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Researchers use Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI's internal systems
Hacktron says it worked with OpenAI and Discourse to fix the flaw
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Sep 18 10:54 AM
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The researchers said they disclosed the initial vulnerability immediately and coordinated remediation with OpenAI and Discourse rather than exploiting it further.
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“We immediately reported the initial vulnerability to OpenAI and Discourse and worked with them to coor…”
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OpenAI AI developer, subject of both hacks Anthropic Maker of the Claude models used in the OpenAI hack Hacktron Security research firm RubyGems Ruby package registry, victim of OpenAI's May attack Sam Altman OpenAI CEO
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Interesting cybersecurity developments in the FrontierAI domain ... techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/r... #FrontierAI #AI #cybersecurity
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>they will do almost anything if they are convinced it is justified - or if they are playing a "game" where there is no goal but to winjust a small caution on this anthropomorphism - it implies there's some high-order 'thinking' behind it. in reality, it's probably healthier to see it as a combination of symbolic logic reasoning steps paired with…
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> but the commit was not documented as a security fix and received no CVE. There must be an entire class of open source commits that unknowingly fixed security bugs without being tagged as security fixes that one could look for missed backports. Scary.
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