alt Hacker NewsDidn't the model initially obtain internet access by discovering a zero-day vulnerability?
In any case, I would guess that a lot of unicorn startups like HuggingFace could be hacked by a sufficiently determined script kiddie working at 100x speed. The practical implications of a coming AI hacking wave could be large, even if agents are just doing grunt work really fast. Most organizations suck at security.
Seems to me that the most likely scenario is: Black hats are currently tuning the recent Kimi release for this type of work, and we'll see a flood of similar attacks within the next few months. (Why would this not happen?) Note that regulation is useless here, because black hats don't give a crap about regulators!
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The deeper question though is why is someone running a model that’s supposedly so dangerous in an environment that can even get access to the internet. That just appears reckless.
There are ways to test supposedly dangerous things. What was on display here looks more amateur hour than serious testing.
I wonder if whatever had the zero day was written in a memory-safe language with strong authentication and a secure parser. Such were the recommendations to stop many 0-days before GPT-2 was invented.
If it had poor security, the attack would be both evidence of poor security and proof that the agents can compromise poor security which might still be amazing.
In OpenAI sandbox. which was probably vibe coded. That is to say it is probably far easier to achieve than escaping something more battle tested.
> Note that regulation is useless here, because black hats don't give a crap about regulators!
I'd argue more than useless and actively harmful, as you get denied access to tools that black hats use against you.
It's a zero day in some caching proxy who may not have had that threat model in mind. I guess its primary purpose is caching packages, not restricting internet access.
That's a far cry from finding a zero day in a hypervisor or even Docker, which OpenAI conveniently left out in their first statement by simply calling it a "sandbox".