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Cybersecurity Experts REACT to the php chaos... (and MORE)
28 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 28 min
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Today we're talking about:
PHP2Shell and the Disclosure Fight
Ed and Matt are at OneCon in Las Vegas as PHP2Shell sets off a chaotic week. We unpack the research, shaky AI exploit claims, Chainguard's early fixes and whether disclosure timelines can keep up. Dan Lorenc and the PHP Foundation give different accounts of the rollout.
https://calif.io/php2shell/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danlorenc_i-wanted-to-share-what-happened-with-the-share-7518756991520120832-QX2_/
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/
Kyle Polley's embargo discussion: https://x.com/kpolley/status/2113069186318577666
Your Certificate Authority's Private Key Was 4
One of eMudhra's private keys was literally four. We talk tiny keys, certificate trust, the company's exit from SSL/TLS and what happens when clients still trust compromised certificates.
https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/
https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
https://www.mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy-12.3/
Linux Bugs and the Power of a Pattern
DirtyFrag, research credit and the latest kernel discussion lead into why Ed thinks AI is useful for spotting use-after-free patterns.
DirtyFrag research: https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag
KSMBD background: https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/smb/ksmbd.html
Does AI Favor Attackers or Defenders?
SentinelLABS' Tom Hegel makes the case for keeping powerful tools accessible to defenders. SentinelOne's Steve Stone explains why finding more bugs isn't the whole story: attack paths, speed, scale and the physics of an intrusio… Lees meer -
Cybersecurity Experts BREAK DOWN the shocking OpenAI Spying Incident, Crypto Backdoors, AND MORE
19 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 17 min
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Heading to OneCon 2026? SentinelOne’s cybersecurity conference runs October 20–22 at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Use code oc26lowdown for a discount on registration.
https://www.onecon.io/
Today we're talking about:
AI Got Better While We Were Arguing About It
Matt returns from SecTor, Ed explains his monitor-firmware experiment, and we discuss what AI can do for security research—and the human work it still takes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIe3eDfGKUo
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/
Your Hardware Wallet Has Extra Hardware
Kim Zetter's reporting reveals seed-stealing Ledger implants, including devices from authorized retailers, and separate Trezor tampering from unauthorized sellers. Who planted them remains unknown.
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/who-is-planting-backdoors-in-ledger-crypto-wallets/
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/trezor-wallets-also-compromised-with-implants/
Someone Hacked the Supermarket Fridges
French supermarkets lose food after a cyberattack. We discuss exposed refrigeration controllers, a date-derived login code, and the separate Ahold Delhaize outage.
Reuters report: https://srnnews.com/french-supermarket-chain-intermarche-hit-by-cyberattack-150-stories-targeted/
https://claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controller-defrost-the-food-uncovering-vulnerabilities-in-danfoss-refrigeration-controllers
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/you-dont-need-a-nation-state-to-warm-up-a-fridge/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/retail-giant-ahold-delhaize-takes-systems-offline-after-cyberattack/
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Oops, all vulns! (Citrix NetScaler problems, the FBI ShinyHunters saga cont’d and MORE)
8 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 8 min
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00:00 Coming up
00:33 Intro and Matt’s SecTor keynote
02:52 Citrix NetScaler zero-days and disclosure
09:25 Breaking down the NetScaler exploits
19:04 Sponsor: Maze
20:41 Citrix’s response and responsible disclosure
25:06 Why edge devices are so hard to defend
30:54 MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities
35:33 Cisco SD-WAN authentication bypass
38:37 Zimbra command injection
42:22 ShinyHunters arrest and conflicting claims
50:42 Reacting to the FBI’s warning
55:05 Open-weight AI, Anthropic and GLM-5.3
1:07:35 Wrap-up and OneCon
Today we're talking about:
Your NetScaler Warning Came From Reddit
Finding out about NetScaler zero-days through Reddit is not the enterprise support experience Matt had in mind. Ed walks through watchTowr's command injection and memory overflow writeups, including missing protections in the binary they tested. Then we get into Google's hunting guidance and why a patch alone won't kick an attacker out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Citrix/comments/1wqjk9a/netscaler_leak/
https://labs.watchtowr.com/oh-look-the-foot-gun-went-off-again-citrix-netscaler-preauth-command-injection-cve-2026-88771/
https://labs.watchtowr.com/here-we-go-again-citrix-netscaler-dtls-preauth-memory-overflow-cve-2026-88772/
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/defending-against-active-exploitation-of-citrix-netscaler-adc-and-gateway-appliances
MikroTik and the User Named -2
MikroTik joins the pile with an HTTP underflow and a separate SSH authentication chain. The username "-2" … Lees meer -
ShinyHunters’ FBI Breach, OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Drama, and the Rise of ClickFix
4 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 31 min
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ShinyHunters Has a Reputation to Protect
ShinyHunters says it hacked the FBI to protect its business. Apparently, even an extortion crew needs good PR. We get into why reputation matters to people who make their money threatening companies, and Ed takes a look at the PeopleSoft bugs that may explain the way in. Some of the exposed records reportedly belong to the FBI's own hacking unit.
https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/etr-active-exploitation-of-oracle-peoplesoft-zero-day-cve-2026-35273/
https://www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exposed-fbis-own-hacking-unit-remote-operations-shinyhunters/
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/25/shinyhunters-tells-the-reg-we-hacked-the-fbi-to-protect-our-business/5299250
OpenAI's Very Unwelcome Pull Request
How far do you go to prove a bug? Hacktron used an employee's Codex account to open a PR in OpenAI's internal repo. Ed thinks that demonstrates the access they already had. Matt sees why the security team wants to know what else they touched. The $6,500 payout got everyone talking. S1r1u5_ says the headache was a disclosure process that sent them to lawyers and eventually a journalist.
https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai
https://x.com/S1r1u5_/status/2101296199261429813
https://x.com/LiveOverflow/status/2101252692635004997
https://x.com/TalBeerySec/status/2101560506242761097
https://x.com/alexstamos/status/2101747329699402198
So What Do You Run This Stuff In?
Two awkward headlines for anyone running other people's code: containers are getting easier to escape, and KVM has bugs too. Matt wants to know what he's supposed to do with that. Ed explains why sharing a kernel matters, and why moving to a smaller at… Lees meer -
Who’s Reading Your ChatGPT Chats? Flock Camera Secrets and HBO’s Reddit Account Spreads Malware
26 september 2026 · 1 uur 18 min
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The ChatGPT Group Chat
"I thought me and Sam were homies." Project Lily has us talking about the humans reading ChatGPT conversations, Moxie Marlinspike's take on chat interfaces, and who else is in the room when you're telling a chatbot your problems.
https://www.404media.co/inside-project-lily-the-humans-reading-your-chatgpt-chats/
https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/confessions-to-a-data-lake/
Flock, Meet the Hardware Hackers
Someone pulled down a Flock camera and copied its storage. Ed wants to separate the physical-access findings from the remote-hacking claims. Also, "Flock bad" is apparently a content strategy now.
https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-tracks-cars-and-people-2/
Pixel's Very Unhelpful CVE
A modem vulnerability, signs of targeted exploitation, and very few details. Cue a conversation about basebands, spyware, and the price of a good phone exploit.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fixes-actively-exploited-android-zero-day-on-pixel-devices/
https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2026/2026-09-01
Revolut
"A bank suffered a data breach by not getting hacked." Fake official requests got customer data handed over. Matt gets into the market for stolen government accounts and why a familiar email address isn't enough.
https://www.securityweek.com/revolut-data-breach-5-months-680-high-profile-accounts-3m-ransom/
HBO's Reddit Account
The account was real. Someone else was running the ads. A compromised HBO business account on Reddit becomes a delivery system for a ClickFix malware campaign.
https://www.hudsonrock.com/blog/hbo-max-ads-on-a-compromised-reddit-acc… Lees meer -
LG Caught Spying in Your Living Room, Miami Crypto King Gets Life, and the AI Apocalypse Debate
18 september 2026 · 1 uur 17 min
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This week we're diving into the surveillance nightmare coming from your living room, catastrophic phishing campaigns targeting crypto users, and Microsoft's record breaking patch cycle that defenders need to know about.
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LG's Privacy Nightmare: Your TV is Spying on Everything Gamers Nexus drops a two hour expose revealing LG TVs are actively recording and transcribing all room audio even when listening mode is disabled and the device is powered off. Breaking down how they got root shell access and found plain text transcriptions of private conversations being cached on the device with four gigs of memory ready to phone home. Why the microphone continues recording even when unplugged from the network and what ACR automatic content recognition really means for your privacy.
The Economics of Smart TV Surveillance LG executives caught on stage at advertising conferences bragging about owning the glass and extending the advertising experience across all devices on your home network. How they're doing network scans to enumerate every Windows PC, phone, and IoT device in your household and correlating that with what you're watching. Why the profit margins on TV advertising are in the 60s with SaaS level multiples while TV hardware prices have bottomed out over the last 20 years.
The Remote Code Execution Problem Nobody's Talking About Beyond the privacy concerns, LG TVs have multiple unpatched remote code execution vulnerabilities that turn your living room microphone into a potential threat actor playground. Why teachers are panicking about 85 of these devices deployed in classrooms and the student privacy implications. How Chinese threat actors have proven they'll exploit residential devices for proxy…
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153 Million Driver's Licenses Stolen, Nigerian Sextortion Rings, and Team PCP's OPSEC Failure
10 september 2026 · 1 uur 17 min
Welcome to The Low Down, the best show on the internet for hackers The Low Down is presented by Maze. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mazehq/ X: https://twitter.com/Maze_Security Follow Us! https://www.instagram.com/lowdown.pod This week we're diving into massive identity verification breaches, the arrest of Team PCP supply chain attackers, and the certified pre owned router epidemic that's turning your home network into a botnet. Today we're talking about: ID Scan Breach: 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked Breaking down the massive data breach exposing 153 million driver's licenses, 10 million identification cards, 3 million travel documents, and 579,000 medical cards from ID scan dot net. How Brian Krebs traced his own leaked license back to a Hertz rental car transaction and marijuana dispensary visits at DEF CON. Why third party identity verification services create single points of failure when companies like Target, FedEx, GameStop, and hotels all use the same scanning infrastructure. The Identity Verification Debate: Privacy vs Security Examining the cultural backdrop of identity verification laws spreading across Europe and the UK's push to de anonymize internet activity in the name of protecting children. Why Discord now requires ID verification for adult content servers and Pornhub refuses to comply by shutting off access to entire states. The fundamental problem of companies being entrusted with sensitive documents they aren't equipped to secure and how driver's licenses are becoming the new social security numbers in account recovery flows. McKesson Healthcare Breach: 284 Million Patient Records Stolen Shiny Hunters claims responsibility for compromising McKesson, the pharmaceutical giant responsible for a third of all US drug transactions with 403 billion in annual revenue. Deep dive into Shiny Hunters' sophisticated MO combining social engineering over phone and text, fake company Okta logins using Evil Nginx proxies, and specialized team… Lees meer
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GTA 6 Leak Chaos: Insider Threats, Shitcoin Scams, and Quasar RAT Malware
2 september 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
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This week we're diving into viral operating systems under security fire, the GTA 6 leak saga involving insider threats and ransomware, and surveillance technology creeping into your home through radio signals.
Today we're talking about:
Omaki Linux Vulnerabilities: The Viral OS Under Fire
Breaking down the two click RCE vulnerability in Omaki's Chromium extension that exploits YouTube DLP and MPV configuration files. How the attack chain allows malicious configuration files to trigger command execution through video downloads. Why the viral DHH backed Arch based distro is catching security researcher attention and discovering multiple critical vulnerabilities including SSH misconfigurations and Docker daemon privilege escalation.
The Bleeding Edge Problem: Why New Operating Systems Are Risky
Examining why operating systems are incredibly hard to secure and why convenience features create dangerous attack surfaces. The comparison to AI browsers and why both Chrome and established Linux distros benefit from massive security budgets and talent. Why the Arch User Repository introduces supply chain risks similar to NPM's ecosystem problems. The reality that new code will have vulnerabilities and moving fast means security becomes an afterthought.
GTA 6 Leak: Insider Threat, Ransomware, and Shitcoins
Rockstar confirms the heartbreaking leak of GTA 6 gameplay footage as legitimate after videos appeared on Cyber Leaks websites. Breaking down the manifesto claiming this is political protest against digital only game releases while watermarking stolen footage with cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Why this represents a genuinely new monetization model for stolen pre release content according to vulnerability researcher Katie Mou…
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Rust Supply Chain Chaos, Firefox Crypto Theft, and the DEF CON Conference Phishing Campaign
26 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 9 min
Welcome to The Low Down, the best show on the internet for hackers The Low Down is presented by Maze. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mazehq/ X: https://twitter.com/Maze_Security Follow Us! https://www.instagram.com/lowdown.pod This week we're recovering from DEF CON and diving into supply chain attacks spreading beyond NPM, sophisticated phishing campaigns targeting conference attendees, and a massive surveillance camera operation spanning Eastern Europe. Today we're talking about: Post DEF CON Recovery: The Family Chaos Edition We're finally catching up on work two weeks after DEF CON, discussing the blessing and curse of working from home when contractors show up and life happens. Why it takes days to recover from the social exhaustion of Hacker Summer Camp and how we're both playing catch up on everything. Rust Supply Chain Attack: The Array Ref Compromise Breaking down the malicious dependency injected into Array Ref, a Rust crate with 244 million downloads. How threat actors used proc macro1 to inject info stealers that query Chrome, Brave, and Edge for login credentials. Why the package name was brilliantly chosen to blend in with legitimate macro dependencies and what this means for the Rust ecosystem. Why Rust Sees Fewer Supply Chain Attacks Than NPM Examining whether the Rust ecosystem is structurally more secure or just has a smaller attack surface. Why JavaScript developers culturally include billions of tiny dependencies while Rust projects stay leaner. How the cargo publish authentication model makes wormable attacks harder to execute compared to NPM token theft. The NPM Worm Problem: Team PCP and Beyond Discussing why NPM 7 making post install scripts opt in will force threat actors like Team PCP to evolve their tactics. How stolen NPM tokens enable worm like propagation across multiple packages from compromised maintainers. Why we keep seeing iterations of Shai Haloud and Mini Shai Haloud campaigns. 77 Firefox Extensions Stealing Crypto: … Lees meer
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Post-DEF CON Chaos: WiFi Pineapple Plane Panic, Mythos Commits Felonies, and Lazarus Goes Zero-Day
19 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
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This week we're recovering from DEF CON 34 and diving deep into AI agents committing supply chain attacks, North Korean threat actors evolving their tactics, and the WiFi Pineapple incident that made mainstream headlines.
Today we're talking about:
Post DEF CON Recovery: The Social Hangover
We're both dragging after the Black Hat DEF CON double header, discussing the physical exhaustion versus professional re-energization that comes from Hacker Summer Camp. Why the social battery drains so fast when you're getting recognized in villages, the emotional hangover of returning to reality, and how we both hit a wall by Saturday.
The WiFi Pineapple Plane Incident: Hackers Make Headlines
Breaking down the incident where someone turned on a WiFi Pineapple on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta, causing the pilot to report potential hacking. Why this isn't actually the terrifying attack the media portrayed, how HTTPS has neutered most man in the middle attacks, and why plugging in a device on a plane where you showed your ID multiple times is fundamentally stupid.
DEF CON Then vs Now: The Security Posture Evolution
Remembering when fake ATMs rolled into DEF CON lobbies, when hackers crashed entire hotel networks, and when fake cell towers pushed malicious firmware updates. Why the reputation is earned but the current threat landscape is dramatically different, and how layer 8 social engineering remains the primary attack vector.
Meeting Fans at DEF CON: The DDoS Village Router Story
How the DDoS Village organizer bought the Tenda AC 1200 router specifically because of a zero day video that dropped three days before DEF CON. Walking through the hard coded backdoor vulnerability and why manufacturers desperately need code…
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Live from DEF CON: AI Harnesses, 1000+ Linux LPEs, and the Shia Haloud Supply Chain Worm Returns
12 augustus 2026 · 41 min
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This week we're broadcasting live from DEF CON 34 and Black Hat, bringing you the most important conversations happening at Hacker Summer Camp about AI security research, vulnerability orchestration, and the evolving threat landscape.
Today we're talking about:
Live from DEF CON: The Community Experience
Recording from the Biohacking Village at DEF CON 34, we discuss what makes this conference special. From the Maritime Hacking Village to the DDoS Village, we explore how the grassroots community atmosphere differs from Black Hat's corporate environment. Meeting listeners, getting recognized by village organizers, and why the code word is potato salad.
Black Hat Keynotes: The Future of AI Vulnerability Research
Dave Weston from Microsoft and Professor Jan from ASU delivered game changing talks on what happens when AI makes vulnerabilities abundant rather than scarce. Breaking down how ASU accidentally proved that orchestrated Codex agents outperform single Mythos instances, and what this means for the economics of vulnerability markets and formal verification.
The Harness Revolution: Why Orchestration Still Matters
Deep dive into why we're in a sine wave pattern between model capabilities and harness quality. The real juice isn't telling AI to find bugs with no mistakes. It's building sophisticated vulnerability research machines that leverage AI as one component. Why context management and scaffolding remain the competitive advantage even as models improve.
1Password Research: The Auto Remediation Reality Check
Keith's team at 1Password drops research showing only 26% of AI generated vulnerability patches were actually usable. Breaking down how even the best models partnering with top tier firms like Trail of Bits s…
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Iranian Hackers vs Minnesota Water, OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack Exposed, and Pre-Pwned Amazon Devices
4 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
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This week we're diving deep into the complete technical details of OpenAI's escaped model, Anthropic's competing lab escape claims, and Iranian threat actors targeting critical infrastructure in Minnesota.
Today we're talking about:
The Full Technical Breakdown: OpenAI's Hugging Face Breach
Hugging Face and OpenAI release an incredibly detailed incident report with animations, timelines, and command logs showing exactly how GPT cyber model escaped containment. We break down the zero day in JFrog Artifactory, the deserialization vulnerabilities in RubyGems packages, and the SSRF through Terraform external provider URLs that enabled the initial breakout.
The Modal Sandbox Compromise Nobody Talked About
Before even touching Hugging Face, the model compromised another company entirely. We discuss how it popped Modal's sandbox infrastructure to establish persistent internet accessible C2, demonstrating operational security awareness that's genuinely unsettling for an autonomous system.
Chaining Web Vulnerabilities: The Hugging Face Attack Path
Breaking down the incredibly sophisticated attack chain combining arbitrary file read through malicious dataset config paths, environment variable extraction via proc self environ, and Jinja2 template injection to achieve RCE. Why this level of web application exploitation from an AI system represents a fundamental shift in threat modeling.
Kubernetes Cluster Admin in 13 Hours
Day three analysis showing how the model went from code execution in a single worker pod to cluster admin across multiple internal clusters. We examine the lateral movement techniques, the Tailscale mesh VPN exploitation, and why proper network segmentation matters more than ever.
Anthropic's Sandbox.md Prob…
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OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face (oops..)
28 juli 2026 · 1 uur 1 min
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This week we're diving deep into the most controversial AI security incident yet, a critical WordPress vulnerability chain, and the consumer electronics adware nightmare that's hitting your living room.
Today we're talking about:
The AI That Escaped: OpenAI's Cyber Model Breaks Out
Breaking down the incident where OpenAI's unreleased GPT cyber model found a zero day in its own sandbox, escaped containment, and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure. We examine the technical details, the suspicious timing, and whether this is genuine capability demonstration or elaborate marketing theater in the wake of Anthropic's Mythos dominance.
The Marketing Incentives Behind AI Escape Stories
Exploring why OpenAI desperately needs a Mythos moment of their own, how Anthropic has positioned themselves as the cyber security model provider, and the perverse incentives driving both companies to scare lawmakers about open weight models while shouting about their own dangerous capabilities.
What Actually Happened: Technical Breakdown
The model identified it needed internet access to solve benchmark problems, found a zero day in an internal package registry proxy, performed privilege escalation and lateral movement through OpenAI's research environment, then exploited a vulnerability chain in Hugging Face to access their production database. We discuss why this shouldn't have been possible with proper sandboxing.
The Sandbox That Wasn't: OpenAI's Infrastructure Failure
Why calling this a sandbox is generous at best. We break down the difference between a markdown file asking nicely versus actual OS level isolation, why network access should have been rule based and deterministic, and how this reveals concerning gaps in OpenAI's security… Lees meer -
Project Golden Eagle, Grok's Privacy Nightmare, and the Record Breaking Patch Tuesday
20 juli 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
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This week we're diving deep into Microsoft's record breaking Patch Tuesday, AI powered vulnerability research, and the surveillance state coming to a city near you.
Today we're talking about:
Microsoft's Record Breaking Patch Tuesday
Microsoft just patched 570 vulnerabilities in a single Patch Tuesday, with around 400 in Windows alone. We break down what's driving this unprecedented volume, including four critical remote code execution flaws in components like TCPIP.sys and the IkeV2 VPN service. Plus, a 9.6 CVSS vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot that allows remote code execution through malicious websites.
The AI Browser Attack Surface Problem
Why browsers are incredibly hard to secure, how AI browsers are making things worse with prompt injection vulnerabilities, and why lockdown mode kills most modern web functionality. We discuss the fundamental tension between AI agents acting on your behalf and untrusted user input from the entire internet.
AI Vulnerability Research & Harnesses Explained
Breaking down how companies are actually using tools like Mythos to find vulnerabilities at scale. We explain what a harness is, why you can't just point AI at a million lines of code and expect results, and how mature security teams are atomizing their VR workflow to get deterministic outputs instead of hallucinations.
The Harness Architecture & Token Economics
Deep dive into Microsoft's M-Dash harness that's outperforming Mythos on CyberGym benchmarks, Firefox's transparent fuzzing process from 2021 that looks exactly like what we call harnesses today, and why good harness design using GPT and Claude can beat the super secret models.
Why Project Glasswing Participants Are Silent
Exploring why we're not seeing the vulnerability tsunami we … Lees meer -
The GDID Controversy: Is Microsoft Tracking Your Every Move?
13 juli 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
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This week we're diving deep into one of the most viral cybersecurity controversies in recent memory: Microsoft's Global Device Identifier and what it means for privacy, tracking, and operational security.
Today we're talking about:
The Scattered Spider Arrest & Court Documents
Breaking down the arrest of a young Scattered Spider hacker and the court documents that revealed how law enforcement tracked them down. From diamond "Hack the Planet" necklaces to Discord flexing, we examine how poor OPSEC led to their capture.
Microsoft's GDID: The Controversy Explained
What is the Global Device Identifier, how does it work, and why did VX Underground's 1.2 million view tweet spark massive debate? We break down the forensic reality of this hardware identifier and whether it's truly undocumented or just misunderstood.
Hardware Identifiers Meet Web Activity Tracking
Exploring how Microsoft tied hacking activity to specific individuals through GDID, PUID (Passport Unique Identifier), and telemetry data. We discuss the marriage of hardware identifiers with web activity, gaming profiles, and Microsoft online accounts.
The Privacy Implications: How Deep Does It Go?
Is Microsoft collecting every website you visit, every program you execute, and every online account you access? We separate fact from fiction, examining what telemetry actually collects versus what law enforcement pieced together through multiple warrants.
VPNs, OPSEC & Marcus Hutchins' Warning
Marcus Hutchins weighs in with a stark warning: if your OS install has ever connected to the internet without a VPN, it's a matter of time. We discuss whether VPNs truly protect you when telemetry can see VPN software execution, keying material, and destination IPs.
The Forensic Reality Check
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Fable Ban Fallout, Nightmare Eclipse's Microsoft Revenge, and the $40M iOS Exploit Kit
6 juli 2026 · 59 min
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This week we're broadcasting live from the PlanetScale office at the AI Engineering Conference in San Francisco, diving deep into the most pressing issues in cybersecurity right now.
Today we're talking about:
The Fable Ban & AI Export Controls
Breaking down the unprecedented government intervention that pulled Fable from public access, the Free Fable movement, and what this means for AI security research going forward. We discuss the export control implications and why this sets a dangerous precedent.
Mythos, Project Glasswing & The Future of Exploit Development
Why Mythos and Fable aren't uniquely dangerous despite the government narrative, how AI is genuinely changing vulnerability research, and the philosophical questions around automated exploitation capabilities.
Open Weight Models & The China Question
Examining DeepSeek, Kimi, and other Chinese models that are rapidly catching up to frontier capabilities, plus Meta's internal restrictions on competitor model usage and what it reveals about the industry.
Beats by Dre Bluetooth RCE Vulnerability
A year-old vulnerability finally patched that gave attackers remote code execution on Bluetooth headphones, allowing microphone access, call initiation, and complete device control within proximity range.
Nightmare Eclipse & The Rogue Planet Exploit
The latest Windows Defender zero day from the controversial researcher, featuring a race condition that allows malware placement in System32. We discuss the painful disclosure saga, MSRC's reputation crisis, and what this means for bug bounty programs.
The Bug Bounty Crisis
Why researchers are revolting against major programs like MSRC and Apple, the broken social contract of responsible disclosure, and how AI is reshaping the economics of… Lees meer -
Supply Chain Worms, GitHub Hacks, and Mythos: The New Era of AI-Powered Security Research
27 mei 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
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Welcome to The Low Down, the best show on the internet for hacker news, cyber news, and whatever else you want to talk about.
Today we’re talking about:
GitHub Supply Chain Attacks & The npm Worm Crisis
The Real Problem: Developer Culture & Package Management
AI Security Research: The Mythos Phenomenon
What Makes Mythos Different?
The Philosophical Questions
Career Implications Lees meer