombies, "OMAR", and I
And a huge thanks to all our speakers and hosts!
We're always looking for more folks to speak, and event spaces that can host ~100+ people. Let us know if you can help!
Below are some new animations I made to play in the background in between talks (quick version, you can see the full thing on the site).
"NVX is an ultra-light micro-VM sandbox for running untrusted workloads with hardware-enforced isolation. It is built on top of OpenVMM and runs Linux as a guest."
github.com/microsoft/nvx
It looks like it works with Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHVP/WHP) and Linux MSHV.
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