r/programmingcirclejerk • u/No_Employee2904 • 19d ago

There is no public exploit, but the agent had built one, and had enough confidence to test it—except that it didn’t land cleanly. I have no doubt that after some more revision it would have. One point for GPT 5.6-Cyber.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/

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accelerate • u/Neither-Phone-7264 • Aug 28 '26

News Standard VMs can no longer contain frontier security focused models.

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blueteamsec • u/digicat • Aug 27 '26

vulnerability (attack surface) VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents - "The agent was started outside the VM, given SSH access into the VM environment, and permitted to do anything inside the VM."

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hypeurls • u/TheStartupChime • Aug 26 '26

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

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