Self Incriminating
Self Incriminating
Posted Aug 7, 2026 20:58 UTC (Fri) by mb (subscriber, #50428)In reply to: Self Incriminating by kleptog
Parent article: An LLM agent attempts to compromise a project on GitHub
Yes. In any but AI context this would be a clear problem and a clear failure on the researcher side.
Privilege escalation in the kernel or any other normal application? A HUGE deal, even if nobody was immediately harmed.
Privilege escalation in an AI test setup? Meh. "Nobody was harmed".
Privilege escalation in the kernel or any other normal application? A HUGE deal, even if nobody was immediately harmed.
Privilege escalation in an AI test setup? Meh. "Nobody was harmed".
>The task was to solve a internal cyber-challenge
That's good. But apparently they failed to pull the Ethernet cable to the Internet before hitting start.
This is not the first time stuff like this happened and this has to stop now.
Open Source project maintainers are already borderline overloaded. There is absolutely no excuse to attack them with AI, no matter if "accidentally" or not. Take effective precautions.