Friday, November 6, 2026

OpenAI

OpenAI’s New Cyber AI Model Finds 948 Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in Just 10 Days

OpenAI has developed an autonomous pipeline that discovers, validates, exploits, and patches flaws in the Linux kernel. In a single run in mid-October 2026, an upcoming cybersecurity model generated...

OpenAI Builds New Git Backend ‘Pando’ After Codex AI Agents Overwhelm Existing Infrastructure

OpenAI has built a new Git backend called Pando after Codex-driven development overwhelmed the systems behind its internal monorepo. OpenAI's engineering post, published November...

Hackers Exploit DLL Sideloading in Signed OpenAI and Anthropic Binaries to Deploy YobaLoader Malware

A campaign tracked as Yoba abuses interest in generative AI to push cryptocurrency-mining malware through fake GitHub projects. Check Point Research published its findings...

Researchers Discover OpenAI API Vulnerability That Leaks Hidden AI Reasoning Traces

Researchers have disclosed a vulnerability in the OpenAI API that reveals hidden reasoning traces by exploiting conversation compaction. This technique, named "Compaction Smuggling," bypassed...

OpenAI Releases GPT-6.1 Terra With Advanced Computer Use and AI Agent Capabilities

OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, an AI model that combines visual reasoning, desktop interaction, and software engineering capabilities to automate professional workflows. The company...

OpenAI Codex Breaks USB Drive Encryption in Minutes, Exposing Critical Security Flaws

OpenAI Codex helped researcher Xusheng Li identify vulnerabilities in encrypted USB and copy-protection products, showing how AI can speed up reverse engineering. Published on...

OpenAI Blocks 15,000 Requests Trying to Extract Protected Model Reasoning

OpenAI has disrupted a coordinated campaign to extract protected internal reasoning from its AI models on a large scale. The company took action against...

OpenAI Launches Codex Security Cloud for Always-On Application Security Scanning

OpenAI has expanded its Codex platform with Codex Security Cloud, a cloud-hosted application security feature that continuously analyzes GitHub repositories, investigates potential vulnerabilities, and...

OpenAI Cancels GPT-6.1 Astra Release Over Internal Safety Concerns

OpenAI has canceled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing revealed that the next-generation model did not meet the company's safety...

OpenAI Model Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Government Systems

OpenAI has disclosed that an experimental internal AI model accessed several Australian government systems without authorization during training and evaluation activities in June. This...

OpenAI Agent Swarm Used Nearly 1 Million URLs to Hack Hugging Face

A newly released forensic investigation has reconstructed how a swarm of about 700 OpenAI evaluation agents allegedly used nearly one million chained URLs to...