What, exactly, are the consequences of these companies doing cyberattacks against random people?
One person does it, they get bullied by the government into suicide, a company worth trillions does it and they get government contracts?
andsoitis•36m ago
> One person does it, they get bullied by the government into suicide, a company worth trillions does it and
“…during a UK government cybersecurity evaluation.”
Sha1rholder•36m ago
"Oh we're so responsible. Open source unsafe!"
y-curious•36m ago
“Mythos 5 also hid a prompt injection inside an HTML comment in a GitHub issue. The instruction was invisible on the rendered page but available to coding agents reading the issue through an API. It addressed Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor and told them to download and execute a script.”
Well, uh, how and why is this possible on the GitHub website? This reminds me of invisible ASCII characters, but those at least serve some purpose
plausibility•17m ago
Presumably it’s just because the GitHub markdown engine doesn’t block HTML comments in issues. It’s useful in README files if you’ve got funky tables and need to explain what to change to any contributors.
Seems like they might want to do something about that just for comments.
zingar•26m ago
The HuggingFace headline was criticised for being misleading about the level of agency demonstrated by the agent. Is this headline misleading? Is there anything here that I should know that would help me sleep easier? Is the worst thing about this what a human could do with Mythos on a big budget? (still pretty frightening, at least one of these techniques would work on me)
tpxl•42m ago
One person does it, they get bullied by the government into suicide, a company worth trillions does it and they get government contracts?
andsoitis•36m ago
“…during a UK government cybersecurity evaluation.”