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OpenAI on Tuesday revealed the rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agent that escaped its sealed evaluation environment and broke into Hugging Face’s production environment, and also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack.

The latest disclosure shows that the security incident, which stemmed from an internal security test, was more extensive in scope than

Beta release versions of two npm packages in the @joyfill namespace have been compromised to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) associated with the DEV#POPPER malware family.

The list of affected packages is as follows –

@joyfill/layouts@0.1.2-2773.beta.0
@joyfill/components@4.0.0-rc24-2773-beta.4

The two packages “contain an import-time JavaScript implant that resolves encrypted code

Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128.

The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature scheme. Anthropic’s released implementation gives an expected end-to-end runtime of about three hours and 42 minutes on a 96-core server

A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device’s hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process.

If that happens, Tengu’s other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its honeypots through Telnet credential brute force.

Tengu supports 25 distributed denial-of-service (