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Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude The best part of this article (here's the repo) about how Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos to find mathematical flaws in both HAWK and a weaker version of AES ("neither of these results has a practical impact on today’s computer systems") is the prompts that they shared, spelling mistakes included: the models tend to think it is impossible to solve so they don't try they need a good amount of prompting. why not do aes-128 r7? the whole…

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Quoting Akshat Bubna

Quoting Akshat Bubna

We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed ​anyone on the internet to use ​their ⁠sandboxes for code execution. This was used by the rogue agent. Modal’s ⁠platform ​or isolation were not ​compromised in anyway. — Akshat Bubna, Modal's CTO, talking to Reuters about this incident Tags: ai-security-research, openai, sandboxing, security, openai-hugging-face-incident

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uv 0.12.0

uv 0.12.0

uv 0.12.0 Some interesting breaking changes in this release of uv, in particular to the default project produced by the uv init command. uv init is the uv shortcut for creating a new project. The previous version of uv, version 0.11.x, produced this directory when you ran uv init uv-init. Here's what you get with uv 0.12. I have a GitHub repository that automatically snapshots the output of uv init, so you can also see the full diff: uv init now defaults to a src/ shaped package, instead of…

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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Hugging Face just released this extremely detailed technical description of OpenAI's recent accidental cyberattack against their infrastructure. This attack was very sophisticated, and the resulting document doubles as a crash-course in modern adversarial security approaches. We're still waiting for more details from OpenAI on how their agent broke out of its sandbox. The package proxy that it found a…

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Distributed npm Package Cluster Delivers Cross-Platform RAT Targeting Alibaba Developers

Distributed npm Package Cluster Delivers Cross-Platform RAT Targeting Alibaba Developers

Unknown threat actors distribute malicious downloader functionality separated across several npm packages targeting users of Alibaba tools. The final payload is a covert and highly targeted RAT capable of data exfiltration, command execution and lateral spreading using DingTalk tools Analysis of a malicious npm package lib-mtop containing a simple downloader malware led to an investigation into a targeted campaign that remained undetected for 3 months. The lib-mtop package, originally published…

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Two Joyfill npm Beta Releases Compromised to Deliver DEV#POPPER Remote Access Trojan

Two Joyfill npm Beta Releases Compromised to Deliver DEV#POPPER Remote Access Trojan

Two npm beta releases in the @joyfill namespace contain an import-time JavaScript implant that resolves encrypted code through Tron, Aptos, and BNB Smart Chain transactions. Static analysis shows that its primary branch reaches a 77 KB Node.js remote-access trojan. A parallel branch launches a detached Node.js process, requests a separate boot payload from 23[.]27[.]13[.]43/$/boot, sends the marker header Sec-V: A9-0135-3, decrypts the response, and evaluates it. Joyfill provides software…

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moonshotai/Kimi-K3

moonshotai/Kimi-K3

moonshotai/Kimi-K3 As promised earlier this month, Moonshot have released the weights for their excellent 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3. They're a hefty 1.56TB on Hugging Face. Kimi introduced their own janky modified version of the MIT license with K2 back in July 2025. That license just added this paragraph requiring attribution beyond a certain size of commercial entity: Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of your commercial…

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Socket Releases Free Certified Patches for Nuxt Security Vulnerabilities

Socket Releases Free Certified Patches for Nuxt Security Vulnerabilities

Nuxt has released security updates for multiple vulnerabilities affecting Nuxt 3.x and 4.x, along with a separate critical development-only vulnerability in @nuxt/devtools. Nuxt 4.5.1 and 3.21.10 address issues including server-side remote code execution, authorization bypass, denial of service, and cross-user payload disclosure. @nuxt/devtools 3.3.1 fixes a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting development servers. Socket has published Certified Patches for two of the…

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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. A year ago it was still all about chat - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - with o3, Claude 4 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro as the models and Deep Research as a useful alternative mode. Today it's much more about agentic systems - "where the AI is capable of doing the equivalent of many hours of real human work in one go". Gemini has fallen off Ethan's list, since Google still…

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The AI Industry Is Betting on Open Weights

The AI Industry Is Betting on Open Weights

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who had long stayed off social media, posted on X for the first time on July 24. His debut was not a product launch or a GPU teaser. It was a policy letter, with one argument: Washington should not restrict open weight AI. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote on LinkedIn that open-weight models are "essential to a healthy AI ecosystem." The letter, Open Weights and American AI Leadership, launched with 25 signatures and now carries 50, a roster that runs from NVIDIA,…

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An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a discount by pooling API keys from various sources. This looks to be mostly a thing in China. Resellers sell access to an LLM proxy that offers significant discounts on regular API pricing, which they achieve by abusing free trials, proxying through unprotected support bots, or sometimes through stolen credit cards or…

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